The one stuck on an endless repeat.
One of the three minisodes released with the Series 7 DVD, along with "Rain Gods" and "Clara and the TARDIS".
This one is set during that lull when the Doctor was travelling alone, and explains to some extent how he was erasing himself from existence.
As you can see by the tweed clothes, he has yet to endure the events of the Series 7A finale and go through his expository costume change.
Did you catch yourself rereading the page?
What is the Inforarium?
The eponymous archive is an illicit Great Big Library of Everything, selling secrets to any unsavoury characters that would pay. Secrets including the Doctor. The same one trying to erase himself from history.
End result: the guardian of this database finds his records being breached, and upon investigation, triggers a recording from the Doctor (in his tweed ensemble, meaning this is pre-dePondification). Accurately predicting the guard's every response despite being just a message, the Doctor explains that he is removing all Doctor-related data from the Inforarium. The guard asserts that it is impossible to erase anything from the Inforarium, something about 12 layers of reality that not even the message-Doctor cares to respond to. What he does say is that thanks to reverse-engineered Silence tech, he can render his information memory-proof.
He then directs the guard to check his memory banks again, and vanishes from the Inforarium.
What is the Inforarium?
The eponymous archive is an illicit Great Big Library of Everything, selling secrets to any unsavoury characters that would pay...
Tropes:
- Amnesia Loop: The guardian of the Inforarium is stuck in one, checking his database and the Doctor's message over and over again. Fortunately, it should break when he goes to, say, the bathroom.
- Chekhov's Skill: The Silence's memory-proofing.
- Great Big Library of Everything: The Whoniverse is big enough for two — although the Inforarium is somewhat shadier than the Library.
- Information Broker: The Inforarium will sell information to anyone who can pay.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Via memory-proofing.
- Prequel: Set before "The Angels Take Manhattan".
- The Tape Knew You Would Say That: Because you're stuck in a forgetting loop.
- Un-person: The Doctor. The Inforarium threatens this, so he deals with it.
The one stuck on an endless repeat.
One of the three minisodes released with the Series 7 DVD, along with "Rain Gods" and "Clara and the TARDIS".
This one is set during that lull when the Doctor was travelling alone, and explains to some extent how he was erasing himself from existence.
As you can see by the tweed clothes, he has yet to endure the events of the Series 7A finale and go through his expository costume change.
Did you catch yourself rereading the page?
