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From: Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org>
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Subject: Re: Fans Are COMPLETELY GIVING UP ON Doctor Who- Here's Why.
Date: Sat, 24 May 2025 23:17:31 +1000
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On 24/05/2025 7:25 pm, Blueshirt wrote:
> solar penguin wrote:
>> The Last Doctor <mike@xenocyte.com> wrote:
>>> On 23/05/2025 19:51, Blueshirt wrote:
>>>> The True Doctor wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Time Lords cannot regenerate into different genders
>>>>> otherwise if they were pregnant it would kill the foetus
>>>>> or there would be no way for it to be born, which would
>>>>> also result in its death.
>>>>
>>>> You say "cannot" but the TV show says otherwise, as it's
>>>> happened and been seen to happen on-screen... so the TV show
>>>> takes priority over your opinion. So, there's no such thing
>>>> as cannot when IT DID!!!
>>>
>>> Aggie has no imagination.
>>>
>>> He cannot get his head around the notion that Time Lords are
>>> not human, so the idea that they might have different
>>> solutions for biological conundrums from being restricted to
>>> human concerns is beyond him.
>>
>> That’s assuming they even have a solution. Biological beings
>> are imperfect. Even fictional ones.
>>
>> Aggy’s argument is like saying humans “cannot” fall down stairs
>> because doing it while pregnant could kill the unborn fœtus.
>>
>> And yet, stairs exist and people do sometimes fall down them.
>> And, yes, unborn fœtuses can sometimes die.
>>
>> But, yeah, there are also plenty of possible fictional
>> solutions if you use your imagination.
>>
>> Maybe Time Lords lay eggs instead of getting pregnant. Or
>> maybe male-presenting Time Lords are actually hermaphrodites.
>> Or maybe pregnancy releases a hormone that blocks sex-changing
>> regenerations.
>>
>> I suggested these possibilities to Aggy in the past, but he
>> rejected them all because humans aren’t hermaphroditic
>> egg-layers with regeneration-controlling hormones. So Time
>> Lords aren’t!
> 
> Yeah, I certainly think the lines between reality and fiction
> are a bit blurred in his head... he can't seem to grasp that an
> alien in a fictional TV show can do whatever a specific writer
> wants them to do.

No, Blueshirt, we are NOT discussing a "fictional TV show". The TV show 
*IS* , indeed, *FACT* but its content is fictional much like for 
'Midsomer Murders' or 'Corrination Street' or, indeed, for 'Casper, the 
Friendly Ghost'.
> 
> I mean, that's why it's called fiction.
> -- 
Daniel70