Fixed points in time sometimes don't make sense.

[Qonundrum]

So can someone help make sense of this?

I'm thinking back to I think the 11th Doctor or could have been the 12th but anyway they showed a clip of a Dalek killing people and then it passed over one person and the Doctor says because they are a fixed point in time, so how does that even work? How would the Dalek not be able to fire its gun at this special fixed point in time person? That scene stuck with me and I have always wondered how that works, was the Dalek confused I mean what happens with it in that situation?

Nothing technically makes sense, it's if the presentation feels fulfilling and long-standing. While "fixed point in time" isn't bulletproof, it is a cool idea that resolves a lot. If nothing else, "there's the exception to every rule, except that one."

Now for a real curveball, fathom who managed to figure out that the following otherwise arguably nonsensical items were both edible and delicious:

• Oysters
• Foie Gras
• Castoreum (used in imitation vanilla and other flavorings)
• Caviar
• Tripe
• Pigs' feet
• Truffles

(feeling nauseated yet? Well, good news, cuz there's more!)

• Hakari
• Ceviche
• Gravlax*
• Criadillas
• Lamb fries (these are not made from potatoes, only things that look like em...)
• Creier Pane
• Cervelle De Veau
• Asparagus
• Kale
• etc

* No relation to "Ex Lax" but I'd reckon plenty of them foods there are going to be, in one form or another, makeshift laxatives...

 

[Guy Gardener]

Fixed points in Time in Legends of Tomorrow were hilarious.

No matter what you did, fate stepped in.

Then they figured out that fate was just one guy, a time cop clocking in and out, who could stop time and fuck with everything.

It's like a speedster screwing around with cause and effect, but it's a tired guy, on a never ending quest, pretending to be a universal force.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

Fixed points in Time in Legends of Tomorrow were hilarious.

No matter what you did, fate stepped in.

Then they figured out that fate was just one guy, a time cop clocking in and out, who could stop time and fuck with everything.

It's like a speedster screwing around with cause and effect, but it's a tired guy, on a never ending quest, pretending to be a universal force.

Poor Barry Allen

 

[Guy Gardener]

Poor Barry Allen

Well I was thinking of Quicksilver in Days of Future's Past.

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but the Time Cop guarding the assassination of the Arch Duke Ferdinand, the kick off to WWI, faking a fixed point in time, was Eobard Thawn, not that simp Barry Allen.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

Well I was thinking of Quicksilver in Days of Future's Past.

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but the Time Cop guarding the assassination of the Arch Duke Ferdinand, the kick off to WWI, faking a fixed point in time, was Eobard Thawn, not that simp Barry Allen.

Barry a simp for who Iris? Iris was hot

 

[Guy Gardener]

Barry a simp for who Iris? Iris was hot

I don't care how hawt my sister is, I am not giving her anything more convivial than a firm handshake on her wedding day. Joe could have planted coke in his locker back in the naughties and saved us a world of angst.

By Simp, I meant that Barry was weak-willed or indecisive.

It takes him half a season of Hamletting, to summon the forthrightness to achieve anything relevant, and then he second guesses himself with time travel almost immediately.

Season one Barry was amazing because he was in deep, over his head and struggling to survive.

Season Nine Barry was awful because he was still in deep, still over his head and still struggling to survive.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

I don't care how hawt my sister is, I am not giving her anything more convivial than a firm handshake on her wedding day. Joe could have planted coke in his locker back in the naughties and saved us a world of angst.

By Simp, I meant that Barry was weak-willed or indecisive.

It takes him half a season of Hamletting, to summon the forthrightness to achieve anything relevant, and then he second guesses himself with time travel almost immediately.

Season one Barry was amazing because he was in deep, over his head and struggling to survive.

Season Nine Barry was awful because he was still in deep, still over his head and still struggling to survive.

Yes but she was his adopted sister so no blood relations. Oh hell I'd have married her too.

Barry half the time had to be bailed out by the rest of the team sometimes, but still I watched all 9 seasons.

That last season with all the godspeeds was stupid but still tuned in every week because despite the stupid it was fun mostly

 

[JD]

And Barry was older and already had a thing for Iris when Joe took him in, so it's not like they spent their whole lives being raised as brother and sister.