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Originally Posted by XCaliber
I know that FA but it's inconsistent with a past instance the example I was referring to was the episode called Waters Of Mars btw all he did was prolong the inevitible and time corrected itself as if it new it was being cheated.
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I didn't see the episode. Did the doppleganger die differently? If not, there's nothing to say he didn't die initially too.
Waters of Mars is a bad example because the woman killed herself to defy the Doctor when SHE felt time had been threatened. After all his talk about immutability, about fixed points in time and how she had to die, he saunters in, declares himself above it, and as Donna said, someone needed to stop him.
Did time correct itself? Maybe. There's no real indication. SHE preserved the timeline by dying, and even still, it was inexorably altered. We saw the Wiki page.
The Doctor's reaction to all this made little sense, and
might imply something was afoot in the cosmic sense. But it seems not. And even facing the inevitability of his own death, he tries to cheat it (Ten, not Eleven), so lesson learned? Probably not. Big point? Doubt it.
Again, this is without the specifics. Maybe there is something explicit that states the Doctor has to die, but I doubt it. How would anyone account for that? History wouldn't know him from the Flesh, especially since he was so careful as to burn the body. No evidence.
Going further back, it's even debatable as to whether he altered events at the Library with River Song. Like the Impossible Astronaut, it seems an example of a stable time loop. The Doctor does it now because he did it before. Time repeats itself. Wibbly Wobbly...Stuff. This seems to be a very common theme in New Who. Another example, Blink, where Wibbly Wobbly comes from. Stable time loop.
And even in Father's Day, the Doctor explicitly says the Time Lords had way of dealing with these creatures, so if time is sentient, it didn't do a very good job of coping. Time was generally preserved by choice.