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Only because k9 would break down on set all the time but it would be nice if they bring k9 back they should have done it in the 60th anniversary and give him to Donna
@@MrKbassett17 I mean technically Luke Smith should still have him, Clyde came back in Tales Of The Tardis so perhaps other SJA Characters could return down the line. Luke with K9 being 2.
Theta Sigma ΘΣ was Greek abbreviation for "God" in the Greek version of the New Testiment. It also turns out that in early written manuscripts, Theta Sigma ΘΣ was sometimes mistranscribed as Omicron Theta ΟΣ which translates to "Who". ( or the reverse where Omicron Sigma was transcribed as Theta Sigma)
Theta Sigma is referenced in "The Pandorica Opens" when the Doctor translates the oldest writing in the universe and it says Hello Sweetie and then has coordinates. While the Theta Sigma part is probably just part of the coordinates, I like to think it was River poking fun at the Doctor.
@@ThomasCorrie Actually the original Doctor stepping out of the teleporter died, but he resets the chamber at the end of each cyclus and it has an identical data print inside, which then "prints" an instance of the Doctor from his entry point, it's basically the original Doctor over and over and over again, not a new "clone" of the Doctor. Kinda like a time loop. Each Doctor does the same stuff, some do it slightly differently (later Doctors count more skulls in the lake, more time passing), but that really doesn't matter, each Doctor starts from that same point, when leaving the teleporter chamber.
See, now I’m wondering if when the doctor turned to 13 that it’s not really a time lord but an amalgamation of the doctor and the timeless child. Then, when 13 regenerates…it resets and picked a doctor that originally cheated the regeneration process (10 and his hand turning into the meta-crisis doctor) Then when 14 splits into 15…perhaps now the timeliness child is separated from the time lord.. My head hurts
Apparently River Song knew the Doctor's name in the first episode she ever showed up, way back in season 4. She wispers it to him to prove they have been close, the audience never hears it.
thats because the Doctor tells her his name when they get married , which is a later episode in the Doctors timeline. but an earlier episode in Rivers timeline
@@barthvapour No, the first time The Doctor meets River was when River died. So everything she did is earlier in her timeline than that. Darillium was where she got the sonic that Tenant used to "save" her to the hard drive.
You missed the Theta Sigma Easter Egg in New Who. If you go back to The Pandorica Opens - the cliff face. Ignore the "Hello Sweetie" and look at the 2nd line of text instead. It begins with the Greek letters Theta Sigma.
@@danieloneal7137 Theta Sigma is a VERY obscure bit of Doctor Who trivia even for Classic Who fans. It was very easy to miss - it took me several viewings before I noticed.
4:43 I like to believe that the moon was a giant egg episode was just some sort of fever dream that Clara had after bumping ahead in the title library or something
Reminds me of the movie The Man From Earth. "I call myself John. Almost always do." There's a lot more to the quote. But I don't want to spoil the scene it's taken from.
Since his nickname is "ΘΣ" it would make sense to look at the name "John" in Greek as well. The name comes from the ancient Greek term meaning "Traveller" or "wanderer", being the present neuter participle of ιεναι (to go).
@@lanceash Oi, that's really good. I like how the book is outdated even from the first page because so much of it is predicated upon the UK not doing pizza delivery. Also, it's nice.
With the heaven sent thing, I always thought of it like the doctor loading an old save file of himself and not just creating a whole new version of himself
Yeah, the teleporter was part of the fiction created for the torture chamber in the modified confession dial. He just went into the dial and got messed with for 4.5 billion years, as proven by the fact that once confronted by the diamond wall, he remembers seeing the word “bird” written in the dust and this triggers his memories of every past trek through the loop. He teeters on the brink of despair, imagines what Clara would tell him, and then his oppositional defiant disorder takes over and he goes back to punching the wall. This is all obvious upon rewatch and to claim otherwise at this point is just willful ignorance because nerds love to trot out the “um ACTUALLY teleports KILL YOU” when ACTUALLY tele-porters are a fictional device imagined to reduce production costs and streamline sci-fi narratives, they are just magic carpets with a fresh coat of paint, and being obsessed with the reality of death to the point that you compulsively misrepresent the plots of stories written by other people because you desperately need to tell someone “actually they are dead” is a sign that you have not accepted this and are probably still fixating on some childhood trauma.
@@kalinystazvoruna8702 it’s basically their most consistently written personality trait, and I’m a bit surprised Moffat never had him fall into a trap based around it; if you want the Doctor to do something, just imperiously proclaim that he must not do that thing edit: ahaha now I’m realizing that why Daleks are his constant enemy; they’re incapable of expressing themselves in any manner other than imperious proclamations
@@blinkowarner3117 yeah I know that but the statement that "the original doctor is dead" doesn't make sense to me cause the doctor brought back himself from when he first arrived in the confession dial castle it's not a clone of himself (I don't know if that makes sense but I hope it does)
The confession dial is a pocket dimension, not a simulation, he really dies, and him " remembering " his past loops is not remembering, he works it out.
@@greymage5335 the fact that the wall of crystal is a real thing he can actually remove bits of every cycle, and you can see within the dial while outside it... the galifrayin technology they used is the same as was used in the tardis and the paintings the doctor got inside. an extra dimensional space, the galifrayins can make simulations and digital worlds, because of the galifray hardrive used by missy... but that could only hold a consciousness, and needed to store bodies elsewhere.
@@darkling-studios Well, yeah, and the skulls, but he directly stated he remembered it all, and it's implied the 4 billion years was a torture unto itself. I feel that when he left he had a full memory of every cycle and that he didn't actually die, it was time lord manipulation. But I can't deny your interpretation either.
in 1092 (and a half) years, David Tennant's 17th clone is playing the metacrisis Doctor in the second reboot of the Pete's World spin-off, and as the Doctor is about to be wed, he says "Rose Tyler, my name is-" then the credits roll followed by a preview of the next season that never gets released because the remaining five fans don't want to know the Doctor's name. Nobody reboots the franchise afterwards because nobody knows what to do with the Doctor's name being known, and they'd rather reboot the more popular rip-off "Professor Huh?" anyway
@@9nikolai I have sometimes thought "Professor" would be better than "Doctor," but it's too late now. Although Capaldi's Doctor was a professor for seventy-something years or whatever.
@@Dedition That the Moon that humankind has marveled at for millennia cracked open and flew off. It diminished the mystery of our Moon tremendously. Then, how the Doctor just abandons humanity and Clara to face such a horrific decision. It nearly ruined Capaldi's doctor for me.
@@ebonstone2980haven’t seen it in awhile so I’ll get back when I do, but I feel like it’s perfect for Doctor Who to have some mysterious and illustrious phenomena to just be something so simple to other aliens.
The Doctor himself tortured some villains (family of blood) He threw one into the event horizon of a collapsing star, made one the first scarecrow to consciously watch over fields forever and trapped the girl inside every mirror!
A lot of his incarnations was like that. Even thirteen was very much cold when it came to people that she didn't like or trust, such as when The Master came back, she scolded him for allowing her to die in Logopolis and how he left her to die after she was hit by Cybermen in that attack when she was the twelfth doctor. That's why The Valeyard was created during Colin Baker's run as The Doctor. It was meant to be The Doctor in all of his evil twisted self like The Master and even The Master was scared of The Valeyard.
Susan is a bit psychic in The Sensorites (although she is The Doctor's granddaughter so is Gallifreyan - I don't think we get confirmation that she is a Time Lord as she leaves long before the words Time Lord are ever used). Miss Hawthorne in The Daemons is a self-styled White Witch and can use her 'magic' against the Master's psychically summoned winds, so presumably has a little psychic ability too. Ace does indeed use her belief as a psychic shield to hold back the vampiric haemovores, and it's suggested that anyone would be able to do the same.
Psychic abilities were also a major plot point in Last of the Time Lords when every human on Earth joined forces to revive the Doctor, I'm surprised this wasn't mentioned!
Susan is more than a bit.I believe pretty sure she's got more psychic potential than the doctor It's just that poor writing.Just never gave her the chance to show off@OldManFerdiad Unless my memory is playing Tricks on Me.
@@plantainsame2049 genuinely think they were going to make her more psychic and didn't get around to it. At the time The Doctor was just a man, not a superbeing alien Time Lord. Teenage girl and psychic ability is a very common fiction trope too.
The Doctor didn't die in 'Heaven Sent'. He was trapped inside a Confession Dial, which held a pocket virtual reality in which the Doctor was subjected to a programmed loop. Imagine being transported into a video game in which you've an infinite number of resets back to the beginning, but each reset allows you to alter the ending little by little until you get the outcome you want. That's the situation the Doctor was in within the confines of the episode. In 'Hell Bent', he says the Confession Dial was never meant as a "torture chamber for the living," implying that he was alive the whole time and never actually died.
Only problem with that is that every time he repowered the teleporter, the version of him that teleported in had no memory of the events his previous selves had experienced. Unless the confession dial is some sort of subconscious trick, in which case the versions of him that 'died' were just his mind coping with the Confession danger.
@@68CastImp That could simply be because the program itself blocked his memories. When one is trapped in a simulation, death is meaningless and memories can be erased or altered.
Exactly. And even if he did physically ‘die’ at the end of each loop, his original consciousness was transferred to the fresh body, because toward the end of every loop he remembers the whole process having happened before.
@@Jazzdumpling The confusion stems partly from the poor writing not making clear enough that the whole experience had been a simulation, and partly from viewers taking things too literally.
@@TheWilkReport I'm not sure if confusion is the right word. Yes sometimes things need to be spelled out, but he was literally trapped in something called "A Confessions Dial", and the General said they only put him there to see what he knew (ie confess) about the Hybrid.
My guess is that the emergence of the Goblins after the Toymaker story wasn't a coincidence. The Doctor accidentally allowed the Toymaker into our dimension and the whole of reality is going to be suffering the results for a while yet - realising it and setting it right (see also Mavity) might well be Ncuti's character arc.
I’d like to think that Amy fixed the entropy issue with Big Bang 2. Wasn’t the crash of the ship that killed Adric also responsible for life on Earth? No wonder we have the Fermi Paradox! If life existing on Earth is the result of two seperate alien incidents, that goes a long way to explaining why we don’t find life everywhere! 😂 And, finally, I like to think the Doctor’s real name is “The Doctor”. Just like “Batman” is Bruce Wayne’s real name. Our real name is what we call ourselves, both consciously, and unconsciously. Growing up, I had a friend who was called “Trish”. Her real name is now Samira, which is how she thinks of herself, and what her husband calls her, even though she was “Trish” when they were married.
As I remember (and forgive me if I'm wrong, it's been a while) the ship that Adric died on wiped out the dinosaurs, paving the way for mammals and the rise of humans.
It’s still funny that Clara says we’ll be fine without tides. It’s not like most ocean life, especially the phytoplankton we rely on for an atmosphere, would all die killing every other life form on earth. Not to mention, the solution is so simple. Find a sizable rogue planet or clump some astroids together, tow them into orbit with the TARDIS, make a new moon.
You missed the opportunity to use a clip from An Unearthly Child. When Ian first meets Susan's grandfather, he says, 'Doctor Foreman.' The Doctor replies, 'Doctor who?'
There's another example of psychic powers in Planet of the Dead, Carmen the passenger on the bus hears the voices before going through the wormhole - and at the end of the episode, she gives the first speech telling us the Doctor's song is coming to an end.
Thank you Team WhoCulture. I always enjoy these kind of quirky “did you not realise before this?” type of video. As a total fanatic of the series since January 1970, I really enjoy getting to appreciate my favourite franchise from a new perspective. I’ve always been a “cup half full” kind of fan, although not blind to the faults others loudly decry, I really appreciate content like this which only adds to the positive view of the Doctors’ adventures. ❤
me too !! whilst criticism is sometimes necessary for improvement (and a little rant with a friend can be fun), i do like that this channel focuses a lot on the positive aspects too! sometimes i find that channels can become so bogged down in the negative aspects that it no longer becomes enjoyable to watch? i think it’s because it can end up feeling like the person does not even like the show at all haha 😁😁
4:47 Honestly you can't really talk about this without actually talking about the implications of teleportation technology and how it properly works in the Whoverse. And at that point it breaks down into the Ship of Theseus thought experiment. Not only do you have to talk about how teleportation works, but also Timelord regeneration as well, since it seems to follow a similar concept of breaking down the body and reconstituting it. To quote the Doctor himself: "If I'm killed before regeneration, then I'm dead. Even then, even if I change, it feels like dying. Everything I am dies. Some new man goes sauntering away… and I'm dead."
Regen is always a weird and fascinating one for me. That's how the Doctor thinks ahead towards regeneration, and how he experiences it in the moment. However, following the act, he picks up straight off, full memories, imploring any remaining companions to accept his authenticity as the same person. Of course, there's an "out of universe" element of regen from the lens of the outgoing vs incoming actor.
This is a universe where souls and multiple after lives kinonically exists.Yes, yes, it's the same guy teleporter.Regeneration whatever your soul is a physical thing that can be fucking stolen and shit The Doctor will live on as a biodata.Ghost in the time lord matrix or father half lying in the city of the saved or his mind will go into null space Where he might have a chance to get trapped in the middle and become a ghost
It also retroactively cheapens the death of every companion. As soon as you accept that a teleportation clone is the same person and there's no moral quandary involved, and also there's no "soul" which must be instantly transferred from one body to another with no interruptions, then you have to logical reason not to save and retrieve people from backups if they happen to perish. Therefore, if any companion dies, it only happens because Doctor couldn't be bothered to save them. It also ruins the Doctor's Daughter plot - Doctor was pretty adamant that time lords can not be cloned because they are more than just a combination of atoms. He ended up being wrong, but there is no way he could have had this obviously wrong belief if that's how teleports work in the setting.
"The smarty-pants people of Logopolis" This is the type of writing that keeps me coming back! The way I handle Kill the Moon is I consider portions canon, and others not canon, and then I don't worry about it. ("You can't do that! Either it's all canon, or none of it is!") It's a TV show; it's not real. Of course I can do that. This was a lot of fun. At several points I found myself grinning like an idiot. Well done. So sore throat better? I hope so. I said I'd keep asking, and it's just going to get weird. I can live with that.
There’s no offical canon anyway, meaning you get to pick and choose what’s canon and what’s not. Any discrepancies can be explained away with how much Time Travelling The Doctor does (by his own admission, he’s the being that’s time travelled the most in the universe)/ The ToyMaker making a puzzle out of his history. I mean, there’s now 3 different genesis of The Daleks (if you include that little RTD short with the un-handicapped Davros) I love this idea, especially coupled with TTC, as it means every time someone plays pretend and is The Doctor, is actually a long lost Doctor or a Doctor from the future/alternative universe. All those fan made Doctor Who shows on RU-vid/social media, they’re all canon if you decide it to be. Those B-movies made during the 90’s with Tom Baker and the actress who plays Romana 2 (which were heavily implied to be about The Doctor, but couldn’t use the characters names for copyright reasons, so they called him “The Traveller”) those are also canon. The fact there’s no official canon and is up to the fan getting to choose what’s their Doctor Who and what’s not, deepens the fan base’s connection with Doctor Who in my opinion. Like, what’s if we’re all The Doctor, but we just don’t remember, cause we’ve got our memories stored away, in a FobWatch???
I have to disagree with the teleporting one. The thing is, the confession dial is a self-contained pocket universe. When you consider that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, and matter is just energy slowed down enough to manifest physically, the energy his body is providing for the teleport means it basically is recreating himself from himself, like a different type of regeneration.
Agreed - but that just the Chicxulub impact that killed the dinosaurs. Not the start of life itself. And, no Chicxulub is not a Doctor Who reference. It is the name of the village in Mexico that sits in the center of the crater.
One thing most people overlook... BBC made it canon, right after the episode aired, that when David Tennant regenerated into David Tennant after being shot by the dalek, that was an official regeneration. Which officially made him both the eleventh and twelfth Doctors, respectively. Matt Smith was Doctor thirteen, which was the whole point of him constantly seeing the number 13, and being told he would die soon, and being imprisoned and growing old on Christmas, as it was a life sentence... Once he died, that was supposed to be it... No more regenerations. Except the Time Lords lent him the power to keep regenerating, making Peter Capaldi the Fourteenth Doctor.
Isn't the Canon now that the doctor is the original time lord and doesn't have a regeneration cap and everyone else was biologically given a cap? Was the season 12 finale I think
@@oopomopoo I mean in the current itineration. I think after the pre-Hartnell agency female Doctor, they erased their memories and locked them into a standard twelve regeneration Time Lord cycle, like with any other Time Lord. Whether or not Smith would have regenerated after he died of old age without the help of the other Time lords is unknown... It is possible this was locked off as a part of his sentence, since the ones who sentenced him knew they could. It is also possible that their helping him didn't just give him a new set of regenerations, but, rather, removed, or broke, the lock that had been placed on their own infinite regeneration abilities as a part of their twelve regeneration life sentence. This is just a personal theory.
@@allyndeimos I looked it up after the episode aired, and saw BBC confirmed it in some newspaper article, or, possibly web article... long time ago, not certain anymore... they had over there, likely from all the fans asking if it happened or not. Whether they retconned this decision, or not, since, I'm holding to the original statement made, as this makes Smith's run make far more sense.
@@LlorDrei I'm more inclined to believe that the fugitive Doctor's memery was scrubbed and the reprogramming after regeneration made them belive that they were the first incarnation and only had 12 regenerations, but because the Doctor is the Timeless Child, really has an infinite amount of them. The explosion of the Dalek fleet in "The Time of the Doctor" most likley caused by the infusion of regeneration energey, suplied by an ignorant Timelord Council, who didn't know the big secret and it "bleeding off" as the explosion, rather than being absorbed by the Doctor
He was the script editor on the show for that season. He rewrote the original script to the point that that person didn't want they're name attached to it, and so a pseudonym is used in the credits. You can see Douglas's work in other scripts as well (off the top of my head: The Pirate Planet, Creature from the Pit, and Shada--which was derailed by a labor strike).
You forgot the cybermen who crashed a spaceship onto earth and killing Adric as well as the dinosaurs, to make place for the mammals evolving into humans. And the (nick)name of the Doctor (known to River Song) was placed on a cliff-side on some prehistoric world along some coordinates and the greatings "hello sweety" for 11th
One thing that's never been addressed is the effect the Osirons building pyramids on Mars would have had on the Ice Warriors. After all they inspired the whole of Egyption civilisation so was Martian society similarly influenced?
In the expanded media it is explained that the Osirans sort of controlled early martian civilisation as well as later Egyptian civilisation they used the Ice Warriors to build things on Mars and had a big influence on their culture
The Logopolis story was probably in the distant future. That's the thing about Doctor Who, it happens in different time periods and in different timelines.
I may have this wrong, but I always thought the K9 the Doctor left for Sarah Jane at the end of SCHOOL REUNION was just the version we saw in that episode, but refurbished/repaired. The more advanced K9 (the one that flies) could have been ANY of the ones listed in the video, but is most likely to be the one that left with Leela. Why? Because he's on Gallifrey and even if he's mostly with the Shebogans he's the one most likely to be upgraded and travel through time.
The first Doctor that died in Heaven Sent ALSO wasn't the original Doctor. That Doctor stopped existing when he reset the universe in The Big Bang, and what we have in Heaven Sent is just Amy's memory of The Doctor.
I gotta add, the creature in the pit originates from a universe before the current one. One that very much HAD magic. In fact, it is implied magic did exist before the timelords removed it from the universe. (and kept some bits of it for themselves of course). Doctor Who always had magic, it's essentially just been hidden in the worlds largest cover up story until recently. Not to mention if you look at some older stories and books it's quite evident there clearly IS something the Doctor did not want to acknowledge from the very beginning.
#2: should actually be three spacecraft. You forgot the one where we see the first on-screen death of a companion when a ship crashes into the Earth, killing the dinosaurs sixty million years ago.
I personally have never gotten past the fact that the doctor spent 4 1/2 billion years punching for a wall, dying billions more times and as he says in the episode remembering it everytime. Honestly really makes sense why he is unhinged in Hell Bent… then never mentioned again.
And hate to be nit picky but if Moffett said that he usually spent a month in each cycle, and died times that by twelve then times that by 4.5 billion and its alot more then a few million. More like the continuing adventures of Doctor copy 68 billion!
I remember reading that the Doctor is the one person from Gallifrey, who is feared by the rest of Gallifrey. In ancient times, both Rassilon and Omega warned of the Doctor. He's also not as clever as he makes out, as he barely scraped through his PhD
you know how when talking of "Kill the Moon" you say that it's not the most narratively consequencial of details? this is true of all of these "Important" details :)
The Doctor isn't dead, they "bigenerated" which has never happened before in the history of Gallifrey and regeneration. The doctor that we have on our screens now IS THE Doctor. The reason why Thirteen regenerated into Fourteen and not Ncuti's Doctor, is because The Doctor was not only told "You'll revisit some favourites in the years to come!" by the curator, BUT, she regenerated into a previous version due to a) The Master taking over her body for a while and b) Fourteen getting what he was supposed to get in his tenth incarnation and that was the "prize" of having a family and being able to settle down, not worry about running around anymore. Essentially, The Doctor that Tennant played in the anniversary was able to die without having to worry about regenerating as the entire regeneration energy/cycle and the "timeless child" scenario was passed down to Ncuti's doctor incarnation.
I think when the doctor is in the Confession Dial his mind is in the whole place, its time lord tec like the watch that makes him human, its his mental energy inside it, thats why death following him and him coming back is the perfect torture for him because death is what was on his mind when he entered it. like how he comes back but the people he loves cant is the worced thing for him to face. and i think he remembers the other times at the wall cause when hes imagining being in the tardis he says" but i can remember clara, you dont understand i rememeber it all everytime and you'll still be gone" and that would make sense cause it wouldnt be a good way to get information out of him if he couldnt remember each time, like the wall is like he remembers and they're like tell us and you get to go home or dont tell us and you have to do it all again. i think in doctor who the mind is different from the body like the master put his mind in a ring once i think and the toymaker put him in a tooth. normal teleport might kill him though i guess unless they send the mind energy like wifi to the new body when they send the info for the new body over but the flesh ganger episodes it shows why it doesnt matter anyway because they're both real people. just a guess, I might be wrong ,thats what I thought when I watched it.
His first visit he ended up on the Empire State Building, chased by Daleks. The second time he ended up getting involved with the gunfight at the OK Corral, had to Doc Holiday as a dentist, and some guy with a guitar kept singing about his life.
In Marvel comics humans also have significant psychic potential, and I don't mean mutants or altered humans, in the Kree-Skrull war their revealed that ordinary humans in Marvel's Earth 616 has not only psychic potential but close to the most powerful potential if those abilities were at some point to be developed. Just for a brief time Rick Jones had his psychic potential unleashed and what he coulddo with it would have given the creeps even to Professor X (Then they returned that character to normal).
Doctor who in the confession dial might not have physically happened. It might have simply been a simulation with his mind while his body is timy-wimy temporal paused. Much like some of the movies around a 'prison' being simulated in someone's mind where 1 minute on the outside is 100 years on the inside, the body is unaffected.
Every time any character in any story has been teleported, the original has been destroyed and replaced by a copy. Heaven Sent was not The Doctor's first time being teleported.
A couple of honorable mentions. Amy lost her parents twice. Every statue including the Empire State building is a weeping angel. Which if all images of a weeping angel are an angel then by mass production we've accidentally made billions of weeping angels.
That brings to mind, does it matter the size of the statue? The look of the statue? If every single statue is a weeping angel, are lawn gnomes weeping angels? Are figurines? Are toys? Amiibo figures are technically small statues. Are they tiny weeping angels? What constitutes a statue in this definition?
Amelia and Amy lived in two separate whoniversis. (remembering each others lives due to the radiation leak from the crack in thier walls) =series 5 takes place within two spearate whoniversis and the show jumps inbetween them everytime something wdding related is on screen, (twice in Eleventh hour) and this goes for Donna Nobles when she was seen as a bride in Doomsday-End of time (=series 3 & 4 took place within the new WHoniverse.... as "Doomsday" = same as "Big Bang" which happend outisde the TARDIS as the call with Rose got cut off.... (due to there no longer being a classic whoniverse) and then the new Whoniverse was formed outside around the TARDIS = Donna was "drawn" to the TARDIS as it was the TARDIS first time in the new WHoniverse (our Doctor have been there once before;the 6th Doctor)
Another issue is that also might explain why some of the Doctor's reaction to things are different than ours is sensory. In previous episodes we have seen examples of how The Doctor's eyes can perceive more colors (and perhaps a wider spectrum). Another example is when he comments on how the clone version of Martha smells. It is just an example of how The Doctor's experiences of the world is different from ours. In a way, his reality only intersects with out own.
That was not the "Last" Racnoss space ship at the center of the Earth. The Queen had her own Webstar ship that remind hidden at the edge of the Universe for billions of years.
The moon rings like a bell when hit by objects from space. Scientists discovered this phenomenon by measuring moonquakes. They deliberately crashed the Apollo lander to study the effects of the deliberate impact. After the astronauts were safely back in the command model. So when it hit the instruments registered it. It registered a gain a short time later, and this repeated for a while. So it could be an egg.
@indycar1007 - "eggs" don't "ring" when hit with an object. As a person raising chickens, if you hit an egg with an object, it will crack. More likely, it's just the 3% of iron in the moon that is "ringing".
It didn't really ring like a bell, that's a bit of an exaggeration. Moonquakes behave differently to Earthquakes due to the different makeup of the Moon's crust and surface. From all experimentation, the Moon is pretty much as you'd expect it--crust, mantle, core. I think it's amazing enough without it being hollow or an egg!
@@kalinystazvoruna8702yes, but that's because eggs tend to be very small compared to any object that you hit them with. Say an ant fell on an egg, would the egg crack?
K-9 ex-machina …. was there anything he couldn’t do? When he called The Doctor “master” it always made me wonder if The Master’s K-9 called him “Doctor”
You failed to mention that River Song, a person who does know the Doctor real name, wrote Theta Sigma on the cliff face when she sent him the "HELLO SWEETIE ϴΣ ΓΥΔϞ" (ϴΣ being Theta Sigma) message.
I feel that the teleporter in the confession dial can be a good way to explain the Valeyard. Since the dial was made by Timelords and they are obviously time travelers maybe one of them gotten ahold of the broken one and was able to power up the teleporter to work. However, since the dial was damaged or the Timelords didn't want another Doctor running around with an unlimited amount of regeneration, they gave it enough power to regenerate once to Michael Jayston. Perhaps, this clone doctor was genetically modified to have the darker instincts more dominant. This works with the 12th Doctor, considering that he was originally written as a Doctor with a mean streak. Maybe the Valeyard was created by the high council with the intention to have someone who thinks like the Doctor, but without the Doctor's rebellious nature. Maybe the Valeyard got his start in Division.
Ooh I like your ideas. The concept of the division in itself is creepy and dark for the Doctor. The fact that he was working for them without having memory of it is terrifying probably in his perspective. Valeyard being in the division or part lead of it would make sense.
Unless there's been some grand scheme throughout the show's history that hints quite heavily at the Doctor's real name, there should never be an answer.
The Doctor is also a King Dowager. Married Liz 1. No assertion that they ever divorced. I could say more, but I think Rose beat me to it on some ship that had broken down way in the future.
The theory that the "original" doctor is dead only works if you apply a totally linear way of thinking but being that the doctor is a time traveler and the nature of time travel itself that makes it possible for every version of the doctor we have seen to in fact be the "original" doctor just a doctor from a different time and if the old one dies and is replaced just because of a teleport the same thing could be said for any number of characters through out the entire show since they use a teleport almost every other episode it seems
Theta sigma is more like a rank than a true name. The doctor is the timeless child and his original name is on the other side of that portal he was found in front of.
Personally I'm taking the Daleks at their word and guessing the Doctor's real name translates to "Oncoming Storm" (or "Storm Oncoming" depending on which naming convention you go with),
His name would be in the Time Lord language so his name would mean that in English. Don't think we've heard the Time Lord language (since the TARDIS translates everything). Then again, translations aren't always 1:1. Melody Pond retranslated becomes River Song.
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@@Paulafan5it's not because of Tardis's translation, but because in the language of the people of the gamma forest (or whatever it is) "the only water in the forest is river"; and because the soldier from the gamma forest (whatever her name was) embroidered river's first name and surname on each side of the prayer leaf, word order got reversed. This is explained in "when a good man goes to war"
Also number 1 rule the Doctor lies. I don’t think that cradle ever had rivers name on it. In fact it could’ve potentially been a family cradle so The Doctors name would’ve been on there but Prehaps his own children’s names, as he confirmed to be a father at one point. So it could’ve been memory of that family on Gallifrey.
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@@shannonsmith924 did he say it had "river's" name on it, though? It may or may not have the doctor's name on it, because it's gallifreyan and the Tardis doesn't translate, but I have to see the episode again, I haven't watched it for over a year now 🙄 as far as I remember, it was river who said it was her name on the cradle, and obviously rule 1 applies to her as well 😁
@@shannonsmith924I thought the cradle did have the Doctors name on it. It was his cradle from childhood. River’s name was on the prayer leaf. Granted, I’ve been watching for far too long and have forgotten more than I remember.
Strictly speaking the original doctor being dead thing isn't actually true. His deaths take place inside a timelord construct intended to house his consciousness, which is also how (as is explicitly stated) he remembers his past cycles despite the teleporter reproducing him "as I was when I first got here". The confession dial isn't part of the physical universe per se, it's more like a micro-version of the matrix on Gallifrey. Something similar is used in Death in Heaven as well. The technology is used more broadly than just in that one system on Gallifrey.
You mentioned the worse-than-Flux event in Logopolis, but what about the crack in the universe and Big Bang Two? Did BB2 reset things to pre-crack in the universe or to pre-Logopolis? Did the Flux take from what was left over after Logopolis or did it take from a restored universe?
I am not sure the universe has always been dying applies anymore, we've had at least one universal reboot since thanks to the whole Pandorica incident.
The clone number 3b is actually up for debate. The room with the teleporter resets every time. so the copy which is loaded is the same every time. copy #1 is no different then #3e7 What is interesting tho: Where does the memory of the previous iterations come from? It's not like that he forgot them.. the current iteration only lived through one cycle. the body that experienced the previous cycle is dust. so how come, that he can remember the billions of years he experienced, when he enters the last chamber?
"The name 'Theta Sigma'' has never been used again." Not true. At the beginning of "The Pandorica Opens," we see River's inscription message for the Doctor on a cliff, and the first two letters are the Greek letters theta and sigma.
There are actually at least 3 space ships responsible for humans because there was another space ship that was filled with cybermen that tried to crash on earth to wipe out all life but ended up going back in time and ended up being the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. I remember watching that episode because it was the first time I saw a Doctor's companion get killed.
5:15 -- the "original" Doctor is still there, so long as his original pattern is preserved in the teleporter buffer. (His being reconstructed with new matter/energy is no different than how, for instance, your body replaces its bio-mass over a period of years via consuming and excreting matter, except that in this case the Doctor was just doing it in an instance vs over years.) Regardless, if using the teleporter instance as an instance of the "original Doctor" being dead then every time the Doctor regenerates then something similar is happening as his/her/their entire biomass and neurology is replaced via artron energy.
I headcanoned that as, not making new "copies" of himself, but more time travel shenanigans, with paradoxes being prevented due to being in the confession dial.
@@StormsparkPegasus Ehhh -- it's pretty clear that he's being disintegrated and his pattern "refilled", as it were, over the billions of years vs temporal shenanigans being in play relative to that. But regardless it's a to-may-to, to-mah-to end result: it's still the Doctor, either way.
@@tideoftime The reason I say that is, in future episodes, he indicates that he remembers all however many billion/trillion years he was in there. If he were truly just creating a new copy every time, he wouldn't have those memories.
@@StormsparkPegasus His sense of temporal awareness may allow him to carry over remnants of those experiences, as implied in the story itself. (He essentially "remembers" less so from conventional memory as we experience day-to-day and more so from the metaphysical and physical reinforcement of those experiences via his "messages" to himself and again temporal awareness that extends his memory beyond conventional memory.)
Finding out for the first time that the moon has always been a giant egg in the Doctor Who universe is kinda like finding out your own cells are and always have been descended from archaea rather than bacteria, in the real universe :) I don't really see Heaven Sent as killing the Doctor, so much as sorta rewinding his mind's personal timeline back to a specific point as the old body dies. That's a quibble -- but I definitely think that because it relies so much on vaguely-explained time lord technology, there are many ways to interpret that story, and having each version of the Doctor suffer a permanent death is only one of them.
I remember one theorie i dont know how true it is but timelords have three names a birth name only for family, an academy name for freinds and then finaly there title that they use the most, there title being the defauly but there family name being very private and personal
Yeah, I don't agree that Heaven Sent is what throws a spanner into the works there. There are only a few reasonable options to me: 1. We assume for some bizarre reason that there is something special about this teleporter that means it killed him the instant he was transported from earth. The original doctor did not burn to death as fuel, he was killed by Me. 2. Every version of the doctor output by the teleporter is the original doctor, as all are of the exact same nature - there is no difference between them so it doesn't make sense to say the first one that stepped out of the teleporter was the original but that the rest aren't. Either they all are or none of them are. 3. All teleporters kill the original person on teleportation, so the original doctor died long ago as Moffat suggested.
The extremely unexplored latent psychic humanity is also something Who has in common with Star Trek. It was a major plot point in the first (aired) Star Trek episode and then almost never comes up again.
