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Rose Endo wasn’t prepared to have a side of hard truths with her birthday dinner. Apparently, Kazuya had felt it was time she know--he wasn’t her biological father. Not that it meant anything, really, but with age catching up to him, he claimed he didn’t want to risk the chance that he’d die before she knew.

Maybe he could have waited until her little brother Alex wasn’t there to witness everything? Sigh.

note: I wanted to see what happened when I selected this option. I’m a monster. cue existential crisis. also, Rose is an adult now. She’s  Extrovert, Heroic, Goofball, Amusing, Post-Sex Blues. that last one tho, lol.

[lissy-strata]

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Terrance Dicks: I think with a show with, you know, as long a life span as Doctor Who, you can’t really do a sort of meticulously accurate continuity.

[lissy-strata]

When they finally snarled the continuity.

NARRATOR: Try as we might, we couldn’t make it work anymore. Oh, there’ve been all sorts of theories about parallel universes, duplicate Brigadiers, idiotic production teams, but the truth is no matter how much we try, it’s not impossible to entirely make sense of it all.

[lissy-strata]

Terrance Dicks: The idea was simply that it was some little time in the future. Not so far in the future that clothes and cars and absolutely everything would change, but far enough so that you could have something like, you know, the expedition to Mars or something. Things that hadn’t happened yet but might happen in the future.

[lissy-strata]

NARRATOR: The first UNIT story proper, was “The Invasion”. And again, no arguments, this was set four years later. We’re in 1979.

[lissy-strata]

NARRATOR: In “The Web of Fear” in 1967, the Doctor has a return engagement with the Yeti and the Great Intelligence whom he’d previously met in “The Abominable Snowman” some months earlier. And reference is made to the fact that the earlier story took place in 1935. And that was 40 years ago. So there we are, in 1975.

[lissy-strata]

The UNIT Dating Controversy

NARRATOR: For some, the UNIT dating question is merely “Why did Captain Yates never get to take Jo Grant out on the town?” For others, it’s the single most controversial question in the whole history of Doctor Who.

[lissy-strata]

Dr. Sarita Robinson on little kids and memory.

DR. ROBINSON: One of the reasons that we think memory changes is that children don’t have very many memory strategies when they’re young. So they don’t see the importance of actively repeating information to sort of encode it. A younger child might just be more interested in the Daleks coming to get them or, you know, a firefight going on. They’re not particularly interested in the subtleties of the story.