Yyyyeah, the Cliffhanger of Doom is rather annoying when trying to do continuity things. I still think I've screwed myself somewhere along the line with Straxus, but...we'll not think about that. But oiii that's not happy at all ;_; What the hell, books?!
That. I can believe. (Though if they want to sweep up continuity errors, they have over 45 years of things to clean up... In my opinion.)
*pets* I had to ask. Better to ask than assume and marry you to things that make you flail like, um, well that actually! And him? Attached to Romana? Why, wherever would anyone get that idea? *whistles*
All right. My thoughts on Romana and the Time War... The short version is: As the Time War wore on and stuff was being destroyed left and right and the Eternals fled the universe (sadly without a musical montage thanking them for the fish), the Time Lords decided that bringing back Rassilon was a Good Thing and Romana was deposed or forced to step down, never minding the good things she did in the past greatly outweighed the bad. Some of the Time Lords who hadn't gone over to Team Batshit with Rassilon in the lead had continued to fight in the same way as they had been while Rassilon unleashed all those awful horrors of horrors mentioned in EoT that I'm completely forgetting the names of right at the moment. And meanwhile, speaking of, someone or a group of sane Time Lords found The Moment and it was ultimately Romana who gave the order to the Doctor, knowing he was the only one able to do it. Now whether she was one of the people in shame who had to hide their faces (ala The Woman in White) or she'd managed to escape being held captive on Gallifrey in the final days of the war, she was still able to issue that command somehow.
I don't subscribe to the Woman in White being the Doctor's mother because that idea, frankly, is just a bunch of crap and doesn't make a lick of sense. (And I'd argue that if he got on with his mother like that, then why not bring her along with him when he first left Gallifrey? Or are Time Lords too cool to travel with their moms? And now I'm picturing a woman cleaning a bit schmutz off of the First Doctor's face and thoroughly embarrassing him in front of the early Daleks or Marco Polo and yeah that's probably why he never brought his mom.) In all the important women Time Lords they could have used, why not Romana? Or Susan? Or Thalia or Flavia? Hell, I'd be more willing to buy Ace-as-a-regenerated-Time Lady than I would his mother. Plus I just don't like getting into things of the Doctor's past like that. I like how Brax has been treated as plausible and alluded to and he makes far more sense. Of the possible people, I like to think the Woman in White really was Romana. She seems the most likely to interfere with things during EoT than anyone else. And, most likely, by the time she was caught, anyone who had been helping her was caught and punished with the Silly Overly-Powered Glove of Rassilon, but the Doctor was too slippery to have been caught. Romana might have even allowed herself to be caught on purpose to give the others time to get away, but perhaps the Doctor was the only one to succeed. That or it didn't matter who else escaped; the Moment was with the Doctor and that was the only thing that mattered.
So, um...yeah, that's my thoughts on it. ^^; I probably forgot things, but...that's basically it. What do you think happened to her?
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That. I can believe. (Though if they want to sweep up continuity errors, they have over 45 years of things to clean up... In my opinion.)
*pets* I had to ask. Better to ask than assume and marry you to things that make you flail like, um, well that actually! And him? Attached to Romana? Why, wherever would anyone get that idea? *whistles*
All right. My thoughts on Romana and the Time War... The short version is: As the Time War wore on and stuff was being destroyed left and right and the Eternals fled the universe (sadly without a musical montage thanking them for the fish), the Time Lords decided that bringing back Rassilon was a Good Thing and Romana was deposed or forced to step down, never minding the good things she did in the past greatly outweighed the bad. Some of the Time Lords who hadn't gone over to Team Batshit with Rassilon in the lead had continued to fight in the same way as they had been while Rassilon unleashed all those awful horrors of horrors mentioned in EoT that I'm completely forgetting the names of right at the moment. And meanwhile, speaking of, someone or a group of sane Time Lords found The Moment and it was ultimately Romana who gave the order to the Doctor, knowing he was the only one able to do it. Now whether she was one of the people in shame who had to hide their faces (ala The Woman in White) or she'd managed to escape being held captive on Gallifrey in the final days of the war, she was still able to issue that command somehow.
I don't subscribe to the Woman in White being the Doctor's mother because that idea, frankly, is just a bunch of crap and doesn't make a lick of sense. (And I'd argue that if he got on with his mother like that, then why not bring her along with him when he first left Gallifrey? Or are Time Lords too cool to travel with their moms? And now I'm picturing a woman cleaning a bit schmutz off of the First Doctor's face and thoroughly embarrassing him in front of the early Daleks or Marco Polo and yeah that's probably why he never brought his mom.) In all the important women Time Lords they could have used, why not Romana? Or Susan? Or Thalia or Flavia? Hell, I'd be more willing to buy Ace-as-a-regenerated-Time Lady than I would his mother. Plus I just don't like getting into things of the Doctor's past like that. I like how Brax has been treated as plausible and alluded to and he makes far more sense. Of the possible people, I like to think the Woman in White really was Romana. She seems the most likely to interfere with things during EoT than anyone else. And, most likely, by the time she was caught, anyone who had been helping her was caught and punished with the Silly Overly-Powered Glove of Rassilon, but the Doctor was too slippery to have been caught. Romana might have even allowed herself to be caught on purpose to give the others time to get away, but perhaps the Doctor was the only one to succeed. That or it didn't matter who else escaped; the Moment was with the Doctor and that was the only thing that mattered.
So, um...yeah, that's my thoughts on it. ^^; I probably forgot things, but...that's basically it. What do you think happened to her?