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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daniel70 Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho Subject: Re: Toxic fandom Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2024 13:29:27 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2024 05:29:26 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7e11046c9ebdfb72441c5e031bc3f76c"; logging-data="3468143"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/7aeTJOfsMd041TPQm7K7+Ylo1WH/8HMQ=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Q7tdw4IG1TJY+Dwo3Z/63RuY2fI= In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2843 Blueshirt wrote on 13/6/24 8:04 pm: > Daniel70 wrote: >> The Doctor wrote on 12/6/24 11:50 pm: >>> In article , The Last Doctor >>> wrote: >>>> Hornplayer9599 wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I think Peter Davidson (in character) mentioned in "The Five >>>>> Doctors" that he was the fourth regeneration of the Doctor. >>>> >>>> He does, and the first Doctor responds with "oh, so there are >>>> five of me now." >>>> >>>> And there have been one or two other mentions down the years. >>>> >>>> But it's a rarity and regardless of whether you accept that the >>>> Timeless Children shows a "reset"forgetting an unknown number >>>> of previous regenerations, the existence of the War Doctor, >>>> David Tennant counting as three (two incarnations but three >>>> regenerations) and now the insertion somehow of not only the >>>> Fugitive Doctor but also the Shalka Doctor into the Doctor's >>>> pasts, indicates that any in-universe counting has become >>>> meaningless. >>>> >>>> So these days the only place the number has meaning is in >>>> fannish conversation and used to refer to the precedence of an >>>> actor to have had the lead role for a season or TV movie - and >>>> even there we're now counting Tennant twice. >>> >>> And that all contradicts the Timeless child. >> >> How, Gobble-de-gook?? How does 'all that' contradict The Timeless >> Child, Gobble-de-gook?? > > Don' expect anything logical from Dave... Do I EVER?? ...... Nope! > in his world everything contradicts the Timeless Child! -- Daniel