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<blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 9662368" data-attributes="member: 6877472">I mean, this isn't anything new either.&nbsp; Remember when The Doctor was leaning on the Shadow Proclamation to get villains to dial it down a notch?&nbsp; Muttering about the &quot;Laws of Time&quot;.&nbsp; Nine sending a child to his room?&nbsp; Or Eleven suddenly declaring to the Daleks &quot;If there's one thing I'm allowed to do, it's talk!&quot;- ok maybe that doesn't count, but it feels like it, lol.Laying down the law is a tactic The Doctor will happily exploit when it suits his purposes- then toss out the window the instant it gets in his way.&nbsp; Sometimes his opponents call him out on this, granted, but he gets away with a lot of nonsense by keeping his enemies off balance, keeping them uncertain, and forcing them to adhere to rules (real or imagined) is just another card in his deck.To quote Wizard's First rule: a person will believe a lie for one of two reasons.&nbsp; They want it to be true, or they're afraid it might be.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James Gasik, post: 9662368, member: 6877472"] I mean, this isn't anything new either. Remember when The Doctor was leaning on the Shadow Proclamation to get villains to dial it down a notch? Muttering about the "Laws of Time". Nine sending a child to his room? Or Eleven suddenly declaring to the Daleks "If there's one thing I'm allowed to do, it's talk!"- ok maybe that doesn't count, but it feels like it, lol. Laying down the law is a tactic The Doctor will happily exploit when it suits his purposes- then toss out the window the instant it gets in his way. Sometimes his opponents call him out on this, granted, but he gets away with a lot of nonsense by keeping his enemies off balance, keeping them uncertain, and forcing them to adhere to rules (real or imagined) is just another card in his deck. To quote Wizard's First rule: a person will believe a lie for one of two reasons. They want it to be true, or they're afraid it might be. [/QUOTE]

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