• Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I don’t find this answer very satisfying myself

    Yeah, I can see what they’re trying to do, but it seems like it needs a little bit more push to make it be a viable/acceptable reason why.

    I guess at this point you’re right, we just ignore and move on, though I do wish the writers weren’t so ‘hand wavy’ lazy about their worldbuilding.

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      11 months ago

      Not that it’s especially convincing but I think that the idea was that he was ‘playing a game’ when he’d been doing that stuff with the salt and then thrown it out into the ether for no reason other than messing about.

      Or something? I don’t know. Much as I love a lot about RTD as a writer, he’s definitely not a details man on story elements…