Another thing about EoT ...

[ionlylurkhere]

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[wishfulaces]

"I'm pi squared to the power of 22. That's how old I am!"

The Doctor lies. This is what I say regarding everything he says, these days.

[ionlylurkhere]

It makes ignoring the stuff about his past on Gallifrey easier to ignore, that's for sure. (I'm still attached enough to Looms not to want Time Tots.)

[shobogan]

They Loom them as toddlers instead of as adults, obvs.

[skywaterblue]

Yeah, it bugs me, though at least RTD jumped it by two years? (Wasn't it last 904?)

I figure people will just ignore it, and I think the Moff is possibly planning on saying a lot of adventures with River Song happened in the specials gaps. So there will be precedence.

[ionlylurkhere]

Yeah, it bugs me, though at least RTD jumped it by two years? (Wasn't it last 904?)

Yeah, I think they've got a basic idea revolving around Doctor time passing the same as Earth time for the viewers, which makes no sense at all really.

[skywaterblue]

I'm convinced RTD didn't pass what would be called 8th grade science in the States, so yeah.

[pontisbright]

I know he's a lying liar who lies about it anyway (of which I approve), but didn't he throw in an extra 100 years before even getting to the (now quite superfluous but festively snowy) Ood planet in Pt 1? So it's even more silly.

I still like the 'Five only got ten years' theory though. I am mean.

[ionlylurkhere]

I read it as the 100 years being relative time for Ood Sigma between summoning Ten and Ten materialising, not necessarily (and indeed if the line in part two is to be taken seriously, definitely not) Ten's subjective time, and mainly just there for the Doctor to fear the Ood are becoming too advanced, but IDK for sure.

Ooh, I have just invented some batshit fanon: maybe he was born to his human mother on Earth in the early twelfth century, and has taken to giving his age as (current year)-(birth year) when he's on the planet.

[pontisbright]

If Margery Kempe or Julian of Norwich could conceivable be fanwanked in there, oh god, I would rejoice.

I'm still a bit comfused by the Ood business, but have been distracted by viewinf amongst the not-we. I need to have a proper sit down with it. When I'm ready for Cribbins Weep Mode.

[biichan]

If Margery Kempe or Julian of Norwich could conceivable be fanwanked in there, oh god, I would rejoice.

OH HOLY SHIT YES. THIS. THIS, THIS, THIS.

(My vote goes to Julian. Margery is my favorite of the two, but Julian's visions were totes more batshit. Also, I like the idea of the Doctor's dad's TARDIS hiding in her cell. Margery can be Brax's mum though.)

[livii]

Haha, when we saw that part I said "you WISH, Doctor!" I cheerfully ignore the 900 thing and the idea it's only been 6 years.

[in_the_end]

If I was over a century old, I'd get my age wrong all the time too. Hell, I'm 26 and I get it wrong sometimes.