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[Doctor Who] Why all the fuss over how awesome the Tardis is when a Vortex Manipulator can do Time Travel so much better?

Jack and River swear by it. No losing it, no turning up in the wrong time, portable, easy, better. Makes the Time Lords tech look pretty crappy.
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>no turning up in the wrong time

What are you talking about? One of the first times we see one used, it misses its target by about 150 years and then breaks. 

The Tardis can go anywhere and anywhen and do things like take the full force of a supernova without any damage in order to make the equivalent of a long-distance phone call. It's dimensionally transcendental and exists in a state of temporal grace, meaning that it's bigger on the inside and no one can be hurt inside of it, both of which are obviously *very* complex stuff that's just being used as a matter of course, it serves as a true universal translator to every language, and it's powered by a perpetually dying star. It can tow planets across the universe, stabilize genetics (whatever that even *means)*, control gravity to a large extent, make itself immune to teleportation, self-heal, serve as a replicator, alter time without having to deal with paradoxes, run on the background energy of the universe if its power source breaks down, eat stars for extra power, lock itself outside the normal flow of time, prevent people from thinking about certain things... the list goes on. 

Oh, and it's an *antique*, so old that the Time Lords, when they still existed, had stopped teaching about them in school. 

So, sure, a Vortex Manipulator might be useful for the average joe, but that doesn't make the TARDIS any less of a ridiculous, unspeakable marvel of engineering. Time Travel is the *easy* part, and probably something the Time Lords figured out long before they ever built a TARDIS. It is one of the most impressive things to exist in a universe at any given point in time. That's why people gush over it. The Doctor uses it like a glorified Vortex Manipulator, but it is a sentient being capable of flying through suns and unmaking all of Creation. 

It's not like a Pogo Stick vs a Luxury Car. It's like a Pogo Stick vs an Imperial Star Destroyer.