This is my assumption. The Doctor fixed the sequence of events that are key to the conclusion of the Time War. He can’t undertake any actions that would alter its outcome, thus he doesn’t run into previous incarnations of his dead Time Lord buddies. The Time Lords are still there in history, and everyone who should remember them does.
This does not mean that some Time Lords aren’t still around, of course. But with the destruction of Gallifrey, they’d have had some trouble operating their TARDISes at first anyway.
As it existed in “The Mind Robber”, yes. Two deliberately took the TARDIS outside of reality for repairs and that’s where it ended up. It’s subsequently featured in two novels and four audio adventures so its state now is questionable but this can be avoided altogether by having Eleven visit after Two left and before the other adventures.
I think ever since ‘Torchwood’, the show has been bedeviled by fans trying to make anagrams out of anything they could.
Somebody rearranged ‘Mister Saxon’ to get ‘Master No. Six’ back in season 3, and actually counted the different incarnations of the Master that they’d seen on the screen. When asked, after the big reveal, the writing staff basically said "Wow, that’s clever. No, we didn’t put that in on purpose.’
I go with the fanwank that matters in The Two Doctors were arranged by the CIA. I explain away Baker’s quote as either a joke or simply a reference to the events of The Three Doctors and The Five Doctors. Yes, I do realize I’m putting way too much thought into this.
The other three points were just explaining how come I still liked many of the McCoy era stories even though I agreed with your criticism.
I do think the complexity/confusion of the stories you mentioned is a bit overstated (not by you particularly, but in general). Did you watch those on tv when they originally aired? Maybe that’s why they were confusing; I could never have watched The Wire (just an example, not a comparison) if I had to wait a week between each episode. Ghost Light is one of my favorite stories from the old show. (From the McCoy era I loved Remembrance, The Curse of Fenric and The Happiness Patrol and liked The Greatest Show in the Galaxy and Survival a lot too. The production values of Battlefield were too low even for me.)
(I seem to have a very bad habit of over-using parenthesis that I just can’t overcome (and I also never know where to place the period)).
I also thought this was a really strong episode, but you’re right, Tennant seemed to better embody the forcefulness (for lack of a better word) of the Doctor – especially when he was scary, he was really scary!
A propos scary, to those who thought that the Doctor’s cheering on the TARDIS in the killing of house and things like it were out of character, I actually think that was deliberate – he did say something to the effect of ‘you gave me hope, and then crushed it; there’s no telling what I’ll do now’, referring to baiting him with the prospect of other living Timelords. I really think he did loose it (and himself) a bit there; and he’s always been in danger of that, we know as much. I actually think that’s one of the character’s most interesting aspects – he’s not one of those ‘natural’ good guys with an incontrovertible codex of morality, etc., instead, he struggles, constantly, and heavily.
I thought the writers had come up with that whole “Master No Six” thing (mostly because I’ve never met anyone with the surname Saxon), so I thought this theory sounded good. Never realised it was a fan thing
Catching up. Trying not to spoiler myself and not staying on top of episodes.
From the pirate episode, how come everyone else when injured and taken by the Siren ended up in statis in the med bay, but the Doctor and Amy and the Captain end up on a deck to wander around? Oops.
I think this has been fairly well covered. I took CPR/AED training not long ago. The thing is, the chest is like a bellows. The lungs are an airsack, and the diaphram makes a seal with the chest cavity. You know how the Heimlich Maneuver works? You compress the chest and force air out. Okay, the Heimlich specifically presses under the diaphram, but there’s an alternate method for pregnant women that involves squeezing the chest directly. It works because squeezing the chest compresses the lungs, which forces air out. Just like exhaling has the diaphram push up and squeeze air out.
So when performing chest compressions, you are alternately compressing the lungs, and then letting them expand a bit. The expansion is driven by the ribcage. The intent of the manual compressions is to squeeze the heart and thus force blood around, but it also squeezes the lungs and forces air out, and then air gets sucked back in when the ribcage normalizes.
So for someone who collapses without an airway obstruction, there is sufficient air exchange during normal compressions to keep the blood oxygenated. Taking time to stop compressions, reset to breath position, give 2 breaths, then reset for compressions is actually detrimental because the most important part of CPR is keeping the blood pumping to the brain.
Situations where you do need to give a breath involve airway obstructions, and suffocation, because in those cases the oxygen in the lungs can be depleated and carbon dioxide built up, or if drowning you need to remove the water that is in the way.
And as previously stated, CPR is about delaying brain loss until help arrives - primarily in the form of an AED or emergency team with defibrillator. CPR itself does not restart the heart. There used to be a technique of manually attempting to restart the heart by using a large impact to the chest - you may still see that in old movies. But it was low likelihood of occurring, and electric shock works much better. So use CPR to stave off brain loss and get a defibrillator as quickly as possible.
I don’t know where that applies, but that is not the case here in Texas. If you’re a paid emergency responder, then maybe, but not to the average person who takes a CPR/AED course.
I thought he said something from episode 12 of this year would answer a question from last season, but I could have that wrong. But yes, I gathered that Moffat is running really long story arcs.
That was in the episode I watched of BBCAmerica.
The Tardis appears to be a combination of a biological/energy lifeform and technology. House stole the Matrix - the consciousness center and “self”, but left the technology body and the energy in place so he could eat the energy, and the shells get discarded on the bone heap. I assume House tied in to the technology and energy and drove it himself in place of the consciousness center he removed.
As someone pointe out, telephone booths did open in. That’s why they have folding half-doors. And the Tardis appears to have a half door.
I does sound like something he’d write.
No, Jenny is a daughter created from his DNA but modified so it isn’t a direct clone.
