tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22974616.post6038158713180138733..comments2023-10-02T14:33:18.136+01:00Comments on The Very Fluffy Diary of Millennium Dome, Elephant: Day 3807: DOCTOR WHO: A Good Man Goes to Star WarsMillennium Domehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08430269096817934037noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22974616.post-73250735158890997642011-06-11T07:55:08.545+01:002011-06-11T07:55:08.545+01:00I didn't understand the Doctor's hand-ring...I didn't understand the Doctor's hand-ringing action and animated teenage response to River's disclosure to him at the end??JohnMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12880436007058091917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22974616.post-70950441757541345182011-06-11T02:29:14.395+01:002011-06-11T02:29:14.395+01:00Excellent as ever. Two thoughts occur to me;
1) D...Excellent as ever. Two thoughts occur to me;<br /><br />1) Did River see the Flesh in action? (I seem to recall she managed to avoid that, which would keep the "she thinks she killed the Doctor when she was little but it was actually Flesh" scenario available, though to be honest I prefer your object lesson version...)<br /><br />2) On the "Lungbarrow" issue, I thought the implication was that back in the distant past, the Gallifreyans invented time travel, then started getting down to it in the machines and the Vortex affected the genetics, producing Time Lords.<br /><br />Presumably they were seen as superior and somehow it was arranged that all children were born that way, but you ended up with a race of essentially immortal people that stagnated until the Doctor went off exploring. With no real need to procreate, might such a society end up a bit embarrassed about the whole thing?<br /><br />(Of course, this theory does come up against the Doctor's claim in Remembrance that he was there for the original time travel experiments, but then again, that itself is contradicted by the idea that the Master, with his childhood friend beside him, stared into an already-invented Vortex...)Gareth Aubreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02420082463890261627noreply@blogger.com