The Bootstrap Paradox | Before the Flood | Doctor Who

Taken from Doctor Who Series Nine, Episode Four - Before The Flood.

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[Gitimus]

It is a shame Capaldi's Doctor didn't do this more often. This is really engaging having him talk the audience.

[phrophetsamgames]

"Google it."


I did Doctor. This was the first link.

[pluviosity]

Peter Capaldi could read a washing machine warranty terms & condition and he would still shake my soul to the core.

[AlexQuill]

"This didn't happen, by the way."

I'm not sure I believe you, Twelve. This is a suspiciously specific analogy you're detailing.

[thethunderant]

The doctor says he named himself that because doctors help people. But later, River tells him that they called people who help people doctors after him.

[DoctorXander]

I could listen to Capaldi explain things like this for hours

[Daikon_Micucci]

I have noticed two things:
1) The Doctor has an amp from Magpie Electronics; I love the in-house reference, that episode was insane.
2) The other thing is that the Doctor is talking about Beethoven, in a time-traveling British phone booth, and playing it on an electric guitar. It's a multi-layered reference to Bill & Ted, and I love it.

[GiratinaofFury]

Here's a fun idea - what if the TARDIS was the inspiration for the police boxes it's modelled on? What if the Doctor landed in a point in time before they were made, a person working for the police saw it, sketched the design, took some artistic liberty, asked if the design was already patented or what have you, and then they were commissioned later on?

A perfect example of a bootstrap paradox.

[LillyKTheArtist]

A great example of the bootstrap paradox in action is in "the day of the doctor". The fez that 11 puts on is in the under gallery because is came through the temporal portal to the tenth doctor, the war doctor then brings it back when it goes through again and gets left behind after they get sent to the Tower of London. Elizabeth then has it collected as a dangerous artifact and put in the under gallery where it sits and waits for 11 to put it on and throw it through the portal again. So the question is... where did the fez come from?

[Spiketrooper]

Love that Capaldi incorporated his masterful guitar ability into his Doctor. It fit him so well.

[coachgoltzbizpro]

10th Doctor: I have 3-D glasses!
11th Doctor: I have a fez!
12th Doctor: I have an electric guitar!

[redjirachi]

What makes this fitting is that the 12th Doctor himself a product of a bootstrap paradox. The 11th Doctor was only able to regenerate into him because the Time Lord gave him a new cycle, and the Time Lords only survived the Time War because the 12th Doctor contributed to saving it with his previous incarnations.

[DenniWintyr]

One of the best examples of a bootstrap paradox: Blink.

[ericbazinga]

I think it's pretty cool that they broke the fourth wall for this scene, having Capaldi talk directly to the audience.

[Despair]

I love that this Doctor has a bunch of books, a vinyl player and his guitar just lying around. It feels lived in, it gives him more character and make him feel more real, like you know what he's doing when he's just kicking around just by looking at his home, every other Doctor just have a barren control room.

[BruceCinema]

The answer is in the question:

*WHO* wrote Beethoven's 5th.

[yugimudo]

Also, the way Doctor saved River Song, is an example of this paradox.

12th gave River the screwdriver because he know he has to give her one before she went to the library.

But 10th know he has to give her a screwdriver one day because River says he gave it to her in his future.

So who idea was it to give River the screwdriver that allow Doctor to save her?

[mimilook]

There wasn't a SINGLE teacher of mine who made me listen to him explaining something THAT carefully and then Capaldi started explaining and I was all ears

[nightowl]

They should have done some more straight-to-camera explanations with Peter.

Not even in the show, just shorts for kids. It is an educational show, after all.

[delbaethmidir]

Peter Capaldi could talk through the cinema and you wouldn't mind.