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Sir Winston was a Knight.
I don't see a piece for Ep1 though. I still need to be convinced. Chess has been used this way before in The Curse of Fenric. Every character plays a chess-piece in the story sub-text. In the endgame you even have a soldier (pawn) reaching the end of the board and becoming an all powerful 'queen' and Ace has to move out of a chess fork/pin for The Doc to achieve check-mate. |
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Sir Winston was a Knight.
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I don't see a piece for Ep1 though. I still need to be convinced.
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Oh right i see what you mean, sorry i thought someone had specifically been called a pawn. Thats a bit more tenuous then....
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Main problem is that there just aren't enough pieces for regular chess to cover all the episodes.
Pawn Rook Knight Bishop Queen King Even if you allow Castle and Horse as well, its only 8 and you'd expect to need at least 10. Although, if we take WC as being a White Knight, we also had a Black(Red) Queen, so could we be straying into Alice/Carroll country? In "through the looking glass", the White Queen is very absent-minded but boasts of (and demonstrates) her ability to remember future events before they have happened. Can't match the others yet, but Carroll/Dodgson did a lot of this stuff - for instance "A boat beneath a sunny sky" is the first line of a titleless acrostic poem at the end of the book—the beginning letters of each line, when put together, spell Alice Pleasance Liddell. |
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Main problem is that there just aren't enough pieces for regular chess to cover all the episodes.
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Although, if we take WC as being a White Knight, we also had a Black(Red) Queen, so could we be straying into Alice/Carroll country?
In "through the looking glass", the White Queen is very absent-minded but boasts of (and demonstrates) her ability to remember future events before they have happened. |
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Well, no but it's tidy to include one ref per story at least.
Although the rabbit hole was wonderland, not looking glass. Sure I've seen a pic of the Doc with a mirror .... Although a mirror has to be good against angels I guess. |
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In the Beast Below the Queen, Doctor and Amy were taken to 'The Tower' - could this be our castle?
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In the Beast Below the Queen, Doctor and Amy were taken to 'The Tower' - could this be our castle?
A man and a horse is clearly a reference to a Knight. Nothing else it could be - I refuse to listen to any reasonable explanation about coincidences! |
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So we have
Liz 10 Red Queen Bishop Octavian Sir Winston Churchill and/or The ref from TBB to a 'man and a horse' The Tower from TBB River Song - the white queen? For chess we are sort of complete: for Alice we need: # Hatta # Haigha # Humpty Dumpty (a sontaran?) # Tweedledum and Tweedledee (twins?) # The Walrus and the Carpenter (only one carpenter comes to mind) The red King (presumably the White King is the DR and Amy is Alice).... |
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Well, no but it's tidy to include one ref per story at least.
Although the rabbit hole was wonderland, not looking glass. Sure I've seen a pic of the Doc with a mirror .... Although a mirror has to be good against angels I guess. |
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