Talk:Xing

Compassion
The Halflife (novel) page says:


 * Madam Xing is strongly implied to be Compassion, due to her knowing who the Doctor is and being dimensionally transcendental. Her goal in restoring all the Doctor's memories is to prevent the return of the Time Lords.

Likewise, Compassion says:


 * Madame Xing in Halflife is strongly implied to be Compassion.

However, this article doesn't mention the connection at all.

I think someone needs to work out exactly what should be said, and then make it consistent across all three pages.

I think the version from Halflife (novel) should be both here, and on the Compassion page. But on Halflife (novel), only the first sentence should be there—that novel doesn't imply Xing's motivation; you only get that from The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel).

Meanwhile, I'm pretty sure Parkin has talked about this online, even if Michalowski hasn't, but I can't find it in a search. From what I remember, Parkin said something like (paraphrasing, obviously) "Of course it's there if you want to read it that way, but a later writer could still change it."

Parkin also pointed out something about the Taoist concept of Xing—perfection of Xing means distinguishing between compassion (good) and attachment (bad). But I don't know if that's something he knew that Michalowski was referring to, or just something he inferred himself. --50.0.128.145talk to me 10:59, December 27, 2016 (UTC)