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12 years, 6 months ago - View
Nick commented on the post, The Day of the Doctor – a time structure analysis. An alternative “no-change” view
Thanks. No Xmas is over, I can reply to something you mentioned, which I have to say I didn’t interpret quite in the same way as you did it appears.
I agree it is unambiguous that Moffat tells us […]
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12 years, 7 months ago - View
Nick commented on the post, The Day of the Doctor – a time structure analysis. An alternative “no-change” view
There’s nothing you say above that I disagree with, sort of, except I see the story as much about Hurt redeeming himself than Smith redeeming Hurt, (and this is subtle emphasis in how you see the […]
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12 years, 7 months ago - View
Nick commented on the post, The Day of the Doctor – a time structure analysis. An alternative “no-change” view
My main aim is to suggest there is a viable alternative to the “Doctor changes his own timeline” that fits with what we saw and not to prove which alternative is correct/wrong. There are, I know, […]
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12 years, 7 months ago - View
Nick commented on the post, The Day of The Doctor – a time-structure analysis
I was interested in whether you thought it was a possible solution in the same way the time change “bowler hat” you’ve presented clearly is. If you think the concept is worth wider discussion […]
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12 years, 7 months ago - View
Nick commented on the post, The Day of The Doctor – a time-structure analysis
Yes, that is the question I’m asking.
It seems to me that you can conclude that the straight black line always happened (but there was a key point where the Moment brought three Doctors together and […]
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12 years, 7 months ago - View
Nick commented on the post, The Day of The Doctor – a time-structure analysis
Arguably changing the past (even if it is to make the past we know today happened, happen) is at the heart of Who, so I don’t see this as an issue of my liking or disliking the concept, although […]
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12 years, 7 months ago - View
Nick commented on the post, The Day of The Doctor – a time-structure analysis
LOL – just setting out the premise and then explaining why I thought it could fly 🙂 .
I agree with you here. I always thought the concept that everything disappeared when the Moment was used […]
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12 years, 7 months ago - View
Nick commented on the post, The Day of The Doctor – a time-structure analysis
Just catching up now I have had the chance to watch the show via DVD. As ever, I think your explanation is excellent and very informative. However, I wondered if it was really […]
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12 years, 8 months ago - View
Nick commented on the post, The Trailer – Discuss it here
I would caution against making too many assumptions about this. It seems to that that the entire Hurt doctor scenes with the ? moment in the trailer could easily be in a scene settling […]
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12 years, 8 months ago - View
Nick commented on the post, The Trailer – Discuss it here
slightly off topic, but I wanted to comment about this:
Also, it makes me think about poor River Song – always knowing what’s going to happen in the future is awful. She has to be a very strong […]
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12 years, 8 months ago - View
Nick replied to the topic Companions past and present
I wondered about that as well. I thought I saw a River reference in “run you pretty boy and remember” .
Nick
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12 years, 8 months ago - View
Nick replied to the topic Doctor Who News (2)
if you don’t want the plot of the 5oth to be spoiled you have to avoid the news as well as the spoiler thread surely ? Is there a substantive difference between an official spoiler and an unofficial one ? Both do the same thing IF you want to be unspoiled
😉 feeling frivolous as the weekend starts in 7 minutes
Nick
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12 years, 8 months ago - View
Nick replied to the topic Doctor Who News (2)
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12 years, 8 months ago - View
Nick replied to the topic The Day of The Doctor – The 50th Anniversary Special
I’m sure @Wolfweed can confirm this “Moment” exists as he and I briefly discussed it a while back (although it was in context of a Who comic strip). I wouldn’t get too wrapped up in this though as a lot is probably due to short replies (which can be misconstrued) and mis-understandings from what I read 🙂 .
Personal view:
Whilst I…[Read more]
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12 years, 8 months ago - View
Nick replied to the topic The Day of The Doctor – The 50th Anniversary Special
what idea was attacked ? I’ve looked back over the posts and its not obvious to me (sorry).
I hadn’t appreciated everything in the transcript when I watched the episode way back when, but this surely kills off any idea that Hurt Doctor can be anything but the Doctor who ended the Time War surely?
Thanks for a timely reminder.
Nick
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12 years, 8 months ago - View
Nick replied to the topic S33 (7) 11 – Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS
This line of yours (some way back):
I think the current direction is one where Moffat’s wrapping up the beginning of NuWho – putting that shell-shocked war veteran to rest and letting the man (or woman) behind ‘The Doctor’ start to live again. As Churchill once said:
‘This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the e…[Read more]
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12 years, 8 months ago - View
Nick replied to the topic S33 (7) 11 – Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS
I guess from your comment, that you don’t think this is an effect of Clara (or rather her multiple Claricles) being in the Doctor’s time line for so long that she has picked up his mannerisms and become Doctor-like ?
[the problem with this being of course she’s mirroring 11 and not 1 to 10, although you could argue she’d mirror…[Read more]
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12 years, 8 months ago - View
Nick replied to the topic The Day of The Doctor – The 50th Anniversary Special
all of that and more I rather think including Moffat’s reboot back to day 1 and doctor 0. I agree not too much footage of the Time War itself, but I guess there’ll be an explanation that ties the Doctor/Regeneration limit/Time war/Daleks/Silence/GI/Susan/Clara together (somehow) out of which the reboot (more of a restart I hope) is…[Read more]
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12 years, 8 months ago - View
Nick replied to the topic The Day of The Doctor – The 50th Anniversary Special
to mis-quote WhoHar (and another 1960’s TV show) “anything can happen in the next 77 minutes”
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