eryaforsthye:zabbers:#oh#look at his defeated face#look at it#at least the mistress will definitely
eryaforsthye:zabbers:#oh#look at his defeated face#look at it#at least the mistress will definitely have something to delight over in those long empty nightsI am still playing with models of Time Lord memory—there’s the pause and rewind accuracy of The Eleventh Hour, meaning Missy would be able to examine this moment minutely, from all angles (that she can extrapolate from her sensory perspective), like she’s giffing him endlessly in her mind.Then I get more experimental, and start playing with the idea that Time Lord memory (in a more literal sense than human memory) is nonlinear and enactive. I know for them to even function in ways that look like how humans function (rather than like how TARDISes function), there has to be an amount of linearity in their experience of time, but then they drop hints about being able to sense and evaluate possibilities and alternative timelines, and I enjoy working through what that would feel like. It’d be like…branching future-memory. So Missy would be able to remember this moment as it happened but also, maybe less vividly, this moment as it could have happened. (The enactive element would be: this moment as she could have made it happen, maybe by selecting a different branch of her future-memory, except of course she’d have been acting against another Time Lord’s potential to do the same; I mean, humans can do this too, when we choose our own actions. I’m imagining that the difference for Time Lords is that they can perceive and act on these possibilities outside of themselves. TARDISes, transcendental beings, and Time Lords with the help of tech could to varying degrees force their will on the future.)I like this very much! Especially the temporal aspect or toying with and potentially realising different outcomes. Which surely must make dwelling on past mistakes particularly awful for Time Lords - no wonder some may choose to forget!I would be fascinated to see what, if anything, could drive the Mistress to utilise her power in this fashion and alter an outcome (would this outcome be ‘fixed’ in time? Because it’s in her personal past? Because another Time Lord is involved?) - resulting in a paradox (perhaps?). The Doctor’s death? His willingness to kill her? Hmm. -- source link