Planet of Bones (short story): Difference between revisions

* The [[second Doctor]] and [[Ben Jackson|Ben]] are shown to have an especially contentious relationship here, perhaps because the second Doctor is generally characterised throughout [[Doctor Who Annual 1968|this annual]] as being considerably more like the televised [[first Doctor]].   At one point, the Doctor threatens to abandon Ben "in some world filled with loathsome monters [where] you may begin to feel at home at last." Their extreme discord, however, is a essentially a [[wikipedia:plot device|plot device]].

* Polly calls the planet on which they land "Heaven", but she means it metaphorically. [[Heaven]] is, however, an actual [[planet]] within the [[Doctor Who universe|DWU]], visited by both the [[seventh Doctor]] and [[Bernice Summerfield]], and, at different times, a base of operations for [[human]]s, [[Draconian]]s and [[Dalek]]s. ([[NA]]: ''[[Love and War]]'', [[BFBS]]: ''[[Death and the Daleks]]'')

* The Doctor assigns the world the name of "Arcady". Where he gets this name from is unclear, but it shouldn't be confused with [[Arcadia]], an oft-mentioned world by the [[tenth Doctor|tenth]] and [[eleventh Doctor]]s. ([[DW]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'', ''[[Vincent and the Doctor]]'')

* The ''actual'' name of the planet, at least according to its inhabitants, is "[[Harmony (planet)|Harmony]]".

* The Doctor suggests the [[Milky Way]] is his home galaxy. This is consistent with later ''Doctor Who'' fiction, but the preferred ''Doctor Who'' term is "Mutter's Spiral". ([[NA]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'', [[EDA]]: ''[[Alien Bodies]]'')