Earth-51

JAMIE: 

You're not really going to do as he says, are you? 


DOCTOR: 

No, of course not. 

I said I'd think it over. 

Well, I've thought it over. 

We're staying on and fighting on.

 


ZOE: 

But we'll be fighting on in The Dark — 

We don't know where the next attack will come from. 

Medusa was bad enough!


JAMIE: 

Ah, Medusa. 

Yes, I read about that on This Machine here. 

Wee words keep coming out of it all the time. 


DOCTOR: 

Oh, yes? 


JAMIE: 

Look. 


DOCTOR: 

Let's have a look. 


JAMIE: 

There. Look. 


DOCTOR: 

(reads.) 

“—Cancel-Doctor-test-report-failure—“

Oh, I think I'm beginning to understand. 




JAMIE: 

Well, I wish I was. 


DOCTOR: 

Well, when someone writes about 

An Incident AFTER it's happened — 

That is HISTORY. 


JAMIE: 

Yes....


DOCTOR: 

But when The Writing comes •first•, 

That is FICTION. 

If we'd have fallen into The Master's trap, we would have •become• Fiction. 

Zunderell, The Cosmic Don Quixote is said to originally a native of Earth-51 :

That’s The Planet of The Apes — an ape being  a creature that copies something that it has seen someone else doing first — The Earth which Nix Uotan was originally charged with Monitoring, which is where The Gold Lamp/Central Power Battery appears in the form of a half-burried statue of a liberated slave-woman, at the point where The Land meets The Sea — Earth-51, as a patchwork mosaic Earth, seems to serve as an analogue something like The Collective Unconscious or The Zeitgeist — IdeaSpace or The Land of Fiction.

“Metron gave you a WEAPON against The Gods! WE NEED IT NOW!” — Which is What...?

Active Imagination  — it has to be. And Active Imagination = Will = Liberty

“This, I was trying to say, is what happens when you let bad stories eat good ones. This is what it looked like when you allow the Anti-Life Equation to turn all your dreams to nightmares.

  In the end, there was nothing left but darkness and the first superhero, Superman, with a crude wishing machine, the deus ex machina itself, and a single wish powered by the last of his own life force.

  He wished for a Happy Ending, of course.”