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- From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
- Subject: Re: TARDISy things
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.193845.26394@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- Organization: Johns Hopkins University CS Dept.
- References: <1992Nov18.095307.22171@cs.ucf.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:38:45 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.095307.22171@cs.ucf.edu> wilson@cs.ucf.edu (tom wilson) writes:
- >Yes, that says "TARDISy things" since I'm talking about things related to
- >the TARDIS. As you'll see in another article, I went through Shada in a lot
- >of detail. I noticed two uncommon TARDISy things (both in ep. #6):
- >
- >1) The Doctor enters the TARDIS without going through the door. I thought this
- >was clearly impossible in other stories. Perhaps the biggest difference is that
- >the TARDIS is in the time vortex and he entering with the aid of another TARDIS
- >in the time vortex. I guess that's ok...? Now that I think about it, the
- >TARDIS has materialized inside the Master's TARDIS (or vice versa) before,
- >so maybe it is ok. Perhaps the force field is involved.
- >
- >2) The professor's TARDIS materializes IN A WALL of the Krarg Carrier Ship
- >in the form of a door. I thought it was pretty evident that the TARDIS could
- >materialize around things but not in them. The fact that it occurs in a wall
- >comes straight out of the script (since it's not in the video then it's not
- >canon, right!?).
-
- In Terminus, the Tardis materializes in the form of a door, which does not
- lead to the entrance of the Tardis, either. Granted it's a malfunction,
- but we know it can happen. (I like to believe that the chameleon circuit was
- working there for a bit, too.)
- --
- "the bogosity in a field equals the bogosity imported from related areas, plus
- the bogosity generated internally, minus the bogosity expelled or otherwise
- disposed of." -- K. Eric Drexler
-
- Ken Arromdee (arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu, arromdee@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu)
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