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@Quinntessential lovely ♥

@pantlesshero *offers soft hugs*

@pantlesshero oh dear, that sounds stressful...

@DialMforMara nope, this is entirely serious. It has a similar vibe to The Daemons

@DialMforMara yeah, but every other time there's been ghosts, there's been some other explanation (like aliens, or echoes from an alternate dimension), whereas this is literally just saying that ghosts are real. And that just makes a bunch of other episodes make no sense - why would the doctor assume that a ghost is actually something else, if they already know ghosts are real?

I'm gonna go laze around in bed, goodnight ♥

So in reality, the explanation for why the Elixir of Life is real is "the afterlife exists, but to get there you have to pass through N-space, and if you get stuck you become a ghost. This formula allows you to merge with your ghost, which means that you cannot die."

Which doesn't feel like a Sci-Fi explanation to me.

*the actual explanation given is that the formula allows someone to merge with their N-form.

Previously it was explained that N-forms are the forms people take after they die, and the forms that they use as they travel from real space through N-space to the afterlife.

it gets "worse" – one of the characters has an alchemical formula for the elixir of eternal life, and it works!

Now in Doctor Who, this generally has some kind of sci-fi explanation. But in this, the explanation is basically just "alchemy works, actually", which is really unsatisfying*.

The Ghosts of N-Space is a good story, and a good audio drama, but it doesn't really feel like Doctor Who.

@SilviaFox@sleeping.town sleep softly ♥

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