Talk:Sentient oil
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Rename argumentation
Here is the relevant part of the dialog starting from around 35:50:
Doctor: "Intelligent oil. Super intelligent space oil. No! Part of the ship itself. Shape-shifting fluid that becomes anything it needs to be."
Then later, around 36:30:
Doctor: "A left-behind droplet of a liquid spaceship." Amorkuz ☎ 21:32, April 22, 2017 (UTC)
- Ah yes, I picked up on this on a rewatch, and totally forgot to bring it up here. This is indeed part of a liquid spaceship, as the Doctor explains, rather than simply oil left behind from a regular solid one. It's a shapeshifting liquid ship? Apparently? I suppose liquid spaceship might indeed be the way to go here.
× SOTO (☎/✍/↯) 21:39, April 22, 2017 (UTC)- Strictly speaking and for the record, it is not the whole spaceship. But it can act like one. And there is no page called "liquid spaceship" so far. Seems like making it "liquid spaceship part" or "shape-shifting liquid spaceship part" would just make matters unnecessarily complicated. Amorkuz ☎ 21:46, April 22, 2017 (UTC)
- Maybe we want to cover a general concept introduced here (and maybe elsewhere) at liquid spaceship, and have this specific spacecraft part at somewhere like spaceship puddle? Spacecraft puddle? Something puddle? Liquid spaceship droplet? Might be helpful to differentiate this particular creature, with Heather as its pilot, and liquid spaceship as a spacecraft type.
× SOTO (☎/✍/↯) 21:50, April 22, 2017 (UTC)- Okay, so in principle, we have four different objects here: (1) the type of spaceships consisting of shape-shifting liquid; (2) the whole original individual spaceship, (3) the left-over puddle before consuming Heather and (4) the left-over puddle merged with Heather. Problem is that (1) and (2) are based on speculation, the Doctor's speculation but still: no one ever saw them. I would be hesitant to make pages for them right now. Also, the spaceship itself confirmed that Heather is the pilot, so it seems wrong to create a separate page for (4). But it is true that liquid spaceship seems more like a generic page for the type of spaceship. Well, if this is an individual spaceship, perhaps, it should simply be dabbed: Liquid spaceship (The Pilot)? Amorkuz ☎ 22:07, April 22, 2017 (UTC)
- Maybe we want to cover a general concept introduced here (and maybe elsewhere) at liquid spaceship, and have this specific spacecraft part at somewhere like spaceship puddle? Spacecraft puddle? Something puddle? Liquid spaceship droplet? Might be helpful to differentiate this particular creature, with Heather as its pilot, and liquid spaceship as a spacecraft type.
- Strictly speaking and for the record, it is not the whole spaceship. But it can act like one. And there is no page called "liquid spaceship" so far. Seems like making it "liquid spaceship part" or "shape-shifting liquid spaceship part" would just make matters unnecessarily complicated. Amorkuz ☎ 21:46, April 22, 2017 (UTC)
Individual?
Another point to argue is whether it should be removed from category:Individual time travellers, and added to category:Space-time vessels instead. What's the implication of the Doctor calling this intelligent? It is a sentient being? An individual? Sentient technology? Smart technology simply doing its function? It does seem to speak on its own a few times.
× SOTO (☎/✍/↯) 21:52, April 22, 2017 (UTC)
