Talk:Spearhead from Space

message: While I don't think the name "Bessie" was actually applied to the yellow roadster in Spearhead, I'm pretty certain the car that appears in this episode was the some vehicle later driven by the Doctor because he makes the Brigadier buy it for him as one of the conditions of his joining UNIT at the end of the serial. I'd like to get other views from people on this. And it's what's on screen that counts, not novels for fanlit (although Doctor Who is admittedly less strict in the canon department than Star Trek when it comes to this). I'm quite willing to stand corrected. 23skidoo 22:07, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, I just did what I should have done before I made my edit. A viewing of the DVD gives the following info. The car in question shows up about twelve minutes into episode two. The Doctor makes off with it and drives it to UNIT HQ. In a scene just before this one of the UNIT guards comments that it belongs to one of the bigwig medical people who has just shown up. It is red and its hood (er bonnet) is noticeably longer than Bessie's. It does not appear onscreen again but at the end of episode four, when the Doctor is negotiating his terms, he DOES (my bad) ask about keeping it and the Brig says "No Doctor, it has to go back to its owner". The Doctor than wheedles the Brig into getting one like it and asks when they can go get one. The Brig says that they have to get the Doctor's papers first and then says that he doesn't even know his name and we get the famous "John Smith" with smile as closing credits come up. Sorry that I wasn't more thorough to begin with. I'll make a stab at altering the info given but I won't mind any changes that improve what I do. MarnetteD | Talk 22:32, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Definitely a case of the memory cheating on my part. I do stand corrected. If you haven't already, please feel free to reinstate your original information. I would do so myself however another editor has already made a change, so I can't revert my revert. 23skidoo 22:58, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Bessie or not?

message: I've put everything into sections, but I can't think where to put the tattoo note. Also my organising of sections might need a little adjusting. --Thelb4 16:06, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it's in The Silurians, when the Doctor is wearing a t-shirt to do some physical work towards the end of the serial (I never even noticed it here until somebody told me to look for it). However, statements that the third Doctor (the character, understand) is the only one with the tattoo astound me, as I don't think that so much as one other Doctor (and no chance all of them) ever had his arm bared enough to make such a determination possible. Especially if I'm right in thinking it's on Pertwee's upper arm, circa the bicep, rather than, as claimed, his forearm, i.e., between the elbow and wrist. Isn't all this right? --Ted Watson (talk) 21:48, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The tatoo is on his forearm as can be seen here . DonQuixote (talk) 22:04, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Your link is futzed. Wouldn't finish (including by giving up and putting up a "Can't display the page" page). I noted the core site address, went there, followed directions and found a picture from The Silurians of Pertwee in t-shirt. Same full address as your link, so I don't know what the problem was. The tattoo is indeed just below the elbow, and my apologies for my faulty memory. The location just might have been visible on the fourth Doctor after his interrogation in The Deadly Assassin, and I recall that at some time the sixth was in a similar state of slightly up-turned shirt-sleeves (that is, the relevant part of the arm just might have been in view). I really doubt that we could see that close to the elbow, though. I mean, look how close to that joint the tattoo is in that picture. In any event, I still deny that the first, second, fifth, seventh, eighth, ninth or tenth Doctors (except for the last's nude clone, but cloning does not replicate tattoos, so its absence there proves nothing) ever had their right arms so bared, making it impossible to support the claim that the third was the only Doctor to sport it. --Ted Watson (talk) 17:33, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tattoo note 

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message: Instead of the line in the Plot section reading "being part of the Nestene gestalt consciousness" would it be better if it said "being part of the Nestene collective consciousness", like the Borg are in the various Star Trek versions?
Thought I would ask it here rather than just changing it. Quizman1967 (talk) 23:40, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I would tend to agree. Many books merely have "Nestene consciousness"; but one states "a Nestene—a member of an alien collective intelligence" (); and another states "a huge octopoid creature – the collective being of the Nestenes" (), so for the word gestalt to be used, a reliable source which uses that word should be found. --Redrose64 (talk) 13:17, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gestalt? 

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