Bingowings said:
I don't have a problem with the spaces inside the Tardis in the Invasion Of Time which are actually a hospital and a London Swimming Pool not a factory.
I see Tardises as temporal repair stations.
They carry a team of Time Lords around the universe to repair the damage caused by their ancestors during the dark time.
It explains the wardrobe of every kind of clothing, it explains the chameleon circuit and why regeneration changes the outer appearance of the Time Lord, it explains the scale of the Tardis interior.
What would that look like?
Well it would require workshops, recreation areas, showers, libraries (basically all the spaces we see inside the Tardis throughout the run of the show).
It has what looks like brick walls on the inside and why not? It has wood grain on the outer doors but they aren't made of wood. The interesting question is why does the Tardis have wood grain on it exterior when it's trying to be a Police Box...? Police Boxes of that design were made of concrete.
I loved the Tardis Cloister in Logopolis which is also made of stone (One presumes). I thought it was atmospheric, strange and beautifully constructed
and it really felt like somewhere that the Doctor would retreat to get all introspective about life.
But there was nothing "other wordly" about the interiors in IOT...
...it's just the corridors of an old hospital (St. Anne's Surrey as you say) with almost zero dressing or lighting or even additional sound. Like you say the Tardis interior could look like anything but it would be nice if it looked like something with a little more imagination. Especially as we'd spent the first episodes on some really nice Gallifrey sets...
Bingowings said:
Logopolitans aren't computers (though it bares reminding that the first computers in the real world were people) they are processing nodes. Each person carries one data transformation therefore never carrying the full computation. The whole planet is an organic computer
Yeah that's correct, I was trying to be as brief as possible in that big post and probably over simplified that one. I really need to watch 'Keeper of Tracken' soon to get the backstory on that serial (I was lost with the Nyssa/father/master thing) and then 'Castrovalva' to see what The Master did next.
Bingowings said:
(now that is a reference to H2G2).
Vroomfondel demands that that ^ may (Or may not) be a solid fact.