Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site tilt.FUN Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!ihnp1!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!princeton!tilt!kyrimis From: kyrimis@tilt.FUN (Kriton Kyrimis) Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho Subject: Re: Inconsistencies in stories. Message-ID: <338@tilt.FUN> Date: Sun, 25-Aug-85 02:42:22 EDT Article-I.D.: tilt.338 Posted: Sun Aug 25 02:42:22 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 26-Aug-85 01:10:11 EDT References: <2691@sun.uucp> Reply-To: kyrimis@tilt.UUCP (Kriton ) Distribution: net Organization: Princeton University CS Dept Lines: 27 Keywords: Bang, Big. Summary: What inconsistencies? In article <2691@sun.uucp> larryl@sun.uucp (Larry Laskowski) writes: >One class of "inconsistencies" which I find to be particulary enjoyable >involves the effects of the Doctor's actions on universal history, and >his firsthand knowledge of the causes of these events. In particular, in >"Castrovalva", the TARDIS hurtles off to EVENT 1 (Hydrogen Inrush), which >as we all know leads into the BIG BANG. Yet, in "Terminus", we find out >that the big bang was caused by an alien ship automatically jetisonning >its unstable fuel! I wouldn't talk about inconsistencies, when I refer to the Doctor. We never know for sure whether the *universe* where a story takes place is the same as the universe of the next one, since the TARDIS is quite capable of (unpredictably) moving through alternate universes. (Remember Jon Pertwee's trip to a sideways universe in "Inferno", and Tom Baker's e-space). Therefore, in one universe the big bang could have been caused by a hydrogen inrush (i.e. the *usual* way...), and in another by the events described in "Terminus" (Are these two events really incompatible? If I remember correctly, Terminus's motors were nuclear ones, and hydrogen (actually water), could well be what one would term as "fuel"). -- Kriton (princeton!tilt!kyrimis) ------ "It is... um... somewhat... uncomplimentary, Captain; Herbert was a minor official notorious for his rigid and limited patterns of thought." ------