Essays, reviews and content not created by us, but still related to understanding the world of Doctor Who. Topics include continuity, character development, time travel, social consequences of technology gone wrong, and more.
Peter (ThisThus) on “The War Games“, Patrick Troughton’s final Doctor Who serial: “What struck me upon was the sadness at Jaime’s and Zoe’s leaving. [The Time Lords sent them back to their own times, erasing their memories beyond their first encounter with the Doctor.] But after the heartbreak of Donna forgetting her time with the […]
“Traversable Achronal Retrograde Domains In Spacetime”, written by physicists Ben Tippett and David Tsang (2013), suggests the TARDIS is scientifically possible. Joshua Filmer (From Quarks to Quasars): “In order for a TARDIS to function, it needs to exist in a universe where the construction of closed timelike curves (CTCs) is possible. A closed timelike curve […]
Chris Sims for Comics Alliance: “Ivar explains that pens and sunglasses always go missing because we’re constantly surrounded by wormholes through time that suck them in when we’re not looking.” That’s enough for me. But wait, there’s more… “Ivar shoots Horatio Nelson dead at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 (In our history, Nelson was […]
Jesse McDougall for GOOD Magazine: “The Doctor is right. The speed at which time passes is both variable and malleable. We can speed it up. We can slow it down. In fact, you do so every day without even knowing it.” Excellent article from 2013. McDougall does a great job of using the physics of […]
El Condensador de Fluzo (English from Google Translate): And it seems great choice as Helen Mirren is possibly one of the few people in the world who has an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild Award for the same performance. And of course, he is British. Excellent idea, as I’m sure […]