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12 years, 9 months ago - View
blenkinsopthebrave replied to the topic The Time of The Doctor
More thoughts on the crack in the universe.
It still exists, so it is highly likely it will feature in S8. If the Time Lords can see through the crack and send regenerations through the crack, what else might they be able to send through?
I think we can safely assume they cannot send all of Gallifrey through, but might it be possible to…[Read more]
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Bluesqueakpip replied to the topic The Time of The Doctor
some sort of solution where the Doctor/Clara removed or absorbed the Great Intelligence from the Doctor’s time line doesn’t it before they can “leap free”.
@Nick. Yes. It does. The solution was called ‘Clara’.
What did you think she was doing in there? 😀
[There was in fact a line or two explaining that spending too long in someone else’s…[Read more]
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12 years, 9 months ago - View
blenkinsopthebrave replied to the topic The Time of The Doctor
@Bluesqueakpip, @Arbutus, @Nick
I may be missing something quite obvious, but if Clara could communicate to the Time Lords through the crack, and if the Timelords could send the regenerations through the crack, then can we not also assume that the Time Lords have always been able to see through the crack? If so, then can we not assume that they…[Read more]
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Bluesqueakpip replied to the topic The Time of The Doctor
Did it not occur to them before Clara spoke that they ought to help the Doctor?
Good question: what I would ask (since it’d need a detailed rewatch) is: do the Time Lords have any idea how they need to help the Doctor?
What I mean is: their last view of the Doctor is of thirteen Doctors. The Tennant Doctor’s regeneration to…[Read more]
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Bluesqueakpip replied to the topic The Time of The Doctor
I for one would really like to know how we got from the Doctor being stuck on Trenzalore with Clara in his own timeline at the end of series 7 to the two “specials”.
That one’s easy – it turns out there was a production problem. Matt Smith injured his knee and it was all he could do to pick Jenna Coleman up. He certainly couldn’t man…[Read more]
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12 years, 9 months ago - View
Arbutus replied to the topic The Time of The Doctor
@Nick, @Bluesqueakpip But I have to ask myself, is Clara asking nicely absolutely the best idea that the production team could come up with to resolve the end of the Doctors regeneration cycle and the beginning of a new one ? … But, and this is a big but, as an idea in of itself, is it sufficient to deliver the punch line for an entire era ?[Read more]
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12 years, 9 months ago - View
Bluesqueakpip commented on the post, Hey deus, have you seen my machina? A look at the real meaning of ‘deus ex machina’.
@Nick – ‘no’ would be the short answer. 🙂
The slightly longer answer is that it really is quite difficult to write a good drama without either a reveal or a reversal, and preferably both. Try and think of one […]
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12 years, 10 months ago - View
PhaseShift replied to the topic On The Sofa (4)
Just a quick note of explanation about something. You may have noticed a “Guest Blogger” identity has been set up and hosted @nick s thoughts on the Day of the Doctor Time Line.
Basically it’s just another way of creating blogs for anyone who is interested in writing something. If you look at the list of blogs it covers some fairly wide terri…[Read more]
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12 years, 10 months ago - View
PhaseShift commented on the post, The Day of the Doctor – a time structure analysis. An alternative “no-change” view
Many thanks for this, and for being our first Guest Blogger!
I think my fundamental problem with this approach is that it’s made pretty clear that both War Doctor and 10 will not retain these memories […]
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Bluesqueakpip commented on the post, The Day of the Doctor – a time structure analysis. An alternative “no-change” view
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wolfweed commented on the post, The Day of the Doctor – a time structure analysis. An alternative “no-change” view
@Nick – As I tried to say (probably not very well), I think your ‘Always Cup-A-Soup’ alternative seems technically viable.
I’m not sure it makes good storytelling sense that the Hurt Dr always changed his mind […]
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12 years, 10 months ago - View
wolfweed commented on the post, The Day of the Doctor – a time structure analysis. An alternative “no-change” view
@Nick –
Your theory is sort of plausible. It doesn’t really endear as a story, though. It’s a bit like Scrooge realising that he’d never actually been a grumpy git, but had just believed that he had been (Or- […]
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GuestBlogger wrote a new post, The Day of the Doctor – a time structure analysis. An alternative “no-change” view
This is our first GuestBlogger post and is by @NickThis is the first time I’ve attempted something like this, so apologies in advance if I fail to be concise enough or get a bit confusing in places.
After […]
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thommck commented on the post, The Day of The Doctor – a time-structure analysis
@Arbutus That’s the same reasoning that I was going to make to @blenkinsopthebrave.
I tried doing my own diagram to counteract @bluesqueakpip (which is also a bit different to what I think @Nick suggests). I […]
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Bluesqueakpip commented on the post, The Day of The Doctor – a time-structure analysis
@blenkinsopthebrave (and @Nick)
That appears to be the implication of the text. Both the Hurt Doctor and the Tennant Doctor say ‘I won’t remember this.’ The Smith Doctor’s reply is ‘the time streams are out of […]
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12 years, 10 months ago - View
blenkinsopthebrave commented on the post, The Day of The Doctor – a time-structure analysis
Have been catching up on the posts after my exile. Then I got to your blog.
Utterly, utterly, brilliant.
One question (to address @Nick‘s concerns that the experience of changing the past […]
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Bluesqueakpip commented on the post, The Day of The Doctor – a time-structure analysis
@Nick – I do think it’s worth wider discussion. 🙂 You ought to put it in a blog post.
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12 years, 10 months ago - View
Bluesqueakpip commented on the post, The Day of The Doctor – a time-structure analysis
@Nick – you’re going into an awful lot of detail – are you sure you don’t want to put this alternate version into a blog post of your own?
Then we could have a blog on the ‘two time streams theory’ and one on […]
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12 years, 10 months ago - View
Bluesqueakpip commented on the post, The Day of The Doctor – a time-structure analysis
@Nick – well, one thing that would be different would be the Tennant/Smith Doctors’ joint comment:
The Smith Doctor: Because the alternative is burning.
Tennant Doctor: And I’ve seen that.
The Smith Doctor: […] - Load More
