6. The Sonic Screwdriver Was A Metaphor For The Doctor
Placing three Doctors in one jail cell was a sure way of guaranteeing that just about anything could happen. Instead, they talked. Accusations flew, secrets were revealed, and the War Doctor was left wondering if his two fellow prisoners were really his future selves. Without the sonic screwdriver, he might have wondered indefinitely. As his screwdriver had begun to calculate the resonance needed to break down the cell door, a process the other two Doctors protested would take centuries, the Tenth Doctor's screwdriver was continuing to perform the necessary calculations. To his surprise, the Eleventh Doctor found that his screwdriver had completed the calculations. The process had, indeed, taken centuries, but thanks to time travel, it only appeared to be seconds to the Doctors Wibbly wobbly, timey wimey at its finest. The Moment summarised this phenomenon as, "Same software, different face", speaking of both the sonic screwdriver and the Doctor himself. This parallel was further extended by showing the actual moment the Doctor was about to end the Time War, a moment he had spent centuries reliving in his head, wondering if there was anything he could have done differently. And it had taken him centuries to reach a conclusion, but thanks (again) to time travel, it played out in mere seconds. By going back even further into his past and making sure each of the previous Doctors was working on the formula to save Gallifrey, the process spanned the Doctor's entire life. From Totter's Lane to the Moment, he was devising a way to avert the destruction of his home planet.
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