• The Watcher (was Re: Nyssa, the companion who packed)

    From Melissa Hollingsworth@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Aug 19 00:34:59 2025
    Verily, in article <107u69o$fhc$3@gallifrey.nk.ca>, did doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca deliver unto us this message:

    In article <MPG.430bcb146df1a47298982e@news.eternal-september.org>,
    Melissa Hollingsworth <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:
    Verily, in article <107t87g$2nqf$17@gallifrey.nk.ca>, did >doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca deliver unto us this message:

    I imagine the Watcher turning up, and Nyssa saying that she's happy to
    go with him but just needs to pack a few things first... and the Watcher >stands there like "WTF? This has never happened before," but his face >glows so Nyssa can't tell.


    Just that how did the Watcher get to Traken then Logopolis.

    That's a good question. We never saw much about the Watcher on the show, though the other media developed it a little more. Some say that Cho-Je,
    from Planet of the Spiders, was also a Watcher.

    Perhaps the simplest way to think of Watchers is as a sort of overlap
    between reincarnations. Ideally one incarnation should appear as the
    previous one fades, almost like a phoenix, but better an overlap than a
    gap.

    --
    A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always
    depend on the support of Paul.
    --George Bernard Shaw

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  • From Melissa Hollingsworth@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Aug 19 01:41:38 2025
    Verily, in article <107vebs$1bek$11@gallifrey.nk.ca>, did doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca deliver unto us this message:
    Perhaps the simplest way to think of Watchers is as a sort of overlap >between reincarnations. Ideally one incarnation should appear as the >previous one fades, almost like a phoenix, but better an overlap than a >gap.


    But ony 1 TARDIs.


    TARDISes don't regenerate, no matter what RTD implied in "The Giggle."

    --
    A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always
    depend on the support of Paul.
    --George Bernard Shaw

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  • From Blueshirt@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Aug 19 05:04:02 2025
    Melissa Hollingsworth wrote:

    Verily, in article <107vebs$1bek$11@gallifrey.nk.ca>, did doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca deliver unto us this message:

    But ony 1 TARDIs.

    TARDISes don't regenerate, no matter what RTD implied in "The
    Giggle."

    I think the term is bi-generate... as there became two of
    them... one of them even had a wheelchair ramp... the one
    that was created by the bang of a big hammer... how great
    was that?

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  • From Melissa Hollingsworth@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Aug 19 06:34:59 2025
    Verily, in article <xn0p9p7pj7r6dcd001@post.eweka.nl>, did blueshirt@indigo.news deliver unto us this message:

    Melissa Hollingsworth wrote:

    Verily, in article <107vebs$1bek$11@gallifrey.nk.ca>, did doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca deliver unto us this message:

    But ony 1 TARDIs.

    TARDISes don't regenerate, no matter what RTD implied in "The
    Giggle."

    I think the term is bi-generate... as there became two of
    them... one of them even had a wheelchair ramp... the one
    that was created by the bang of a big hammer... how great
    was that?

    I don't quite understand how "bigeneration" makes another TARDIS. I
    don't think RTD did either, frankly.

    --
    A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always
    depend on the support of Paul.
    --George Bernard Shaw

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  • From The True Doctor@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Aug 19 09:08:22 2025
    On 18/08/2025 21:34, Melissa Hollingsworth wrote:
    Verily, in article <xn0p9p7pj7r6dcd001@post.eweka.nl>, did blueshirt@indigo.news deliver unto us this message:

    Melissa Hollingsworth wrote:

    Verily, in article <107vebs$1bek$11@gallifrey.nk.ca>, did
    doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca deliver unto us this message:

    But ony 1 TARDIs.

    TARDISes don't regenerate, no matter what RTD implied in "The
    Giggle."

    I think the term is bi-generate... as there became two of
    them... one of them even had a wheelchair ramp... the one
    that was created by the bang of a big hammer... how great
    was that?

    I don't quite understand how "bigeneration" makes another TARDIS. I
    don't think RTD did either, frankly.


    Where did the extra mass for the other TARDIS come from? RTD doesn't
    have a clue about basic science, and neither does Moffat.

    --
    The True Doctor https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCngrZwoS0n21IRcXpKO79Lw

    "To be woke is to be uninformed which is exactly the opposite of what it stands for." --William Shatner

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  • From The True Doctor@3:633/280.2 to All on Wed Aug 20 00:57:50 2025
    On 19/08/2025 10:05, Blueshirt wrote:
    Melissa Hollingsworth wrote:

    Verily, in article <xn0p9p7pj7r6dcd001@post.eweka.nl>, did
    blueshirt@indigo.news deliver unto us this message:

    Melissa Hollingsworth wrote:

    Verily, in article <107vebs$1bek$11@gallifrey.nk.ca>, did
    doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca deliver unto us this message:

    But ony 1 TARDIs.

    TARDISes don't regenerate, no matter what RTD implied in
    "The Giggle."

    I think the term is bi-generate... as there became two of
    them... one of them even had a wheelchair ramp... the one
    that was created by the bang of a big hammer... how great
    was that?

    I don't quite understand how "bigeneration" makes another
    TARDIS. I don't think RTD did either, frankly.

    Everyone's a cynic! I'm sure in RTD's world if you can create
    two Doctor's from one Doctor by pulling one out of the other's
    body, and that makes sense to you... then [bang a hammer and]
    creating a second TARDIS is just as rational... it's fantasy
    writing 101. (aka making it up as you go along.)

    :-)

    It's infantile writing 101. Even fantasy has to follow a set of
    consistent logical rules which make sense.

    --
    The True Doctor https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCngrZwoS0n21IRcXpKO79Lw

    "To be woke is to be uninformed which is exactly the opposite of what it stands for." --William Shatner

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  • From Rudy Canoza@3:633/280.2 to All on Wed Aug 20 04:07:31 2025
    The Binky Doctor wrote:
    Patially.


    You illiterate fuckwit.

    https://postimg.cc/YvcdRMFx

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  • From Melissa Hollingsworth@3:633/280.2 to All on Wed Aug 20 06:03:15 2025
    Verily, in article <185d3d51bed07c3f$33175$1592711 $64dd6e6a@news.thecubenet.com>, did rudy.can@jllkone.not deliver unto us
    this message:


    You illiterate fuckwit.

    https://postimg.cc/YvcdRMFx

    That could not look any faker if you went over it with an electric make- it-look-fake machine.

    --
    A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always
    depend on the support of Paul.
    --George Bernard Shaw

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  • From Rudy Canoza@3:633/280.2 to All on Wed Aug 20 17:28:22 2025
    Melissa Hollingsworth wrote:
    Verily, in article <185d3d51bed07c3f$33175$1592711 $64dd6e6a@news.thecubenet.com>, did rudy.can@jllkone.not deliver unto us
    this message:

    >
    You illiterate fuckwit.

    https://postimg.cc/YvcdRMFx

    That could not look any faker if you went over it with an electric make- it-look-fake machine.


    Funny, that's the same thing they say about your tits, Missy.

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