Everyone always talks about wanting to time travel, but honestly, it'd be completely pointless even if we could. Well, traveling forward would be cool, but backward would be pointless.
Let me break this down in a little thing called the Time Travelers Paradox. (Idk if that's actually a real thing or not) but its something many people overlook or just completely don't understand/think about.
Let's say you can time travel and you can go backward. Alright cool, now where are you gonna go? Let's say we're gonna go to Hitler, and not do anything rash, but we just sit and talk to Hitler and convince him to not try to genocide all the Jews, gays handicap, etc. Now let's go back to the future. Nevermind all of the stuff that's been changed because Hitler didn't become Hitler, let's talk about the fact that the Holocaust now never happened. Thus, you no longer have any reason to go back in time to stop the Holocaust. If there was never a Holocaust for you to go back in time to stop, that means you in the current reality will now never go back in time. Since you never go back in time, you therefore never stop the Holocaust, and now its still happened. And that my friend is what I call the Time Travelers Paradox.
Now also let's talk about Doctor Who since The Doctor fits into the time travel thing. The Doctor can go anywhere and anywhen that he wants. So how come he spends a majority of his time in modern century London?
Like this dude has a TARDIS, and can go anywhere, anywhere and he chooses London. Alright, I'll admit London is cool, but he isn't just stuck in this galaxy you have to understand, he can go anywhere on any planet of any galaxy. His TARDIS also automatically works as a language translator for him so he can speak any language and understand any language. Again not just stuck to earth languages either. So you can automatically be anywhere at any time period on any planet in any galaxy. And he chooses Modern, and occasionally Victoria-era London. Alright, whatever. I guess London reminds him most of Gallifrey, his home planet, or some shit like that. But this isn't the only problem there is in the show.
His compainon he can also choose from anywhere and anywhen. He's already spending his time in Londen, you'd think he'd choose something cool as a companion, but no. His companion is always a British character, usually white women. There's been a couple colored girls and a few guys, but the guys were usually only there because they were the female's boyfriend, or in Amy and Rory's case, soon to be husband. Alright, I guess that makes sense, he needs his companion to blend in with his surroundings, sure. I'll buy into that.
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A little chart of every companion to be with every Doctor (Amy and Rory are my personal favorite)
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But onto the next critical mistake. There have been many doctors. The number is a bit negotiable. Most say 13, but technically you can say 12 since David Tennant was The Doctor twice and is considered one of the regenerations twice. But you could also still say 13 even if you only count David once because of the War Doctor who many don't even know about, much less consider. But if you do count David twice and the War Doctor, there's 14. But for this example, let's say 13 since that the most common to say. The Doctor is said to be able to regenerate into anything and everything, man, woman, not even human necessarily. So why is he always a white male? Every single time, he's always a white British male. He also doesn't know or have any control over who or what he regenerates into. (except when he stayed as David since he wanted to stay as him so bad or some bs like that.)
There's also many cases where he hopes to be ginger (but sadly that never works, I think a ginger Doctor would be extremely adorable.) But if he can fight hard enough to break the rules and stay David, why couldn't he fight hard enough and become ginger? The next Doctor they've been promoting is a woman, however, but this is also the 14th Doctor. So after 14 regeneration the show FINALLY decides to spice things up.
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| Jodie Whittaker (the newest Doctor) |
If you look her up on Google it says the 13th Doctor, but if you look above at the picture you can see there's already 13 Doctors. The picture with all of them above has the War Doctor who is not considered a Doctor by most so yeah, that's why. It's pretty much up to you if what you consider a regeneration or not. I myself am one to say she's technically the 15th since David regenerated twice and the War Doctor, since ever regeneration counts against him. (There's only so many regenerations the Doctor can go through. The number was originally 13, a bakers dozen but there was some super long thing on how someone from Gaillefry sent him a dozen more regenerations after he died as Matt Smith, or was about to die. But also everyone on Gaillefry is supposed to be suspended in time (The Doctor did this to save his home planet from being blown up of exploding or something) so if that's true I don't really know how they could send him lives, but whatever. Obviously, I've missed more than a few episodes, and if you know where I'm wrong please comment and correct me. I could still go on longer but I feel as if this is as good a place as any to stop.
So today's Halloween and I think it'd be a good idea to rant about it.
Actual representation on me trying to sing and play an instrument.