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From: "Mickmane" <ATH@kruemel.org>
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Subject: Re: 15x08 - The Reality War
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2025 11:07:00 +0200
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On 02.06.25, Blueshirt  <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
> Mickmane wrote:

>> I didn't see Blueshirt making a post about this episode, so I
>> have to make my own to comment, rather than reply to his.

> It's there... somewhere. Although it was more a rant about RTD's
> writing than a proper review. It served the same purpose though.

I think I've seen that, but it doesn't have the subject line about this  
episode.

>> Spoilers.
>>
>> So, weird stuff, exciting stuff, weird exciting stuff.
>> Exciting weird stuff? What's going on?

> I doubt anyone knew what was going on... just when I thought I
> had a grasp of it, off it went in another direction.

At least it's not just me this time. :)

>> Hello Anita! Nice to see you again. :)

> Please hold the door open for me. Thanks.

Awww.

>> Underverse? Like with the Necromongers in a Riddick movie?

> I got "Stranger Things" vibes from it.

I don't know or remember that.

>> Timelords infertile? How did that happen? What episode(s) do I
>> have to rewatch?

> This one! RTD just made it up.

Oh. And what did they use as excuse event to cause it?

>> I think the new Rani fit the part better than Mrs Flood.

> She fitted into Omega's mouth better anyway... he didn't fancy
> the old woman version, too chewy... he wanted tender meat.

Lol.

That monster was just weird. So anything that enters the underverse  
becomes a bone creature? (I completely didn't understand the explanation  
they gave, anyway.)

>> Was Poppy always Belinda's daughter, or did he just make that
>> real then?

> Who knows? Oh hang on, I know someone who might...

> russelltdavies@badwolfproductions.com

> Ask him.

Haha. I'd have better things to say to him. :P

I just remember she was a nurse, and a busy one, too.

>> Hello Madam Doctor! Nice to see you again. :)

> And the nay-sayers back in 2023 thought RTD would retcon her!
> He didn't just double-down, he tripled down on it!

I don't understand what they don't like about her. She was a great  
Doctor (with terrible scripts).

At least she got enough genius Doctor rambling and fixing/building  
things. Doctor 15 didn't really, on top of mostly incoherent scripts.

> Jodie's Doctor was completely unnecessary to the story though.
> She was just another season finale gimmick. (Another egg in the
> pudding.)

[shrug] That doesn't bother me at all in this case.

>> Regeneration... I know that face... I know that face... Rose!
>> Oh, wow!  Funny. :) Maybe her companion will be Doctor 14!

> If I was a betting man I would put twenty quid on David Tennant
> being involved in the next series of Doctor Who (whenever that
> is) in some form or another.

I'm not in the habit of betting either. I just keep up hope! :) He's out  
there, somewhere!

>> Where was Susan?

> Who? If Time Lords can't have children they can't have
> grand-children! So she can't exist, can she? ;-)

I thought they said that infertility thing was caused by something  
relatively recently/to do with the destruction of the Time Lords.

Thing is, they got destroyed and then came back later so often, I don't  
remember what the last such event was.

> The correct answer though is... she was lost in the void
> behind the monitor in the TARDIS.

I didn't notice that she was on a monitor, I thought she was in the  
Doctor's mind. (At least when he was out in space, frozen.)

Btw, did anyone mention gravity/mavity after the reality fix? Maybe it  
went back to normal too?

-- 

Mickmane