I was glad Tegan raised the point I was thinking about - the freighter crashes whether Adric's on board or not, so why *not* save him?
Because any change in an event that massive, no matter how small, could have fucked everything up. Remember, that freighter wiped out the Dinosaurs - and paved the way for mammalian life forms to become the dominant...which lead to humans.
Read a great fic once that did take this premise and ran with it - because Adric's mass wasn't on board, a slight shift in events rippled and cascaded through time until humans never even evolved.
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on 2005-09-19 03:53 pm (UTC)Because any change in an event that massive, no matter how small, could have fucked everything up. Remember, that freighter wiped out the Dinosaurs - and paved the way for mammalian life forms to become the dominant...which lead to humans.
Read a great fic once that did take this premise and ran with it - because Adric's mass wasn't on board, a slight shift in events rippled and cascaded through time until humans never even evolved.