Yeah man, it’s funny how we speak the same language but we say so many things differently.
@rugessnome Ah okay. Really my only knowledge of how Americans talk comes from TV and movies, and they nearly always just say ‘do the dishes’. But obviously people in real life are not always like TV.
It reminded me so much of Planet of the Ood (also Monsters Inc because of that conveyor belt scene) and felt so much like a David Tennant episode.
And I can’t believe there’s still people (read: white old men on twitter) complaining that it’s ‘Too PC, and turning into a kids show!’
(Newsflash asshole, Doctor Who has always been about social commentary and has always been a family show. (It was originally pitched as a children’s show about history))
Yeah I got Monsters Inc and Toy Story 2 vibes from the conveyor bit (like when the toys go through that luggage place at the airport).
So I’m thinking, The System sent the ‘help me’ message, right?
How did it know who to send it to?
It could have been anyone, or maybe it sent more than one message, but only one that was important.
I’m thinking that somewhere in that warehouse, there might be a book, a history book perhaps. The System catalogs everything, it knows the contents. Maybe there’s a mention, or maybe a chapter or two, of someone in a blue box who helps out occasionally.
Then an order comes in addressed to ‘the Doctor’…
And then the system allocated her a cleaning job (before she switches with Graham) which would have led her immediately to the villain and the solution to the entire problem. Props for subtle story hints there!
For any of you who are writing ‘across the pond’-here is a little guide I put together of some common differences between British and American English!
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