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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 5172356" data-attributes="member: 8158">The Master's regenerations leave room for canonical explanations. Check out Wikipedia.But that's not the same kind of canonical inconsistency that we're talking about with the weeping angels. The angels had specific rules for how they worked, and working within those rules were a big part of what made "Blink" such an entertaining episode. Renegging on those rules cuts into suspension of disbelief, and that mental bump in the road substracts from entertainment. If you're watching a TV show about vampires, and in one episode they're burned by crucifixes and holy water, and then a few episodes later they laugh off that stuff as being made up by the church, that screws up how previous episodes played out. It's a cheat. Whimsical dialogue and colorful characters are great, but unless we're talking about stream-of-consciousness poetry, a writer should use both halves of his brain. In other words, try to be consistent.That's why I really don't like the sonic screwdriver all that much. It's a magic wand that allows the writers this huge get-out-of-jail-free card because it has no rules. "Oh dear, the Doctor's trapped, I'm biting my nails, how's he gonna  get outta this one? BZZZT. Oh OK, he used the sonic screwdriver to make the problem go away. That'll never get old."</blockquote>