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Circular Time

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Dr Who fan since Jodie was a tot. Splendid chaps, all of them (especially her).
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SPOILERS: Excerpt from the end of "Winter," final episode of the Big Finish Doctor Who story Circular Time, showing what's happening inside the fifth Doctor's mind during his regeneration scene

The Master had used Kamelion to create a dream-world, the hallucinatory equivalent of Castrovalva, trapping the fifth Doctor and preventing him from reaching out to his old companions telepathically to help him hold on. (He was dying for hours, using sheer willpower to stave off regeneration as long as he could).

In Circular Time, Nyssa, who is slightly telepathic herself, hears the Doctor's cry for help and uses a dream-therapy device created by her husband to reach him and guide him through the hallucinatory blizzard in which he's lost.

Every time I listen to this, my eyes water. But it makes me feel a little better about Caves of Androzani. 

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heimeldat

Does anyone know, was Ohila originally supposed to be an older Ohica and they changed it for some reason? It seems awfully similar to be an accident...

i wondered that too, but perhaps Moffatt simply used Ohica's name as a template, the way all female Vulcans in Star Trek were named things like T'poing, T'pook, T'prat, etc. for a while.

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tyba1t

Everyone deserves to see him

Old man Jamie too

Can't forget him

yeah he's probably at the bar at whatever con is happening on the east coast right now

(go to Long Island Who in August; it's actually Frasercon)

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doverstar

there's such a massive history with doctor who and it hit me lately that the sensation of seeing that the companions and doctors you watched in real-time have become the past is a sensation every fan has felt for 60 years. at some point people missed jon pertwee and could remember watching him recently, even though tom baker was on tv as the doctor now and they liked him too. and nowadays we miss rose tyler and martha jones and amy pond and clara oswald and donna noble and tennant and smith and capaldi like those people missed baker when davison took the stage. like people missed ace and wondered if the show would ever come back, and then got excited and still felt it wasn't quite the same when eccleston was announced. like. it feels so recent, like just yesterday rose saw the tardis for the first time, but that was twenty years ago. feels like the doctor just made the speech in 'the rings of akhaten' and that was a decade ago. clara is gone, amy is gone. peter capaldi went from gray to white. and the show is going on and children will think of ncuti gatwa and millie gibson and huge white tardis corridors when they think of doctor who in the future. to them, david tennant is already what tom baker is to us. this story has a huge legacy. when you're watching doctor who, it ironically begins to feel like you're making history just by watching it.

Yes. You will begin to understand how much Big Finish (or some equivalent) means to some of us in a couple more decades when the voices of companions and Doctors you grew up with are in your ears again, and they're not the past, they're the present, they're new, they're having adventures again, and as a little part of the past you love gets yanked out of of stasis and becomes gloriously alive and now— it's like a piece of you that you had forgotten wakes up, and it's not that you feel young again, but just like a part of yourself has been given back to you, range of motion regained or a stroke victim able to smile again.

This is time travel. 😍

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