Well, no. A completely different personality than Hartnell's was requested of Troughton as soon as he was cast.
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Well, no. A completely different personality than Hartnell's was requested of Troughton as soon as he was cast.
Actually when Matt Smith first regenerated he thought he had regenerated into a girl so it's entirely possible.
She did not ban him from just England.
Queen Victoria banned him from The ENTIRE British Empire. Which was then (in 1879) The United Kingdom and the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories it administered.
Highly unlikely she would ban him from just England:
1) England is just a constituant area of the United Kingdom. It hasnt been a Nation State since 1707. Everyone needs to stop refering to it as such.
2) The episode took place in Scotland (Again,just another constiuent part of the United Kingdom since 1707)
Please realise that the name of the nation formed (currently, In Real Life) of the Northern Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales is called the United Kingdom if Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
It would be like if I constantly kept refering to the USA as California.
It would be like if I constantly kept referring to the USA as California.
Considering how much media and entertainment is centered there, you are not far off...
Considering how much media and entertainment is centered there, you are not far off...
And calling Great Britain a country, also. I don't like that one, either.
Not so much a "pet" theory as a "crazy" one to gently "tease" fellow Whovians...
If the powers that be had pursued the "half human on my mother's side" business from the 1996 movie (Notice how the production has never poked that hornet's nest), I think it would have been interesting if we learned the Doctor's mother is, in fact...Leela.
No, I'm not seriously wishing that is the case. Such would reveal too much about the Doctor's origins. He should remain the eternal enigma. It's just the kind of thing I might "toss in the ring" while having a DW marathon party or something.
The basis for my insane suggestion? Well, the last we saw of Leela in the televised series, she opts to remain on Gallifrey with the captain of the guard. Yep, a horribly weak debating point. I mean, I get the impression Andred might be a bit "clueless" in matters of, ahem, biology. Or, if he does, Leela's assertive personality might have him running in abject terror from the honeymoon suite. Besides that, we'd have to get the infant Doctor to Gallifrey's past to grow up. Given the events of "Listen", this is not as impossible task as traditionally assumed. Actually, that's less an issue than finding any believable chemistry between Leela and Captain Weenie. (O, snap!)
Sincerely,
Bill
If the powers that be had pursued the "half human on my mother's side" business from the 1996 movie (Notice how the production has never poked that hornet's nest), I think it would have been interesting if we learned the Doctor's mother is, in fact...Leela.
No, I'm not seriously wishing that is the case. Such would reveal too much about the Doctor's origins. He should remain the eternal enigma. It's just the kind of thing I might "toss in the ring" while having a DW marathon party or something.
The basis for my insane suggestion? Well, the last we saw of Leela in the televised series, she opts to remain on Gallifrey with the captain of the guard. Yep, a horribly weak debating point. I mean, I get the impression Andred might be a bit "clueless" in matters of, ahem, biology. Or, if he does, Leela's assertive personality might have him running in abject terror from the honeymoon suite. Besides that, we'd have to get the infant Doctor to Gallifrey's past to grow up. Given the events of "Listen", this is not as impossible task as traditionally assumed. Actually, that's less an issue than finding any believable chemistry between Leela and Captain Weenie. (O, snap!)
Sincerely,
Bill
Well, we know for a fact Missy was lying about the Doctor being a little girl since we - and Clara - actually saw him as a little boy in "Listen" last season...
Not to mention, "When I was a little boy, we used to live in a house that was perched halfway up the top of a mountain."
It's not completely different. It's kind of a variation on a theme. He retains the goofyness but without the grouchyness.
Furthermore, I got the sense that, if they could have gotten Hartnell to act more like how Troughton was, they totally would have. Unfortunately, Hartnell's health was too poor for him to be able to muster the ability to respond to direction. That's why they needed to replace him.
I've always had the impression that it was more to do with his inability to remember his lines, and his frustration with his declining health making him irascible and prone to thinking he knew best, rather than a direct inability to understand/respond to direction.
That too.
Here's a really crazy one I read online.
The Doctor is in denial and Clara is still a Dalek from the last episode where they met Davros.
The Doctor is in denial and Clara is still a Dalek from the last episode where they met Davros.
Are we even sure that the Doctor even woke up from the face-hugging dream monsters from Last Christmas?
Have you not seen the TV Movie?
Oh the movie. Yes I have seen that but forgot what the gateway was.
The Eye of Harmony. The Doctor reprogrammes Gallifrey's security system so that the Eye can be opened only by a human retinal pattern, retroactively explaining an absurdity from the TV movie.
To expand on this, the Curator first appeared on the JNT produced VHS version of Shada, who narrated the story. So Moffatt owes JNT's estate money.
Maybe.
People keep suggesting this, to the point where I was totally expecting this to turn out to be the case once the Doctor kept talking about how things weren't making sense in "Sleep No More."
First of all, Tom Baker's character in the "Shada" VHS is clearly just Tom Baker, not the Doctor or the Curator. He talks about being sad when they couldn't finish filming on the TV episodes. But even disregarding that, Tom Baker playing a vague, unidentified character that is probably the Doctor would probably, in legal terms, just count as being "the Doctor." (Kinda like how, I've always suspected that, for legal reasons, the 8th Doctor in "Night of the Doctor" & the Big Finish audios is technically not the same as the 8th Doctor from the 1996 movie. IIRC, Universal at least owns all of the American rights to all of the characters from the 1996 movie. This includes that movie's incarnation of the Doctor. However, since the BBC owns "the Doctor" and Universal can't copyright the number 8 or prevent the BBC/Big Finish from casting whoever they want, they can create a Doctor that seems very similar to the 1996 movie Doctor but technically isn't.)
This borders on not being a "pet theory" and being something they've said onscreen.
Watching early Tom Baker stories right now and he regularly shows up in his odd clothes and people very quickly accept him in most stories. "Revenge of the Cybermen." They're at gunpoint, about to be shot and he says something to the effect of "Let us be your new medical team. My friend Harry is a medical doctor and I'm a doctor of practically everything." To which the commander replies "Did Earth send you?!" And the Doctor says "Yes, we come from Earth," bending the truth, and that's enough to convince them.
Now I have a TARDIS in my backyard. And the interesting thing about having a TARDIS in your backyard is that people want to believe. When my neighbor came over because he saw I was trying to put it together by myself (they're heavier than they look) he came over to help. When he asked what it would do, I said "store my garden stuff," his reply was--I swear this is true--"That's it?" I was too off guard to say "Nah, I'm kidding, it will travel to any point in space and time." I had some friends over for a garden party and one of them broke the handle on the non-functioning phone door. He was determined to open it and it doesn't actually open. He apologized and explained that he wanted to see what was behind it. PLYWOOD. That's what was behind it.
But I digress. My point is, characters want to believe in the Doctor. So when he says "Well, we come from Earth," that's enough to make them not ask about holographic IDs and such.
Time Lords tend to hypnotize people too. The Master does it all the time and the Doctor does it on occasion.
Then there's the TARDIS' telepathic circuit and Susan talking to the Sensorites that establish Time Lord telepathic capabilities.
On top of it all is the "Time Lord gift" that lets Sarah Jane Smith understand and converse in Medieval Italian.
I would suggest that Time Lords project a mental aura, if you will, that not only provides translation, but makes people (and blobby-squidgy tentacled things--except of course, the "Creature from the Pit") accept whatever cockamamie excuse their brain can construct for who this strange person is and where he came from.
Otherwise I think The Doctor would have been shot or burned at the stake long before 50 (or 2,000) years.
Watching early Tom Baker stories right now and he regularly shows up in his odd clothes and people very quickly accept him in most stories. "Revenge of the Cybermen." They're at gunpoint, about to be shot and he says something to the effect of "Let us be your new medical team. My friend Harry is a medical doctor and I'm a doctor of practically everything." To which the commander replies "Did Earth send you?!" And the Doctor says "Yes, we come from Earth," bending the truth, and that's enough to convince them.
Now I have a TARDIS in my backyard. And the interesting thing about having a TARDIS in your backyard is that people want to believe. When my neighbor came over because he saw I was trying to put it together by myself (they're heavier than they look) he came over to help. When he asked what it would do, I said "store my garden stuff," his reply was--I swear this is true--"That's it?" I was too off guard to say "Nah, I'm kidding, it will travel to any point in space and time." I had some friends over for a garden party and one of them broke the handle on the non-functioning phone door. He was determined to open it and it doesn't actually open. He apologized and explained that he wanted to see what was behind it. PLYWOOD. That's what was behind it.
But I digress. My point is, characters want to believe in the Doctor. So when he says "Well, we come from Earth," that's enough to make them not ask about holographic IDs and such.
Time Lords tend to hypnotize people too. The Master does it all the time and the Doctor does it on occasion.
Then there's the TARDIS' telepathic circuit and Susan talking to the Sensorites that establish Time Lord telepathic capabilities.
On top of it all is the "Time Lord gift" that lets Sarah Jane Smith understand and converse in Medieval Italian.
I would suggest that Time Lords project a mental aura, if you will, that not only provides translation, but makes people (and blobby-squidgy tentacled things--except of course, the "Creature from the Pit") accept whatever cockamamie excuse their brain can construct for who this strange person is and where he came from.
Otherwise I think The Doctor would have been shot or burned at the stake long before 50 (or 2,000) years.
^I've theorised something similar. It would make the psychic paper kind of redundant though, as that's pretty much it's exact function.
