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Cardiff Rift
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| WightWolf | Дата: Понедельник, 19.03.2012, 22:20 | Сообщение # 1 |
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Кардифский Рифт - это вымышленная червоточина из сериала Доктор Кто и Торчвуд, один конец которой находится в Кардифе, Уэльс, а другой, по-видимому, свободно проходит через пространство и время сквозь Трещину, позволяя подпитывать внеземные формы жизни и артефакты, попадающие в Кардиф. Он описывается как "Непредсказуемое и неуловимое, шлюз для инопланетных тварей, инопланетного оружия, всевозможных инопланетных технологий и временных аномалий, чтобы войти в наш мир" и ""flotsam and jetsam" вселенной с начала времен". Трещина снималась в эпизодах Доктора Кто и его спин-оффе Торчвуд. Резиденция Торчвуд в Кардифе, построена на этом самом разломе, которая была созданна для мониторинга активности вокруг Разлома. Трещина выступает в качестве съемочной площадки, обеспечивающая широкий и потенциально неограниченный массив возможных съемок для серий, как Hellmouth в Buffy the Vampire Slayer и Bajoran червоточины в Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Трещина впервые появляется в сериях Доктора, в эпизоде "Бесчинных Мертвых". Этот эпизод происходит в 1869 году, когда Gelth, газообразных гуманоид организмы, проходят через Трещину в похоронное бюро, где они находятся в газообразном состоянии, и способны контролировать мертвых. Установлено, что Рифт-излучения, при длительном воздействии, могут предоставить психические силы, чтобы человек, в том числе Гвинет, стала их рабом в гостиной. Врач говорит с Gelth через Гвинет в спиритическом сеансе, где они утверждают, что в числе нескольких, следующих за Время Войны, и попросить Трещину в расширилась, позволяя остальные Gelth жить в трупы. Однако, после того, как Врач обнаруживает, что Gelth в действительности гораздо более многолюдным, чем утверждал первый , и намерены убить всю человеческую расу, чтобы обеспечить себя "сосудами", Гвинет жертвует собой, вызвав взрыв газа, который герметизирует Разлома и, по-видимому убивает Gelth.
Эпизод "Бум Город", расположенный в современном Кардиффе, возвращает нас к Разлому. Трещина теперь работает через Роальда Даля Plass, и испускает излучение, которое в ТАРДИС могут использовать в качестве топлива. Однако, член Slitheen преступной семьи, Blon Fel-Fotch Pasameer-Dan Slitheen, переодевшись в женщину, по имени Маргарет Блейн, избирается лордом-Мэромгорода Кардифф и планирует построить неисправен атомной станции на линии Разлома, который затем вызовет ядерный взрыв. В результате энергии, ударная волна разрушит планету, но позволит Блейн, бежать. Доктор, Роза, Микки Смит и Джек вместе срывают ее планы, но extrapolator в ТАРДИС и становится причиной раскола на части Рифта, которые вызывает потрясения земли на Роальда Даля Пласс. Трещина, наконец, закреплена печатью TARDIS.
Десятый Доктор и марта Джонс не надолго приземлились в серии "Утопия" для дозаправки, относясь к ней как к "питстоп". Доктор возвращается в Кардифф, чтобы отставить Джека в серии "Последнее Время Лордов". В "Конец путешествия", Торчвуд-3 и суперкомпьютер "мистер Смит" использовать энергию разлома послать сигнал к Доктору через Каскад Медузы. Позже Доктор использует Рифт- в связи с м-ром Смитом сцепляется с TARDIS, чтобы "отбуксировать" Землю на свое положенное место в время после того, как была похищена Далеками.
"-Он сумасшедший
- Да, но это славный тип безумия"©
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| WightWolf | Дата: Понедельник, 19.03.2012, 22:21 | Сообщение # 2 |
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| The Rift features regularly in Torchwood, with almost every episode being based around material or life-forms which have passed through the Rift. The Torchwood Institute website suggests that Torchwood Three was formed in Cardiff as soon as the Torchwood Institute became aware of the Rift's presence.[1][3] Torchwood Three has also been described as merely a "monitoring station" for the rift.[4] The website lists among the items found in the Rift "3 new Weevil clusters... [7] items of unknown provenance... 2 weapons... 2 EBEs".[3] However, the Rift appears to be one-way; craft sent through the Rift have been unable to either return or to send back a signal.[1]
In "Out of Time", the Rift facilitates the misplacement of people on board a plane from 1953 to the show's present day. In the episode's conclusion, a temporal immigrant, feeling it will take her home or somewhere new, ventures back into the sky, with her ultimate fate left unclear.
In "Captain Jack Harkness", the Rift is responsible for sending Jack and Tosh back to 1941. In the present day, Owen uses a " Rift machine" designed by Toshiko to open the rift and bring them back (this episode shows the Rift's event horizon properly for this first time).
The consequences of Owen's actions resonate in the next episode, the first series finale "End of Days". By opening the Rift, he has allowed more "flotsam and jetsam" to come through, including a Roman soldier, a group of mediaeval plague sufferers, and even a large UFO. As Jack puts it, opening the Rift has caused the cracks in time to widen on a global scale. The time travelling Bilis Manger shows Gwen a vision of the death of her boyfriend Rhys, convincing her to open the Rift even wider to reverse the damage that has already been done. When this happens, the entity known as Abaddon rises from "beneath the Rift". Jack sacrifices himself to destroy Abaddon, and the Rift immediately closes. The team (including Jack, who has come back from the dead again thanks to his past experiences) still retains the memory of what happened, but some of the actual events have been reverted (such as Rhys returning to life), and Owen spearheads a minor clean-up mission.[5] A year later in "Exit Wounds", Jack's brother Gray has Captain John Hart widen the rift again to unleash chaos across Cardiff, unleashing monsters such as Hoix, Weevils and cowled ghouls from distant times and places. As a Time Agent, Captain John can use his wrist-strap vortex manipulator to travel to Cardiff through the Rift.
In "Adrift", it is revealed that as well as depositing creatures and items in Cardiff, the Rift also takes people, depositing them anywhere in space or time. Gwen discovers that this is the cause of a drastic increase in the amount of missing people in the Cardiff area. The Rift, in an effort to right itself, often returns people again. However, they have often seen such graphic images that they develop mental illnesses.
At the start of Torchwood: Children of Earth (2009), the Hub is destroyed and Torchwood relocate to London as fugitives. Torchwood itself is later destroyed by the end of the serial. Fans were left asking the fate of, among other things, the Rift. The subsequent 2011 series of Torchwood relocates primarily to the United States. When asked in an interview with SFX magazine, Davies stated "I like to think that when [subsequent Doctor Who executive producer] Steven Moffat so thoughtfully closed all those cracks in the universe, the Rift in Cardiff closed up at the same time. I used to wonder what the hell happened to that Rift and now it's all solved. When I watched those cracks seal up I was like, 'Oh, thank you.'"[volume & issue needed] This refers to the events of the 2010 Doctor Who episode "The Big Bang", which was written by Steven Moffat. However, Torchwood media in 2011 since provided a direct explanation for the Rift. In the radio drama "The House of the Dead", Jack visits a haunted location where the Rift allows ghosts, including the deceased Ianto Jones, to enter into the living world. To close the Rift forever and seal an ancient evil on the other side of it, Jack creates a device designed to seal the Rift. The device will also provide Jack an end to his cycle of resurrections. However, Ianto's spirit tricks Jack into leaving, and detonates the device himself, closing the Rift "forever" and with it the barrier between the living and the dead.[6]
"-Он сумасшедший
- Да, но это славный тип безумия"©
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| WightWolf | Дата: Понедельник, 19.03.2012, 22:21 | Сообщение # 3 |
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| Other media
In the Torchwood novel Border Princes by Dan Abnett, it is revealed that several other planets border permanent points where the Rift has anchored. One such planet has a similar organization to Torchwood entitled The First Senior, whose title for the Rift translates as The Stumble, The Misstep or The Border. When The First Senior heard of Torchwood, they inserted a Principal, a spy who could observe how they handle the Rift, purely for research into how other "Rift guardians" operate. Like all Doctor Who and Torchwood spin-off media, its place in canon is unclear.
"-Он сумасшедший
- Да, но это славный тип безумия"©
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| Attributes and effects
The Rift has facilitated an underground Weevil infestation and allows for alien technology to wash up in Cardiff, which are sometimes acquired by Torchwood Three. Creatures have been known to pass presumably through time because of the Rift, including a pterodactyl. It can be used as a source of power for the TARDIS, perhaps replacing the Eye of Harmony. The landing of the TARDIS near the fountain in Roald Dahl Plass resulted in the ship's "perception properties" being welded to the Rift, creating a "perception filter" that prevents anyone outside that spot from noticing anything inside. In 19th century Cardiff, Gwyneth developed telepathic powers as a result of life-long exposure to the Rift. "Out of Time" suggests that the Rift can act as an unpredictable window through time in certain weather conditions. Much as the Rift deposits all things alien in Cardiff, it also takes; as a result of this Cardiff has an unusually high missing persons rate owing to humans scattered throughout space and time by the Rift. The destruction of a hospital in Cardiff caused the psychic energy of all the lives spent and lost there, in conjunction with the Rift, to cause 1918 and 2008 to begin to overlap in "To the Last Man".
On April 1913, "preshocks" of the Rift's opening in "End of Days" manifested as ground tremors.[7] Before the dawn of time, as with the Beast, Biblical demon Abaddon had been sealed away in Earth, using the Rift as a means for his imprisonment. This suggests that it happened "before the universe's creation" as with the Beast, and that the Beast's captors, the "Disciples of Light" may have had a hand in the formation of the Rift as they did with the gravity field in "The Impossible Planet". The Rift is not dependent on Abaddon, however, in fact Jack warns that it will be more violent than ever following his release.
"-Он сумасшедший
- Да, но это славный тип безумия"©
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| Similar anomalies
In "Boom Town", the Ninth Doctor refers to the Rift in the plural, indicating that there are others elsewhere. In series 3 episode "The Sound of Drums" (2007), the Master (John Simm) also refers to the Doctor sealing the rift at the heart of the Medusa Cascade, deep in space. The Daleks later planned to make use of this rift in spreading their Reality Bomb ("Journey's End", 2008). When explaining the prevalence of foresight abilities in Pompeii, the Doctor explains Mount Vesuvius temporarily opened a Rift in time and space, which accounts for this, in the episode "The Fires of Pompeii" (2008). In the series 6 episode "The Doctor's Wife" (2011), the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) travels through a time rift to a location "outside" the universe. He comments that his TARDIS should refuel by virtue of being exposed, as with the Cardiff rift, to temporary energies.
Similar phenomenon are encountered in other stories. For example, in Image of the Fendahl (1977), the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) encounters a "time fissure" in Fetch Borough in the West Country of England. Another "time fissure" located in the village of Foxgrove, Hertfordshire appears in The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (2008), a The Sarah Jane Adventures serial in which Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) returns a time displaced boy from 1951 through this fissure, and is tempted to use it meet her parents who died in her infancy. A "scar in time and space" in San Francisco featured in the 1999 Eighth Doctor novel Unnatural History by Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman. It was also created by the TARDIS malfunctioning (this time as seen at the end of the eighth Doctor's only television adventure) and also had the consequence of creating a hole in time which was a magnet to strange phenomena, including timeslips and creatures which appeared magical.
In the Torchwood comic story "Shrouded" by Gareth David-Lloyd, John Hart reveals that he moved to Mexico to buy and sell alien artefacts because a "small rift" is located near the Gulf, which he uses as his "tube to work".
"-Он сумасшедший
- Да, но это славный тип безумия"©
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| Reception
The Rift plot device has attracted some critical commentary. In Under Torch Wood, a one-off Torchwood parody for The Register (a dialogue in the style of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas' radio play Under Milk Wood), columnist Verity Stob derides the device as lazy writing on the part of Davies and his writing team, and comments on its large indebtedness to the Hellmouth from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Gwen asks "What is the Rift?"; the narrative voice describes it as "a kind of hellmouth that is sucking on a transcendental, transdimensional gobstopper. It is a double-egg MacGuffin served with large flies. It is . . ." an easy way for lazy writers to generate indulgence-straining plots, without ever troubling to think up anything new, or plausible, or to know or look up any science."[8]
"-Он сумасшедший
- Да, но это славный тип безумия"©
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