I had the same initial response on the scope of the time war. But then thought that what we see is one battle, not the war, and so that may be covered a) by the story of the use of the unspeakable weapons that must never be used that have all been used, and b) by the trouserleg of time that the three Doctors avert by working together instead of Doctor 8.5 doing his thing.
Dangling from a Tardis had me rolling my eyes in despair. Fortunately that was the low point.
Just wandered in on your journal and found this post....about Nine being angsty even though they might have saved Gallifrey. They handwaved that by explicitly saying that the War Doctor (and every other doctor that came after him) wouldn't actually know if they'd saved the planet or not....and since humans (and time lords I guess lol?) tend towards pessimism, and since the ninth doctor has been around in that incarnation since the voyage of the Titanic, I guess that feeling he had *That Gallifrey might be out there* turned into "WELP I destroyed my planet and killed all my people,"
And that carried on till Eleven. At which point it all converged and *he* was the only one who fully remembered the plan. And this that a young Paul McGann from that film about the lesbian teacher and student? (I can't for the life of me remember the title- just that I caught the film on telly one night and decided to watch)
Heh, I always want to comment on older posts but never have the nerve, so hi!
I still don't like that Mof took the agency for his angst away and made it seem almost silly in retrospect. And The Doctor Who Did The War Thing was Nine's role and it annoys me so much in an out-of-story way that this was stolen somehow, given to someone else and then reduced to nothing (which is ludicrous I know).
But he is *that sort of man* and he would do it and it's more interesting that he did than that he faffed round it. OTOH, I wanted Gallifrey back all along and always though the Last Of His Kind thing a rubbish idea.
I have such bizarre love-hate-irritation for the show it would make a great romantic comedy.
The pic is from 'The Monocled Mutineer', which is awesome and not just some tawdry perv-fest as I thought when I saw it at 17 :D
I dunno, I think the angst about killing his people had become such a albatross by that point, that was the only you could have moved on with the series.
Ohhhhh I must check that out. In case you're wondering the film I could it confused with was the 1989 adaption of "The Rainbow" by DH Lawrence
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Dangling from a Tardis had me rolling my eyes in despair. Fortunately that was the low point.
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And that carried on till Eleven. At which point it all converged and *he* was the only one who fully remembered the plan. And this that a young Paul McGann from that film about the lesbian teacher and student? (I can't for the life of me remember the title- just that I caught the film on telly one night and decided to watch)
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I still don't like that Mof took the agency for his angst away and made it seem almost silly in retrospect. And The Doctor Who Did The War Thing was Nine's role and it annoys me so much in an out-of-story way that this was stolen somehow, given to someone else and then reduced to nothing (which is ludicrous I know).
But he is *that sort of man* and he would do it and it's more interesting that he did than that he faffed round it. OTOH, I wanted Gallifrey back all along and always though the Last Of His Kind thing a rubbish idea.
I have such bizarre love-hate-irritation for the show it would make a great romantic comedy.
The pic is from 'The Monocled Mutineer', which is awesome and not just some tawdry perv-fest as I thought when I saw it at 17 :D
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Ohhhhh I must check that out. In case you're wondering the film I could it confused with was the 1989 adaption of "The Rainbow" by DH Lawrence
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