Leaving the parking break on
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Good gag, nice one moffat. But please can we have the noise back. Pretty please? Best noise in the universe.
Best not to get too hung up on continuity in Who. (But if they try any of that he's half human nonsense I won't be responsible for my actions!) :-)
Best not to get too hung up on continuity in Who. (But if they try any of that he's half human nonsense I won't be responsible for my actions!) :-)
Now that was a terrible idea.
I hope Moffat can joke that one out of the window.
If you really need to work it out, then we only know that 'with the brakes off' you don't hear the sound inside the TARDIS (we don't see her land from outside).
Seeing as you didn't hear the sound inside for most of the 1970s and 1980s, that's not a major problem...
Seeing as you didn't hear the sound inside for most of the 1970s and 1980s, that's not a major problem...
C'mon, some of us are grumpy and like our continuity.
And coming up with explainations is half the fun of being a fan.
And coming up with explainations is half the fun of being a fan.
I think in a way he has: River, a non Time Lord, was perfectly capable of flying the TARDIS almost by her lonesome, while firing off flirtatious banter. Even if the Doctor helped, it's still two pilots against six.
My wife is convinced she IS a Time Lord...er...Lady.
Ooooh, spoilers!
Yeah, that was my problem with it too. It was entirely unnecessary.
"Are we all Mr. Grumpy Face today?"
Actually, I think it's the sound being heard *inside* the TARDIS that they're referring to in the episode. In the old series that was pretty rare, and throughout the 80s all that was heard inside the ship was that bleep that we heard when River landed it.
Nobody's saying that the noise heard *outside* the ship is a result of "leaving the brakes on"
Remember the Second Doctor's words to the Time Lords in "The Two Doctors": "You'd think I'd never flown a TARDIS solo!!" This would imply that it's not unheard of for TARDIS's to just be piloted by a single Time Lord.
You're talking about American style fandom, not American style continuity. Continuity is about as goofy on a lot of American TV as it is in DW - it's just more customary for Americans to fuss over it.
Trek fans have devoted forty years to putting together the pieces of a puzzle that was never conceived as a whole picture to begin with.
That's partially true. It may have not been conceived (at TOS time) , but by the time the movies and TNG came out, canon (and the whole picture) was very much in their (Read: GR's) eyes.
Checkmate
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I never got the impression that he literally left the brakes on. It came across more as a joke, with an analogy to a similar "duh" kind of action people accidentally do with their cars.
Besides, the Doctor likes the sound. It's not going anywhere for that reason and that reason alone.
Besides, the Doctor likes the sound. It's not going anywhere for that reason and that reason alone.
I don't like that they retconned this, it didn't need it. I always thought the Type-40 TARDIS, and older models, made the sound cause they were older technology. The newer types and models didn't need to make that sound, cause they had improved on the technology, they can land faster, for example as was seen with the TARDIS's in "The War Games"
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