Re: Doctor Who S2/S15 - Ep. 7: Wish World

On 26/05/2025 09:24, solar penguin wrote:

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Mickmane mentioned:
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On 26.05.25, Blueshirt  <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
 My comments:
 Weird that Conrad keeps calling the Doctor "doctor Who".

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Probably imitating the early Target novels and annuals.
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 Ok, maybe I should have waited another week. Where's the next episode!
 

"Wish World" is basically Doctor Who does Wandavision.
Wandavision probably did it better but it was still kind of
fun to see the Doctor in a traditional family setting for a
while...

 I don't know what Wandavision is.

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Disney+ MCU series featuring people trapped in a surreal
suburban dystopia. (Haven’t seen it myself, but it’s supposed
to be pretty good if you like that sort of thing.)
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Poppy. Tick.

 Had to ask google where Poppy had been seen before.

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Well done on erasing Space Babies from your memory.
Pity we can’t all be so lucky.
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Susan Twist. Tick

 Where was she?

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UNIT tea-lady.
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Omega. Tick.

 Who was Omega? They said the first Time Lord. And I was thinking, boo,  not Time Lords springing from the Doctor nonsense again. But if it's  from Classic, and Omega was the first Time Lord, it confirms that other  nonsense was just made up by the Master or some other power that  manipulated the Matrix. Hah!

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Omega is from the Classic series. He’s the Gallifreyan who
first invented time travel, but later went mad while trapped
for centuries inside a black hole.
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As for the Timeless Child, the Master did say that the Time Lords
covered everything up and hid all knowledge about what really
happened. Even if it is all true, the Rani wouldn’t necessarily
know about it.

The Timeless Child is a legend about how the Gallifreyans got their powers
 of regeneration.
Omega's story is a legend about how the Gallifreyans conquered the vast
 stellar power of the Eye of Harmony, enabling them to master Time and Space
 travel where the equations told them they needed ludicrous power to control
 it.
Both of these legends were two unrelated strands in the overall creation of
 the Time Lords of Gallifrey, which historically has been largely linked to
 Rassilon and not directly to Tecteun, the Doctor or Omega.
RTD has now chosen to cast Omega in the role of "First Time Lord' and make a
 God out of him. He wasn't a God. He was a stellar engineer.
Much as Sutekh wasn't originally a real God, he was just one of a group of
 manipulative aliens (Osirans) who played God games with the ancient
 Egyptians.
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There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t act a little childish
 sometimes.