Path: ...!news.nobody.at!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daniel70 Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho Subject: Re: Toxic fandom Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 19:27:09 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 11:27:12 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="54849beccae5c99f21e20ad0d4f543cd"; logging-data="2319214"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/w8Qiepn6rKkFHcIO4jPUQ/7cGp/kmsYY=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:5j2iSExDg8N05wKUiDna3M2bup0= In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2760 The Doctor wrote on 12/6/24 11:50 pm: > In article , The Last Doctor > wrote: >> Hornplayer9599 wrote: >>> On 6/12/2024 01:27, Your Name wrote: >>> >>>> The Doctor numbering continues mainly because that's a >>>> fan-based thing ... has the numbering ever been mentioned >>>> in-show?? >>> >>> I think Peter Davidson (in character) mentioned in "The Five >>> Doctors" that he was the fourth regeneration of the Doctor. >> >> He does, and the first Doctor responds with “oh, so there are >> five of me now.” >> >> And there have been one or two other mentions down the years. >> >> But it’s a rarity and regardless of whether you accept that the >> Timeless Children shows a “reset” forgetting an unknown number >> of previous regenerations, the existence of the War Doctor, David >> Tennant counting as three (two incarnations but three >> regenerations) and now the insertion somehow of not only the >> Fugitive Doctor but also the Shalka Doctor into the Doctor’s >> pasts, indicates that any in-universe counting has become >> meaningless. >> >> So these days the only place the number has meaning is in fannish >> conversation and used to refer to the precedence of an actor to >> have had the lead role for a season or TV movie - and even there >> we’re now counting Tennant twice. > > And that all contradicts the Timeless child. How, Gobble-de-gook?? How does 'all that' contradict The Timeless Child, Gobble-de-gook?? -- Daniel