Ha! No, I just wanted a British name that sounded vaguely upper-crust, and that popped into my head. Probably my subconscious at work.
Anyway, I'm very amused that you asked when this took place, because of the meta-joke in the story where the Doctor isn't sure if it's the 70s or the 80s -- that's because there's longstanding debate about when the UNIT stories take place, so though this one is set a few years after Liz left Three's lab, I didn't assign a specific year to it. That said, there was no mobile network in Britain until 1984, even though the first mobiles were sold in 1983 (the things you learn while doing fic research!), and in my head, the story takes place around 1984. But I admit that the vagueness of the actual date entertains me purely for meta reasons.
(You should totally watch Liz's episodes, btw. They're all great, and I suspect you'll really like her as the Section Leader in "Inferno.")
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on 2017-12-01 11:24 pm (UTC)Ha! No, I just wanted a British name that sounded vaguely upper-crust, and that popped into my head. Probably my subconscious at work.
Anyway, I'm very amused that you asked when this took place, because of the meta-joke in the story where the Doctor isn't sure if it's the 70s or the 80s -- that's because there's longstanding debate about when the UNIT stories take place, so though this one is set a few years after Liz left Three's lab, I didn't assign a specific year to it. That said, there was no mobile network in Britain until 1984, even though the first mobiles were sold in 1983 (the things you learn while doing fic research!), and in my head, the story takes place around 1984. But I admit that the vagueness of the actual date entertains me purely for meta reasons.
(You should totally watch Liz's episodes, btw. They're all great, and I suspect you'll really like her as the Section Leader in "Inferno.")