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 Message 6046 
 Tahi to All 
 Re: jphalt's Doctor Who reviews 
 08 Jan 12 03:42:03 
 
From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho.moderated
From Address: el@tyg.notforce9.co.uk
Subject: Re: jphalt's Doctor Who reviews

> A rather good season of Doctor Who comes to a dismal end with Peter
> Grimwade's Time-Flight. Why is it so bad? "I'll explain later."
>
> No, wait. That was the Doctor, waving away any need to provide a basis
> for any of the proclamations he makes at any point in the serial.
> Steven Moffat must have been thinking of Time-Flight when he wrote The
> Curse of Fatal Death. At least there, "I'll explain later" was meant
> to be funny. Here, it's just lazy writing, which is employed so often
> across these four episodes that it practically becomes a catch-phrase.
>
So that is where 'I'll explain later' and variations of it, came from. It is 
used in the Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith and I always thought it suited the 
Doctor's habits/lifestyle.

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