Thought all my fellow Doctor Who fans might like to see this. š
Hello, companions!
I am very sorry about the relative silence from all of us on this end of the blog. I just had to finish my finals and now hopefully we can get down to the REAL work. If need be, the library on campus is still open so I can use their software for editingācheers!
Bear in mind, I said āhopefully.ā Being entirely realistic, itās pretty safe to say that other unforeseen and untoward circumstances can and will occur.
To thank you for your patience, I bring these humble offeringsā¦
Poor Eight, he always has the worst luck š
Donāt forget to check back in in a little while and weāll have some more content posted! And if not content, at least an update on how far weāre along.
So far, weāve gotten the script for the first part of the first episode done and weāre ready to moveā¦
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A passion fruit latte… now there’s an interesting thought! (Okay, NOW this comment is on the right post. š
X-D It was the first thing I thought of and welp, Eight’s been some pretty exotic places ;-P
Hope the finals went well! Lovely to see you back š
They did! š I’m so glad school is over for the summer!
The first law being… don’t… be in the same place… at the same time… twice over?
Sort of. Stated plainly, the first law of time forbids meeting yourself (but because the Doctor is played by multiple actors of COURSE they break it! Every time they do a special thingy, in fact, that isn’t a Christmas special.) or sending yourself notes in the past. You have to keep your timeline at least partly straight and not cross it, because that’s risky (I present for your inspection: “Father’s Day.”)
Ha. But… if it’s in a different body… and apart from Ten they have a tendency to get all amnesiac… does it actually count as being *absolute* the same person?
I’ll try to find it… the only Doctors I can get all of are Eccleston and Capaldi, which is deeply frustrating.
Yes, it still counts. Meeting yourself in a different regeneration is still crossing your own timeline. The amnesia thing–not remembering meeting yourself–it’s a failsafe. (Eight is the only one who gets amnesia on a regular basis, and in the audios they actually do it right–make it terrifying, not just for the lolz. Some of these writers in the EU don’t take ANYTHING seriously. *growls* Or else they take themselves too seriously. The really good ones are the ones who use all the tropes, but use them satirically.) Basically, my personal headcanons on the matter are that if you meet another Time Lord (River Song is NOT one, no matter what Moffat thinks; she’s a human with Time Lord traits), out of order enough to muddle the time stream, you only remember it until you go to bed that night. The next morning your memory of the event is gone. For most Time Lords, it’s not a problem, but during the Time War (and even before since the Doctor keeps running into himself) the Doctor became hypersensitive to anyone messing with his personal timeline and anything of that sort gives him migraines now.
Yahoo! Are you planning on doing a terrifying amnesia for the play? And I like your headcanon.
Probably. Not in the first episode. We felt like it wasn’t done convincingly in the original, so the Doctor has sort of patchy amnesia in our version. He’s missing connections, and doesn’t know where he is and how he got there. He has a vague memory of the examination room but lost consciousness and didn’t regain it until AFTER his regeneration and that’s going to mess with his head–a lot. (Not that regeneration wasn’t already traumatic and frightening enough.)