Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-26975268-20130407222910/@comment-188432-20130408004455


 * 1) You're making a huge and unjustified leap there.  I don't buy it as an "astronomical object".  It's a spherical living being perhaps masquerading as an astronomical object.  It clearly has the ability to change is shape and density.
 * 2) Grammatically he's merely being precise.  They aren't on the planet Akhaten.  They're amongst its rings.  So he says "welcome to the Rings of Akhaten". I'd probably quibble with whether the "R" should be capitalised, but the CC does capitalise.  If you were in the same position close to Saturn, you could quite easily say, "Welcome to the Rings of Saturn."  But that's not its "official name" anymore than "suburban London" is an official name.
 * 3) Agreed
 * 4) More or less.  CC has it as Sun-singers of Akhet.  I'd probably go with that. But yeah, that's a solar system name.  The language is a little poetic in that patch though; you really have to listen hard to understand he's talking about the planets rather than people, cause planets aren't usually thought of as having beliefs.
 * 5) Not sure why this is throwing everyone.  The planet is the Old God.  People are saying it's a star, but the Doctor tells us right from the off it's a planet.  I mean, it's in the episode tile: The Rings of Akhaten.  Stars don't have rings; planets do.  Of course, it's not actually a planet  at all, but rather a living being that only looks like a planet.  But it's definitely not a star.  The star is always offscreen.