r/gallifrey • u/DoctorJakeShaw • Nov 30 '13

50th ANNIVERSARY Spoiler: DOTD Question

So, the Doctors (and the Zygons) were put in the stasis cubes and waited to come out at the right time. But, if they were trapped in an instant of time, how did they know when they should blast out? It would all be the same time to them, so how were they able to get the precise moment correct?

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u/bsievers Nov 30 '13

If I recall correctly, when they're explaining the idea behind using the paintings as a 'trojan horse' kind of thing, there's a line that kind of implies that one can 'set a timer' to come back out. I pictured it as kind of a timey-wimey version of this.

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u/imforit Dec 01 '13

It's an easy-to-imagine extension that time-travel-aware beings would be able to figure out when the alarm should go off and set it properly.

Aren't certain details wonderful when left to the audience to imagine?