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How is it transphobic?
A crucial point about Season 6b is that it creates potential for a post-Fury From The Deep reunion and happy ending for the romance between Jamie and Victoria, so cruelly interrupted at the end of Fury.
1) Susan clearly does want to go with David - she breaks down and cries "Oh I do love you David I do" just before the Doctor locks the door. The only thing stopping her from leaving is her sense of guilt over abandoning her grandfather.
2) The Doctor is clearly upset at having to lock Susan out of the TARDIS. Even before he does so, Barbara has already worked out what is going to happen and is a willing accomplice inasmuch as she drags Ian out of a conversation with David so that he and she can be inside the TARDIS. He is still in a state of buried grief at the start of The Rescue when he sleeps through the TARDIS landing "for the first time ever"
3)He is only ever "mean cruel and nasty" to Susan in the pilot episode which was retconned in favour of what we see in the broadcast version. The pilot episode Doctor would never have stood for the broadcast episode Susan's threat to leave the TARDIS and stay in 1963. The boradcast episode Doctor does not shout and growl at Susan like the pilot version does. The Doctor is upset in The Daleks over the disagreement with Susan over whether a hand really touched her in the forest and is relieved when Barbara offers to talk to Susan to smooth things over.
Hi Jonathan,
http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/people-like-us/
Sadly, the full Facebook post linked to in that blog posting isn't even on the Wayback machine, but I think most/all of the WTB part of the rant is there.
You don't have the link to the Lawrence Miles rant do you? I'm very seem to find it anywhere.
...there's no facility to comment there, and since it follows on from School Reunion, so be it:
GOOF: Despite little or no time having elapsing between the end of School Reunion and the start of The Girl in the Fireplace, Rose somehow manages to crimp her hair.
Who threw the rock at Sally Sparrow in the pre-titles? Surely not the Weeping Angel. (And why didn't it creep up on her and zap her while she wasn't looking at it anyway?) But who else then? Did the Doctor go back and set up some elaborate - and impossibly perfectly timed - catapult system? Or was he just there in the shadows at the same time? (That might explain the lack of movement of the Angel, I suppose, if the Doctor kept one eye on it most of the time.)
I too was so bored and disgusted with this offering that I missed out whole chunks simply so that I could get to the UNIT/Doctor bits and they were pretty uninspiring. On the whole, a disgraceful use of DW and should be erased from DW canon, prose or otherwise! I wouldn't want to be in this authors head!
I'm sure Jack travels in the TARDIS toward the very end of this book. At least in two or three trips.
Another possible source is the Star Trek: The Next Generation novel "Gulliver's Fugitives" by Keith Sharee. It too featured a planet on which fiction was illegal. That being said, its plot goes in a completely different direction.
This audio is transphobic.
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mark687
That's why these sort of books are never a good idea.
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mark687
Why was Cheldon Bonniface destroyed and Saul brought to the moon?
This was explained in the book. The plan is for the mental energy released by the Doctor's death can be channeled via Saul. Properly channeled it could knock the moon out of its orbit and then destroy the earth. Without Saul, this would not be possible
Oh good. I appreciate there is a lot to do and it is good the site is still going. Though of course where to date some of 11's later stories gets interesting...
Yes it will, eventually.
I'm generally adding new stuff to this section as I write up discontinuity guides. As I write this comment I'm partway through writing up Torchwood Series 2, which I'm finding a real slog because the quality is so low (and so I keep putting off doing the next episode) after which I'll come back to writing up Doctor Who TV episodes.
I'm also doing a bit of a re-write of the entire history section as part of putting it into a new backend that will eventually allow some nice functionality, so the history section of the site is still being updated, just mostly in ways that aren't immediately obvious.
Will this bit on the 2010s ever be updated, as it seems to have stopped with Series 3.
1) When the First Doctor landed on Skaro, he had no control of the TARDIS. In addition, the Time Lords erased part of his memory.
2) When the Fourht Doctor landed on Skaro in Destiny of the Daleks, he had control of the TARDIS. And the TARDIS banks would have stored this planet's location as being Skaro. Thus, it is these co-ordinates in Destiny that destroy 'Skaro'.
3) Terry Nation never gave the Virgin Books the rights to any of his characters. Thus, any Daleks, Thals, Movellans etc. appearing in any Virgin Books must be totally different creatures who just, coincidentally, have the same names for their races as races from Dalek stories.
4) The destruction of Skaro in Remembrance is the stupidest thing to happen in Classic Who. Followed, closely behind, by Ace destroying a Dalek with a baseball bat, which only narrowly beats the entirety of The Happiness Patrol.
5) This book does seem to split fandom, similar to UNIT dating. Those who despise it seem to be of the 'The Seventh Doctor as Time's Champion is the Greatest Who Ever', whereas those who have no real problem with it are those who prefer their Doctor to be more like Doctors One through Six.
6) But nothing mentioned above in this post comes close to the absurdities of The Timeless Child.
Utopia/Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords/End of Time 1/End of Time 2:
1) The Master is a person of importance, whose real identity is unnknown. A big hint to his true identity is when the Doctor's companions see his anachronistic watch...The Time Meddler
2) The Master alters History so that Harold (the) Saxon can rule Britain..The Time Meddler
3) The Master has a laser screwdriver.. The Daleks' Master Plan
4) The Master speaks of his "Call to War"...The War Games
5) The scene where the Doctor and the Master argue about calling in the Time Lords...The War Games
Hello
It's possible that I missed something, maybe you can help.
At the end of The End of Time the Tenth Doctor visits all of his companions, last of which is Rose on New Year's morning before they met in 2005.
The TARDIS takes off and starts to break up as The Doctor regenerates. This part of the story continues at the beginning of The Eleventh Hour when the TARDIS crash lands on Amelia Pond's aunt's shed.
After his initial meeting with Amelia he says he has to test run the TARDIS then he'll come back for her.
There doesn't seem to be any hint of the TARDIS travelling in time throughout any of this so the meeting between The Doctor and Amelia must take place on 01 January 2005, not Easter.
Approximately twelve years later The Doctor returns for Amelia so it must be 2016/17. Then the adventure of The Eleventh Hour unfolds, The Doctor goes back to his TARDIS and returns for Amy two years later.
So, surely the story is now being picked up in 2018/19. Which means they are only a year away from the events of The Hungry Earth and years after 26 June 2010, the day Rory and Amy married and conceived River Song.
Can this be explained?
Gary Adams
Autons and The Three Doctors?
See what this Terrance Dicks wrote for the Master's introduction scene in the Terror of the Autons novelisation, pages 24-26. Then I dare you to try and say that the 'War Chief and the Master are two completely separate characters. With a straight face.
Is there ANOTHER Terrance Dicks who specifically wrote in the novelisation of The Three Doctors(page 93):
"In his various incarnations, the Doctor had found himself up against many terrifying enemies. With the exception of the Master, this was the first time he had found himself opposed by a fellow Time Lord. And in comparison to Omega, the Master shrank almost to a petty criminal."
Or, is that a second Terrance Dicks, who also was working on Doctor Who at the same time?
So, when someone points out that the entire "Deca" section is part of a section entitled "DREAMING", that the Doctor clearly falls asleep right before this, and then clearly wakes up right after this, and it can not possibly be sued as reliable biographical information, some people respond "Oho, but what about the sction at the end, where every Deca member gets a 'Whatever happened to..'
Using just ONE example, let's take "Mortimus". Part of HIS 'biography' AFTER the Deca sequence includes
"Giving the Normans atomic bazookas in the eleventh century"
Wait...WHAT?
Well, clearly not Peter Butterworth's Time Meddler then, who wanted to sue an atomic warhead to commit genocide against the Vikings, on behalf of the Anglo-Saxons, before the Normans ever showed up. If his whole point for being there was to PREVENT the Normans from conquering England, why would he give the Normans atomic bazookas?
"Harmless really"
Yes, someone who is handing out weapons of mass destruction to a conquering people, at a time when their enemies had nothing more advanced than bows and arrows, knowing full well how they would use them is 'harmless really'.
Back to 'Mortimus'..
"putting money in a bank and nipping forward a few thousand years to claim millions in compound interest".
So, very clearly not the same person from The Time Meddler who
"Put two hundred pounds in a London bank in 1968. Nipped forward two hundred years and collected a fortune in compound interest."
Either the 'Where are they now' section is STILL part of the unreliable dream, or Mortimus is a totally different character to the Time Lord who appears in The Time Meddler and The Daleks' Mast Plan. Or both.
Mortimus? Haha. That's from the New Adventures, right? Mortimus the Monk, Magnus the Master. So, is the Doctor's real name Dougald, then?
That 'Mortimus' from No Future was also someone who had never met the Doctor on Gallifrey, and who was stranded on an ice planet for a long period of time. Meaning he ain't the same character Peter Butterworth plays in The Daleks' Master Plan, as knew the Doctor from before The Time Meddler, and he was never stranded on any ice planet.
The goof that you mention regarding the roof of the car is not a goof, the picture clearly depicts a sunroof of sorts that takes up the majority of the roof in the picture and therefore would be able to be opened for Harry to see the stars as described in page 73.
Not to get into "UNIT Dating", but thst wasn't a goof.
The overwhelming majority of stories went with the original UNIT Dating, and Mawdryn Undead was the anomaly.
Who Killed Kennedy etc. chose to go with the opinion of a tiny minority.
Major discontinuity/goof here.
In The Ancestor Cell, Romana places K9 in the TARDIS. In The Gallifrey Chronicles, K9 states that it has been "114 years, 9 months.." since then.
The Doctor spent nearly 113 years on earth(The Burning through Escape Velocity).
The Doctor also spent the better part of a year on Earth in The Adventuress of Henrietta Street.
Trix also stated near the end of her time with the Doctor that she had been with him for 'four months'.
So, where do these magical four years fit in?