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From: "Mickmane" <ATH@kruemel.org>
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Subject: Re: 15x08 - The Reality War
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2025 10:14:00 +0200
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On 03.06.25, solar penguin  <solar.penguin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mickmane maintained:
>> On 02.06.25, Blueshirt  <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
>>> Mickmane wrote:

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

> She didn?t have a penis. That?s enough for some people.

We never saw wether the other Doctors actually had a penis. Let them  
prove otherwise! ;P

> (Apparently straight, white, cisgender males can only ever watch
> programmes about straight, white, cisgender males or else
> they?ll instantly turn woke which is a fate worse than death. Or
> something.)

Oh, they turn non-racist suddenly? What's wrong with that?

Had to look up "cisgender".

Sigh. People really don't make sense. Not that they ever did, but these  
days it's more widely visible from/to all across the globe.

>>> 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.

> She wasn?t completely unnecessary. The Doctor needed someone
> there so that he could explain that he was going to use his
> regeneration energy to fix the universe. But not a companion who
> would just ask sensible questions about how and why he
> can fix it like that and why has he never done anything like
> this before, etc.

Well, they didn't have a reality shift before, like that, did they?

> OTOH the downside of bringing in another Doctor is that they
> could each contribute a half-dose of regeneration energy so
> NcutiDoc wouldn?t burn out and need to regenerate after all.

But Madam Doctor didn't do that, after all. :P

> (Worse, they even reminded us that DavidDoc is still around. He
> could add his energy to the mix too. The more the better.)

Hehe, now that'd have been something!

I admit, I just want that Doctor back on the screen. :)

>>>> 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.

> That was my impression too, especially since the Rani used
> very similar expressions to describe them both.

> But we seem to be the only ones who interpret it that way.

The others didn't pay attention then!

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

> The ?O? Master did it between Whittaker?s first two seasons.

Rings no bell. I'll have to rewatch that some day.

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

> Unfortunately not. It?s still there as yet another unresolved plot
> strand, alongside Susan, the Boss, the Toymaker?s tooth, etc.

The Boss?

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Mickmane