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Post by clocketpatch on Apr 19, 2009 5:51:58 GMT
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Post by merrythemad on Apr 19, 2009 12:05:48 GMT
I worry Clocket, JJ is canon for the timewar so far as my Holy Whovian Bible tells me.
Timeloop edit: I have looked. is canon.
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Post by magnusgreel on Apr 19, 2009 20:59:31 GMT
Today I am a man. I have now learned what "peeps" are. I probably avoided them all my life because they looked so sugary that it actually scared me.
Re Peep War: Yes, that's about my understanding of the whole thing!
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Post by IMForeman on Apr 19, 2009 23:33:11 GMT
Yum, delicious Time War. That is brilliant. I love the Time Lord collars.
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Post by jjpor on Apr 20, 2009 19:42:51 GMT
No, that's how it actually happened... I loved the Daleks with the ears sticking out of the top; brilliant. I do not know these "peeps" of which you speak; I'm not sure if we have them over here, but we almost certainly have something equally likely to render kids hyperactive/toothless; my fillings started singing just at the sight of the things.
In other news, I don't want to go harping on about my fanficcish preoccupations or anything, but why has it become sort of fanon that Romana started the Time War somehow? I know the short answer is because RTD more or less said that in some fluff article he wrote, but we all know RTD has issues with women in positions of authority.
I mean, maybe I'm prejudiced, but if asked to guess which of two parties actually started an altercation, and one of those parties is, like, the Daleks, noted for their extreme violence and xenophobia and general inability to play nice with people, then, well, I'd probably opt for them as the instigators, if you know what I mean?
Okay, the Time Lords are no angels, but even if it was them who got things rolling, Romana was clearly still in E-Space when it did, because the Daleks were already talking about nobbling the High Council as long ago as Resurrection (although to be fair, in Resurrection they did display a shocking degree of what is nowadays known as "mission creep", with about fifty dastardly plans running concurrently - "I can't stand the confusion in my mind!!").
So all I'm saying is, give the lady a break!
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Post by magnusgreel on Apr 21, 2009 1:15:55 GMT
All parties might have found themselves in a war before they knew it, strange since the TLs are supposed to predict these things, but sometimes I think some other planet really ought to have been entrusted with sorting out time. I imagine that the word "war" really didn't apply at first, it was more of a time-interference chess game using other species as pawns, with neither side realizing the other side knew, and it escalated to literal violent war, though still not quite the kind of war we might imagine.
An absolute is that the one fascinating tidbit I've heard on the TW onscreen must be included and be a big part of what the TW turns out to be: In Unquiet Dead, it's said the TW was "invisible to lesser species".
Also, small sugary bunnies must be in the front lines.
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Post by jjpor on Apr 22, 2009 18:29:19 GMT
Yeah; that was one of the more intriguing glimpses offered in the TV episodes; I always imagined that that meant either you were lucky and the war didn't touch you, or it did, and suddenly you'd never even existed... Agree that a lot of the "fighting" probably consisted of smallscale Doctor-type escapades rather than mighty fleets hosing each other with Coruscating Beams of Death (TM!).
Of course, the fact that both sides chose to conceal their hands by using hordes of small blue sugary rabbits as their proxies probably did help with the low profile aspect of it. Crack squads of ruthless Peeps, with their uncanny ability to rot tooth enamel at a range of fifty metres...
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