Talk:The Fires of Pompeii (TV story) (edit)
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== The TARDIS translation circuit and the puns == | == The TARDIS translation circuit and the puns == | ||
It is clear from Lucius' response that it did a better job of pun-rendering than in [[DW]]: [[The Web Planet]]. (I mean come on, Isop-tope?) Anyway, my guess is that the harmless/armless pun would be rendered "Sed non est bracchiatus" (bracchium meaning arm), a pun on "bracatus" (meaning foreign, barbarian, or effeminate, lit. "trousered"). And I assume that the sun/son pun would be rendered as a "sol/solus" (sun/alone) pun of some sort. "Every sun must set ... it will rise alone", perhaps? Any other thoughts? - [[User:Tawaki|Tawaki]] 05:37, November 9, 2009 (UTC) | It is clear from Lucius' response that it did a better job of pun-rendering than in [[DW]]: [[The Web Planet]]. (I mean come on, Isop-tope?) Anyway, my guess is that the harmless/armless pun would be rendered "Sed non est bracchiatus" (bracchium meaning arm), a pun on "bracatus" (meaning foreign, barbarian, or effeminate, lit. "trousered"). And I assume that the sun/son pun would be rendered as a "sol/solus" (sun/alone) pun of some sort. "Every sun must set ... it will rise alone", perhaps? Any other thoughts? - [[User:Tawaki|Tawaki]] 05:37, November 9, 2009 (UTC) | ||
==Fixed point in time?== | |||
If the eruption is a fixed point in time, then how come the Doctor is able to save someone? So shouldn't "time" know that the Doctor will save someone from the destruction of Pompeii and therefore it has happened, and it was fixed that a group of people were saved. | |||