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altariel ([personal profile] altariel) wrote2006-11-14 07:36 pm
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Under Torch Wood

I'm sure this has done the rounds already, but I have been in NaNoHell so, anyway: Under Torch Wood.

[identity profile] jhall1.livejournal.com 2006-11-14 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
That's brilliant.

TORCHWOOD AGENT 1
Toshiko Sato. I'm an all-new kind of female sci-fi character for the twenty-first century. I can give computers insoluble equations in Algol.


I hope you got the reference. :)

[identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com 2006-11-14 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't - but is it Trillian?

[identity profile] jhall1.livejournal.com 2006-11-14 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Older than that, I think. I believe it's a reference to the Second Doctor's companion Zoe destroying a robot by this means. I remember the incident from watching the story when it was first broadcast, but unfortunately can't now remember which story it was.

[identity profile] jhall1.livejournal.com 2006-11-14 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Got it now, thanks to a Google search. The incident occurs in Episode 2 of "The Invasion". Here's a site with a complete transcript:

http://homepages.bw.edu/~jcurtis/Scripts/Invasion/inv2.html

Look at section 12.

[identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com 2006-11-14 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
ZOE: INTEGER COMPUTE PRINTOUT Y TO THE MINUS X VARIABLE 1

(The Machine begins to whirr more furiously and starts to greet them again.)

ZOE: I'm enjoying this.


Oh, that is delightful! I had completely forgotten about that. Very bad, given my icon.