Something I've been teaching my mom. Her: how does- Me: shhhhh.....shhh....dont think....shhhhhhh Her: but- Me: shhhhhh yes we know you love the show. Her: I do but- Me: ah ah ah! Nope. No thinking.
It's really an issue with all TV programs. Since it's all but unavoidable in books with single authors who have far longer than a week or so to write things out, it shouldn't get our underwear in a bunch for TV. It shouldn't.... but it still does.
The Reapers appeared due to it being a WEAK point in time (becuase Rose and the Doctor were there twice and changed something), NOT a fixed point in time. That is why we never see them again.
Oh yeah; "Time's been damaged and they've come to sterilise the wound." Totally forgot that it was about a wound in time rather than fixed points and such.
Don't try to reason with whoculture and other channels like it because they don't care about actual facts. They just throw crap at a wall to see what will stick.
Considering that regeneration completely reworks the body and cells, I think any remaining traces of Trakenite, Cheetah, Tzunites and deathworm morphant were wiped clean when he was resurrected
@@EditedAF987 I always assumed the Timelords resurrected him something like an original DNA sample or something, a fresh start. I mean, I think, the idea was that there was nothing left of him after (I can't believe I'm typing these words) the TARDIS ate him.
@@LibraGamesUnlimited well recently Big Finish delved into what happened to the Master after the TV movie. It turns out that the energy of the eye of harmony rejuvenated the Master’s body slightly and stopped it from decaying, then the Master rode the energy waves of the eye into one of the TARDIS’ spare rooms. Noticing this, the TARDIS then proceeded to eject that spare room into the time vortex. The Master then existed in the Bruce body for a little while before at some point he ended up back in the eye of harmony and the Bruce body was destroyed. However, due to his new physiognomy as a deathworm morphant, the Master survived as a gaseous entity and eventually tricked one of the Doctor’s companions into releasing him from the eye. The Master then spent a few decades on Earth hopping from body to body due to them always reverting to the decayed state the Master was in before he was eventually captured by UNIT in the 90’s. At some point though, UNIT recovered the Master’s TARDIS in the Egyptian pyramids and the Master escaped and went to the planet Parrak in search of the tomb of Artron, a Timelord who was believed to have discovered a way to love forever without need for regeneration. He teamed up with another Timelord called the Eleven to find Artron’s brain print but the Eleven betrayed him and took the brain print for himself, leaving a species called the Ravenous to consume the Master’s regeneration energy and kill him. Unfortunately for the Eleven, he then went on to encounter three other incarnations of the Master who killed him and took the brain print for themselves, they then went to Parrak and resurrected their previous incarnation using the brain print and granted him a new regeneration cycle. A new body, at last.
The Master has actually died, though. On several occasions. The rainbow coloration might come from one of his attempts at cheating death, as I seem to remember reading about him spending time as something "else" via transferring his mind over to a different body. At some point, he must've given the new body the ability to regenerate, making his color indicative of his body at the time not being from Gallifrey. Because I don't think the ability to regenerate is common among all Gallifreyans (or even a natural occurrence for their species), just those belonging to the Time Lords
@@chrisfredricklinkous I believe it was said that his current regeneration cycle is because that the timelords revived him and granted a whole new one (similar to what they did to the Doctor on Trenzalore) so that he could fight in the time war
Weirdly enough I thought The Master's regeneration look was intentional, like it actually works for me because It's so like, chaotic. John Simm screaming etc, I don't think the scene would've worked with the regular gold look. It makes it stand out and look chaotic as hell.
I don't know how it is in England, but the BBC America cut of Journey's End always upsets me because let cut the Doctor's and Wilfred's goodbye to like 15 seconds when it is actually over a minute long. They cut the Wilfred entire speech about looking up in the sky on Donna's behalf. The scene still gets me to this day.
@@chriswalton6899 Ad revenue, I suspect? To make more time for ads? (Either that, or they are worried "kids of today" won't have the patience for "an old man's sad musings".)
We never get cuts in England on the bbc as there’s no adverts to cram in. America really butchers apart the last of the timelords as well. I swear I’ve seen that there’s about ten scenes missing
Davies' comments on the Master's regeneration were to do with the overall effect - the energy shooting out of the Time Lord's limbs. Not the colours. His point was that regeneration in Classic Who was very inconsistent, and he wanted something more unified. The colours were different because his intention was that the colours vary for each Time Lord. The Doctor's energy is golden because he's the hero. The masters are white/green/red because they're more associated with villains. Every time lord having the same regeneration effect was a Moffat Who thing. I feel like the 9th Doctor's regeneration effect was originally intended to be a one-time thing, the energy being expelled was supposed to be the energy from the Heart of the TARDIS. But when it came time for the Master's regeneration, they needed to come up with an effect, and decided that the 9th Doctor's one worked well as a general regeneration effect.
I'm pretty sure the main reason the Reapers never reappeard was because in "Father's Day" the past version of the Doctor and Rose saw the future version of Rose when she saved Pete. Not just because they fiddled with a fixed point in time like so many other episodes.
Exactly. It was mentioned in the show that crossing your own timeline was a terrible idea. The paradox that was created was past Rose and the Doctor observing something they hadn't observed the first time through, because of the actions of future Rose. The act of saving her father wouldn't have caused a huge disruption if it didn't change Rose's observed past. That said, she would have had to have been deprived of him during her whole childhood to avoid that, as if he was around, her observed past (no father around) would have been contradicted and caused the paradox. She could never accomplish what she wanted deep down, which was to be raised by both parents.
It's fairly safe to assume that it's also because it was a human that did it. Most Time Lords would be instinctively more subtle in such meddling in ways that wouldn't cause such dire consequences. Though of course most Time Lords wouldn't meddle AT ALL if they could help it. But higher species in general would straight up be better at it.
In the original series, touching your past self would destroy the universe. It was a plot point with the Brigadier meeting himself by way of the Doctor.
It doesn't matter anyway. The Doctor said that the Reapers were creatures which were attracted by the damage to the timeline, he didn't say they would ALWAYS be there in such circumstances. Sharks are attracted to bleeding seals, but not every bleeding seal gets eaten by a shark.
I remember reading somewhere that at least one showrunner had said of the Sonic Screwdriver "It can do whatever you want, as long as the screwdriver itself isn't the solution to the story's conflict."
The edits of the series after a first run have put a shadow over a few of 10’s era. In my opinion the worst offense is in Journey’s End. When 10 returns Rose and the meta crisis Doctor to the bay, the scene is edited from the original run. After Rose finds out that the meta only has one heart and he declares he could spend his life with her, Rose asks him what he was going to say to her the last time they stood on this beach. Meta crisis leans in and whispers in her ear presumably saying that he loves her. THAT is when Rose accepts him and kisses him. That 45 second cut changes the whole scene IMO. Rose is getting a doctor that finally can express his love freely in the original. In the edited version, she settles for a copy. Just my opinion but that tonal shift takes away the power of that scene.
I'm actually a big fan of how over 2000 years the Doctor has added lots of technology to his device. Of course it is more helpful now than 1500 years ago. I like that his screwdriver is indicative of how powerful they have gotten. Especially since they don't like weapons.
I remember back in the Peter Davison era, when the sonic screwdriver was ditched for a while because it was becoming way too easy to fix /everything/ with it. Personally, I think it should be lost again. It leads to lazy writing. Let the Doctor use intelligence to solve problems again, rather than a quick blast of the old Sonic magic-plot-resolver.
I have always thought that the 'new' regeneration with all that energy being released was just special effect for the sake of special effect. If that happened whenever a Timelord regenerated on Gallifrey there would have to be secure facilities for it to happen - otherwise each would be blowing up their immediate surroundings. And what happened to the concept of regeneration failure - which is why the Zero room was needed - or the elixir from Karn which was used in case of problems with a regeneration.
The one about Dodo's accent is even more amusing because in some of the following stories the Doctor still criticises her dialect as the scripts were already written and not adapted. And another for the 7th Doctor episode swaps, 'Silver Nemesis' and 'The Greatest Show in the Galaxy' were swapped to that order last minute so there would be a Cyberman adventure on the 25th anniversary, this can be spotted by a badge/earring that Ace gains in the latter but is clearly wearing in the former.
My headcanon for why the masters regeneration is multicoloured is its simply a side effect of the chameleon arch, in the sense that he had just been 'freed' from it and was then almost immediately shot and regenerated leading to a few side effects.
I remember reading a theory that the FIRST Doctor was the half-human one, since several times it's mentioned by humans that his heartbeat is 'normal'... which it wouldn't be if he had two hearts as is Time Lord standard. After his regeneration into the Second Doctor, his body went into pure Gallifreyan biology
In the books, Gallifreyans are naturally born with one heart. It was only after the virus created by the Other (Tecteun) that Rassilon took credit for that allowed for Time Lords to regenerate that Time Lords gained a second heart. The "first" Doctor is only the first Doctor out of the looms. In Lungbarrow he threw himself into the looms as part of some plan to save himself and his family, and promised his granddaughter Susan that he'd back for her. They also took the Doctor Who movie's arc to say that the Doctor really is half human on his mother's side. His mother's name was Penelope Gate. His other parent's name was "Ulysses," who was a Time Lord explorer and kept the true nature of his/her/their child a total secret. Implying that the Doctor was essentially born to a similar manner that River Song was, conceived within the Time Vortex, which could explain for the evolutionary ability to regenerate before anyone else. However, at some point during "the War in Heaven" (a Time War that predated the Great and Last one) the Doctor began to doubt his own history and stated that at some point his parents "opted out of their responsibilities" and left him abandoned somewhere. Which could have been the arc Chris Chibnall based his "Timeless Child" theory on, it being just another one of those timey-wimey things that super nerds will catch and make connections to. But I guess you could argue that's just a theory. A FAN THEORY..
The UNIT Timeline. The first time you see UNIT, it's creation date is what is originally was. Remember the Doctor's movement back and forth through history does have smaller effects that must build up. For example Torchwood Institute would not exist until the Doctor encountered Queen Victoria in the 'Tooth and Claw' Episode. And for much of the early Doctor Who it did not even though he was on Earth long after that event but still long before he arrived at that event. It wasn't until he in he OWN timeline got closer to the time point that this would happen that the Torchwood creation in the earths past but doctors future would begin winding itself into encounters with the Doctor. The permutation of the timeline change was finally built up enough to enter in the same sequences of events that the Doctor was in, before he actually reached that point. Similarly, the first time the Doctor encounters Unit, it had a particular creation date. However future changes to the past, causes that piece of history to change slightly, and UNIT is now formed years before it originally was. The timelines get all wibbily wobbly, especially if it is not a fixed point.
Paul Cornell was asked about the lack of Reapers in other temporal meddling situations as far back as the Gallifrey 2006 convention, and his answer was that he’d included the line “us being here twice over made this a weak point in time,” specifically anticipating that particular question. The Reapers don’t appear every time time gets messed with, simply because it’s already established that they don’t.
I think the reapers never appearing again was because the Doctor said they were bacteria feeding on a wound in time that was created by there being two versions of the doctor and rose being there when rose changed time to save her dad, making it a weak point in time.
Also remember how Rose wasn't allowed to touch the baby (that had different color eyes, might I add?) because interacting with yourself in another timeline would cause a huge paradox, yet it is totally fine for Amy, and all the iterations of the doctor to hang out with each other... and don't even get me started on the Master and Missy.
Rainbow regeneration was also used in the seventh doctor’s regeneration in the episode Time of the Rani where his face had different colors before showing Sylvester McCoy's face just before the opening titles.
OK, just to respond to some of these: 10. Maybe there might have been something different with when the Master regenerated. 9. All those other paradoxes might have just had something different to the one in Father's Day. Plus, Pompeii erupting was a fixed point. The Doctor just saving one family wasn't. 8. Maybe something just happened that changed Dodo's voice. 7. When you were saying about that, I thought you were going to bring up the fact about how it was said in A Town Called Mercy that Rory had left his phone charger behind during King Henry VIII's time which the Doctor, Amy and Rory went to in The Power of Three (the very next episode). To that, I would've returned with a statement about how the reason for that second trip was to pretty much retrieve the charger. 6. Another part of Last of the Time Lords that was cut out was the Master singing to the song I Can't Decide by the Scissor Sisters. Parts of Voyage of the Damned were also cut on international releases. 4. The Doctor supposedly being "half-human" has been brought up again; when Ashildr was talking to the Doctor about the Hybrid in Hell Bent, she said that it could've been him since he was half-human/half-Gallifreyan. There are also statements that the Doctor isn't actually half-human and that he either just made it up or there were still some parts of him that hadn't completely regenerated yet. 2. I've heard complaints about the Sonic Screwdriver's overuse and people saying that if that is kept up, then it will get removed from the show again like what happened during the Fifth Doctor's time.
I hate the American TV movie, but I agree. The doctor is famous for lying, and it could with a stretch have been metaphorical. He really is psychologically more human than normal Gallifreyan.
I'm fine with the Master doing or being just about anything. He's always been a real bonkers rules breaker, and it's not like we've seen a lot of regenerations from different Time Lords. River wasn't really one, so hers I consider a one off anyway. Romana had complete control over hers in the original series, for another example. If anything, one could ask why The Master's was so similar to The Doctor's.
One of my favorite things with the UNIT timeline is The Brig speaking to a female prime minister years before that happened and Sarah Jane claiming to come from 1980 in one episode while discussing going back to UNIT. I LOVE that UNIT was your top pick because… it needed to be.
@@StillJustDreaming Kate Stewart asks for some files on the Zygons, saying they're filed under either the 70s or 80s, "depending on the dating protocol". The Tenth Doctor also says he worked for UNIT in "The 1970s, or was it the 80s?" in The Sontaran Stratagem.
My head-canon is that the 8th Doctor was half-human in that body only as he regenerated after being operated on for gunshot wounds, which would have involved human blood (DNA) getting into his body, which is also why it took so long and he regenerated in the morgue. I may be totally wrong but that's how I reconcile it. :)
The reapers have room to return if it's rewritten as 'a paradox involving the time traveler's own direct history that the universe can't account for'. The doctor crossing time streams is solved my amnesia by all but the latest, but by saving Rose's dad, she'd have a history with him in it. River Song is a time traveller who greatly affected the universe, but she didn't meddle with her own history, she meddled with her present so it's a different effect. Also it makes sense she doesn't remember it because of the whole time crossing streams. The River who came to watch was the older one. This also shows why the butterfly effect was never an issue. Stuff gets straightened out in the long run if it can.
I've said it more times than I can mention. The Doctor and Rose didn't just change time by saving Pete, first Rose tried to be there for her Dad, only to run away. It was when she went back to try again that she stepped in to save her dad. That wasn't changing just the distant past but the recently written past. It's like trying to tweak a tattoo, only to add something else you don't like and then you step in to fix the whole thing, completely wrecking the whole thing and now your arm is actually bleeding. Weak points crop up again and again, which is why river's change wrecked the whole thing and Sarah Jane let the trickster in.
I was rewatching season 1 and noticed that in the Day of the Doctor, the clip where Eccleston goes "for my next trick," was actually a throw away take from S1E12
Yes, it is. They wanted Chris taking part in the story, in fact the War Doctor was created after Eccleston refused, the originally intended script had 9th in place of the War Doctor, but they had to re-write it. Anyway as Chris refused to take part, not just as one of the 3 main characters, but overall, they had to use existing footage, like with the others. So they used that line "And for my next trick", from his finale, when he rushed to rescue Rose on the Dalek Mothership.
The sonic screwdriver being able to do more could just show how the doctor is becoming more modern and just upgrading it from regeneration to regeneration
I feel like the more powerful sonic screwdriver and the psychic paper were included to deal with the NuWho standard format of 45 min episodes as opposed to stories made up of multiple parts
Also another thing I want to say it's a show about time travel so inconsistencies actually make it more realistic because every time the doctor runs around and changes things he's changing timelines and every time he saves someone he's changing the timeline the whole point is to not change anything to drastic so switching the date of the creation of some organization to a couple years or maybe tens of 20 years into the past or moving it into the future isn't that big of a deal as long as it doesn't cause any major like differences and daily life for the majority of the universe, small little inconsistencies make it make sense really how can you go around touching and playing with the universe and time itself like it's not going to cause changes
I've always imagined that the Doctor Who series is just The Doctor telling the story of their life, years from now. All the inconsistencies are just The Doctor mis-remembering things or getting slight details wrong. After all, every time we think back on a memory, a slight detail is changed. As for the sonic screwdriver, it becoming gradually more powerful isn't a problem in my eyes. The Doctor is basically a genius, so I could see him modifying his main tool to fill more and more roles. After all, being prepared is smart, especially when you don't know what you're getting into half the time. My biggest problems with any movie or show is the "prophecy" plotlines. They're dumb and detract from the characters. Someone who became a legend because of their actions and character will always be infinitely more interesting than someone who was always going to become a legend because of the circumstances of their birth.
I've always seen turning a regular glasses to a sunglasses as a gag. After all, DW is a british show and it makes fun of many different things. Super-duper advanced sci-fi technologies can easily be one of them.
In my DVD version of Series 1, there are 2 changes from the original broadcast. In the empty child when Richard Wilson transforms, there’s no sound but in the original, there’s a noise like skin stretching and bones cracking. Then, in the episode where we see Margaret the slitheen again, there’s a line cut when she’s talking about her execution, she says a line about guessing the names of her organs as they plop out when in the acid bath.
The Rainbow Regeneration actually works fine for The Master, though. One can never be sure what jiggery pokery beyond the pale he's employing to regenerate. All we ever know for sure is he'll be back next time, of how he came back explanation totally optional.
Well The Doctor wasn't that brilliant in the original series. He was average at best for a Timelord and once tried to steal Romana's sonic screwdriver because she built one that was better than his.
The Reapers probably never come back because everything the Doctor does is supposed to happen, but the Reapers are part of what the Doctor is afraid of happening when he's terrified about losing Amy and Rory. The Doctor also finds moments where he can simply replace a person or object with another, allowing time to keep flowing naturally, like having those tiny "Meet Dave" aliens turn their ship into the Doctor so that River can finish her mission unsuspected. There's also no real way of knowing which family to save or not save from a disaster like Mt. Vesuvius, because they'll basically have nothing to start with going forward.
Honestly the Sonic Screwdriver upgrade actually is answered in The Day of The Doctor and 13's Sonic was a created by her in her first episode, and given her experience up to that point in all her previous incarnations, she would've installed all the necessary new functions.
River's timeline "in reverse" compared to the Doctor's timeline. It's not a literal his first meeting is her last, esp when we see Melody born in the FUTURE in AGMGTW and get several more River episodes after, including her completing her archeology professorate in 51st century. It's like a plate of chronal spaghetti, in that their lives intersect at different points, not necessarily in the same order. Adding in River references her age at about 200yo in "Husbands" and the audios have her meeting literally EVERY Doctor, only adds to the confusion.
The Master's regeneration was different because he had corrupted his essence throughout his lifetimes. He wasn't even in an actual Galifreyan body for much of it: (Ainley & Roberts at the very least). As for the Sonic's ever-growing abilities... over the centuries, TheDoctor would update and enhance it. No problem.
The most recent sonic was built by the doctor herself, as she apparently is good at building things. Letting the doctor build something will almost always have you end up with something with more uses than it was originally used for.
The one that bugs me is "UNified Intelligence Taskforce", ignoring any reference to the United Nations. They could have made up something about different groups (including old UNIT) joining to make new UNIT. This might be because my first Doctor was Jon Pertwee and I grew up watching the original UNIT stories.
I've a solution to the UNIT dating controversy. While it has been addressed in show, with Kate remarking that a particular file should be listed under x date, "...according to the dating protocols," a much simpler explanation is provided in Classic Who. Alistair's memory is affected be the events of Mawdryn Undead, to the point he totally repressed every memory he had dealing with the Doctor. Why could such psychological damage also not explain his confusion over dates? If that is not a good enough answer, can anyone please tell me exactly where in MU there is any reference to the actual date the story took place? Given Web of Fear took place approx 15 years in the future, is it not possible that Classic Who's idea of "present day" may similarly be skewed?
When Tegan arrived at the school where the Brig was teaching, she discovered it was the day of the Queen's Silver Jubilee in 1977. The time differential between Tegan and the Doctor at that point was stated to be six years, so that put the main action in 1983 (when the episode was transmitted). But for the Brig to be teaching at a school in 1977, he had to have retired from UNIT before then. Conclusion: cock-up on the temporal front.
@@mikenash7049 i guess it has a long time since I'd seen that story. Guess my long term memory is gong the same way as my short term. Thanks for the correction.
So the main reasons that my two favourite show are Babylon 5 and DS9 is their attention to detail and their string continuity, one episode leads into the next building upon each other so that in mid season 4 we can get a pay off to a story that was started back in season one, I’m really glad that more shows are now following this idea as to me it just makes it more interesting to watch if by the end of the episode things don’t reset to normal (this was bugbear of mine for almost every Trek show).
About the Sonic - There are moments that imply the Doctor is constantly tinkering with things and adding new stuff. Look at 10 and his machine-that-goes-ding that... "Lights up in the presence of shapeshifting DNA. Also, it can microwave frozen dinners from up to 20 feet and download comics from the future. I never know when to stop." While I agree the Sonic is totally OP and overused now, it's very likely he's enhanced it over the centuries, so what started out as a simple screwdriver is now more of a Swiss Army Knife on steroids.
I feel like you could attribute the screwdriver to the doctor meddling with it for centuries. They change the look so probably adds extra tools and toys to it while doing so
I think with the Masters first regeneration it could be, that they wanted to differentiate between the Master and The Doctor. One thing that confused me, which hopefully someone can clarify for me? was Smith’s Regeneration, into Capaldi’s Doctor. No Golden flames, just throws his head back and changes.
@@rhy5d3ll It's also attributable to it being a whole new regeneration cycle. The first regeneration has always traditionally been a doozy. For a long time the first regeneration was traditionally throught of as being when a time lord gets their second heart.
One point about regeneration that is totally forgotten now comes from the Tom Baker era when Mary Tamm the original Romana and I'm my opinion the most beautiful companion ever simply chose to regenerate as a lark like trying on a new outfit, she was not hurt or dying. Very strange
I mean, the expanding capabilities of the sonic screwdriver makes sense. The doctor is a tinkerer. They're constantly tweaking and improving it. It started off as a fairly simple device, a kind of advanced screwdriver that used sonic vibrations to operate, allowing it to move things that a regular screwdriver couldn't reach. Over time, the Doctor has built more and more capabilities into it, but still calls it "the sonic screwdriver", for the same reason I still call this device that provides GPS navigation, games, word processing, and on which I'm writing this comment, a "cellphone". Sometimes I even still make calls with it, but frankly, even if I never did, I'd still call it a cellphone, and so would you.
I always noticed the rainbow regeneration and i loved it if you pay attention all of the regenerations have slight differences and i think thats wonderful
The half-human thing was for American audiences. The film appeared around the same time as a big explosion in new sci-fi shows, and Star Trek was the main sci-fi that American audiences knew. Doctor who was therefore supplemented with Trek references, like being half-human, and the chameleon circuit being called a "cloaking device". This video doesn't mention another change brought by the TV movie: according to The Five Doctors in 1983, the "Eye of Harmony" was on Gallifrey but by 1996 it had moved into the TARDIS.
I think the timeline error in Mawdryn Undead can be forgiven since the Brigadier wasn't originally intended to be in the story. The teacher role was supposed to be played by Ian Chesterton but the actor was unavailable so at the last second they did a rewrite for it to be the Brigadier instead. Since it wasn't originally a Brigadier story the writers probably wouldn't pay attention to almost 20 year old lore.
Fans: We don’t like the change to the doctors change in heritage in the movie! Chibnall: I’m gonna drastically change the doctors heritage and make it such a huge point it’s difficult to retcon!
I think the Pompeii one wouldn't have logically brought forth the reapers. The reason the reapers showed up was because two sets of Doctor and Rose as well as two TARDIS's so close together physically and in their same time stream made time weak. In Pompeii there were no such weaknesses.
I didn’t realise at the time TBH. There’s also the matter of the disappearing eyebrows. I think they got absorbed and came back with a vengeance with the 12th Doctor. 😄
At the time I was convinced the Master's regeneration was foreshadowing that regenerations were getting more extravagant the closer you get to your last, which would explain why the Master's might be more colourful and why 9's was a massive blast of energy instead of a quick glowy fade as the classic series had. It even kind of lined up with 10 blowing up the Tardis interior, but given 11's first of a new set of regenerations being so extravagant as to somehow blow up a spaceship and 12's being back to a golden blast, I guess I was wrong.
They really need to give unit some teeth. In dr who they just get smacked about by nearly every alien they encounter. The sontarin episode was the first time in a long while it seemed they were a real force to be reckoned
You can change fixed points if you know how. If you know. What you are doing. The Doctor knows how to change certain fixed points where as Rose did not. Whether or not you get "reapers" depends a lot on what got changed and how it was changed.
The reason for the "half human" thing in the TV Movie was because the movie was meant to be a pilot for a series, and in the series there would have been a story arc in which the Doctor was searching for his Time Lord father, named Ulysses I believe, who came to Earth and fathered the Doctor with a human woman - completely changing all the lore from the Classic series. There would have been lots of other changes in the proposes series, such as the Daleks looking like metal spiders.
With all the doctors intellect it's surprising how the doctor still hasn't managed to resolve the problem with the sonic screwdriver unlocking wooden doors. Seemingly there is no setting for wood!
the way I like to sort of headcanon the Reapers bit is to take nine's analogy of them as bacteria even further. It was said that when a wound in time opens they're the bacteria that get inside and infect it, and I just like to think that time isn't _crawling_ with this bacteria and that they only infect if they just happen to be around when a wound occurs
The doctor says that the Time Lords used to somehow stop the Reapers from appearing before the Time War, it's my headcannon that now the Doctor does whatever the time lords were doing to handle them. He was still fresh out of the time war in Father's Day so I imagine he was just used to the time lords dealing with them and in this episode he realised that he'd have to deal with them himself now, hence them not appearing afterwards
What annoys me is that Rose is clearly 2005, as cemented by End Of Time pt2's ending. Then Aliens of London, Rose has been missing for 12 months. But then the date's not mentioned again until series 5 which is clearly 2010. So do s1-4's "present" take place a year in the future, meaning also SJA and Torchwood happen a year out too? (I can't remember if dates are mentioned in Torchwood or SJA)
Well I remember that the Tardis required a specific key to enter. Then it was added that the Doctor had to wield the key to open the Tardis. Then that concept was dropped entirely
It was mentioned in a episode. The Doctor updates the security of the door so his companions can enter with their own keys. The keys are coded to their DNA.
I thought anyone could use the key, but there was a trick to using the lock without breaking it? That was why Susan had to go back to the TARDIS in the original Daley serial. Timelord DNA was needed to fly the ship, however.
the Doctor tells Sutka (pyramid of Mars) the key is Isomorphic (one to one) and no one else can use the key but him. but I think that was just a lie, because Sara Jane Smith used it shortly after.
Yeah i think with how long the doctor character had been going on, its almost impossible to not have any mistakes and i think the reason for the sonic being so over powered is because in my eyes it makes good tv, i love watching the doctors use the sonic and all his or her technology it just makes it wayyyyy better
did anyone else forget the whole fact that the doctor "is on his last regeneration" as Matt Smith, goes to Peter, then we find out that the Doctor is actually a timeless child and those "gifted regenerations" were not even needed?
Maybe the half human thing is slowly being explained in Jodie's era. The Timeless Child could be a futuristic human who passed through the gates and became the genetic material for Timelords. The Doctor isn't the TC but has the human DNA still, same with the rest of the Time Lords- explains how they look just like us even though they aren't from Earth and Gallifrey looks nothing like Earth so they didn't evolve to look like that.
They don't look like us, we look like them. It's well established, that Time Lords were first (one or more regeneration of the Doctor said that), way before the humans were jumping down from the trees. And just because Gallifrey doesn't look anything like Earth, doesn't mean the evolution couldn't happen the same way there. According to Timeless Children (episode) the Shobokan's (original Gallifreyans) were exactly like humans, one heart and stuff. They altered themselves to become Time Lords after researching the child (and not all, not the whole race, just some of them, so there still are human-like Gallifreyans).
The paradox of saved dad is that: if Pit survives Rose would never decide to save him, if Rose did not save him he would not survive etc. In other situations there is no such a paradox: nor saving family in Pompey, nor saving people on Mars were the goal of The Doctor. River somehow changed time without time travel (it was nor older River, who saved The Doctor, but younger River).
I think the Master's regeneration works as he has had really weird regeneration processes over the years. It would make sense having him be different as he is a "bad" character so it makes sense to be opposite to the Doctor's. Also the Sonic Screwdriver has grown with the Doctor over the years, you could imagine its uses have grown the same way the Doctor has. This was shown in the 50th that a process started by the War Doctor was completed by the time it got to Matt Smith's era!
The Reapers not showing up in the Waters of Mars could be due to the fact that the fixed point was Adelaide Brooke dying, which she still did, and her arrival back on Earth so suddenly could be explained by the other survivors explaining which still inspired Susie to pioneer space travel, no paradox. Also saving the family in Fires of Pompeii wouldn't alter the time line too much since the fixed point was the Volcano erupting, not that family dying due to it But yeah even though the Angels Take Manhatten paradox was short, would have been cool to see the Reapers appear and they should have
They hung a hat on the Unit Dating issue in Day of the Doctor. Kate Stewart call someone to look up a file on multiple doctors appearing together saying, "dated 70s or 80s depending on the filing system."
I maintain that as a Time Lord, if The Doctor makes a change to time it’s an authorised change to time. The reapers appear after a human, someone who isn’t authorised, changes events.
The screwdriver upshift in power have been addressed at the library episode (the death ofriver song /first meeting of the doctor and river song) and river had the heavily modified screwdriver and the doctor is confused and impressed with the modifications.
4:23 I'm pretty sure I've only ever watched the longer version since I had it on DVD and watched it on BBC Iplayer. But in a similar vein, someone recently mentioned a cut scene in Voyage Of The Damned that I swear I've seen, so I'm wondering if that might have got the same treatment.
My understanding is that the UNIT dating controversy stems from the fact that Ian Chesterton was replaced by the Brigadier in Mawdryn Undead due to William Russell being unavailable. Is this in fact the case?
I'm pretty sure the Doctor's half-human ancestry is obliquely referenced by Ishildr in the 12th Doctor episode "Hell Bent." Doesn't mean it's canon, but it is a clever nod to the TV movie.
The concept and fan attitude were also alluded to in The Parting of the Ways: Doctor: So you created an army of Daleks out of the dead. Rose: But that makes them... half human? Dalek Emperor: Those words are blasphemy! Daleks: Do not blaspheme! Do not blaspheme! Do not blaspheme!
There was also a really cute and subtle reference in a Big Finish audio where the Master told another Timelord to use his eye on one of those retina scans instead of the Doctor because he remembered that the 8th doctor’s retina print wasn’t appropriate.
3 points. 1: the Sonic constantly ‘evolving’ as the Doctors keep regenerating makes perfect sense. 2: The one ‘Doctors’ over reliance on it can be simply put down to poor script writing. As he was too busy trying to rewrite the Lore and Wokifying the canon. 3:EVERYTHING else can simply be resolved with one line. ‘Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey’
I was so hoping they'd address how the Tardis' exterior has changed throughout the series when the chameleon circuit is supposed to be broken and how in series 5 the Tardis' windows kept changing between black and white
I believe during Matt smiths tenure they explained at one point that the chameleon circuit actually worked perfectly and still chose a shape to blend in just before landing, but for some inexplicable reason less than a millisecond later would always finalize it's shape as a police box. That would explain the frequent changes over the years.
