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Titolo: The Eyes have it.

Now here's a thing:
As I understand it, the usual interpretation of the whole 'Eye of Harmony
suddenly in the TARDIS all long' scenario in the TVM seems to be based
around the idea that the Eye in the Doctor's TARDIS is a remote link to the
'original' Eye on Gallifrey. All well and good. But I wonder... surely it
follows that all TARDISes must have the same sort of link, thereby enabling
them to bimble about the Universe as they tend to do. 
Now, if this is the case, then why are the Master, the Rani, the Monk, the
War Chief, a despicable bunch in their own right, still at large? Not to
add the various others the New and Missing Adventures have added over the
years. Would it not make more sense to the High Council to pull the plug on
- respectively, a destroyer of worlds, megalomaniac chemist, meddler in
time and alien collaborator equipped with purloined TT technology? Or even
the Doctor for that matter - if he were as we infer, as fugitive in his
first two incarnations?
There are two possible answers I find myself with in this regard, one daft
and the other a little better. The first - that somehow these Time Lords
are more use (or less trouble!) left to their own devices is a little naive
as well - and surely they can't ALL have the blessings of some
shadow-conspiracy group like the CIA. The second idea I've come across is
that the Eye isn't a link to the 'original' or 'real' Eye at all, but a
link to a separate black hole. After all, if the Time Lords have the
ability to snare a nearby one, couldn't they technically do it elsewhere?
This might also explain why we've had no word from Gallifrey about the
effects of the 'San Francisco Event' on the Doctor's home, perhaps?
There you are Chuck - I've done my bit to try to raise the tone a little!
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There you are Chuck - I've done my bit to try to raise the tone a little!
Damn good move!
you raised an interesting little debate there :o)
I hope my comments only raised more questions and haven't killed the debate
:o/
Brax
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Braxiatel wrote:
The Eye of Harmony is on Gallifrey, balanced against the mass of the planet,.....
I've always wondered about that. Does this mean that if I were to remove a handful of soil from the surface of Gallifrey, that the equations holding the Eye in check would collapse due to the (admittedly tiny) change in planetary mass, and the full fury of a captured black hole would be loosed upon the planet? If so, it would be very easy to destroy Gallifrey. This might account for the transduction barriers: if even one ship (or meteorite) got through to the surface, the planet's mass would be altered. 
Just idle speculation,
Brad
Sydney NSW 
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Actually, I think that the reason "the eye of harmony" was inside the TARDIS is because the people who made the film didn't know anything about it. They just thought that "eye of harmony" sounded good.
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But if THAT were true, a TARDIS being built and then leaving would also
destroy the planet as would someone being born or dying and decomposing.
Perhaps Rassilon was clever enough to account for such variables in whatever
gizmo houses the Eye.
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Subject: Re: The Eyes have it.
Braxiatel wrote:
The Eye of Harmony is on Gallifrey, balanced against the mass of the
planet,.....
I've always wondered about that. Does this mean that if I were to remove a
handful of soil from the surface of Gallifrey, that the equations holding
the Eye in check would collapse due to the (admittedly tiny) change in
planetary mass, and the full fury of a captured black hole would be loosed
upon the planet? If so, it would be very easy to destroy Gallifrey. This
might account for the transduction barriers: if even one ship (or meteorite)
got through to the surface, the planet's mass would be altered. 
Just idle speculation,
Brad
Sydney NSW 
 
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 gizmo houses the Eye.
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gizmo houses the Eye.
I'd say that Rassilon would have engineered it so that these problems would
be overcome.
Or perhaps they were just paranoid about dropping litter...?
Brax
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