"Day of the Doctor": I am confused

[bunsen_h]

I thought that David Tennant's exit episode showed quite unambiguously that Gallifrey was not locked in any kind of stasis bubble?

Does this mean that the Daleks were retroframmistatically not racially annihilated in the Time War?  Surely they were not all-and-sundry investing Gallifrey and then destroyed by each other.  But then it wouldn't have made much sense for all of them to have been in the same galaxy as Gallifrey so as to be annihilated by something as small-scale as a galaxy-eater.  Not that it makes a great deal of difference, since they've antichronically reemerged from several other pan-universal annihilations.

Comments

[henrytroup.livejournal.com]

I think Larry Niven conclusively showed that time travel makes mush out of cause-and-effect. Anything done can be undone, entities can be taken back before their apparent origin or termination then transposed forward again, etc. at most local causation might be consistent, but not always.

[bunsen-h.livejournal.com]

I don't think we've ever been told much about the Time War, nor about how the Doctor had ended it other than that he'd had to time-lock both sides (or words to that effect). I think it would have been better to leave it that way, rather than to portray it as a rather "traditional" sci-fi blowing-things-up conflict. I'd assumed that it was more along the lines of tactical operations to neutralize the opponents' forces before they could be useful, or indeed even exist. We know that the Time Lords had all of time and space to work with; that the Daleks were serious opponents implies that they had similar abilities.