Re: Unanswered Questions at the movies
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Originally Posted by Chuck Anstey
How can a time traveling being like a Time Lord be the last of his kind? He could just travel to a time and place where other Time Lords existed previously. Worse still, how could a non Time Lord say "I heard you are the last of the Time Lords". To a non Time Lord the concept is invalid as any version of any Time Lord may appear at any time. For these to be true implies that future actions affect past events such that there is no longer a Galifrey in any time in the current universe.
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This has been covered many times. Forgive me if it's rather lame, I'm just relaying the info and I may be foggy in the details. Time Lords (and time travellers in general) cannot alter their own time lines. In other words, they cannot create paradox. Doing so will create rip in the fabric of time allowing all sorts of nasty pan-dimensional beings to come in and erase (ie: eat) the paradoxical time-line and it's inhabitants (or not, at the whim of the writers). The Doctor even mentioned that the only way he can interact with his own Timeline was to do "Cheap parlor tricks" - nothing of any substance to actually effect change. Since all Time Lords are now destroyed and none of them can go back and alter their own timelines, they cannot change this fact. Sure, the Doctor can go somewhere in time and meet another Time Lord, but he could not tell that Time Lord anything about Galifrey's ultimate demise because that would create Paradox. IMO a Paradox WAS created and that may be what the "Time War" actually was. If that is truly what resulted in the destruction of the Time Lords you wouldn't want to risk messing with it for fear of obliterating everything.
