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Here's a bit I just remembered from the Big Finish audio adventures: the TARDIS apparently has some limited ability to repair itself. In one episode (I think it was Spare Parts), Nyssa has finished making a repair to the TARDIS when she comments something along the lines of 'There, the cable is sealing itself nicely...'

 

I'm not sure if the BF series is considered canonical, though.

 

Oh, something else that just occurred to me about the TARDIS: by default, the vector of gravity imitates that affecting the exterior. In other words, if the blue box is at an angle, the interior (or at least the console room) is also tilted at that same angle. They've done it a bunch of times, but I most clearly remember it in Castrovalva. A control on the console can adjust the interior gravity and make 'down' down. I only remember seeing this in Time Flight.

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Lol,

 

I'd say BF is as canonical as any other Doctor Who. I wouldn't consider Dr. Who Unbound too seriously tho.

 

Interesting about the TARDIS healing itself. That makes perfect sense if we view it as a living entity.

 

Calling it "alive" is actually kind of new. I recall only it being referred to as "telepathic and semi-sentient" before.

 

I'm starting to consider scanning and uploading the old FASA technical stuff, and my childhood technical manual. Any interest? I've certainly got quite the collection. :p

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I'd love to, but I need some technical help. I have a scanner that could make decent resolution images, but do I need the full Acrobat program to turn it into an upload file?

 

Can anyone give me an idea or some pointers? Is there a good website with info?

 

regards,

Cthulhu69

 

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Guess I'll just download Acrobat Professional off of Bittorrent:P

 

"Oh....never mind...."

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I always thought of the Tardis in the same breathas as HAL9000 and Deep Thought and Orac. a sentient machine.

 

Watching boom town, when Bron was being threatening, I literal started to say "I'm surprised the old girl is allowing this to continue" when she made her presence felt.

 

Oh....did anyone else notice tha the hook rose used released before the console openned.? I knoew you couldn't force that open with something as puny as a towtruck...I guess the TARDIS just snapped out of her own sulk (They very often pine away to death when they lose their timelord) and seen Rose's pain.

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like you say the Canon has changed over time . I was watching Hartnell and he apparently had the cardio system of a regular human .as can be seen in The Edge of destruction for instance . also he was susceptiable to radiation poisoning as can be seen in the 1st ever Dalek episode . these are both starkly contradicted in later Dr Who shows

 

Well... his body was getting pretty old by that time... you could simply interpret that as age-related lack of tolerance for radiation?

 

The BF Audios should be cannon... they're well written ^^

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Lots of BF Audio writers were poached by RTD for the new show.

 

Hell, some of the plot elements were poached, too! Compare BF's Jubilee with the TV show's Dalek... Both feature a single, chained and tortured Dalek in a darkened room, refusing to talk; the Doctor thrown in to verify that he's an alien known to the Dalek; the Doctor's companion having a heart-to-heart with the Dalek... Other than those, though, the stories and situations were completely different.

 

I'm not complaining, mind you. I thought Dalek was a great episode, deja vu aside. :cyclops: Actually, I'd like to see more of the BF stories retold in video. They were, for the most part, really well written.

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Lots of BF Audio writers were poached by RTD for the new show.

 

Hell, some of the plot elements were poached, too! Compare BF's Jubilee with the TV show's Dalek... Both feature a single, chained and tortured Dalek in a darkened room, refusing to talk; the Doctor thrown in to verify that he's an alien known to the Dalek; the Doctor's companion having a heart-to-heart with the Dalek... Other than those, though, the stories and situations were completely different.

 

I'm not complaining, mind you. I thought Dalek was a great episode, deja vu aside. :cyclops: Actually, I'd like to see more of the BF stories retold in video. They were, for the most part, really well written.

 

Who was the writer for that particular BF audio?

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Actually, you could also say that weapons do work in the Tardis, but everytime anyone uses one in the Tardis, the Tardis just resets time within itself to just before the weapon is fired, or skips forward PAST the event of the weapon's being fired, just skipping past the whole event in time.

 

So for now we're looking at the old series of Doctor Who and references such as the 'weapon nullification' effect etc.

 

Wasn't it that the TARDIS is in a state of temporal grace, so weapons don't work....

 

Namely, in the 'Invasion of Time' where the galifreyian staser pistol didn't work on the TARDIS....

 

Though I thought it was more like somehow the pistol draws power from an outside source that exists in the capitol...rather than having a self contained power source...and being that the inside of the TARDIS is in another Dimesion/Space, perhaps even Time?...that the pistol is cut off from its source.

 

Though the Doctor then fiddled with something to allow the guard's communicator to work from inside the TARDIS...

 

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After the Doctor started talking about the Time War, I started to understand the starkness of the current control room. When The Doctor would "Jettison " a room, Matter would be converted to energy, and they probably needed all the energy they could get in the war. Also, the clug look is because he had to make do with parts he could make, rig, or find, to repair controls, systems. His TARDIS was probably stripped to just keep him alive in the time war.

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Weapons don't work inside a TARDIS. They didn't originally but in Earthshock they did because the mechanism that prevents it had broken down. It was mentioned in the following episode by Nyssa about how the Doctor should repair it.

 

Robert Shearman actually wrote Jubilee for Big Finish and was approached by RTD to adapte it for the new series. Hence similar plot.

 

As for Big Finnish cannocity, well the BBC have not said they aren't cannon and RTD has said that everything that has happened since the show ended is considered cannon. Hence Eccelston is the 9th, meaning McGann is the 8th. He also includes the novels and Audio's by Big Finnish as cannon. Thir is an explanation on how the 8th Doctor Novels and audio follow differen timelines. The series probably follows the audios because in the novels, the Doctor's past is altered by Faction Paradox. They cause his third incarnation to regenerate on the planet Dust instead of Metabellios 3. And in The Ancestor Cell, the TARDIS is anchored between the original timeline and the new timeline. Thus if you follow that logic then it is possible to conceed that new series follows the audios. It's just a therory.

 

The TARDIS can and has travelled in space with out trvelling through time (ie, the vortex). Eg Frontier in Space. remember it is capable of time and space travel. It usually only travels in the fortex if it is chaging time zones.

 

As for the sonic screw driver. Originally it was buil by the Doctor and was destroyed in "The Visitation". So it was with the 2nd Doctor up to the 5th. Yet in the Movie Sylvesto McCoy used it. This was latter explained in the NA novel "Lungabarrow". Which is set immediatly before the movie. At the end of it Rommana gives the Doctor her sonic screwdriver, thus the Doctor has it again. I'd say that since he regenarated into the 8th Doctor he must have done some modifying of it as in the movie it looked like the Tom Baker version (which was the John Pertwee version with a sonic lance attached), now it looks different.

 

As for the mass issue. the inside of the TARDIS is technically a different dimension. As you enter the TARDIS, you cross over a dimensional threshold.

 

As part of it's power supply the TARDIS also runs of an elment no a Vitron 7 (or something along those lines) which is only found on the planet Varos. It is also powered by a small "Eye of Harmony" which is essentially a link to the Eye of Harmony on Gallifrey. Since GAllifrey's destruciton, the TARDIS now has a limited fuel supply and must periodiclly top up, hence the events in Boom Town. The TARDIS used to a have a force feild (eg, the Chase) but by the new series it has broken down thus the Doctor and Jack modified the extrapaltor in Parting of the Ways to provide a force shield. I think the first evidence of it failling was in Fontios when it was destroyed. The TARDIS is also capable of travelling in to alternate realities with in the multiverse. Although it was not desighned for such travel (eg Inferno). In one season of the BF palys the doctor spent the entire season in an alternate Universe. He also spent the E-SPace trilogy in an alternate Universe.

 

I think most has been said so to avoid repeatin, I'll stop here.

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I have nevered like McGann (8th Doctor). He screwed up everything. This doctor who (Tennat) should be the 9th doctor and just forget about McGann.

 

Hmmm... listen to the audio plays starring Paul McGann's doctor before being too hasty about him. ^^

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