Originally Posted by s0larisadi:
“ok, here's one to make your head hurt; what about the writing on the wall of the old house telling Sally to duck?* This was written by the doctor at some point in the (i.e. her) past (long enough for it to be wallpapered over), but would this have been in the transcripts Sally gave the Doctor?
If it was, then the doctor knew he had to leave the message and so at somepoint in his timeline went to do that. But what if it was when he was at the house leaving the message that he got touched by the Angel (even though he knew that that is what would happen as he had read it in the transcript**)?
So if Sally hadn't given him the transcript he wouldn't have gone to the house and may not have been touched by the Angel.
*Ignoring the fact that rather than lobbing something the Anger could have just crept up on Sally and touched her.
**but presumably he still did it to maintain the timeline, and he knew everything would be ok as he was given the transcript.”
“ok, here's one to make your head hurt; what about the writing on the wall of the old house telling Sally to duck?* This was written by the doctor at some point in the (i.e. her) past (long enough for it to be wallpapered over), but would this have been in the transcripts Sally gave the Doctor?
If it was, then the doctor knew he had to leave the message and so at somepoint in his timeline went to do that. But what if it was when he was at the house leaving the message that he got touched by the Angel (even though he knew that that is what would happen as he had read it in the transcript**)?
So if Sally hadn't given him the transcript he wouldn't have gone to the house and may not have been touched by the Angel.
*Ignoring the fact that rather than lobbing something the Anger could have just crept up on Sally and touched her.
**but presumably he still did it to maintain the timeline, and he knew everything would be ok as he was given the transcript.”
The Doctor dated the message 1969 which is the year he and Martha were sent back to, so he only wrote the message after encountering the Angel.
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“BUT how did he know that he would need to carry the the dossier with him in 2008 BEFORE the Weeping Angels sent him back to 1969?”
“BUT how did he know that he would need to carry the the dossier with him in 2008 BEFORE the Weeping Angels sent him back to 1969?”
I'm not sure if the Doctor and Martha were sent to 1969 at the same time, maybe Martha got sent back, the Doctor realised this was what he was warned about by Sally then grabbed the Folder before letting the same Angel zap him.
Alternatively he read everything in the Folder and transferred all the info onto a small recording device that would fit in his pockets even if the Folder would not (which going by TRB it would have done anyway).
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