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Rate & Review Kill The Moon

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« on: October 09, 2014, 12:29:00 pm »

OK, this piqued my interest.  I'm not sure what you mean by "sun-time", but I've found out that at latitudes above 66.5 degrees one might see a full moon and the sun in the sky at the same time during the summer months if the full moon is at its northernmost point in the ecliptic plane.  http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=341  Fascinating!  I have to plan a vacation at the north pole one of these summers... 

Learn something new every day!   Afro

Saying "sun-time" was just a slightly awkward way of saying ignore daylight-saving time.  You wouldn't have to go that far north or south to see the full moon in daylight at high summer - we can see that in southern England.

Incidentally, how certain are we that pressing "Abort" was the correct decision, at least from Clara's point of view? After all, in The Beast Below the Doctor was ready to lobotomize the beast, and in that Torchwood thing Captain Jack sacrificed his grandson or whatever to save the Earth. Sometimes sacrificing the innocent is just the best we can do, regrettably. Yet here Clara backs her own hunch against the will and wishes of the entire human race. Just because it turned out well in the end does not make her decision right.

I suppose ultimately it was right because the author showed it turning out right, which is one of the differences between fiction and reality (the other main one being that fiction has to make sense).  The author is essentially saying that compassion is always better and illustrates it by showing the compassionate decision as being the right one. A different author might show the compassionate decision as being weak and leading to disaster. It all depends on the fictional reality that's set up.
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