so if the Tardis can rescue the doctor without anyone piloting it....
The Karina
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why didn't it do that in the "Parting of Ways" instead of rose having to rip the console apart in order to talk to it via its heart, which then caused the energy to nearly kill rose if the doctor hadn't taken it out of her and killed himself?
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If the TARDIS was never allowed to be seen doing something that it had never done before, its (her) role in the programme would never change or develop.
As for the Parting of the Ways - the doctor had sent the TARDIS away and given it instructions to power down. Rose had to reverse that and she needed the Time Vortex to destroy the Daleks just getting the Doctor out wasn't going to solve anything.
Also nothing to say he hasn't upgraded the system to add a few new features.
I still wish we had some form of explanation as to why the TARDIS interior has changed. I'd like to think we'll get one when River inevitably returns but if she's meeting him out of order (from her point of view) then for her this might not be the first time she's seen the new interior.
I think it is a terrible idea to add as it removes a lot of challenger. Even Cold War is now obsolete if this is the case cause why couldn't the TARDIS come to rescue the Doctor again there?
Next thing you know, the Doctor will have a Stattenheim remote control!
It wasn't explained all the time in the classic series, I hardly ask why my friends and family change their wallpaper etc, I simply comment on it and assume they were bored of the old one.
The Eleventh Doctor had the same Tardis interior for 300 years. Surely anyone would want a bit of a change after that length of time!
Must we equate the lack of 'over-detailed exposition' to 'lazy writing' every time? Sometimes we just don't need to see it.
She couldn't allow the Doctor to die. She materialised around him at the crucial moment The Moment was triggered, dematerialised and through sheer force of will, broke the time lock, almost destroying herself in the process.
I'm sure I read that somewhere a long time ago, or is it my supposition?
If I am wrong and it is the latter, then at least it sounds good, eh?
The TARDIS does sense the Doctor's danger in 'Hide' because the cloister bell goes off.
Just as how Rory's dad could have been an effective character, he was instead shoehorned in when it served the plot. Now, we have the TARDIS doing all of this to serve the plot. Whilst many bemoaned the "love story" slant at the end, this was a bigger problem for me... unless it's leading to something bigger in the series (and I'll reserve final judgement until the finale) these little contradictions are a little bit annoying.
I wouldn't call this a case of lazy writing, rather than careless writing...there used to be someone bothered when the show was dicing on the edge of a contradiction. This series has seen a number of elements both big and small contradicting previous stories in a way that previous series managed always work around satisfactorily (including Moffat's own previous series)...courage with the convictions of continuity.
THIS!;)
I agree though, it's the sort of thing that raises questions about why it doesn't happen more often. In a way, I'd have liked the TARDIS to just be a silent monolith while Clara pleaded with it to let her in and execute her plan, but then we wouldn't have got the confirmation that the TARDIS doesn't think much of her.
I wouldn't put it quite like that, I'd say it's the writer making it up as he/she goes along, but that's a fine old Who tradition that's been the case for 50 years.
And if the TARDIS seriously doesn't like her, what better way to get one-up on Clara than by rescuing the Doctor without Clara?
As I suggested earlier, we didn't see how the TARDIS started moving. Most likely Clara started it. But as we already know he gives little lessons to his travelling partners, and he specifically told her not to touch anything (implying she may have already been shown stuff), why would we necessarily need to see it?
Although I do think this is careless writing and I hope the self flying TARDIS does not reoccur.
have to stop you there -- the HADS has been around since 1968 at least, so is a throwback to the past rather than a lame excuse.