You know the TARDIS. That big phone booth Doctor Who uses, to get from here to there and from then to when. It makes a giant sound effect and then fades out, and he's off on another Time Lord style adventure.
Well that's all well and good, but what precisely IS a TARDIS? They tell us that it stands for "Time And Relative Dimensions In Space."
That's just not okay with me.
As a sci-fi acronym, I guess they've picked some reasonably relevant words, but it's not been strung together at all sensibly. How can something BE a "Time And Relative Dimensions In Space"? That isn't what it is! That's just what it travels through. It's like saying "Oh, I'm going to hop in my Cities And Roads and pip over to Derbyshire." No. It's not a "Cities And Roads." It's a device to travel through cities and roads. If you will, a DUTTTCAR.
Time And Relative Dimensions In Space just doesn't work. At the very least, it would have to be a Reactor Exploiting Time And Relative Dimensions In Space.
Or, you know. Something similar.
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You want to call it a "RETARDIS"? Why the hate at the TARDIS? Blame the writers!
Haha, I hate to think of the Doctor as a being utterly at the mercy of earth writers. It ruins my suspension of disbelief!
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