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From: Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org>
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Subject: Re: Docotr Who S15/S2 - Ep1: The Robot Revolution
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 23:45:37 +1000
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On 22/04/2025 10:29 pm, The Doctor wrote:
> In article <vu7ruo$dq8p$1@dont-email.me>,
> Daniel70  <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote:
>> On 22/04/2025 5:44 pm, solar penguin wrote:
>>> Blueshirt brainstormed:
>>>
>>>> Mrs Flood's brief appearance at the start and her 'fourth wall'
>>>> breaking comment is clearly foreshadowing something big later on
>>>> too.. as her comment was meaningless in regards to this episode.
>>>> I'm still in the 'she is the Rani' camp. (Rani is an anagram of
>>>> rain - too much rain and you get a flood... Seems simple enough,
>>>> right? But as we know RTD likes his misdirections and
>>>> double-bluffs!)
>>>
>>> That kind of name-based wordplay is more Moffat’s style than RTD’s.
>>> (e.g. Susan Triad’s name was a red herring, Harold Saxon wasn’t the
>>> Meddling Monk, and there wasn’t a villain called Will Knockfourtimes.)
>>>
>>> Besides, Mrs Flood just doesn’t seem like a single-minded, amoral
>>> scientist. What’s the point of bringing an unrecognisable Rani back in
>>> name only? RTD’s already done that with Sutekh!
>>>
>> And didn't RTD also do that .. with The Doctor, i.e. DoctorChristopher??
> 
> The Time Lord Survivor?

THE WHAT??
-- 
Daniel70