From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho.moderated
From Address: solar.penguin{at}googlemail.com
Subject: Re: Adric a Plunder

On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 09:14:42 -0500, The Doctor wrote:

> LEt's see
> 
> Full Circle - cannot be decisive

Well of course Full Circle can't be decisive.  It's a story.  Stories 
can't be decisive.  They can be decisively written, or about decisive 
people, but stories can't actually take any decisions themselves.

But even if Full Circle could be decisive, why would you want it to?

> 
> State of Decay cannot infiltrate properly

Again, even if stories could infiltrate things properly, why would you 
want State of Decay to infiltrate anything?  And what should it 
infiltrate?

> 
> 
> Warrior's Gate - Thank you K-9 for keeping him in line
> 

Kept who in line?  What was he waiting in line for?  It's ages since I've 
seen that story but I honestly don't remember any scenes where K9 was 
patrolling queues to prevent people from queue-jumping!

And even if there were such a scene, what's it got to do with the 
previous two stories not decisively infiltrating things?

> 
> Keeper of TRaken - Even Nyssa cannot stand him.

What?  Who?  Why?  And a second helping of What?

>From the subject line, "Adric a[nd] Plunder", you probably
mean she can't 
stand Adric, although there's very little in the story to support this, 
but where does the plunder fit in?  Who is plundering what from whom?

> 
> Logopolis - Panic boy

That's a good description of the Doctor, panicking so much at the thought 
of the Master that he can't think straight, and even believes flooding 
the TARDIS would be a good idea.

But I don't see how that fits in with the rest of the list: stories not 
becoming decisive or infiltrating things, K9 stopping queue-jumpers, and 
Nyssa hating people.

> 
> Castrovalva - Even the MAster threatens him

The Master threatens _everybody_ because he's Eeeevil and that's what 
Eeeevil characters do.

> 
> 4 to Doomsday - The Doctor scorns him for being an idiological idiot.

Idiologic only allows you to be idiotically wrong with authority.

But why aren't you complaining that this story and the preceding ones 
aren't decisively infiltrating things?

Don't forget Davison's era was up against Coronation Street.  It would've 
been fun if the Doctor had decided "Forget Monarch!  Let's all infiltrate 
ITV instead," materialised his TARDIS in the middle of the Rovers Return, 
and then they all stepped out waving large banners saying, "Turn over to 
BBC1 now!"

> 
> Kinda - Cannot operate a machine

Of course it can't.  It's a story.  But at least you're back to 
complaining that stories can't do things that stories can't do.

Should they operate machines before or after decisively infiltrating 
things?

> 
> Black Orchid - Pigs out

True, farmyard animals kept out of Black Orchid.  Do you think it would 
be better if there were some in it?  Maybe move the setting from 
Cranleigh Hall to Blandings, and have the Empress play a vital plot role?

> 
> 
> Earthshock - Doesn't get out on time.

Nonsense.  It was one of the earlier stories to be out on DVD.  And 
before that it was out on VHS and even Laserdisc.  How much sooner should 
it've been out?

> 
> Anything I missed?

Well, you missed any kind of explanation of what you were talking about, 
and what it has to do with "Adric a[nd] Plunder".

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