Thread:Aaronbill3/@comment-28716546-20170416070909/@comment-24922135-20170522185156

I sympathise with CERN because I, too, understand some of the mechanics of the universe and want to kill myself.

Extremis was REALLY good, but falls apart when you think into it more.

For the Veritas to exist, the simulation had to have been running for long enough for someone to realise it was a computer simulation, write about it, then that entire civilisation to kill themselves and take their language with them.

So why, at no point, did the aliens invade the simulation? Or do they just [BITES THE DUST] the simulation each time? Additionally, if they need the simulation to be as accurate as possible, why allow the Veritas to exist? Why not just patch it out? The language died with its authors, just change what it translates to.

Furthermore, if the simulation was ONLY run for a few thousand years, how does the Doctor travel anywhere beyond those limits? Is there a special part of the program dedicated to the rest of the universe so the Doctor can explore there as well? He has to have been able to travel to other times and places in-simulation for the simulation to be accurate. The only way that works is if the simulation genuinley has only been running since Oxygen.

But then why does the Veritas exist?

That being said, if a lesser part of the simulation was dedicated to the rest of the universe for the sake of the Doctor that would be an ammusing in-universe explanation as to why some of the effects/costumes from the earlier series look kinda naff.