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TARDIS Guide

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Released

Sunday, November 15, 2020

Written by

James Goss

Publisher

BBC

Pages

1

Time Travel

Future

Story Arc (Potential Spoilers!)

Time Lord Victorious

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Earth

Synopsis

What the TARDIS thought of "Time Lord Victorious" was a short story published to mark the 11th anniversary of the airing of TV: The Waters of Mars and tied into the Time Lord Victorious storyline.

It can be read online here: What the TARDIS thought of "Time Lord Victorious"

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📝8/10 = ENJOYABLE!

Time Lording through time and space, one victory at a time! This time: the TARDIS has something to tell us!

This little story by James Goss is written from the TARDIS’ POV and reveals how she decides to pull Ten into the Dark Times to teach him a lesson after his mistake with Adelaide Brooke in The Waters of Mars. It also explains how Eight, Nine, and Brian the Ood get involved in the event. It’s always fun to read the TARDIS’ thoughts on things, and this one is pretty relevant to the arc.


A very elegantly written short text, full of the TARDIS reminiscing and conversing through and with time itself in a way incomprehensible for us humans.

“So it’s basically just technobabble?”

”Yes, but it’s very pretty technobabble.”

Also some nice things about what the TARDIS thinks of some of the Doctor's.
I like how all of it happens in just those few seconds of the TV episode. That’s fun.
Some explaining for why and how things happen in TLV. I think. I haven’t really experienced the story/event itself lol.

But it’s a nice short piece. I find it charming. Does what it sets out to do pretty well.


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He [The Doctor] thinks I take him where he wants to go. But. I'll let you into a secret, shall I?

I take him where he needs to be. Which is sometimes also where he wants to be. But not always.

London 1965, for instance. I could have got there in a second. If only he'd asked nicely. If only he hadn't been having fun. If only he hadn't been learning a lesson. About who he really needed to be, not who he wanted to be. But there we go – the old man had run away from his people intent on being a wanderer and never interfering. Instead those two schoolteachers taught him more about himself than he'd have learned in a thousand years of walking alone in eternity.