Talk:Demons Run

Doctor's allies
I added all of them, but can't remember who the 4th one was. Anyone know the name of the blue guy?  D r e a m Focus  13:50, June 5, 2011 (UTC)

Melody/River counts as a native to this place?
Should we really count it as being a native? I mean, she was forced to be born there instead of her true home planet of Earth due to kovarian's manipulations. It isn't right to consider her forced birth there as making her a native.

No. Being a native includes issues of society. Just because John McCain was born in the Canal Zone does not make him a Panamanian native.Boblipton 12:57, June 12, 2011 (UTC)

Demon's Run or Demons Run
Which one is it? Because the BBC call it Demons Run, but we call it Demon's Run. I'm a bit puzzled by this. Cortion 16:55, June 14, 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, isn't it numerous Demons running (Demons Run). Surely it's not a run belonging to a Demon? Skittles the hog-- Talk 17:21, June 14, 2011 (UTC)


 * Well, "Demons Run" didn't make much grammatical sense to me, so I've been typing it as "Demon's Run". On the other hand, it the BBC called the location "Demons Run", then that's what we should use. -- Bold  Clone  02:46, June 20, 2011 (UTC)

Moved it. Skittles the hog-- Talk 12:57, June 20, 2011 (UTC)

It's spelled "Demon's Run" on the written credit in the episode. Boblipton 00:58, July 8, 2011 (UTC)


 * I would be in favour of "Demon's Run", as that's how it appeared in the episode. The fact that the name, in-universe, derived from "some old saying" wouldn't really indicate how to spell it, because names evolve.-BBCXI 05:02, July 8, 2011 (UTC)

So your suggesting it's "Demon's run when a good man goes to war"? I don't think so. Skittles the hog-- Talk 12:47, July 9, 2011 (UTC)

I think that what we have here is folk etymology, the misinterpretation of a word based on pronunciation -- like 'sparrow grass' for 'asparagus'. There is no way to tell whether the asteroid was named after the saying and acquired the spurious apostrophe, whether the saying actually derived from the name of the asteroid or the fortuitous similarity of the two names caused people to assume that the asteroid was named after the saying.Boblipton 12:59, July 9, 2011 (UTC)

The saying is irrelevant, this page is about the asteroid. The only use of the saying is the fact it only makes sense without the apostrophe. Skittles the hog-- Talk 13:10, July 9, 2011 (UTC)

If the saying is irrelevant, surely we would go by what was shown on screen: "Demon's Run" is the name of the asteroid base.

While I wouldn't say that the saying is irrelevant, I think Boblipton's point is that it's not determinative. In-universe, a station named "Demons Run" after the saying "Demons run when a good man goes to war" could easily have evolved into "Demon's Run", much the same way that "Harrod's" has become "Harrods". One could well argue that "Surely it's not a reference to multiple Harrods, but to a store belonging to Harrod," but the fact remains that the current name is now "Harrods". The current name of the base, as shown on-screen, is "Demon's Run." -BBCXI 15:26, July 9, 2011 (UTC)


 * I would tend to agree wit BBCXI.
 * In universe and on screen it's got an apostrophe, I think we need to take the asteroid and the poem as separate things.
 * While the poem makes less sense with the apostrophe it can work, it could be a run belonging to a demon. We don't know if the reading of the poem is important (like the End of Time the narrative may become important).
 * But for now I would advocated moving it back to Demon's Run. --Tangerineduel / talk 15:38, July 9, 2011 (UTC)