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<blockquote data-quote="alexpaige" data-source="post: 441265" data-attributes="member: 55379">&gt;&gt;Moffett was the first showrunner to address time travel distortions, contradictions and more detailed scenarios on a larger scale. It expanded the narrative without contradicting it.&gt;&gt;I disagree entirely. Moffat&#039;s approach to time travel in fact contradicted the established approach of the series up to that point, in particular the Doctor&#039;s ability to &quot;move within his own timestream&quot; which The Three Doctors clearly established was contrary to the &quot;First Law of Time&quot; and could only be condoned in an emergency. That said, The Two Doctors (prior to Moffat) had also contradicted this. But Moffat took it a lot further, undermining most of the established time travel conventions of the show and papering over these with lame assertions about some points in time being &quot;fixed&quot; and others apparently not so - depending apparently on the requirements of the plot!&gt;&gt;I was not a fan of the McCoy era and the Cartmel master plan, but it expanded the narrative without destroying it.The assertions that the Doctor had a dark, mysterious past was explored, but the basic continuity of the narrative remained intact.No&quot;fact&quot; was established that contradicted over 20 years of continuity at that time.&gt;&gt;I disagree with this too, I think the Cartmel era contradicted a lot of the established continuity prior to it. As one example, the suggestion that the First Doctor had laid a trap for the Daleks with the Hand of Omega (in Remembrance of the Daleks) makes no sense when you bear in mind that the First Doctor had never met the Daleks while he was in Earth, with the TARDIS in Totters Lane and Susan was going to Coal Hill School. It&#039;s perfectly obvious when the First Doctor meets the Daleks in The Daleks that he knows nothing about them and has never heard of them, and that occurs after he left Earth with Susan, Ian and Barbara and therefore after the events alluded to in Remembrance of the Daleks.I could go on and on with examples like this. Doctor Who&#039;s established continuity was pretty good and reasonably consistent up to the end of the Pertwee era. After that, contradictions started entering the narrative.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="alexpaige, post: 441265, member: 55379"] >>Moffett was the first showrunner to address time travel distortions, contradictions and more detailed scenarios on a larger scale. It expanded the narrative without contradicting it.>> I disagree entirely. Moffat's approach to time travel in fact contradicted the established approach of the series up to that point, in particular the Doctor's ability to "move within his own timestream" which The Three Doctors clearly established was contrary to the "First Law of Time" and could only be condoned in an emergency. That said, The Two Doctors (prior to Moffat) had also contradicted this. But Moffat took it a lot further, undermining most of the established time travel conventions of the show and papering over these with lame assertions about some points in time being "fixed" and others apparently not so - depending apparently on the requirements of the plot! >>I was not a fan of the McCoy era and the Cartmel master plan, but it expanded the narrative without destroying it. The assertions that the Doctor had a dark, mysterious past was explored, but the basic continuity of the narrative remained intact. No"fact" was established that contradicted over 20 years of continuity at that time.>> I disagree with this too, I think the Cartmel era contradicted a lot of the established continuity prior to it. As one example, the suggestion that the First Doctor had laid a trap for the Daleks with the Hand of Omega (in Remembrance of the Daleks) makes no sense when you bear in mind that the First Doctor had never met the Daleks while he was in Earth, with the TARDIS in Totters Lane and Susan was going to Coal Hill School. It's perfectly obvious when the First Doctor meets the Daleks in The Daleks that he knows nothing about them and has never heard of them, and that occurs after he left Earth with Susan, Ian and Barbara and therefore after the events alluded to in Remembrance of the Daleks. I could go on and on with examples like this. Doctor Who's established continuity was pretty good and reasonably consistent up to the end of the Pertwee era. After that, contradictions started entering the narrative. [/QUOTE]

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