Since the world is in a renaissance (a sci fi one) lots of knowledge, history, and information is lost.. my character is intrigued by it
Also
his race
The game takes place on Admentia a huge ship with 80,000 people on it, travels around a few local clusters making trade etc... an independent city-state ship.
It rarely gives me an exact phrase to use, but makes me think about the subject in different ways.
> No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into “the secrets of the nether world,” as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his neighbour’s heart.
> The past is such a curious creature, / To look her in the face / A transport may reward us, / Or a disgrace.
@JoshuaAslanSmith Speaking of pedants, I feel compelled to mention that "irregardless" is the bastard child of "irrespective" and "regardless." Although its meaning is clear, careful users of English often prefer the less ungainly "regardless."
I like using the word "Rediculous" as it upsets people who are pedants. It is obviously a combination of "Ridiculous" and "Re - " so.. it's ridiculous again or repeatedly
IE: "This conversation is rediculous "
Lets see what good old urban dictionary says about this word.
@waxeagle I have a feeling that festival of horrors will lead to the Doctor doing something that will force him to regenerate; sort of like how Eccleston went out.
[wry] I disagree with several of the recent statements re: companions.
But it's largely personal preference, so meh.
Rose was badly mishandled post-Bad Wolf, and increasingly badly every time she reappeared after S2. Prior to that she was a compelling companion: seriously flawed and quite nasty, but with strong positive traits balancing the character and making her relatable.
In S2 she got smug and self-centered, fancying herself a mini-Doctor. It could've been an interesting arc if it had felt like it was on purpose, or if it had gone anywhere, but instead she just became insufferable.
After S2 she was flat and boring. The series promised us she was gone for good, and Rose as we knew her was. What came back, and back, (and back) despite repeated assurances that she couldn't, was Generic Strong Independent Sassy Sexy Girl With Gun.
And whether the Moment is Bad Wolf, or if it just foresaw Bad Wolf and took that form, it was clever and awesome.
Personally, I think the Moment didn't "develop" a conscience. I think the Moment acquired a conscience in the form of the Bad Wolf.
The Bad Wolf is, in every way that matters, the Moment, and that's what allows the LGTW retcon.
(This is supported by the way Nine and Ten so casually punctured the LGTW with their TARDISes when the Moment needed them to. If the Moment is the Bad Wolf and the Bad Wolf is the fusion of Rose with the heart of the TARDIS...)
I'm half hoping they'll bring the Bad Wolf back for the Christmas special to explain how he overcomes the twelve regeneration limit.
I'd be even less hopeful, but I didn't even dare hope they'd BRING BACK GALLIFREY for the 50th, and it happened.
Also, the whole Queen Victoria plot was basically an excuse to wrap up an ongoing joke from the RTD era. If Moffat's got that kind of thing on his mind, wrapping up the Bad Wolf can't be too far off course.
@BESW I think the points you made about it being played out and the Doctor needing the Time Lords to play against were salient. And as the article I just linked points out, it sort of respresents a healing and bonding between old Who and New.
(At which point the absence of Eccleston was already painfully obvious to the producers.)
Eccleston's absence gave Moffat the opportunity to do what he loves most: force us to look at everything which has gone before in light of something he added.
If Eccleston had been available and willing, he would've done it anyway, but differently.
Of course, I've got my own personal "if I had my way" version.
It involves cutting out most of the Victoria/Zygon plot and instead starting the story with ten to fifteen minutes of Eight and Romana in the Last Great Time War.
The LGTW isn't fought with lasers, but with retcons, and the Daleks are winning. History is being ripped apart by paradox and the High Council wants to open the Omega Vault to battle it. Only Eight and Madame President Romana stand against it, arguing that to do so would be to become like the Daleks.
The Council goes behind the President's back and revives Rassilon, whose first act is to use the Power Glove (it's so rad!) to disintegrate Romana, executing her for treason against his Gallifrey by refusing to protect it at any cost.
As Rassilon orders the contents of the Omega Vault be put into use, Eight grabs the Moment from the Vault and runs.
First: Rasillon strikes the Doctor down as he escapes, and Eight regenerates into Nine--he is the War Doctor, struck down by his own god and the very first choice before him is whether to save the universe by destroying his own people and the Daleks.
Second: Eight escapes with the Moment, and is the War Doctor. After using the Moment he voluntarily regenerates for the first time, desperate to shed the body that pushed the button.
Either way, the rest of the story is pretty solid and doesn't need changing. Less Victoria and Zygons, more LGTW.
This fixes one of the primary weakness of the 50th: there is no sense that the Time Lords need killin'.
@AvnerShahar-Kashtan Except for the fact that the 50th spent an AMAZING amount of time on a mostly-pointless side plot about Queen Victoria that existed only to explain away one of RTD's running gags.
