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Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
> The Last Doctor wrote on 12/5/24 1:54 am:
>> Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
>>> The Last Doctor wrote on 11/5/24 7:49 pm:
>>>> Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
>>>>> Blueshirt wrote on 11/5/24 12:42 am:
>>>>>> The Doctor wrote:
>>>>>>> In article <xn0olnj6y2jvayh004@post.eweka.nl>, Blueshirt 
>>>>>>> <blueshirt@eweka.news> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Daniel70 wrote:
>>>>>>>>> solar penguin wrote on 10/5/24 4:28 pm:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> What part of ‘in a parallel universe’ are you two
>>>>>>>>>> having trouble with?
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I'm glad I'm not the ONLY person to have been able to
>>>>>>>>> see that some 'Science fiction ' fans, here-abouts, are
>>>>>>>>> having problems with the fiction part of the
>>>>>>>>> grouping!!
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I mean "Ironsides" and "Flying Trains" during WWII!! 
>>>>>>>>> REALLY??
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Spitfires in space!!!
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> We got the point.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I was correcting Daniel's "flying trains" comment as there
>>>>>> was none in the WWII episode (Victory of the Daleks). It was 
>>>>>> Spitfires in space... as we've told him before!!!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The flying train was the Mummy episode, which wasn't set
>>>>>> during WWII.
>>>>>> 
>>>>> Normally, I would claim I have a failing memory, but I am sure 
>>>>> there was a 'Flying Train' in the WWII episode (Victory of the 
>>>>> Daleks).
>>>>> 
>>>>> In the Mummy episode, 'we' were *ON* the train with the
>>>>> mummys. The scene I'm thinking of is an Opening Scene
>>>>> 'train-exterior' distance shot with the train flying around
>>>>> amongst multi-storied buildings. Not a critical PLOT point,
>>>>> just to show that it wasn't 'today', I guess .... It may have
>>>>> even been a Steam Engine Train.
>>>> 
>>>> That’s The Wedding of River Song. It doesn’t take place in WWII, 
>>>> though it does feature Churchill - as the Holy Roman Emperor.
>>>> There is also Dickens and pterodactyls …
>>>> 
>>> .... but did it also feature Churchill's Ironsides??
>> 
>> No. Londinium is not WWII London. There is a Dalek cameo, but it is
>> of a badly damaged New Paradigm Dalek Supreme that the Doctor
>> cannibalises for its data core.
>> 
>> The Episode is about time being broken - Earth is trapped in an
>> eternal single moment.
>> 
> So NOT the story I am remembering/refering to!!

It is the only episode with elevated steam trains navigating through 21st
Century London office blocks - another hint that it’s not a WWII episode as
all of those were built post-war - (and cars flying along suspended under
balloons). And those are in the opening sequence.

You are conflating two episodes: this one (The Wedding of River Song), and
Victory of the Daleks which is the one with the robotic scientist
“developing” Daleks for use by the British in WWII, and featuring Spitfires
in Spaaace!

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“The timelines and … canon … are rupturing” - the Doctor