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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JustinAlexander" data-source="post: 6122557" data-attributes="member: 6700092">It's really, really simple. When you have a conversation like this:"Why can't we do X to solve the problem?""We can't do X because Y will happen."You can't just turn around five minutes later, do X, and have the only justification be "Clara insulted the TARDIS". It's a textbook example of bad writing. Doing it again five minutes later only makes it worse. Meanwhile, throughout both these sequences, you have the psychic doing something. What, exactly? Nothing of relevance, apparently. Which might be acceptable the first time, but then the Doctor has her do it again despite it having no apparent impact on anything. More bad writing. (Even if we ignore the fact that the TARDIS was there for longer than 10 seconds.)Okay, let's assume that Clara just didn't know that the psychic was going to pull it together so the second rescue effort was superfluous. But since we already know that the psychic actually can pull people out of the pocket dimension, why put the TARDIS at risk a second time? It doesn't make any sense within the rules of the universe as they've established them in the episode.The entire ending is a mess.The sad thing is that it wouldn't be particularly difficult to fix it. For example, instead of having the rationale for the TARDIS not being able to help be "in four seconds I'd be stranded, in ten seconds I'd be dead" just cut the second part of that sentence: The TARDIS says, "In four seconds I'd be stranded." And then have Clara says, "But not if you followed a psychic beacon." And, ta-da, you'd have an ending that worked.Or the TARDIS is always part of the solution. Or you just skip the whole TARDIS bit. Or any number of other possibilities.Here's one which would have been thematically interesting: The psychic can pull her descendant out because of their connection; they're family. But once she leaves, the connection snaps shut because the connection doesn't exist any more. Oh crap. How do we get the Doctor out? Well, we need someone with a deep connection to him. Oh, hey. The TARDIS! (And then the same logic applies when you use the monster in the house to retrieve the other monster.)I'm honestly amazed at the number of people trying to defend a blatant deus ex technobabble here.</blockquote>

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