o/' Staaaaaaaay, my looooooove, my looooooooove, please staaaaaaaaaaay... o/'

Leaving Home Ain't Easy! It's a lovely song, so go listen to it. If you don't have it, then at least pretend you are to humor me. Thank you. :D

Icons!!
Now for some actual content. This brilliant quote refers to The Brain of Morbius, a fantastic Who story...

Douglas Wulf (dwulf@u.washington.edu) wrote:
> Everyone is so confused on this point but it seems to me the obvious
> explanation. These two Time Lords are mind wrestling. First we see the
> first Time Lord's past selves and then we see the past selves of the
> other. What could be more straightforward?

Except, he says, crossing his fingers for luck, the Doctor was losing
the match at that point. Losing pretty badly; so badly that he required the
Elixir of Life to survive. If the Infamous Faces had appeared *first*,
then followed by the Doctor's known incarnations, you'd be able to argue
that they were Morbius' past lives flashing before his eyes before he
rallied and began to push back at the Doctor. But the clear implication
on screen is that at the time Robert Holmes et al appear on the screen,
Morbius is winning the battle, and these images are appearing in the
Doctor's mind.

Silly Theory no. 42 : the Doctor knows that he is a fictional character,
and as he loses his battle, he's thinking of the production team who put
him into this situation. "Damn you, Robert Holmes... Damn you, Terrance
Dicks... Damn you, Philip Hinchcliffe..."

Cameron Dixon (bx996@torfree.net> 28/3/96

... except that it contains one of the most debated scenes in fandom. Here's my say: it doesn't really matter, does it? But it DOES! Because the faces weren't the Doctor's, they were Morbius'. Period. Yeah, maybe Robert Holmes and Philip Hinchcliffe were of the opinion at the time that perhaps the Doctor did have lives prior to Hartnell, but it just wouldn't make sense for the Doctor to have had regenerations prior to Hartnell.

Of course, in the end - it doesn't matter. The Doctor/Morbius debate doesn't take away from your enjoyment of the show, right? Right! But it's dem fun to debate about. :D

Ah yes - the faces that appear on the screen are those of various Who people in costume who were on hand the day of filming. :) This may not make sense, but it may help to understand the last bit of the quote. :D

Cheery bye, Scarlett



//Listening to:
Dead on Time (Queen)
//Currently amused by this quote:
o/' Fat bottomed girls, you make the rockin' world go round... o/' (Queen)