Way back at the end of 2011, Philip Sandifer wrote the TARDIS Eruditorum post "A Trickster or a Warrior (The Ribos Operation)", included in TARDIS Eruditorum Volume 5: Tom Baker and the Williams Years, which I picked up for my Nook as part of my backer reward for Neoreaction a Basilisk. Reading it on the recent drive to the family vacation cottage, I found a passage that I hadn't noticed in the web version, but which was there:
The parallels leaped out and kicked my brain in the teeth, and I wrote a sticky annotation in the eBook asking "Ribos = Planetos?" If so, the Doctor's visit presumably happens so far from the events of ASoIaF (in one direction or another) that nobody at the later point remembers the one that happened earlier.
Quote:Ribos is recognizably a medieval planet with obvious parallels to Earth. So not only do the same conflicts play out on different scales, they play out across different iterations of history. Similarly, the conflict between Ribos's gods is seen to simply be the shifting of the planet's very long seasons, and so the conflicts further play out in the realm of man and the realm of nature.
The parallels leaped out and kicked my brain in the teeth, and I wrote a sticky annotation in the eBook asking "Ribos = Planetos?" If so, the Doctor's visit presumably happens so far from the events of ASoIaF (in one direction or another) that nobody at the later point remembers the one that happened earlier.