FIC: Not Everyone Should Be Saved (3/5)

[tkel_paris]

Title: Not Everyone Should Be Saved
Genre: Doctor Who
Rating: T
Author: tkel_paris
Summary: When the TARDIS is caught in a loop, Twelve realizes that a new weapon has been created to use against him thanks to an earlier act of what he thought was compassion. The only way he can free the TARDIS is to get a message to an earlier self to prevent two critical

Comments

[youreintown]

River wanted to compare diaries? Why? She hadn't met him before, that would have been enough. What would she have to compare then? She wanted to know if this Doctor, she had never met before, had met her before? Wouldn't that be a spoiler?

And taking time to explain everything before entering the codes? Why not after entering? This is waisting the precious time that they had before the swarm would reach them.

I hope the decontamination is in time...

[tkel_paris]

Recall in the episode that she wanted to compare diaries, which didn't strike me as terribly concerned with the laws of Time and avoiding spoilers. Not to mention avoiding creating a false fixed point. Never mind that there are ways of checking where you are in the other's timeline without spoiling something for the other. (And it just dawned on me that the Doctor didn't warn her that she would one day meet him and he wouldn't know who she was at all. Doesn't sound like the act of a loving partner.)

Lux is being stubborn, as you noticed. And there's still making sure there's no whisper in the Doctor's ear. You have to imagine the Doctor is faster than normal, and yet he's not getting the speed he wants from others.

[youreintown]

In Canon the Doctor never warns River that she might encounter younger versions of him that perhaps would not know of her.
She does tell Rory though that she thinks that when she meets a Doctor that doesn't know her, it will kill her. I'm not so sure she doesn't mean it litterally.

[tkel_paris]

Yeah, I don't see that as the act of someone who really cares. No warning in even vague terms. Not nice

That sounds a bit overblown. There have to be ones, and that line sounds like she can't stand on her own. Anyway...

[bas_math_girl]

Ooooh, knicker-gripping moment at the end there. For some reason I'm pleased that River's flirting isn't working on the Doctor. Although he was a little bit harsh with her, fortunately Donna was around to compassionately prod him in the right direction.

[tkel_paris]

Love that phrase. ;)

Yes, but he's seeing the delays this group is causing, and it's shortening his fuse. Which is already short because he knows the danger to his future self this day poses.