Mustrum_Ridcully
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It might also explain why the TARDIS malfunction in "Attack of the Cybermen" was quickly resolved - they might have known that they would do this again, and didn't want to become too repetitive.sniffles said:I was hoping he'd do something like that!!
I thought this was the best episode so far, perhaps tied with "The Girl in the Fireplace".
Classic Doctor Who - a mystery, a scary BBEG, and it's been a long time since we've had an 'oh no we've lost the TARDIS' moment.
I wouldn't be surprised if they were at least "partially" true.The biblical overtones are probably very obviously another fake-out, and I'm looking forward to seeing the real story here. Can't wait for next week's installment!
Some theories that don't have to make sense:
1) The Asteroid/Planet was built to contain something (maybe "The Beast", maybe just "a beast"). Therefore it was placed around the black hole. They (whoever they are) didn't want to destroy it. But if there was an actual risk of it escaping, the planets security system would disable the antigrav field and the planet would crush into the black hole.
2) It's the TARDIS. It is currently trying to translate the text (which might indeed hold horrible details), but this leads to some very unfortunate and dangerous side effects.
The archeologist was affected because the TARIDS tried to get the information he has gathered so far. It is using the slave race to telepathically expand its computing power and figure the language out.
Still leaves the question what actually is on the planet..
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