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From: ericf@inmet.UUCP
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Subject: Re: City of Death - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 13-Jul-84 00:41:07 EDT
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inmet!ericf    Jul  5 09:48:00 1984

As much as I hate to, it's time to put my two cents in...

I first saw Dr. Who about 8 years ago, in Boston, where they were
showing the Jon Pertwee episodes.  I had no idea who/what the Doctor
was, except that he was a Time Lord (whatever THEY are), and there was
this nasty fellow, The Master, who ran around wreaking havoc.  I tried
to follow the stories for a while, but WGBH airs Dr. Who as 4-5 25 minute
episodes (making up one "story").  If you miss one segment, you tend to
lose the continuity, and since the episodes aired (and still do) at 7pm,
it was hard to keep up.  Also, I knew of NO ONE who had ever heard of Dr.
Who.  Several years later, I caught some Tom Baker episodes, which is when
I found out about the Tardis, and things began to fall into place (the
third Doctor's Tardis was broken, so I never knew what it was).  Unfortunately,
Boston was also time looped for a VERY long time (3-4 years maybe?), which was
long enough to catch almost all of the Tom Baker episodes, but only through
Sarah Jane (I think that's up to, but not including, his last season).

Recently, I was in Madison, Wisconsin, where they show an ENTIRE story, all
in one shot, and it was great!  I got to fill in a lot (but not all) the
holes.  And they had a fundraising Dr. Who marathon for 12 hours, including
The Three/Five Doctor episodes, Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker's regenerations,
and Peter Davison's first episode.  I finally figured out what was going on
(and I found some other Dr. Who fans, too).  But still, I have NO idea what
the references to the fifth planet being time-looped are.  I think I saw
one segment of that story, but missed the rest.  Some of us just aren't
priviledged enough to be able to catch entire stories all at one crack.

By the way, is anyone going to answer the question about the Tardis controls
being isomorphic (if you have, it hasn't gotten here, yet)?  That's been
bugging me for a long time... Sutekh (sp?) wanted the Tardis, and the 1-1
ness of the controls saved the Doctor's skin, but since then many other people
have worked the Tardis controls.  In a similar vein, in one of the Peter
Davison episodes it's mentioned that the Tardis is no longer in a state of
"temporal grace", which meant weapons couldn't be used inside.  When did
that change?  And another thing... in Castravalva, what the heck is going
on with Adric popping in and out, being strung up by The Master, and appearing
in the Tardis?  I thought things just couldn't pop into the Tardis (in general),
because of it's force field, etc.

Well, enough of this... time to get to work.

						-Eric Feigenson
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