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(Adding footnote relating the continuity issues raised in the Redacted series. Also Wester Drumlins IS the house.) Tag: 2017 source edit |
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====Stranded in 1969==== | ====Stranded in 1969==== | ||
At some point, while dealing with "four things and a lizard" in [[2008]] | At some point, while dealing with "four things and a lizard" in London minutes before the [[Red Hatching]] in in the [[2000s]],<ref>While ''Blink'' itself uncontroversially sets its main setting in [[2007]] and "twenty minutes to [[Red Hatching]]" a year later in [[2008]]—as [[Kathy Nightingale]]'s letter describes taking "one breath in 2007 and the next in [[1920]]", and the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s side of his conversation with [[Sally Sparrow]] in [[1969]] happens 38 years before Sally says hers—these are contradicted by heavily conflicting dates in the ''[[Redacted (audio series)|Redacted]]'' audio series later on regarding both Kathy's disappearance and the Red Hatching. In ''[[Angels (audio story)|Angels]]'', [[Abby McPhail]] identifies 2008 as the year of Kathy's disappearance, which suggests [[2009]] as the year of the Red Hatching. In ''[[Salvation (audio story)|Salvation]]'', the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] recognises the Red Hatching as the cause of death of [[Andy Proctor]], whose daughter [[Cleo Proctor|Cleo]] last saw "nearly 20 years" before [[2022]] according to ''[[Recruits (audio story)|Recruits]]''.</ref> the Doctor and Martha met [[Sally Sparrow]], who seemed to know them; however, Martha and the Doctor did not know her yet. Sally gave the Doctor and Martha a folder full of photographs and other documents; claiming that they would need it in the future. ([[TV]]: ''[[Blink (TV story)|Blink]]'') | ||
Some time later, after a brief adventure on a planet filled with fictional characters, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage (short story)|The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage]]'') Martha and the Doctor travelled to | Some time later, after a brief adventure on a planet filled with fictional characters, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage (short story)|The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage]]'') Martha and the Doctor travelled to [[Wester Drumlins]] in the 2000s, where [[Weeping Angel]]s sent them back to London in [[1969]], with the TARDIS stuck in 2007. ([[TV]]: ''[[Blink (TV story)|Blink]]'') | ||
[[File:Thirteenth and Martha.jpeg|thumb|Martha talks with the [[Thirteenth Doctor]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[A Little Help from My Friends (comic story)|A Little Help from My Friends]]'')]] | [[File:Thirteenth and Martha.jpeg|thumb|Martha talks with the [[Thirteenth Doctor]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[A Little Help from My Friends (comic story)|A Little Help from My Friends]]'')]] | ||
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*It was proposed that Martha come from [[1914]].<ref>http://www.shannonsullivan.com/doctorwho/serials/2007a.html</ref> | *It was proposed that Martha come from [[1914]].<ref>http://www.shannonsullivan.com/doctorwho/serials/2007a.html</ref> | ||
*Although Martha's birth year was given as 1986 in the short story ''[[The Frozen Wastes (short story)|The Frozen Wastes]]'', her date of birth was stated to be 14 September 1984 in ''[[The Torchwood Archives]]''. The 14 September 1984 birth date matches with the age of 23 as of her debut in ''[[Smith and Jones (TV story)|Smith and Jones]]'', given by [[Russell T Davies]] in a ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' [[DWM 373|373]] interview and published in the [[2009 (releases)|2009]] edition of ''[[The Visual Dictionary]]''. | *Although Martha's birth year was given as 1986 in the short story ''[[The Frozen Wastes (short story)|The Frozen Wastes]]'', her date of birth was stated to be 14 September 1984 in ''[[The Torchwood Archives]]''. The 14 September 1984 birth date matches with the age of 23 as of her debut in ''[[Smith and Jones (TV story)|Smith and Jones]]'', given by [[Russell T Davies]] in a ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' [[DWM 373|373]] interview and published in the [[2009 (releases)|2009]] edition of ''[[The Visual Dictionary]]''. | ||
*She was written out of the show because [[Russell T Davies]] felt that her unrequited crush on the Doctor would get stale after a while. | *She was written out of the show because [[Russell T Davies]] felt that her unrequited crush on the Doctor would get stale after a while.{{fact}} | ||
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