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:But either way, more than 10 years later and you're still right that we still need a page for [[God of the Fourth]] (right now it just redirects to [[Time Lord]]). – [[User:NateBumber|n8]] ([[User talk:NateBumber|☎]]) 15:32, 24 August 2023 (UTC) | :But either way, more than 10 years later and you're still right that we still need a page for [[God of the Fourth]] (right now it just redirects to [[Time Lord]]). – [[User:NateBumber|n8]] ([[User talk:NateBumber|☎]]) 15:32, 24 August 2023 (UTC) | ||
::Not convinced it shouldn't be — unless we start creating pages for all the synonyms of "Time Lords" that have popped up over the years. I'm very unconvinced by any notion that within the ''DCtT'' cosmology those are different things. This whole notion that the Time Lords who are seen to use the mysterious cosmic power are a specific fractional group increasingly seems like a fan confabulation to account for the supposed powerlessness of most Time Lords seen throughout the Classic Series, but surely the clear idea is simply that they took their non-interference vows seriously; "why have the power if you can't use it?", etc. I think [[The Fraction]] should be rewritten to simply quote Tannis's line, and any notion that the Saints, Minister and Doctor were members of the Fraction should be moved to BTS as merely a possible reading of the text. [[User:Scrooge MacDuck|'''Scrooge MacDuck''']] [[User_talk:Scrooge MacDuck|⊕]] 15:36, 24 August 2023 (UTC) | ::Not convinced it shouldn't be — unless we start creating pages for all the synonyms of "Time Lords" that have popped up over the years. I'm very unconvinced by any notion that within the ''DCtT'' cosmology those are different things. This whole notion that the Time Lords who are seen to use the mysterious cosmic power are a specific fractional group increasingly seems like a fan confabulation to account for the supposed powerlessness of most Time Lords seen throughout the Classic Series, but surely the clear idea is simply that they took their non-interference vows seriously; "why have the power if you can't use it?", etc. I think [[The Fraction]] should be rewritten to simply quote Tannis's line, and any notion that the Saints, Minister and Doctor were members of the Fraction should be moved to BTS as merely a possible reading of the text. | ||
::Come to think of it, yet another interpretation would be that "the Fraction" is the name of [[The Doctor's reality (Death Comes to Time)|the universe they're all standing in]] (not necessarily in a "the ''DCtT''-verse is a bottle universe" sort of way mind you, could be a more spiritual, "the physical three-dimensional universe is but a fraction of true reality" sort of thing). By wiping out the Saints, Doctor, Minister and Casmus, Tannis would thus be disposing of all the "Time Lords of the Fraction". [[User:Scrooge MacDuck|'''Scrooge MacDuck''']] [[User_talk:Scrooge MacDuck|⊕]] 15:36, 24 August 2023 (UTC) | |||
