I've been thinking about this more and more, and I think the thing that bothers me the most is, where was the Doctor? I know he's kind of a deus ex machina, but really? I can suspend my disbelief enough to say that Jack was too bullheaded to call for help, Gwen didn't have access to the cell number, and Ianto wasn't willing to go against Jack's wishes until it was too late, after the Hub was blown up and he didn't have access to the number. But this thing was world-wide. That means Martha Jones, down in Africa, and presumably with her cell phone (because she's way too smart to travel without one), would have been seeing all this happening, probably called UNIT and gotten blown off, and called the Doctor. And now that I think about that, I'm sure UNIT has some radio channel or something to contact him as well. This is all assuming that the TARDIS didn't just take some initiative and drag the Doctor to Earth all on her own.
And I simply cannot believe that Jack would have given up and used his grandson without calling the Doctor and asking for help. He's cold, but he's "last-resort" cold, and he would have been running through every option in his head before he volunteered Stephen. The Doctor isn't the kind of option one just forgets.
I know, I know. It's a different series, and if the Doctor's there to step in and fix every problem there wouldn't be any conflict, blah blah blah. But I really just can't believe that no one in the entire world would have thought to call the Doctor.
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Date: 2009-07-13 03:23 am (UTC)And I simply cannot believe that Jack would have given up and used his grandson without calling the Doctor and asking for help. He's cold, but he's "last-resort" cold, and he would have been running through every option in his head before he volunteered Stephen. The Doctor isn't the kind of option one just forgets.
I know, I know. It's a different series, and if the Doctor's there to step in and fix every problem there wouldn't be any conflict, blah blah blah. But I really just can't believe that no one in the entire world would have thought to call the Doctor.