Comments on: Review: Doctor Who – The Doctor’s Wife

By: Sharp-O

Sharp-O — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:41:37 +0000

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By: Kari

Kari — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 08:36:37 +0000

I really did love this episode and your review gives me many happy feels.
I really loved Idris/TARDIS’ character. She felt so “in-character” and was pretty much how I thought the TARDIS would sound if given a voice
Actually there was an episode during the 4th Doctor’s run (Logopolis part 1-2) where the Master landed his TARDIS inside of the Doctor’s TARDIS and then there was a very long sequence of the Doctor and his companion Adric running through the same console room over and over and over trying to find a way out and being trapped in a weird space loop. I’m still not sure how they managed to escape. Then the Master proceeded to dematerialize and materialize again this time time in the Cloister Room instead of the Console Room, scaring the crap out of new companion Tegan who had gotten herself very very lost.
This was sort of repeated in the recent short “Time” and “Space” where the TARDIS landed inside of itself. Things like TARDIS’ landing inside of each other isn’t really supposed to happen because of dimensional issues and stuff.
The Doctor landing a console inside of the TARDIS isn’t really all that hard to believe because a console doesn’t have as much dimensional “weight” or “space” that an entire one does. It involves something called “Block Transfer Computations” and other really big Time Lordy Logopolitan type words that I don’t really understand. It’s not the first time the Doctor has flown just a console without a shell either. See the first few storyarcs of the Third Doctor and just how close he came to killing himself. Like Eleven said. “Not safe.”
As for seeing more of the inside, a few Classic Who episodes feature more of the different areas of the TARDIS. I’ve only seen storyarcs “Logopolis” and “Castrovalva” in their entirety (I’m still working my way through episodes. Still in the First Doctor era.). But in those we see the Cloister Room, lots and lots of twisting and turning hallway, a storage room, Romana’s room, the Zero Room, a locker room where Five gets his cricketing outfit. And there’s also a storyarc where we see a secondary control room. There is also mention of a place called the Butterfly Room which is apparently an endless butterfly garden with specimens from all over the universe. If they brought back some classic who ideas for the TARDIS I would totally love to see a new Butterfly Room. So cool. There’s also a novel where the Doctor gets lost inside the TARDIS and finds that in the deepest, innermost room is a giant forest with HUGE trees and a mysterious creature tending said forest that was, apparently, one of the TARDIS’ original occupants that got lost thousands of years ago.
It’s just fun the way Gaiman wrote the TARDIS personality and speech pattern. Considering just how many times they’ve jettisoned rooms to keep the TARDIS flying over the years and how painful it was for the Doctor to jettison Romana’s room it’s nice to know that the TARDIS keeps backups of everything.
I saw a picture of the new console room layout a few days ago and I can’t wait to see what they’ll do with this next! ~<3

Sorry for the text block… XD

By: John

John — Mon, 16 May 2011 19:03:28 +0000

If he ‘dies’ again next week, then I’ll take that as a hint. For what, I don’t know. But he’s dying a lot. Must be a sign!

By: Shane Morris

Shane Morris — Mon, 16 May 2011 18:56:25 +0000

YOU’RE a TARDIS, Aaron!

By: Shane Morris

Shane Morris — Mon, 16 May 2011 18:55:58 +0000

I completely agree and wish I had said that in the article.

SPOILERS

Yeah, Tuffley from NeedCoffee pointed out on Twitter that Rory is becoming Kenny from South Park. Which I think is a fair assessment. XD

I had seen that actually but the possibility of one TARDIS landing inside another still makes my head hurt.

By: John

John — Mon, 16 May 2011 18:48:36 +0000

I loved this episode. It left me with an impression that, regardless of which assistants come and go, he will always be just a lonely, mad old man, travelling through time, with Sexy, forever. Wonderfully done story.

*** SPOILERS ***

And Rory died… AGAIN.

Aaand, what Sexy whispered to Rory. Interereresting.

Oh, and Shane, a Tardis landing inside another? I’m guessing you never saw this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51JtuEa_OPc :)

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 15 May 2011 22:30:00 +0000

TARDIS, TARDIS.

There, now we’ve written 20 of them.

By: Shane Morris

Shane Morris — Sun, 15 May 2011 21:03:16 +0000

Thanks! :)

By: Sharp-O

Sharp-O — Sun, 15 May 2011 21:01:55 +0000

More Neil Gaiman and more Sexy! Great review :)