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From: Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org>
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Subject: Re: Doctor Who: Joy to the World
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2025 20:10:37 +1100
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The True Doctor wrote on 5/1/25 2:11 pm:
> On 04/01/2025 10:02, Daniel70 wrote:
>> The True Doctor wrote on 4/1/25 12:08 pm:
>>> On 03/01/2025 08:34, Blueshirt wrote:
>>>> The True Doctor wrote:
>> 
>> <Snip>
>> 
>>>>> These are all hallucinations of the 12th Doctor after he was
>>>>>  shot by the Cybermen in The Doctor Falls, just before he 
>>>>> dies.
>>>> 
>>>> If that works for you, who am I to argue. It's your 
>>>> head-canon!
>>> 
>>> It's fact. Can you seriously believe that the Doctor 
>>> bi-generated? And not only that but the TARDIS as well, after 
>>> being clubbed with a circus mallet? How much more ridiculous can
>>>  you get? Um... well, apart from Kill the Moon and Isaac Newton 
>>> being Indian?
>> 
>> ... but WE *MUST* all believe that a machine called A TARDIS can 
>> easily move through Time and Space!!
> 
> The TARDIS was established from the very first episode using the 
> process of world building to reveal its powers and abilities to the 
> viewer in a believable manner. Susan was shown as knowing more 
> advanced science and mathematics than her teachers. The Doctor was 
> established as being otherworldly. In contrast Kill the Moon 
> contradicts basic science that every schoolchild knows, from the very
> start, by showing people gaining weight in free fall

"free fall" implys that the body IS being GRAVITATIONALLY ATTRACTED so
DOES have Weight. Not as much as when on the Earth .... or on the Shell
Moon, but still, some weight!!

> when the scientific facts are that you are weightless.

.... but being attracted somewhere!!

> Then it comes up with the bullshit space dragon.
> 
> The TARDIS can

NOT

> be believed since An Unearthly Child doesn't revolve around it

except in T.V.land

> . The bullshit space dragon cannot since Kill the Moon is all about 
> it but tells you nothing about how it breaks the laws of gravity and
>  conservation of energy and mass.

But The TARDIS *IS* believable!!

> The episode didn't even understand that when one half of the globe
> is in night the other half is in daylight when it came up with the 
> stupidity of turning the lights on and off to vote.
-- 
Daniel