Leela is an example of how companions who aren't from modern day Earth can be so interesting. In New Who the only companions who aren't from modern day Earth are part timers like River and Nardole and it's caused recent companions to get really samey sometimes. Leela's different takes on yo yos and weapons and technology are what make her so interesting.
I wish the Doctor had conpanions from other times and other worlds. When you have the potential for an entire universe of interesting characters and they go the route they've gone with Ruby Sunday" A generic blonde
This is one of my favorite clips from Doctor Who because it provides an explanation that is, by human reasoning, “silly” and preposterous, but which makes perfect sense to the Doctor. He seems to be provoding the best explanation he can, but Leela’s brain (and, by extension, ours) cannot bridge the gap between how to get the big box to fit inside the small box and rules it out as absurd, but it’s a fundamental truth of a science that the Doctor learned long ago. In a way, it’s like trying to explain wifi to someone who’s never seen electricity. There are too many steps missing for it to make much sense.
I love seeing scenes like this in the age we're currently living in, where humanity's perception of reality is beginning to expand in ways which would have been completely incomprehensible just a few generations ago, challenging even our most basic observations. For example, technically, I'm not really here sitting in my chair; there's just a 99.99999...% chance that I am. Even our perceptions of time are changing, realising that entropy is not unidirectional, that the "arrow of time" is merely a general trend, that something happening right now can affect the past. It's a wonder to see this species growing out of its infancy by leaps and bounds. Perhaps someday the Doctor's explanation will make perfect sense to people, or they'll laugh because they've figured out that isn't the right way to do it. Plato's prisoners are coming out of the cave, and learning to see the shadows for what they are.
"No, but it's a marvellous way to relax!" - Ford Prefect - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams. He's explaining it in 3 dimensions using a 2 dimension situation. A picture has no depth and any inhabitant would not understand the concept of depth (in his explanation, the change in distance relative between the surfaces (the "inside" and "outside") into and out of depth or the Z axis for modellers). I'm not sure but I think you have to work in 12 dimensions to create something similar (or that 12 is the most stable and thus likely set of dimensions to exist, fuzzy on that one). No, I'm not a physicist
@@ReiverBlue1971 I follow your logic, though lately I've been wondering if the solution doesn't lie somewhere less obvious - in the opposite direction. Specifically, I've been looking for answers in nondimensional (or zero dimensional) phenomena. Take a moment to think about why division by zero is impossible, and how silly tricks of algebra which do it indirectly can produce results such as 2=1. Yet it occurs no matter how impossible we call it. The singularity in the heart of a black hole is a mathematical point, possessing neither height nor width nor depth. No volume at all. But it's elementary physics that density is equal to mass divided by volume, and that's a problem - because we can know its mass, but its volume is zero. The only way that works, and the only way its ability to completely stop light is explicable, is that its density is infinite. A lot of things start to work if we treat infinity more like a conventional number... maybe even making two equal one, or making the exterior of a police box equal the interior of an immense timeship. Only how can that make sense? How can the answer ever correctly be that two equals one when that simply isn't true? Well, I believe it's because nondimensional operations cannot be understood solely in terms of spacial and temporal values, but also the values of what is true. Let's go back to the singularity for a moment. It possesses none of the traditional three spacial dimensions. With its density and the gravitational force at its core infinite, time would stand completely still. It's definitely there, and its physical properties and interactions are measurable, yet it has no presence in space or time. How then can it even exist, unless we've missed something? A third fundamental aspect of the universe and everything in it. Reality. If one attempted to measure the reality of things, it would surely be concluded that the reality of such things as virtual particles or probability waves is non-zero, but certainly less than absolute. Similarly, what separates our universe, our timeline, from others if there is no barrier between us in space or time, unless it is a barrier of reality? This I believe to be the key; that if we wish to fit a larger box inside a smaller one without altering the spacial or temporal dimensions of them, we must find a way to alter their ontological dimensions.
@@tailuigi WOW! That was awesome to go through :D One point you've made that I think bears more thinking on, to summarise: The properties of a blackhole are 0 width, depth, height, so effectively doesn't exist. Yet it has infinite density so it definitely does, especially as it effects any other objects nearby. I'm going to have a think on your points and see if anything turns up :D. Thanks for that
The Doctor grew up in a ten-million-year-old education system, and he's trying to explain what for him is everyday science, to a woman who'd never been more than a day away from her hunter-gatherer village before she met him
Always liked that brown TARDIS secondary (old) console room, which was used entirely for that Tom Baker season. Every TARDIS set from the McGann movie to Nu Who seemed partly inspired from it
@@FlagadossSupreme Around the time of Season 14's Blu-Ray release, clips were released from The Masque of Mandragora - The Face of Evil. Now 2 years later they're finally doing The Robots of Death and maybe The Talons of Weng-Chiang.
This is why we need more alien companions. Leela was such a great character, and provided a new point of view you can't get from everyone being from current era Britain.
Yeah, the current companions are a bit samey and bland always being from modern day London where the idea of having a companion from Yorkshire is "exotic". I got bored of the show half way through Capaldi-era because everything that made original Who fun (like seeing the various rooms inside the TARDIS) was gone in Rebooted Who.
So basically the doorway is a portal to the interior however it's said the Tardis is infinite so if it actually does exist somewhere it cannot be infinite without being it's own dimension also I guess that's later shown in season 9 in the paradox episode where the outside of the Tardis is disconnected from the inside and becomes just a normal police box although empty
L'explication du concept "plus grand a l'intérieur" de tout doctor who (new who et classique jusqu'à cette épisode en tout cas) c'est si simple a comprendre expliqué comme ça
I miss the days where companions could be from other time periods or planets why don't they bring that back have a new companion from the future or the past or an alien it's more interesting
Ok, I got that concept easily after that explanation, if people are still stumped…think the reversal of an Russian nesting doll ( where an small one hides an bigger one inside as opposed to an normal nesting doll- ie with an regular Russian nesting doll inside each of them is an smaller nesting doll, however apparently in this series with the ancient concept of trans dimensional engineering, that race figured out how to use the idea of an Russian nesting doll only in reverse ie. inside the smallest one is an bigger one and so forth in the explained concept if some people still don’t understand this concept, which now I’ve given an opposite answer to explain this science in the simplest way possible…
Is it just me or does the “which box is larger” thing actually make a little bit of sense? Like, in reality, things can’t be in two places at once, so until we can actually make things be in two places at once, anything can happen. It at least makes sense in my brain…
That is a good way to imagine the answer, as transdomensional engineering is so beyond us. And I love how the Doctor is 'I can control the TARDIS!', and experience keeps making him decrease how often he actually can until he gives up.
The inside and the outside of the TARDIS don’t co-exist within exactly the same space. A larger three-dimensional space can’t co-exist within the same, smaller space three-dimensions. However, and here’s where Time Lord engineering comes in, the interior of the TARDIS exists in a different space. A space of higher-dimension. So, the three-dimensional TARDIS exterior, is bound to it’s higher-dimensional interior space. With the doorway providing a portal back and forth between our three-dimensional reality, and the higher-dimensional space within the ship. The Doctor describes the TARDIS as being “trans-dimensional”, in other episodes. In that sense, the TARDIS is not really bigger on the inside, than the outside. The inside is a completely different space, and which only produces the illusion of being inside a much smaller three-dimensional space, when moving across the TARDIS’ doorway portal.
I like the fact that classic Dr. Who didn’t address sexual tension. I am more interested in the fight with the aliens than the romance of the story. The romance for me got old when companion after companion fell for the Dr. I didn’t mind if it happened every once in a while, but I feel it doesn’t need it.
So where IS the rest of the tardis? Also how BIG is the whole of it? I mean, it IS strong enough to tow an entire PLANET. I don't think there's any space ship in ANY series i've seen that can do that.
Head cannon : the outside tardis is merely a portal that transports you to a room in a pocket universe which is the inside of the tardis and from there you can control where the portal goes
“ Doctor. Mm? Can I stop now? If you want to. It will not affect this? Affect this? No. It’s a yo yo. It’s a game. I thought you were enjoying it. “ “ If you could keep that exactly that distance away and have it here, the large one would fit inside the small one. That’s silly. That’s transdimensional engineering, a key Time Lord discovery. “ “ This is the exciting bit. What’s exciting? Well, seeing what’s outside. “
It's amazing how many concepts in Doctor Who seem at first like complete science fiction, but the more you think about them, the more they start to make sense.
I love Leela, one of my favorite companions. She's very intelligent, just not well-educated. There is a very definite student-teacher relationship between the two. She doesn't whine or complain, she asks the right questions, and can take care of herself, well, nine times out of ten. To me, those are the qualities of the best of the companions. Oh and I also love that TARDIS interior! I love it when they go all Victorian/Steampunk like with this and with Paul McGann's TARDIS!
She had one of the most insightful lines about the Doctor from any companion. Doctor holds up an item, "Do you know what this is?" Leela thinks for a moment, "Your just asking me so you can tell me."
@@RandomAmerican3000 Well said! This of course is the entire reason for the presence of the companions to begin with. In explaining to them, the doctor is explaining to the audience.
One of my favorite moments between The Fourth Doctor and Leela! This expands on The First Doctor's _(in "An Unearthly Child")_ relating an enormous building fitting inside a smaller TV set being a reasonable explanation of how something larger can be contained in something smaller! One thing about this, though, is that I wish he'd left the larger box on the cabinet (or whatever it was) where he first held them up to Leela. That would've made it seem microscopic in perspective! P.S. 0:32 I read somewhere that The Doctor's line, *_"To the rational mind, nothing is inexplicable, only unexplained..."_* was actually an adlibbed contribution from Tom Baker. 🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨
The U.S. Air Force loved the automatic sliding doors. They called and asked if they could send some people out to look at the technology being used. Long pause. Then "It's 2 guys sitting on the floor outside the set with ropes and pulleys."
The guys who made The Expanse, a more "realistic" take on routine space travel, said much the same thing. If they knew how to do this stuff for real, they'd do it for real, not write stories!
So in other words the inside of Tardis is a place which is lightyears away from the outside of the tardis so in compartion it is smaller but they are connected through the entrance of the Tardis and therefore has its original size. That´s something about Doctor Who I just find fascinating because someone had to come up with this concept for the show.
Not "light years" away; in another dimension entirely. The outer shell of the TARDIS is just a conduit to that dimension. Imagine a drawing of a staircase on a sheet of paper (in 2D) that led up to a 3D room sitting on top of the paper. That's how the TARDIS really works. Stepping in or out of the TARDIS is like going through a wormhole, which is why it's literally infinite; it's a self-contained universe. It never really 'moves' itself; only the outer shell does.
@@rlawnqls159 Correct; the outside shell of the TARDIS is the only thing that exists in our universe. if you land it inside, you've effectively created a loop inside the TARDIS's internal dimension and removed the shell from the external universe.
@@mcarp555 the inside is a harddrive where one is living (saved) in a huge "cyberworld" like if you would be in World of Warcraft or No mans sky. That was what the whole Library thing was about. How our entire mankind one day will be downloaded into RIVERS (whom RIver Songs mind always was supposed to end up in) as the Daleks take over our Earth (New Skaro) and we become the Trenzalorians; And rule over time there (inside this new WHoniverse our Earth was taken over to after it was stolen in "stolen Earth" and "returned" to the "wrong" whoniverse (In end of Journey End) (read the new Whoniverse to where Gallifrey also was taken over into) There is a second save made of all of mankind from 100.000BC to 100.000AD that becomes our regenerations (the first save becomes "base stations" for the 2nd save) as we die, told about in Twice upon a time and the Punjabsode as we are about to die thruout history. (Episode Utopia told us about the 2 saves)
I love the 4th Doctor's explanation of how the inside of the TARDIS is bigger than the outside. Also, nice Doctor Who RU-vid channel reminder from Tom Baker.
@@brucewayne7838 Another classic series. I used to wish they would do a remake, but seeing as how they manage to butcher everything these days, we'd best just stick with the original.
Tom Baker and David Tennant are widely considered the best doctors of their respective era is because they’re not acting. This is them and they understand the parts more than anyone.
@@minicle426 got to agreed that PT was an extremely worthy choice to continue from Hartnell. I somehow feel Eccleston watched a lot of Troughton before his run in the Tardis. I fear I have problems with the characterisation under Pertwee and Colin, both fine actors, but I feel the scripts and production design not for me.
When I have friends of mine that have never watched _Doctor Who_ ask me about this very thing, I always show them this clip. Leela’s response “That’s silly,” to the Doctor’s dumbed-down explanation in regards to transdimensional engineering shows that she understood it.
I really liked the incidental music from this Doctor Who time period. These are such fun and I might say, comfortable episodes that I always enjoy re-watching. These stories and writing are so much better than the crap they are coming out with in season 14. What a shame.
The whole universe fits inside a box that lecture the meaning, of course that is the origin of the inner workings of the tardis, as the doctor tells it in a unpredictably way? The other way is the tardis is made of empty space and people who try to workout how it works are seeing that as the doctor tells them, and they believe what they are told, probably because the doctor holds their immigration into seeing what's not there, or if he was to really show the inside of the tardis well they would probably lose they minds? We see what we often believe but sometimes things aren't what there appear as, I'm the very beginning of doctor who it was after the companions left they felt they were missing something it was time lag the doctor or tardis removed they memories of travelling inside the tardis, though some cases it occurred briefly for odd reasons? Tardis disappears so how comes it never leaves a square mark on the ground or leaves a hole in space between realities?
Hope Stef Coburn isn't gonna have some issue with this too now he's had "An Unearthly Child" removed. Especially as he's had issues with the TARDIS in the past.
He's convinced his dad came up with Doctor Who. If it goes to court, he will be proven wrong. Don't worry - everything past the first story is safe from Stef's angry little hands (and even then, only the very first episode is technically his, the rest of the story was written by someone else and not his father)
This is the fantastic episode that includes my all time FAVORITE insult..."You are a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and size of the brain".
