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[taleya]

....Someone on TV tropes described the TARDIS as "a whole lot bigger". In fact, it "could be mall-sized. "


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[unspeakablevorn.livejournal.com]

What, that's it?

[ryttu3k.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. Someone doesn't have sufficient imagination. (I like to think it CONTAINS a mall. Somewhere. Where everything is just a little bit off from Earth-normal.)

[taleya.livejournal.com]

Yeah I ended up putting a sub post under it going "uhhhh, the interior's actually an entirely seperate dimension"

Plus, yanow, Blood Heat, where she materialised around the entire friggin' Earth to use the State of Grace to stop a nuclear warhead.

[ryttu3k.livejournal.com]

...Neat 8D

I want the TARDIS to contain a private island or something. You open the door and step out into a rowboat, and...

[taleya.livejournal.com]

She probably does :D

[ryttu3k.livejournal.com]

It'd be pretty nifty, huh 8D

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

There's a lot of ambiguity about the size of the TARDIS interior. Dozens of rooms have been seen or described, but it's reconfigurable, so the rooms may be virtualised until actually visited.

Its internal mass was described as fifty thousand tonnes in the era of the Fifth Doctor, but after infection by the Faction Paradox virus, a 1:1 mapping of its interior was larger than all of Gallifrey. Again, though, this could have been a display of all possible rooms, rather than how many were generally actualised at any given time.

My guess is that given the virtualisation aspects and dimensional control of the TARDIS, there's as much 'volume' inside it as it deems necessary to actualise at any given point, ten to a hundred kilotons of dimensionally-displaced real-universe mass, and as much virtual mass as it cares to sustain using dimensional calculations.

Personally, I'd like to see more four-dimensional architecture in the TARDIS interior. Things like flat doorways and portals which lead to different places each time, or galleries of same as a kind of central index.

[taleya.livejournal.com]

They really played with her in the early days (with the sheer size) but the nightmarish, endless length of her was really the product of Logopolis/Castrovalva. (and oddly enough, when jettosoning in the latter they had the whole ghost of the outer plasmic shell as well :P)

With actual mass, there's no real way to define it due to her multidimensional nature. You had the whole "embedded throughout the planet" thing going with Frontios, but again, that could be play with canon how you would. Davison era really did fuck with some of her build and bring her down to the blank status of simply a machine (Lack of state of grace in Earthshock, disassembly in Frontios and the actual statement of her mass in Castrovalva are points in question)

If you go anything Paradox, you start running into entirely new territory anyway - the whole mutation of her in Ancestor Cell can be pegged on the infection/shitfuckery from the leaking bottle universe or any way you like to slice her.

Didn't a Baker serial play with the temporal/physical side of her? Invasion of time, IIRC, I may not, I am half drunk :P