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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6106816" data-attributes="member: 177">Yes, but most of your points are about violating continuity.&nbsp; Consider for a moment how little the idea of &quot;continuity&quot; means when the main character's major ability is to change the timeline! And, while perhaps those things are a big deal to you, they aren't many.&nbsp; They were rebooting the series for a new market and audience - trying to move from the BBC and US PBS viewers, over to the US mass market.&nbsp; I then expect and accept there will be changes.&nbsp; That's okay.&nbsp; I worry more about how much fun it is to watch, not how slavishly they stick to what has gone before.&nbsp; There are a few points of bad medical science and such, but really, if I swallow time travel in the first place, I'm not going to worry so much about those, either.&nbsp; What they did medically is no worse than how, on pretty much every medical drama, ever patience seems to needs to have electrified paddles slapped on their chest and someone yelling, &quot;clear!&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6106816, member: 177"] Yes, but most of your points are about violating continuity. Consider for a moment how little the idea of "continuity" means when the main character's major ability is to change the timeline! And, while perhaps those things are a big deal to you, they aren't many. They were rebooting the series for a new market and audience - trying to move from the BBC and US PBS viewers, over to the US mass market. I then expect and accept there will be changes. That's okay. I worry more about how much fun it is to watch, not how slavishly they stick to what has gone before. There are a few points of bad medical science and such, but really, if I swallow time travel in the first place, I'm not going to worry so much about those, either. What they did medically is no worse than how, on pretty much every medical drama, ever patience seems to needs to have electrified paddles slapped on their chest and someone yelling, "clear!". [/QUOTE]

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