Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Mickmane" Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho Subject: Re: 15x08 - The Reality War Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2025 10:14:00 +0200 Organization: news.kruemel.org Lines: 87 Message-ID: References: <101jv4t$38bal$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: individual.net 8aaE+H4HYWX5if+0KzboEQiUc3ifzzdFyvpvETpzkt7xA+fWE= X-Orig-Path: news.kruemel.org!.POSTED.p3ee33256.dip0.t-ipconnect.de!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:SUv4AEwDYJ50zdvF4CwYXVJeflg= sha256:OltcSjVh65k/8gHrtxwOKDtCN0Ikl9KhTuLKkrbXKco= X-Orig-Injection-Info: postamt.kruemel.org; posting-host="p3ee33256.dip0.t-ipconnect.de:62.227.50.86"; logging-data="244954"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@postamt.kruemel.org" User-Agent: OpenXP/5.0.56 (Win32) On 03.06.25, solar penguin wrote: > Mickmane maintained: >> On 02.06.25, Blueshirt 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? -- Mickmane