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@jimthefish – possibly that’s even how TimeLords delusionally see themselves. It’s strange how pervasive that image is – personally I can only really see them actually portrayed on-screen that way in part one of The Deadly Assassin. Outside out few scenes in that story, they seem pretty relentlessly arrogant and scheming – rather than bumbling – to me.

I think the whole “boisterous rebelling against stuffy academics” Tardis joyriding schtick is a fiction the Doc has carefully manufactured to cover up a much more serious purpose (at the very least, scarpering with some very heavy duty ordinance indeed)

On his blog, Neil Gaiman recalls how he pitched that that as a child, the Doc asked the Corsair if he could travel with him/her as his “assistant”. Moffat replied that he didn’t want the Corsair to resemble the Doctor because the Doc “does what he does for reasons too vast and terrible to relate”. Go figure.

Totally one the same page with you about an upcoming total reboot though!

@bluesqueakpip – you’ve on to something there: The Doc has said that all TL’s look into the Untempered Schism as children; it inspires some, drives the rest insane (such as the Master). I guess some of the ones they presumed inspired eventually turn out to be loony tunes after all (hello Mssrs Borusa, Rassilon, War Chief, Mobius and Omega! Even Drax as at least one jellied eel short of a pearly king and queen. Or silly, as K9 puts it). You have to be a pretty harebrained civilisation if you have a rite of passage that effectively mass produces psychopaths!

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@janetteb – given the TimeLords are a ostensibly non-interventionish galactic super power with a secretive Agency within called the CIA, riven with political corruption and have (despite being “peaceful”) extraordinary weapons of mass destruction* … I think its safe to assume the writers have toyed with timelords as a satire of humans and US imperialism in particular.

Wine at 10:25am ? You’re my kinda girl! 😀

* hand of omega, Nemesis**, the Moment, the Magenetron, bow ships, whatever it was they gave the Minyans to destroy Minyos with … did I miss any?

** it always annoyed me how the movie felt it had to explain the Doctors affinity for Earth with a (Star Trek pilfered) human mother, when the last series of classic made a very clear implication that he was actually keeping an eye on where he’d stashed both the HoO (in a hole) and particularly Nemesis (in a solar orbit).

There’s also a heavy implication that the Doctor didn’t just “run away to see the universe” (that’s just what he wanted the TL’s to think) but actually scarpered with at least their 2 most deadly weapons, defanging them because presumably he didn’t think they could be trusted with them – i.e. scratch any TL and there’s a genocidal loony with near godlike powers just underneath.

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I got lost in the time vortex. The Tardis brought me home.

Hello @juniperfish, @blenkinsopthebrave and fishes one and all!

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You might have to go fetch a broom to lever me off the ceiling …

<espresso me again, barista!>

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OK things have gone a bit quiet.

<squints suspiciously> …. too quiet ….

 

 

I was only ever in it for the mad speculation anyway; <pulls lever marked “insane theory machine – do not touch”>

1) moff said DW will be “all over the TV”. Best guess is there will be easter eggs all through other BBC TV programs, possibly especially anything historical or about history. They may be subtle, they may actually be appearances of the doctor (searching for Clara?) in the background. Possibly as a whole, they add up to a simple narrative of their own.

2) moff said it will be a love letter to the fans. I can’t help but think this must involve some kind of breaking of the 4th wall – possibly in a way that works both within the narrative, and also if he were addressing the audience. I can’t help also thinking love letter means a plot element that’s all about “keeping the flame alive over a very long period”

3) Rory’s misprinted badge, 30/11/1990 is, I can’t help noticing, the saturday after the anniversary date, which to me suggests it will be a 2 parter, resolving the following week (and that’s when Rory and Amy return). Not convinced, numerologists? 2013 – 1990 is 23. 23rd November. To me this says “I am an anniversary clue” not “I am a costume error”. I don’t believe the costume dept would even bother making a statement, unless it was *definitely* a clue. Reverse psychology, see?

4) Lodgers Tardis: Not “its a tardis” but “someones been trying to build a tardis”. ie. to the doctors expert eye it is patently unfinished. That is significant dialog. Also, apparently its a tardis without an outer shell, just a control room. Only one person (within the show) has ever a) built themselves a tardis and b) is foolhardy enough to build one without a shell. His name is … the Doctor. Also, the 2 episodes the tardis occurs in are (1969,2010) are between 1963 and 2013. Best guess – part of the story is the doctor being stranded for 50 years on earth building a “lifeboat” tardis. This might fit in with both (1)  and (2) above. And what better form form of a love letter to the fans than the doctor having lived through the same 50 years alongside us? Possibly continuously writing irritated letters to the BBC saying things like “ice warriors don’t look like that, they have horns” … “Pompeii didn’t fall like that; ask someone who was there for gods sake”

I’m stuck on a very late train and have drunk 6 espresso’s. Can you tell?

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