Reviews for With the Push of a Button (The World Comes Falling Down)
Shadow Stalker chapter 1 . 6/4
Danny is not a bad dad after all.
Guest chapter 1 . 5/25
"The Power of the Daleks": Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it—unless the Doctor arrives in time.

"The Dominators" was intentionally written with an anti-pacifist message. However, it's also possible to read it as encouraging student activists to fight for justice, rejecting rote learning and irrational laws.

"The Unquiet Dead" was perceived in some quarters as an attack on immigration (since the episode features aliens who come to Earth on the pretence of finding a new home after their planet was blown up, but are actually attempting to invade), even though the subtext was entirely unintentional.

"Kill the Moon":
Some viewers reacted angrily to what they saw as a pro-life (as in anti-abortion) message in the episode. There's a question of preventing a birth and the Doctor gives the women the "choice" to terminate it. Then, in a democratic method, the whole world together decides to prevent the birth. But finally, Clara just can't bear to "kill the baby", and her decision to save it is proven to be the right one in the end.

"Face the Raven": Those who aspire to greatness — or, in this case, to be the Doctor — are to be punished. ''Doctor Who Magazine' #494 printed a fan letter condemning the episode for implying this by having Doctor-aspiring Clara die because of it. The ending of "Hell Bent" does rectify this somewhat as Clara is quasi-revived, convinces the Doctor not to be a Woobie, Destroyer Of Worlds but to keep to his ideals, and becomes a Doctor-figure herself complete with TARDIS.

Thirteen's tenure as a whole has a tremendously heavy-handed anti-gun and -violence tone. While the series has a history of both, it gets ridiculous when she explicitly considers being locked in a room to starve to death to be more humane than a quick bullet.

In "The Sontaran Stratagem", the Doctor insists that he is going to handle the situation and that Colonel Mace of UNIT should listen to him and not attack the Sontarans who have already killed several dozen people and are warming up a full force invasion. While the Doctor is right that something fishy is going on with the Sontaran tactics and that UNIT could easy be crushed if the Sontarans actually tried, Colonel Mace is dealing with an alien invasion; he knows that attacking that building may end with all of his men dead, but he points out that they cannot simply sit around and wait to be conquered.

Colonel Mace: "Thank you, Doctor. Thank you so much for your lack of faith, but this time I'm not listening." He pulls off his gas mask and dons his badass hat

In the serial "The Invasion", aspiring glamour photographer Isobel suggests getting proof of the Cybermen's presence in the sewers by going down to take pictures. The Brigadier agrees, but intends to use his own men instead, on the basis that such a situation is no place for a lady. Isobel blows up at how backward and sexist he's being, but the Brig refuses, and both girls gang up on Jamie for agreeing with him and both she and Zoe walk away in a huff to get the pics themselves with Jamie worriedly tagging along, which ends up getting a police officer and a UNIT soldier sent to rescue them killed. While it could easily be argued that the Brig was in the wrong to assume they could not handle themselves for being women, it might have been better to let trained and experienced soldiers do the dangerous work, and neither of the girls are called out for their reckless actions getting two men killed. To add insult to injury, Isobel's photos end up being useless since she's never done any surveillance or dim-lighting photography.

Both Harriet Jones and Torchwood One are presented by both the Doctor and the script writers as being entirely in the wrong for activities such as harvesting alien technology. Problem is that the Doctor is reckless who treats death like a game and he is someone who is not likely to be there when the Earth needs him and he is responsible through his indirect actions for a good portion of the threats the Earth encounters - the Master becoming Prime Minister being the best example. We need people like them (and UNIT) to guard us in a very dangerous universe.

In "Journey's End" the Doctor is disgusted when his clone destroys the Dalek fleet and treats him like a monster, even though the Daleks are fanatical mass-murderers who never negotiate and letting them live would inevitably lead to countless more deaths. They had just come close to destroying the Universe and it probably wouldn't be too difficult for them to try again, considering from what we see the Doctor was just willing to leave them like they were, when it probably wouldn't be too difficult for them to recover. We later see that a few Daleks surviving rebuild their race, which has led to a lot more death and destruction throughout the Universe.

Whizkid in "Greatest Show In The Galaxy" is a cruel stereotype of the Doctor Who fans of the period, complaining that "although I never saw it in the early days I know it's not as good as it used to be." Except, as pointed out in The Completely Useless Encyclopedia, Whizkid is right about the circus, and the reasons are pretty much exactly the criticisms fans were making about eighties Doctor Who.

In "The Curse of Peladon" Hepesh is treated as an unreasonable nationalist willing to do anything not to deal with the Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire. But "The Mutants" two serials later shows that an earlier Human Empire did to the planet Solos exactly what Hepesh feared would happen to Peladon, exploited to the point of destruction and with the native population almost wiped out. Decades later, "Planet of the Ood" would give another good reason to dislike the empire.

The Doctor often criticised the Time Lords in the original series for sitting around being pompous instead of using their powers to intervene more, content to let whole civilisations be destroyed on their watch. However, with all the dangerous renegades like the Monk, the War Chief, the Master, and the Rani running around with all the damage they cause, and the Doctor himself often centimetres away from full A God Am I status, it makes sense that the Time Lords prefer not to intervene except for major problems. When they first appeared they did interfere, the Doctor calling them in to stop a plan to conquer a galaxy with an Army of the Ages assisted by a rogue Time Lord, and the Time Lords occasionally sent the Doctor, especially the Third, to assist affairs on an important scale. That's before considering that when the Time Lords intervened in "The Trial of a Time Lord", this action almost destroyed Earth, and when they sent the Doctor to destroy the Daleks before they were created it ended up being the first shot in a Great Offscreen War that nearly destroyed the universe. The serial "Underworld" even reveals that when the Time Lords first interacted with another planet by giving them advanced technology, the planet and nearly all of the species were wiped out.

In "The Day of the Doctor", Ten and Eleven criticize Kate Stewart for being willing to blow up the Black Archive (and a good chunk of London with it) in order to keep the Zygons from using the technology stored in the Archive to conquer Earth. Sure, the Doctors come up with an alternate solution, but at the time, Kate didn't see another option (although there were only a few Zygons, and she could summon an army).

Arachnids in the UK": Robertson is a Jerkass, Never My Fault, Screw the Rules, I Have Money!, trigger-happy American stereotype who kills the mother spider by shooting it with his dead bodyguard's pistol. However, the spiders had killed at least four people (including said bodyguard) with the intent of eating them like flies, they were nonsentient and could not be politely reasoned with, and the mother spider was already suffering a horrible and slow death by asphyxiation.
Guest chapter 1 . 5/25
If a strange man offers you a ride in a stolen vehicle, you should DEFINITELY accept.

It's perfectly acceptable for colonists to commit genocide against the natives, provided that the natives are only giant crabs.

Have a problem with aliens? Dinosaurs invading London? Don't fight, don't react, don't do anything - a guy will magically beam in from nowhere, and solve the problem for you. As long as you stayed absolutely still, because regardless of the problem, it was just a miscommunication. One that is all your fault!

And when you eventually decide to maybe learn to handle some situations for yourself and take your fate in your own hands, expect a good chiding from said Knight In Shining Armour. And get your career destroyed for it.

Drowning overgrown spider babies is all well and good, but if your enemy is an evil genius you must go to great pains to keep him alive, despite the fact that each second he spends breathing is another opportunity for him to kill innocent people.

Enemies who want to obliterate every single living thing must be cherished and protected, but enemies that want to make every single living thing exactly like them can be tortured to death (or forced to commit suicide; your choice).

Destroying a deadly enemy who have just proven their word is worthless is wrong; therefore, your entire country should be denied a golden age as punishment.

Conversely, someone who has engaged in a vicious and insane war of genocide, brought untold suffering and misery to the entire world and demonstrates not a single ounce of regret or penitence for his actions should be forgiven immediately — no questions asked.

Guns are evil - but any device operated by buttons or levers that kills stuff is fine. And in fact things that behave exactly like guns are also fine so long as they're not actually called guns.

Using a less developed population for illegal breeding is ok as long as you murder your main accomplice in front of two witnesses, one of whom knows the relevant authorities that would punish said illegal breeding.

Turn Left gives us "Obey your parents, and the universe will come to an end."

Mothers are evil! If they aren't emotionally blackmailing you to make you dependent on them, they're hitting on your time-travelling boyfriends. Frankly, families in general should be abolished. They just make you want to destroy the Earth so that your relatives can profit (Slitheen), or your babies can eat the corpses (Racnoss).

Professional soldiers are bad people and not be trusted. Species-murdering, emotionally unstable strangers are okay, though.

Unless the professional soldiers are led by a British man with a mustache and a relatively upmarket name like, say, Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart.

If someone in odd, garish clothes turns up and starts spouting meaningless gibberish, don't worry—they're a time-traveling alien genius, not an escapee from the local mental health ward!

And if you don't believe everything he says and immediately ally yourself with him, then you're a mundane person with no imagination, doomed to a dull life free of adventure. If you live.

"I can't help it, it's my nature" is a completely unacceptable excuse for selfish, intolerant, cruel or otherwise repugnant behavior. Unless, of course, you happen to be a 1000-year-old supergenius.

Constantly changing your moral stance on killing others doesn't make you dangerous or mentally unstable—it makes you a hero!

Don't worry about abandoning those who care about and depend on you; they'll get over it, eventually.
And even if they don't, you'll forget about them in a few years, anyway.

If your bravery inspires others to do brave things which get them killed, it's all your fault.

Your partner is more important then the rest of the universe and anyone who says differently should be punched in the face.

Do not live in London.

Do not live in Cardiff

Killing your loved one can result in marriage.

If an alternate universe is in danger, do not try to save it. Your universe is the only one that counts.

If you live with a terrible truth that you can't face, imagine yourself being normal and it'll go away. Also applies to Community.

If someone who has seen every inch of the universe and has an innate understanding of how time and space work tells you that a particular action is a really bad idea, you should do it anyway. Especially if you've done something similar before and nearly got the whole world eaten in the process.

Nothing good ever happens on Christmas.

Forget about your old friends. You're going to meet new people, so why contact past acquaintances?

For the Twelfth Doctor: Being a huge dick to everyone you meet and treating your best friend like crap doesn't matter at all. At least you're trying to be a good guy and you are saving the day.

Brutal honesty is the only honesty.

Do you feel like you have been interfering too much and want to step back and let people decide for themselves? Don't. Even if your intentions were good about the lack of interference, they would dislike the fact you didn't help them.

If you're feeling angry about your personal life or society in general, then making homemade bombs is a perfectly healthy response. So is hanging around with someone who encourages your destructive behaviour while manipulating you for their own ends. After all, they're only doing it for your own good.

If you have to choose between letting a group of children grow up with no parents and letting them die a horrible death with their parents, obviously you choose the latter.

If your childhood best friend shows up out of nowhere, resurrects all your loved ones into a zombie army, and sexually assaults you up against a wall, you should totally kiss her a bit later.

If you're a soldier facing a group of unarmed civilians some of whom claim to be members of your family, and your commanding officer orders you to open fire, you'd just better mow them all down in cold blood. Otherwise it'll be the worse for you.

If you want to try and attempt to make your generally family-friendly show Darker and Edgier, then you might not wish to put your protagonist in a wardrobe that will gain laughter.
Gibelyou chapter 1 . 5/27
Hooo boy, this is what happens when you let sentient super weapons free Doctor... I have to wonder, what deviations will present themselves with Danny learning about it this way. It might be interesting to have the Doctor turn up to collect the Moment for safekeeping and get a younger lashing from Taylor for letting it out of his sight.
BloodElemental chapter 1 . 5/26
while this is good, it would have been much better if you had weaver from normal worm canon in there too. it would have been good for a contrasting opinion.
ultima-owner chapter 1 . 5/25
very moving
The Conquerors chapter 1 . 5/25
Not bad For a first Story. I look Forward to More.