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Jan. 30th, 2011 10:15 pmThe other day, Mum was talking about how much my nephew liked his new Seventh Doctor and Ace video. "Which one is it?" I asked. The reply, of course, was "I don't know". So I asked what it was about and, after some thought, she said "It's the one that's half in the machine." Then she bustled off to check he was asleep.
So I started analysing Doctor Who 1988-1989, trying to think which episode was partly set within a machine. I came up with a couple of possibilities, but I couldn't narrow it down, so I followed her upstairs and asked for further details about the nature of the machine and in what sense the story was "inside" it. Was the machine a vehicle? Was it some sort of cyberspace setting? After looking at me like I was mad for a second, she clarified. "It's the one that's sticking out of the video player. It's half in the machine."
So I started analysing Doctor Who 1988-1989, trying to think which episode was partly set within a machine. I came up with a couple of possibilities, but I couldn't narrow it down, so I followed her upstairs and asked for further details about the nature of the machine and in what sense the story was "inside" it. Was the machine a vehicle? Was it some sort of cyberspace setting? After looking at me like I was mad for a second, she clarified. "It's the one that's sticking out of the video player. It's half in the machine."
