Pretty much every show or film that incorporates time travel has a few underlying problems. It is an incredibly difficult thing to pull off successfully, given that it is impossible and creates an infinite number of paradoxes as soon as people start finding out things that they should never know or wandering into different parts of their own timelines.
We have thought of ten issues that the show Doctor Who, known for its time and space travel, ends up creating through its own often-flawed approaches to time travel.
10 The Convenience Of The Time Vortex
The idea behind the Bad Wolf entity that ended season one of Doctor Who was that it was a magical presence that was pulling Rose toward one specific moment in which she would be able to save The Doctor and the universe.
However, it meant she had to look into the Time Vortex. How is the whole of space and time something visible behind a panel that can be pulled away by a reversing trick?
9 Rose Meeting Her Mother In The Past
When Rose asked the Doctor if she could go back to the moment her father died so that she could see him, we knew something bad was in store.
That whole dramatic saga meant that Rose communicated directly with her own mother, many times, and was then the person to comfort her father as he died. How does Jackie not remember that the girl there on that day looked exactly the same as her grown-up daughter?
8 Can You Save Lives In The Past Or Not?
There have been many times that the Doctor has explained that you cannot save lives when traveling through time. Rose’s father is just one example, but the Doctor also explains that Pompeii is not something they can impact.
But think about it for a second: the end result of pretty much every adventure he ever goes on is the saving of lives, whether on a small scale or on a universal scale. So, which one is it?
7 And Can You Rewrite History?
From a similar perspective, the Doctor has explained that history is set in stone. Whatever happened, happened. However, he has also explained that the past is very much malleable, and can be changed wherever necessary.
Of course, he has been in situations that have proven both to be true, so there needs to be a decision made as to which one is true for the show.
6 And How Does Talking To A Past Version Of Yourself Work?
So there have been a few times that the Doctor has come across a past version of himself. The Tenth and Eleventh met the War Doctor, and the Twelfth Doctor met the First.
However, surely in these situations, future versions of the Doctor would remember these meetings with other versions of himself, right?
5 The Doctor Revisiting Rose
In his final episode, David Tennant’s Doctor revisited everyone who was important to him over his time as the traveling Time Lord. He goes back to before he ever met Rose, and explains that she is going to have a really great year that upcoming year.
This is a very weird thing for a random guy on the street to say, so you think she would recognize him when he regenerated from Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor a few months later.
4 River Song’s Timing
River Song is one of the very few characters to have maintained a presence in the post-Russell T. Davies Doctor Who. She was first introduced as a mystery character the Doctor did not know yet, and then they kept cropping up in different parts of each other’s timelines.
However, this forms about a million paradoxes, adding onto the confusion that the first time the Doctor meets River is the last time she meets him, and vice versa. The show does explain the meetings, but it still does not make a lot of sense to viewers.
3 The Timeless Child
Recently, Doctor Who has lost most of its viewers thanks to a huge, drastic decline in quality. One of the most far-fetched things that the recent season tried to do was claim that the Doctor was the biological starting point for all Time Lords.
Obviously, thanks to literally everything we have ever seen in the show, this makes no sense whatsoever.
2 What Is A Time Lock?
The Doctor explains that the Time War is a Time-Locked event. This implies that he cannot travel back to it in order to sort out the loss of his entire species.
This concept is never really explained, though, so we both have no idea how an event can be locked in time, and we never find out why the device is not used on any other major historical moments, especially those explored in the show.
1 How Do The People Of Earth Always Forget?
One of the weirder things about Doctor Who is the sheer number of events that take place on planet Earth. From Autons roaming the streets to Daleks emerging from the sky, humans have seen a lot.
But they never seem to remember any of it, and when a new alien comes down, they seem incredibly shocked by it all. We can only assume some sort of Doctor-specific time travel thing is causing this, but it is never explained.
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