what exactly is dr who's tardis?

Pah, you just don’t get it.

The Doctor is too clever for that. And since let’s face it, most of the characters in Star Wars are pretty bloody stupid, he’d have no trouble in outmanoeuvring them.

The Doctor is too clever for that.

This is the same Doctor who’s spent the last 40ish years fighting the same villains over and over again.

See, that’s Hans edge. He can help to destroy an Empire in one attack on a star sized battleship.

Meanwhile, the Doctor has another problem with… Cybermen… seriously? those guys again?

Clever he might be? But efficient he certainly is not.

Wasn’t there an episode where they said the TARDIS was designed to have six (?) pilots rather than just one.

Yeah. Hence the hexagonal shape of the console.

Stupid question #2: if it’s sentient, why does the Doctor have to twist the knobs before he [doesn’t go, but go] anywhere? Shouldn’t the TARDIS just do its thing in any case?

Good question. How do you know it doesn’t? If you were the Doctor, perhaps with a couple of impressionable Earth laydees in tow, would you slam the door on the pursuing horde of Bugblatter Beasts and then go “and now, we wait for the TARDIS to take us somewhere it likes…” Hardly “oh, swoon, my hero” material, is it?

This is the same Doctor who’s spent the last 40ish years fighting the same villains over and over again.

Dear me.. he can’t defeat them outright, it’d cause too much instability in history, and leave him with no way of amusing himself. Immortality would be boring wouldn’t it, without an adversary?

Besides, the Doctor would never commit genocide.

Oh, wait.

Cougar and Molgrips, you’re describing a super hero who might or might not have control of his vessel (and pulls the odd knob or two to impress the ladies) and lets daleks and cybermen pester the universe because it’s better to take foes down one or two at a time…?

By this time, Han’s blasted spaceships, rescued princesses, stroked his wookie and made Bruce Willis look like Steve Carroll…

All with the help of the Ewoks….embarassing really …and Lue had to do the real job of getting the actual baddie

It goes deeper than that. It’s brain vs brawn. Impetuous macho man vs the intellectual warrior.

Anyway. Han doesn’t want to get involved, and only does so cos his friends are in trouble. The Dr DOES want to get involved in everything, and there’s some suggestion he is controlling it all for his amusement. Which makes him a bit God-like, doens’t it? A whole nother avenue of debate right there.

EDIT: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/dec/24/doctor-who-god-christmas

You want to talk about Godlike?

Han not only managed to save the universe (okay, with a little help), but he also found time to save precious Earth artefacts in the guise of true American archeologist hero and to save a poor Amish girl from herself and her suffocating community whilst building a barn and looking good in a hat.

What does your Dr Who do in his time off? First he’s a scarecrow on kids’ TV, then he’s sticking his arm up cow butt in the Yorkshire Dales…

He didn’t save the universe, he helped defeat the empire, which was just a temporary feature of one galaxy.

What does your Dr Who do in his time off?

Dr Who doesn’t have time off. Tch.

Only reason he didn’t save the universe is because, at the time, the universe only needed saving from the Empire.

Like any true hero, Han can only defeat the enemy before him.

And at least he defeats it. It’s not like the Deathstar’s coming back… again… only this time it can fly. 🙄

Dr Who doesn’t have time off. Tch.

Dude. Time Lord.

Dude. Time Lord.

It’s not like he’s a proper Lord though, is it?

Interesting to note that, in the original script, his title was supposed to be ‘Tim Elord’ (Tim, the electronic lord, I suppose) and his present-day status is purely the result of a subediting error in the copy room…

Lesson from history, that. And you can’t argue with history cos history’s dead.

Miss, Miss, ‘ees makin it up!!

you can’t argue with history cos history’s dead.

If only there was some way of going back in time…

Yeah, complain to miss now you know your hero’s really called Tim… like that’ll do any good.

But, dude, I feel for you. I remember how I felt when I badgered my grandparents into telling me that Santa doesn’t exist.

It’s gutting, but in the end you start to feel better. I can’t sugar-coat the truth just because it’s pretty.

😀

If only there was some way of going back in time…

The right way, I believe, is to build a silly looking blue box with a flashing nipple on top…

Han only took the job for money..he is a paid mercenary basically

That said he cant half detect a replicant even if he is not very good at killing them

But did they have Wookies in mind when the built the Tardis?

By this time, Han’s blasted spaceships, rescued princesses, stroked his wookie and made Bruce Willis look like Steve Carroll…

AND got kicked out of the imperial Navy to lead a life of a smuggler.

Lesson from history, that. And you can’t argue with history cos history’s dead.

Unless your name is something incredibly dull like Tim Elord and you happen to have a TARDIS, then you can go back in time, whisper in a BBC subeditors ears and be reborn as the infinitely cooler TIME LORD.
History. Sorted.

The tardis is a living machine and bound to The Doctor in ways not explained. Quite why it has all those knobs is anyones guess: I guess it’s how he likes to interact with it. The tardis takes the doctor where and when he needs to be rather than where he wants to be. It would be terrible smugglers ship. He makes havoc whereever he goes, mostly trying to deal with the unforeseen impact of his previous meddling. Quite why he “protects” Earth is also unclear but he needs human companions. It’s a great sci fi concept where the central character is so mysterious. I love anti-heroes.

Back to the ‘Kessel run in 12 Parsecs’ issue; frankly, Han is just bullshitting because he just doesn’t have a clue how fast the Falcon is, he just knows its quick and gets places fast. He basically saying, ‘well yeah, it can do the Bristol-London run in 130 miles’; which is roughly what the run would be, 130 miles. Which would take, on a really good day, about 2-2¼ hours. The fact he’s using a distance measurement to indicate time taken means he’s a clot, really.
The Dr could walk onto the Falcon, do a quick scan, hack the nav computer, steal half the cargo, before Han woke up to the fact there was an intruder on board. 😉

Worst. Thread. Ever. 😀

Ok, if Han Solo’s such a smart ass, how would he cope with these:

Oh, and don’t blink!

Stupid question #2: if it’s sentient, why does the Doctor have to twist the knobs before he [doesn’t go, but go] anywhere?

Foreplay.

A studio prop for a fictional TV show!

Sausage!

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Stupid question #2: if it’s sentient, why does the Doctor have to twist the knobs before he [doesn’t go, but go] anywhere?
Foreplay.

😆

Sorry to go back to a comment on the first page….

She may not look like much but she’s got it where it counts.

I used to know a girl like that, before I was married

Worst. Thread. Ever.

And yet, you’re reading it and commenting on it.

Through the course of my work over the last few months, I’ve come to know many of the things already mentioned but coincidentally, relative to this thread, I learned last week that the Tardis and the Millennium Falcon share a telling feature.

What was a clever concept – bigger on the inside – a design to amaze viewers with the Tardis was also an accidental feature of the Millennium Falcon (purely for aesthetic purposes – which I often think is reason enough for anything).

This wasn’t much of a problem for anyone until (and I’m sure a few of you will be pretty excited about this) …someone decided to build a full scale replica. Apparently, structurally it’s quite incoherent.

http://fullscalefalcon.com/

Sorry cougar, I appeared to have been temporarily possessed by comic book guy from the Simpsons.

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Incidentally, I’ve just stumbled across this. Seems there were four female fighter pilots in Return of the Jedi; all were cut from the film’s final release.

http://starwarsaficionado.blogspot.com.au/2011/09/girl-power-jedis-female-fighter-pilots.html

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Now where’s the Falcon shaped one?!?!

Silly me, I should have Googled before asking

Silly me, I should have Googled before asking

As my 2 year old daughter would say.

“My want that!”

its the ultimate metaphor for true science isn’t it. you get caught up with staring at the really interesting box, but its what is outside the box that is the important bit. how and why are good questions but its the ‘what can we do with it?’ that is the important bit

How would Han deal with this?

He’d shoot first, like any bad-ass smuggler would (before the director’s cut)