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<blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 3286020" data-attributes="member: 151"><p>To quote Tiny Toon Adventures: </p><p>"<em>It's a great big Universe,</em></p><p><em>and we're all really puny,</em></p><p><em>we're just tiny little specks,</em></p><p><em>about the size of Mickey Rooney,</em></p><p><em>It's big and black and inky,</em></p><p><em>and we are small and dinky,</em></p><p><em>It's a big Universe and <strong>we're not.</strong></em>"</p><p></p><p>Or, to put it another way...one point that the current Doctor Who series tries to drive home is that the Doctor is very reactive, not proactive. And the episode in which we see Torchwood first formed, "Tooth and Claw", it's pretty clear that Queen Elizabeth openly resents the Doctor's 'Johnny come lately' approach to galactic defense. Torchwood is a direct response to the fact that the Doctor isn't always there. Sure, he fixes what he sees <em>when he sees it</em>, but the fact is that the Doctor is usually late to the party when it comes to stopping things before they get to Extinction Level Events.</p><p></p><p>And when you look at it, most of what Torchwood dealt with this year didn't really demand his attention, so much.</p><p></p><p>Specifically:</p><p>[spoiler] 1. Alien who kills for Sex</p><p>2. Crazed human psycho-killers</p><p>3. Several humans who abuses alien technology for personal benefit</p><p>4. Non-human earth 'aliens' who kill to protect their territory</p><p>5. A bunch of humans are displaced in time[/spoiler]</p><p></p><p>None of those are really anything other than small potatoes. So really, that leaves us with Abadon, the Rift itself, [spoiler]one escaped convict alien and an escaped half-Cyberwoman.[/spoiler] Given the Doctor's history in addressing these problems before they become really, really ugly, it's not all that surprising he's nowhere to be found. Especially if you consider his track record at cleaning up his occasional mistakes. The Doctor tends to treat the illness, not prevent the disease. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WizarDru, post: 3286020, member: 151"] To quote Tiny Toon Adventures: "[i]It's a great big Universe, and we're all really puny, we're just tiny little specks, about the size of Mickey Rooney, It's big and black and inky, and we are small and dinky, It's a big Universe and [b]we're not.[/b][/i]" Or, to put it another way...one point that the current Doctor Who series tries to drive home is that the Doctor is very reactive, not proactive. And the episode in which we see Torchwood first formed, "Tooth and Claw", it's pretty clear that Queen Elizabeth openly resents the Doctor's 'Johnny come lately' approach to galactic defense. Torchwood is a direct response to the fact that the Doctor isn't always there. Sure, he fixes what he sees [i]when he sees it[/i], but the fact is that the Doctor is usually late to the party when it comes to stopping things before they get to Extinction Level Events. And when you look at it, most of what Torchwood dealt with this year didn't really demand his attention, so much. Specifically: [spoiler] 1. Alien who kills for Sex 2. Crazed human psycho-killers 3. Several humans who abuses alien technology for personal benefit 4. Non-human earth 'aliens' who kill to protect their territory 5. A bunch of humans are displaced in time[/spoiler] None of those are really anything other than small potatoes. So really, that leaves us with Abadon, the Rift itself, [spoiler]one escaped convict alien and an escaped half-Cyberwoman.[/spoiler] Given the Doctor's history in addressing these problems before they become really, really ugly, it's not all that surprising he's nowhere to be found. Especially if you consider his track record at cleaning up his occasional mistakes. The Doctor tends to treat the illness, not prevent the disease. ;) [/QUOTE]
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