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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6224585" data-attributes="member: 37579"><p>They explain that. Different case, same software. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Galifreyans are not the same as Time Lords. Common ground soldiers likely don't have access to TARDISes. And after a few thousands years of war, you'd think the Daleks would be good and bypassing their enemies regenerative capability. </p><p>Time Lords also only regenerate from non-instant death. Really, they regenerate when dying not dead.</p><p></p><p>Really, the seige of Galifrey wasn't going to "end" the a Time War. The Doctor did. It was the end of the Time War because that's when it ended. </p><p>And the Daleks strike me as the kind who would just go in and shoot everyone rather than use some super weapon because, well, they like shooting people and casualties mean little. </p><p>And even in modern warfare which is based on information, viruses, drone strikes, cruise missiles fired from floating steel islands miles from the target sometimes you still just need to send in troops. </p><p></p><p>But, at the end of the day, <u>narrative</u> was why the battle was so contentious. </p><p>The battle need to be emotional for it to make sense that the Doctor to want to kill everyone. There had to be death and the suffering of innocents. There had to be destruction. People had to die on screen and non-combatives had to be endangered. And that's easiest with a traditional battle sequence. </p><p>The battle was not a huge part of the story. 90% of the special was about the Zygons and the Time War was just a background element. They couldn't stop and explain the Time War; they couldn't go into great detail on weaponized paradoxes, unique doomsday devices, and temporal mechanics. You can't sit down and have the Time Lords talk for five minutes explaining how they're boned. Especially when the end result is the same: the planet's effed, everyone still on the planet will suffer and die, and the war will continue, spilling out into the rest of the universe. And especially when all that's relevant to the plot is that they're boned and the Doctor's going to kill everyone. That happens if the Daleks are using lasers or mass driving singularities or using crazy unimaginable weapons. With the result the same, keep it simple. </p><p></p><p></p><p>This is a big dangling plot thread. But it's really set-up for a future return of the Time Lords. Likely Capaldi's Doctor.</p><p></p><p>My hope is that time is passing for the Time Lords. That they're not technically frozen and have time to reflect and think on what they did during the war.</p><p>And, arguably, the Doctors saved Galifrey not the Time Lords. Not every Gallifreyan is a Time Lord. </p><p></p><p></p><p>They had boring negotiations for an hour and found a compromise. The absence of resolution on this was a bit of an unresolved plotline but I don't know where they could have fit it into the narrative. The only place would have been right as Hurt's a Doctor left. But that delays the conclusion.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Meh. He used up his best ideas. And he'd have just ended it with a companion saving the day via some Deus Ex Machina.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 6224585, member: 37579"] They explain that. Different case, same software. Galifreyans are not the same as Time Lords. Common ground soldiers likely don't have access to TARDISes. And after a few thousands years of war, you'd think the Daleks would be good and bypassing their enemies regenerative capability. Time Lords also only regenerate from non-instant death. Really, they regenerate when dying not dead. Really, the seige of Galifrey wasn't going to "end" the a Time War. The Doctor did. It was the end of the Time War because that's when it ended. And the Daleks strike me as the kind who would just go in and shoot everyone rather than use some super weapon because, well, they like shooting people and casualties mean little. And even in modern warfare which is based on information, viruses, drone strikes, cruise missiles fired from floating steel islands miles from the target sometimes you still just need to send in troops. But, at the end of the day, [U]narrative[/U] was why the battle was so contentious. The battle need to be emotional for it to make sense that the Doctor to want to kill everyone. There had to be death and the suffering of innocents. There had to be destruction. People had to die on screen and non-combatives had to be endangered. And that's easiest with a traditional battle sequence. The battle was not a huge part of the story. 90% of the special was about the Zygons and the Time War was just a background element. They couldn't stop and explain the Time War; they couldn't go into great detail on weaponized paradoxes, unique doomsday devices, and temporal mechanics. You can't sit down and have the Time Lords talk for five minutes explaining how they're boned. Especially when the end result is the same: the planet's effed, everyone still on the planet will suffer and die, and the war will continue, spilling out into the rest of the universe. And especially when all that's relevant to the plot is that they're boned and the Doctor's going to kill everyone. That happens if the Daleks are using lasers or mass driving singularities or using crazy unimaginable weapons. With the result the same, keep it simple. This is a big dangling plot thread. But it's really set-up for a future return of the Time Lords. Likely Capaldi's Doctor. My hope is that time is passing for the Time Lords. That they're not technically frozen and have time to reflect and think on what they did during the war. And, arguably, the Doctors saved Galifrey not the Time Lords. Not every Gallifreyan is a Time Lord. They had boring negotiations for an hour and found a compromise. The absence of resolution on this was a bit of an unresolved plotline but I don't know where they could have fit it into the narrative. The only place would have been right as Hurt's a Doctor left. But that delays the conclusion. Meh. He used up his best ideas. And he'd have just ended it with a companion saving the day via some Deus Ex Machina. [/QUOTE]
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