FULL EDIT | DOCTOR WHO | 4x2 | The Fires of Pompeii
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Fun fact (except it’s not so fun because it’s about death, so, interesting then): That figure the Doctor quotes of 20,000 killed when Vesuvius erupted is actually been disproved since. That’s the estimated size of the city’s population, and it’s been theorised that more than likely, most of them got away when they could. About 1,500 preserved and entombed casts of people who died in the eruption have been found, but the actual death toll is unknown, no more than 3,000 is a general estimate. Most of them were killed by the pyroclastic flows (sorry going to get technical, I’m quite interested in volcanoes), that’s the racing avalanche of superheated ash and volcanic gasses that chased the Doctor and Donna, and then swept over the city. They are real. Perhaps portrayed a little unrealistically, but real nonetheless. During a sustained Plinian eruption (the kind of eruption that Vesuvius did in 79 AD, marked by a tall ash column that rises then branches out like a tree, named after a Roman scientist who witnessed the eruption and was killed by it), the ash erupted is dense and heavy, it is microscopic rock, molten rock that is pulverised by the energy that forces it out of the ground and instantly cools the moment it hits the air, not like fine barbecue ash, and occasionally the energy holding the ash plume up dissipates and causes part of it or a good portion of it to spill and race away from the eruption, at temperatures exceeding hundreds of degrees, incinerating and suffocating everything before it. Funnily enough right, I’m autistic, so by the time this episode aired in 2008, I was interested in volcanoes. So regardless of actually how it shaped up as a DW episode, I enjoyed every second of it. Haha
Jack Mellor
2023-05-26 22:13:24 +0000 UTCGurl I just did Pompeii and Vesuvius last month, and Vesuvius is some trek!!! OMG I was sweating hard and out of breath at the top. 100% worth it though.
SeeJay
2022-12-01 05:06:29 +0000 UTC
