On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 07:02:24 +0000, in rec.arts.drwho Mike M <
mi...@xenocyte.com> wrote:
ˇMike M <
mi...@xenocyte.com> wrote:
ˇ> On 02/11/2015 02:06, TB wrote:
ˇ>> On Sunday, November 1, 2015 at 4:30:03 PM UTC-8, ¡Gölök Z.L.F Buday AKA
ˇ>> The Black Jester #theblackjester wrote:
ˇ>>> On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 21:23:16 +0000 (UTC), in rec.arts.drwho "Adam H.
ˇ>>> Kerman" <
a...@chinet.com> wrote:
ˇ>>>
ˇ>>> Ä„born 1944, died 1986, sadly, on his 42nd birthday
ˇ>>> Ä„
ˇ>>> Ä„He played Harry Sullivan during the 1974-1975 season. I rather liked him.
ˇ>>>
ˇ>>> They refused to refer to his character by name this week too, fucking
ˇ>>> horrid of them. In a way a stroke of luck for him.
ˇ>>
ˇ>> Why would they refer to Harry Sullivan? Did he appear in the episode?
ˇ>>
ˇ>
ˇ> They mentioned a medical officer from UNIT in the 70s/80s (acknowledging
ˇ> the UNIT date controversy AGAIN, boring) who was involved in the Loch
ˇ> Ness Zygon incident and then assigned to Porton Down (genuinely
ˇ> Britain's chemical warfare research base, in case anyone didn't know),
ˇ> who developed the inversion gas.
ˇ>
ˇ> So that was Harry Sullivan. Possibly they didn't name check him just
ˇ> because the name would mean nothing to anyone who didn't know.
ˇ>
ˇ> However, we fans got to know Harry Sullivan (and, previously, his
ˇ> uncanny lookalike Lt. John Andrews :) ) over his year and a half in the
ˇ> series. Harry Sullivan may have been a IDIOT! but developing a lethal
ˇ> nerve gas? He was a good doctor who worked with the good Doctor (two of
ˇ> him, even). I don't believe he would have been THAT kind of idiot.
ˇ>
ˇ> It also contradicts what Sarah Jane said in _Death of the Doctor_ about
ˇ> old companions: "I can't be sure, but there's a woman called Tegan in
ˇ> Australia, fighting for Aboriginal rights. There's a Ben and Polly, in
ˇ> India, running an orphanage there. There was Harry. Oh, I loved Harry.
ˇ> He was a doctor. He did such good work with vaccines. He saved thousands
ˇ> of lives. And there's a Dorothy something. She runs that company, A
ˇ> Charitable Earth. She's raised billions. And this couple in Cambridge,
ˇ> both professors. Ian and Barbara Chesterton. Rumour has it, they've
ˇ> never aged. Not since the sixties. I wonder."
ˇ>
ˇ> Makes you wonder if the Harry Sullivan they wouldn't name was a Zygon
ˇ> copy who developed the gas ...
ˇ>
ˇ
ˇWhen looking at that I suddenly realised that the Sarah Jane writers
ˇacknowledged another canon debate - the "Dorothy" mentioned could have been
ˇeither Dodo or Ace - but we knew Dodo's surname was Chaplet. Ace's wasn't
ˇgiven in the series. Some books gave it as "Gale" after the Dorothy in the
ˇWizard of Oz - after all, her backstory was that she had been taken up into
ˇthe magical worlds of space in a time tornado - but on audio (and in other
ˇbooks?) she became "McShane". Hence, Dorothy something.
ˇ
ˇAlso, the caring but past tense reference to Harry is clearly a nicely
ˇsubtle acknowledgment of Ian Marter's death.
ˇ
ˇ--
ˇ"In 900 years of time and space, I've never met anyone who wasn't
ˇimportant."
Hah, the Doctor being called a "Friend of Dorothy" She was only named in the
point of cotrrrrrodiction and irrelivant Radio/Comic side. Dodo was Dorothea and
aggitated the Doctor with her rain in spain.Like the so-called millenial ones talk.
Drax prison chatter. Be funny if she was a Speech Therapist.
That Sarah is a bit of contradiction too.
It's funny with Fenric, I often laughed playing Arkham City Armored seeing "Ace Chemicals."