>>I'm interested in who set Max up in his station, and why.
>The Editor implied that it was his consortium of banks etc.
I mean, what is it about this somehow-changed universe that allowed Max to get to where he was? Who owns the banks? Why are they backing Max? What stopped them in the 'proper' version of history?
If you take the view that all of time is someone's history, you could never change anything, surely?
There's some very menky debate on this :) Basically, nobody can change what is 'meant' to happen, unless they're a Time Lord. That seems to be the tacitly accepted basis on which the TV series works. 'Day of the Daleks', for example, is the first expression of predeterminist ideas in the show, and it's not been horrifically contradicted since.
This is why some people suggest that Gallifrey existed in the far past. Not only are the Time Lords exempt from most of the laws of time, but everything that happens in the rest of the universe is in their subjective future, so they're free to fiddle as much as they like. There is, needless to say, absolutely no canonical support for this idea outside of the New Adventures :)
Oi! Spoiler boy!
Oh, psht. I'm avoiding spoilers like the plague, but if Russel Davies writes about it in his DWM column, I pick up on it and regard it as a teaser, not a spoiler :-p
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>The Editor implied that it was his consortium of banks etc.
I mean, what is it about this somehow-changed universe that allowed Max to get to where he was? Who owns the banks? Why are they backing Max? What stopped them in the 'proper' version of history?
If you take the view that all of time is someone's history, you could never change anything, surely?
There's some very menky debate on this :) Basically, nobody can change what is 'meant' to happen, unless they're a Time Lord. That seems to be the tacitly accepted basis on which the TV series works. 'Day of the Daleks', for example, is the first expression of predeterminist ideas in the show, and it's not been horrifically contradicted since.
This is why some people suggest that Gallifrey existed in the far past. Not only are the Time Lords exempt from most of the laws of time, but everything that happens in the rest of the universe is in their subjective future, so they're free to fiddle as much as they like. There is, needless to say, absolutely no canonical support for this idea outside of the New Adventures :)
Oi! Spoiler boy!
Oh, psht. I'm avoiding spoilers like the plague, but if Russel Davies writes about it in his DWM column, I pick up on it and regard it as a teaser, not a spoiler :-p