Spoilers for "World Game"... S P O I L E R S P A C E . . . . . . A fair enough introduction to Season 6B, but one thing really bothers me. According to WG, the...
... There are problems in that the BF audios explicitly precede the Gallifrey audios which: a) tell us Leela has only been on Gallifrey for 25 years; and b)...
Maybe the Doctor decided to let sleeping dogs lie and not mention it. Did he mention to Mel that he had met her already when he first met her in 'Business...
... Maybe Gallifreyan years are a lot longer than a standard Earth year ... Maybe Leela was so devistated by Andred's "death", that she lost the child...
... read ... theory, ... Oh no, I like that. I think it's quite neat and ties everything up nicely. And it would be perfectly natural for the Doctor not to say...
... bothers me. ... didn't ... released by ... only the ... acting as ... saying ... I haven't quite finished the book yet, but I wasn't keen on this idea,...
... There's also the problem that Leela and Romana appear to meet for the first time in Zagreus, of course. Trying to reconcile two series which have gone off...
... subsequent ... Surely there are limits to just how much effort goes into reconciling irreconcilable facts, even for this group. The obvious solution, I...
... Nope. By a quirk of fate they are given as identical in every way. ... the child That makes sense, but it rather undermines the point of Lungbarrow, which...
... Surely more difficult given the ongoing nature of the audios and the month by month separation of BF "facts" from the BBC Books ones. As long as effort is...
Given the changes being made in BF audios, I realise there is one character whose fate in that medium has yet to be written: Ace. Somehow (and not wanting to...
... But, doesn't this group exist to do just that. The alternative would be to disband the group, no? ... I get confused with seperate timelines. I'm not sure...
... bothers me. ... didn't happen the way we saw it on TV - that was the sanitised version released by the Time Lords. In fact, they sentenced him to death,...
... reconciling irreconcilable facts, even for this group. ... would be to disband the group, no? Reconciling continuity should be restricted to forcing all...
... Okay. I know about the scarecrows comic-strip but haven't actually seen it, so wasn't sure if it actually showed him regenerating or not. Fair enough then,...
... I completely agree that setting any of the 8th Doctor books, audios and, by extension, the Gallifrey plays after Lungbarrow undermines what the book sets...
... the ... history ... get ... But if we enjoy coming up with spurious explanations, what's the problem? ... that ... one, ... I read that as light-hearted...
... and ... completely ... would ... different ... seen ... Fair ... It doesn't show him regenerating IIRC - just being dragged into the TARDIS. I confess I've...
... From: "Hugh" <hugh_fry@...> ... too hung up on, or that Lance is trying to dictate policy on split timelines - just a bit of fun. < Indeed not. If...
... the month by month separation of BF "facts" from the BBC Books ones. As long as effort is exhausted on reconciling events into a linear history rather than...
... continuity ... Freudian slip. ;) It's "continuity cops", ... Yeah, point taken. It just strikes me that at the moment you're the only one arguing for...
... I'm not saying that it's not there, just that I think you've read it slightly out of context. I may well be wrong, though. Maybe Lance could add some more...
... Time's ... the ... Can't remember too much about the Curse of Fenric novelisation, but I'd regard it as a secondary source to the primary source of the tv ...
... From: "Hugh" <hugh_fry@...> ... Neither am I! Marnal is watching the Doctor from TGC, not watching a bunch of parallel universes. That scene is put...
... Target ... in ... I'd regard it as a secondary source to the primary source of the tv version and not worry too much about it (doesn't it tie in with her ...
... I'm not arguing loads of time-lines, just acknowledgement and accommodation of the few that have tried to establish themselves. I don't like the break from...
... one timeline, not a bunch of parallel universes. ... Which puts your view in direct conflict with Gary Russell, does it not? Isn't there a compromise you...