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From: apak@oddjob.UUCP (Adrian Kent)
Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho
Subject: Re: how many Romana's are there?
Message-ID: <1242@oddjob.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Mar-86 01:28:50 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 19 01:28:50 1986
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In article <505@looking.UUCP> @looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
>>The White Guardian only needed to have Time stopped for a short time
>>to adjust the balance of the Universe.  When the Doctor assembled
>>the Key for a short time, that gave the White Guardian the opening
>>he needed to do his task. 
>... there is some speculation that the creature who
>sent the Doctor on the quest was not the White guardian, but the Black one.
>We know that the Guardians have the power to appear in any form, including
>that of their opposite.  As evidence, consider the veiled threat the Guardian
>in The Ribos Operation makes to the Doctor.  "If you don't take up this mission,
>then nothing will happen to you... ever!"  This could be interpreted as
>meaning death.  It could also just mean no more missions.
>Of course there is other evidence that it *was* the real White Guardian.
>The Doctor and He seem to know each other in Enlightenment. 
>Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473
    Why would the Black Guardian, disguised as the White Guardian, warn the
Doctor about the existence of the Black Guardian? That's what happened when
the Doctor was sent on the quest.