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SPOILERS - Doctor Who: The Star Beast Discussion
(lemmy.world)
Haven't seen a discussion post for the new special, so I'll get the ball rolling. Thoughts, insights, bits you loved... let it all out.
well it's not an inherited illness but yeah, the whole thing was "a human brain can't handle that much dumped into it" which is why she had to forget. Processor overload.
Yea I used illness as an analogy. Passing something down to your child doesn't necessarily mean it'll get weaker. But even when accepting this, I find the resolution unsatisfactory.
I fully understand yoir point of view, but could it also be because their minds are linked, at least in some way, so thay instead of being focused on just one there's two sharing the load, like, how a single core CPU could run something, but if you start doubling the cores, it makes it easier. Maybe if Rose had a child as well, that'd make it easier as well.
The metacrisis isn't an illness, it's is made-up space magic. RTD can put whatever rules he wants onto it. It makes a sort of sense (in a wibbly-wobbly sort of way) that a child would act as a sort of pressure release.
Them "letting it go" at the end was a bit of a silly copout, but I chalk it up to the DoctorDonna (and DoctorRose?) having capabilities the Doctor couldn't fathom alone. She/they just needed fifteen years or so to ruminate on it, like a complex calculation that takes years to compute.