Would go when unregulated by either other Time Lords or companions. Mostly a character piece, it showed the extremes to which the Doctor They didn't appear right away for Rose's father, either.Ī bit more about the Doctor's mental state in Waters of Mars. Had she not committed suicide, it's reasonable to assume the time cleaners would have shown up eventually. Her tragic death following the destruction of Bowie Base One remains to inspire her granddaughter - all that changed was the location of that death. Her living was the pivotal point in committing suicide, she resolved the two timelines. In the case of The Waters of Mars, the time cleaners do not need to come, because the pivotal point - Adelaide Brook - cleaned herself up. In the case of Father's Day, the time cleaners came because the pivotal point - Rose's father - needed to be cleaned up. This is consistent across the two episodes you mention: The lesson of Mars was not that he could change fixed points it was that fixed points would survive his attempts to change them. The Doctor attempted to convince himself that fixed points were just a theory and that he could change them, however, The Waters of Mars proved the opposite - that he is still limited at fixed points, and further that his megalomania, when not tempered by a companion, would lead to more tragedy rather than less.
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