Beautiful. Love the Truth or Consequences realisation - I so didn't get that, and it's such lovely echoing/foreshadowing! IKR? Something went click in my head, and ohhh.
And the miniscope, which I also didn't get despite having watched Carnival of Monsters when the Horror Channel showed it a few weeks ago! My mind this time instinctively went to virtual reality, because that's so common these days, but I love the idea that he actually was a tiny, tiny Doctor for two billion years. Three would have boggled! LOL, yes. And I think that is if looks like a miniscope, then it probably is one. Esp as the Doctor would be able to spot virtual reality in a second. (See 'Amy's Choice' and 'The God Complex'.)
I am going to have to watch this ep again (of course I am - there's so much to see) I've only watched it twice, but want to rewatch it so much more, because it's just so gorgeous.
However, your point (and others') about it being a creation of the Time Lords all along makes much more sense; I just need to get my head round it. I think it's a combination... It's a perfectly constructed nightmare, where they've used his fears in order to create a place where they'll be able to gather his confessions.
It would certainly shed an interesting light on the fact that when a Time Lord thinks they're dying they send it to their best friend - to stop the Time Lords getting hold of it, because what it actually is is a way of getting a dying Time Lord's most secret secrets out of him so they can use them for their own ends! Well... I can see it as making sense, generally? Dead Time Lords would be uploaded to the Matrix - it's only sensible to make sure that they don't harbour any deadly secrets before adding them - plus, as you say, useful!
Or perhaps this is not what a confession dial is supposed to be; the Time Lords just hijacked the Doctor's one for their own ends? Lots to think about! WHO KNOWS! Although as you say, it's certainly interesting.
IKR? Something went click in my head, and ohhh.
And the miniscope, which I also didn't get despite having watched Carnival of Monsters when the Horror Channel showed it a few weeks ago! My mind this time instinctively went to virtual reality, because that's so common these days, but I love the idea that he actually was a tiny, tiny Doctor for two billion years. Three would have boggled!
LOL, yes. And I think that is if looks like a miniscope, then it probably is one. Esp as the Doctor would be able to spot virtual reality in a second. (See 'Amy's Choice' and 'The God Complex'.)
I am going to have to watch this ep again (of course I am - there's so much to see)
I've only watched it twice, but want to rewatch it so much more, because it's just so gorgeous.
However, your point (and others') about it being a creation of the Time Lords all along makes much more sense; I just need to get my head round it.
I think it's a combination... It's a perfectly constructed nightmare, where they've used his fears in order to create a place where they'll be able to gather his confessions.
It would certainly shed an interesting light on the fact that when a Time Lord thinks they're dying they send it to their best friend - to stop the Time Lords getting hold of it, because what it actually is is a way of getting a dying Time Lord's most secret secrets out of him so they can use them for their own ends!
Well... I can see it as making sense, generally? Dead Time Lords would be uploaded to the Matrix - it's only sensible to make sure that they don't harbour any deadly secrets before adding them - plus, as you say, useful!
Or perhaps this is not what a confession dial is supposed to be; the Time Lords just hijacked the Doctor's one for their own ends? Lots to think about!
WHO KNOWS! Although as you say, it's certainly interesting.
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