XPost: rec.arts.drwho   
   From: daniel47@eternal-september.org   
      
   On 22/04/2025 10:29 pm, The Doctor wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   > Daniel70   wrote:   
   >> On 22/04/2025 5:44 pm, solar penguin wrote:   
   >>> Blueshirt brainstormed:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Mrs Flood's brief appearance at the start and her 'fourth wall'   
   >>>> breaking comment is clearly foreshadowing something big later on   
   >>>> too.. as her comment was meaningless in regards to this episode.   
   >>>> I'm still in the 'she is the Rani' camp. (Rani is an anagram of   
   >>>> rain - too much rain and you get a flood... Seems simple enough,   
   >>>> right? But as we know RTD likes his misdirections and   
   >>>> double-bluffs!)   
   >>>   
   >>> That kind of name-based wordplay is more Moffat’s style than   
   RTD’s.   
   >>> (e.g. Susan Triad’s name was a red herring, Harold Saxon   
   wasn’t the   
   >>> Meddling Monk, and there wasn’t a villain called Will   
   Knockfourtimes.)   
   >>>   
   >>> Besides, Mrs Flood just doesn’t seem like a single-minded, amoral   
   >>> scientist. What’s the point of bringing an unrecognisable Rani back   
   in   
   >>> name only? RTD’s already done that with Sutekh!   
   >>>   
   >> And didn't RTD also do that .. with The Doctor, i.e. DoctorChristopher??   
   >   
   > The Time Lord Survivor?   
      
   THE WHAT??   
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   Daniel70   
      
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