Quick question...

[unfeathered]

I've got the Doctor (Ten) talking about his TARDIS a lot and I can't for the life of me remember if he normally refers to it as 'it' or 'she'.

Anyone help me, please? :-)

(Jack undressing icon to spur your thoughts my way! *g*)

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[travels-in-time.livejournal.com]

I always think of him as saying "she".

Of course, that doesn't tell you what he *actually* says.

/unhelpfulness

[http://users.livejournal.com/_medley_/]

Heh--my knee-jerk reaction was of course he calls her "she," and then I realized I couldn't prove that.

But! In "Rise of the Cybermen," when he thinks she's dead, he calls her she. Twice.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_medley_/]

Oh, and this is from "The Impossible Planet":

I dunno what's wrong with her, she's sort of... queasy. Indigestion, like she didn't wanna land.

[unfeathered]

Thank you! 'She' was my instinct too, but I just wasn't sure.

Now I've just got to figure out what the Master would call it!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_medley_/]

Well, he called her an overweight, under-powered old museum piece once. That was Delgado, though. I always have the Master call her it. Except when she's a paradox machine.

[unfeathered]

And again, I was erring towards 'it'. But yes, the paradox machine is something he's made, as if he's claimed the TARDIS as his own, so he might well call that 'she'.

And I'd certainly got the impression he'd be very derogatory about it even without that quote, which made me giggle. Overweight! :-)

What was the Master's TARDIS like? Did we ever see it?

(Sorry, I'm just being lazy - can't be bothered to go look stuff up.)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_medley_/]

Hey, you might as well take advantage of this old school binge I've been on!

From the beginning, the Master's TARDIS has been newer, (er--type 80 rather than 40, iirc) but it usually looks like his inside (they didn't have the budget to build another set, I'm guessing) except once it was black where the Doctor's is white--that was a snazzy one. His chameleon circuit actually works, so it's been disguised as, oh, let me think: a grandfather clock, an iron maiden, a big old marble fireplace (pretty!) a pillar quite a few times... uhm. I think that's the limits of my knowledge. Oh! A jet plane (Concorde) and a...um, I don't know what you call them--a travel trailer once. (The Doctor called it a horse box--oh, here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqA6-P7e6J8 If you haven't seen this, you need to--it's a vid to a song called "When You're Evil," by Voltaire, and the travel trailer thingie's in it.)

[unfeathered]

Thank you - very informative (and fun)! :-)