Talk:Tesseract (comic story)

Doctor tricking Turlough
I can't remember which story is being referenced here. I checked the synopses for the stories in which Turlough appeared and I didn't see anything matching this description. Any ideas? I thought perhaps this might be a reference to the Earthlink Dilemma novel, which I have never read. 23skidoo 13:03, January 15, 2010 (UTC)

"An as-yet unspecified man"
Using this term to refer to the man Martha married is fine. Linking it to Mickey Smith is not. Unless the story indicates otherwise, we do not know whether she married Milligan and divorced him later and married Mickey, or if she broke off the engagement to Milligan, or what. The story might straighten this out, or it might not as it would have been written and drawn before End of Time's surprise. So let's not jump to conclusions. In all likelihood Don't Step on the Grass will say she married Tom Milligan. And then we just have to assume the marriage was annulled later. 23skidoo 02:04, March 18, 2010 (UTC)
 * Not sure where you're coming from, here. The lead time on producing comics is not nearly so great as you imagine.  An issue coming out on 17 March  could definitely not have been started until after 1 January.  And that's assuming, of course, that Lee and company didn't have access to an advance copy of TEOT or the script.

Issue 9 clearly seems to be written with knowledge of The End of Time. By having Martha call herself explicitly "freelance", Lee reveals he's seen TEOT. I don't think there's any reasonable reading of the comments in issue 8 but that Mickey is her husband.


 * Not linking to Mickey is actually introducing speculation, not the other way around. There comes a point where we can be too strict on requiring canonical confirmation of conclusions that are perfectly logical. If two canon sources say she got married (CoE and Tesseract) and another canon source tells us whom she married (TEOT), then it takes a positive reference to some other eventuality to prevent us from saying that she was on the honeymoon with the person we know to be her husband.  The fact that we don't have the story of what happened to Tom is not enough to prevent us from asserting that the honeymoon here is with Mickey.  If the Doctor says "I tried to fixed the chameleon circuit once when I had an outrageously multi-colored coat and an American companion", he doesn't have to say "in my sixth life" for us to know he's talking about the Sixth Doctor.  Same thing here.  If she says she's just back from her honeymoon, and we know that at some point in the recent future she is definitively married to Mickey Smith, only a positive reference to another marriage cam prevent us from stating that she spent that honeymoon with Mickey Smith.


 * Still, I'll wait to relink until the conclusion of the story. But if there's no positive, direct, explicit reference to Tom, the benefit of any doubt has to go with what else has been established in canon.   Czech Out   ☎ | ✍  17:34, March 18, 2010 (UTC)