Wednesday 8 June 2011

The Man With The Future In His Pocket

Random thought spawned by this question about TARDIS forms.

How big does a TARDIS portal have to be? Big enough to get in and out of... but only when you want to get in and out of it. So instead of having a TARDIS key... the TARDIS could be a key.

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  1. In Terror of the Autons, a Time Lord pops out of thin air, accompanied by the TARDIS sound effect. On the old DRWHO-L list, when the question arose of just how he did that, I remember an at the time radical theory the Time Lord was wearing his TARDIS as a ring, or keeping it as a pen in his pocket.

    Or maybe he was just wearing a Time Ring.

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  2. Ooh.

    Having not seen it, I thought based on a description that he might simply have an invisible TARDIS. Which is pretty nifty in and of itself.

    I have to go see this one now, don't I?

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  3. It's a good 'un. The Master comes to Earth and I don't think he was ever again so malevolent as he was at that first meeting.

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  4. Although honestly, making the TARDIS' shell selectively transparent, he can be seen but not the control room, makes a good deal of sense.

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  5. Having seen the episode, (a) what a smug git he was and (b) he was standing on something... of course, a TARDIS can fly, so he could have been holding a very small flying thing, but standing on an invisible flying thing seems to match the position of his feet... darn those early effects.

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