Doctor Who - Space and Time

[Tennant Stuart]

Compared to the limp effort for Children In Need, and mere trailers
in previous years, the "Doctor Who" mini-episodes of Comic Relief were
quite good. Written by Steven Moffat, it was great fun to see his plot
motivated by Amy's knickerlessness, and the mayhem which resulted.

Just a couple of quibbles, though - in "Space" the TARDIS materialised
inside itself, much to the Doctor's astonishment. But haven't we seen
this recursion happen before, in episodes from the first series?

Then in "Time", the Doctor stuck his arm into the Police Box which
duly came in through the front door to wave at himself, Amy, and Rory.
So how was he able to do this in real time, when the plot's resolution
depended on a delay between entering the Police Box and reappearing?


Tennant Stuart

[Jerry Brown]

On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 18:01:00 GMT, Tennant Stuart

Post by Tennant Stuart
Compared to the limp effort for Children In Need, and mere trailers
in previous years, the "Doctor Who" mini-episodes of Comic Relief were
quite good. Written by Steven Moffat, it was great fun to see his plot
motivated by Amy's knickerlessness, and the mayhem which resulted.
Just a couple of quibbles, though - in "Space" the TARDIS materialised
inside itself, much to the Doctor's astonishment. But haven't we seen
this recursion happen before, in episodes from the first series?

Those would be "The Time Monster" (mid-Pertwee) and "Logopolis"
(Baker's finale), but both those cases involved 2 TARDISes (the
Doctor's and the Master's) being inside each other, with one instance
in the sequence still being open to the outside world.

Jerry Brown

[AC]

Post by Tennant Stuart
Compared to the limp effort for Children In Need, and mere trailers
in previous years, the "Doctor Who" mini-episodes of Comic Relief were
quite good. Written by Steven Moffat, it was great fun to see his plot
motivated by Amy's knickerlessness, and the mayhem which resulted.
Just a couple of quibbles, though - in "Space" the TARDIS materialised
inside itself, much to the Doctor's astonishment. But haven't we seen
this recursion happen before, in episodes from the first series?
Then in "Time", the Doctor stuck his arm into the Police Box which
duly came in through the front door to wave at himself, Amy, and Rory.
So how was he able to do this in real time, when the plot's resolution
depended on a delay between entering the Police Box and reappearing?
Tennant Stuart

Wibbly wobbly timey wimey?

[Felicity S.]

Post by Tennant Stuart
Compared to the limp effort for Children In Need, and mere trailers
in previous years, the "Doctor Who" mini-episodes of Comic Relief were
quite good. Written by Steven Moffat, it was great fun to see his plot
motivated by Amy's knickerlessness, and the mayhem which resulted.

Pre-watershed, it's more likely Rory was excited by her knickers.

Post by Tennant Stuart
Just a couple of quibbles, though - in "Space" the TARDIS materialised
inside itself, much to the Doctor's astonishment. But haven't we seen
this recursion happen before, in episodes from the first series?

The Wikipedia article says no:

The situation where a TARDIS materialised within a TARDIS in a
recursive loop has occured before in previous episodes in the Third
Doctor and Fourth Doctor's era, "The Time Monster" and "Logopolis".

However, in both cases, it was the Master's TARDIS that had joined
with the Doctor's, whereas in "Space" and "Time", the same TARDIS
materialised within itself.

However, I agree with you; that artice is badly lacking.

Post by Tennant Stuart
Then in "Time", the Doctor stuck his arm into the Police Box which
duly came in through the front door to wave at himself, Amy, and Rory.
So how was he able to do this in real time, when the plot's resolution
depended on a delay between entering the Police Box and reappearing?

Err yeah, though I think that delay was more of a yaled...


Fliss