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Fifth Doctor Questions
Sep. 27th, 2008 03:49 pmDh and I are working our way through Netflix's collection of Fifth Doctor Serials.
We watched Logopolis, then Caves of Androzani.
Then The Visitation and Black Orchid.
Most recently though, we watched Earthshock! And DH made me sit down and watch it closely because he thought it quite relevant to the most recent series. And after I watched I sort of disagreed. And I want him to be right, a little.
In Earthshock, the Cybermen have aimed a bomb at Earth and the Doctor thwarts that but then there's still a freight ship aimed right at Earth and the Cybermen intend for it to hit the Earth, thereby killing everyone on the planet. The Doctor thwarts them once again and discovers that this was one of those immovable points in time--he changes the time in which the freighter is traveling--back to prehistoric times. This makes the freighter into the meteor that crashes into Earth and kills off the dinosaurs, no harm no foul. Problem is, that Adric is on board and dies, too. But--and this was the important bit--much earlier in the serial, Adric gets all pouty as he is wont to do and, at the Doctor's urging, calculates the way back to E-space including the way to the CVE--the gateway to E space.
The man of mine contended that it was therefore Adric that figured out the way between the dimensions...setting up all this inter-dimensional stuff from New Who.
I retorted that E space, while it is indeed another dimension, is one of infinite numbers of parallel worlds or dimensions and therefore Adric's calculations were irrelevant. I added that when Five was around, interdimensional travel was easy since the TimeLords could work together to facilitate it. That was why it was so hard for Ten to believe they'd landed in Pete's world to begin with, not to mention any hope of getting back to Rose post-Doomsday.
So my question is this, mostly-- How does E-space relate to Pete's World?
We watched Logopolis, then Caves of Androzani.
Then The Visitation and Black Orchid.
Most recently though, we watched Earthshock! And DH made me sit down and watch it closely because he thought it quite relevant to the most recent series. And after I watched I sort of disagreed. And I want him to be right, a little.
In Earthshock, the Cybermen have aimed a bomb at Earth and the Doctor thwarts that but then there's still a freight ship aimed right at Earth and the Cybermen intend for it to hit the Earth, thereby killing everyone on the planet. The Doctor thwarts them once again and discovers that this was one of those immovable points in time--he changes the time in which the freighter is traveling--back to prehistoric times. This makes the freighter into the meteor that crashes into Earth and kills off the dinosaurs, no harm no foul. Problem is, that Adric is on board and dies, too. But--and this was the important bit--much earlier in the serial, Adric gets all pouty as he is wont to do and, at the Doctor's urging, calculates the way back to E-space including the way to the CVE--the gateway to E space.
The man of mine contended that it was therefore Adric that figured out the way between the dimensions...setting up all this inter-dimensional stuff from New Who.
I retorted that E space, while it is indeed another dimension, is one of infinite numbers of parallel worlds or dimensions and therefore Adric's calculations were irrelevant. I added that when Five was around, interdimensional travel was easy since the TimeLords could work together to facilitate it. That was why it was so hard for Ten to believe they'd landed in Pete's world to begin with, not to mention any hope of getting back to Rose post-Doomsday.
So my question is this, mostly-- How does E-space relate to Pete's World?
