The Eight Doctor also mentions that Time Lords can change species when they regenerate in the movie, so that particular life of his being half-human wouldn't be that unusual, especially since the regeneration was a difficult one. Still, would their ability to change species be associated with the Eight Doctor or the Forth? We see Romana appear as different species earlier when she changes after all.
I have a feeling when he said change species is just the look of the body. Most timelords look human as that seems to be the default look, but Romana tried on alternate species "skins", but she was still a time lady, just had the appearance of another species. But I think the Doctor is half human, not just putting on a half human skin in the film as that would make no sense.
But he would've had to program the Eye of Harmony security system to respond to a human retinal pattern before he regenerated, since he had no opportunity to do so afterward. So evidently the movie's intent was that he'd always been half-human.
The Doctor mentioned that the eye hadn't been opened in over seven hundred years, he even asked The Master how did he manage to do so when no one had been able to before. Even then it required a fully human retina to open it, so The Doctor being half-human wouldn't have let him open it anyway. The point of the half-human thing doesn't make sense in regards to the Eye of Harmony because The Doctor would have needed to be fully human to open it. It feels much more likely that the TARDIS itself changed the "lock" on the eye knowing the kind of "strays" that The Doctor likes to pick up to travel with him.
The Third Doctor used a Venusian lullaby to soothe the Monster of Peladon. Please add in the Time Ladies for the Fourth Doctor. We met several on Gallifrey, and then Romana became a Companion. The Fifth Doctor DID have a sonic screwdriver - in fact he made a point of complaining about it in the episode where it was destroyed, saying he felt like he'd just lost a friend.
Time Ladies are just female Time Lords, not a different concept, in my opinion. First Doctor The Doctor The TARDIS The TARDIS is sentient The TARDIS is obsolete The Doctor can't steer the TARDIS Chameleon circuit The Time Vortex Psychic powers Companions Susan Regeneration Daleks Cybermen Skaro Historicals Second Doctor Time Lords UNIT Sonic screwdriver Jelly babies The 500 year diary Ice Warriors The Great Intelligence Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart Third Doctor Gallifrey Bessie & the Whomobile Venusian aikido The Master Omega Autons Silurians Sontarans Sarah Jane Smith Multi-Doctor stories Fourth Doctor Regeneration limits Gift of language K9 Zygons Davros Rassilon The Matrix The Guardians of Time The Time Agency The Eye of Harmony The cloister bell Fifth Doctor Heightened taste buds Brainy specs Eternals Companions' private lives Sixth Doctor The Rani The Valeyard Seventh Doctor Skaro's destruction Eighth Doctor Romance Half-human Ninth Doctor The Time War Last of the Time Lords Psychic paper Vortex manipulator Deadlock seals Bad Wolf The Shadow Proclamation Captain Jack Harkness Tenth Doctor Fixed points in time Timey wimey plots Desktop themes Closing the TARDIS doors by the snap of fingers Torchwood The Weeping Angels Oods Judoons River Song Christmas specials Eleventh Doctor The Doctor speaks with babies and animals Regeneration can affect gender The Silence The Paternoster Gang Trenzalore The War Doctor The Curator Kate Lethbridge-Stewart
Then why does Susan rate a specific listing when she's "just a female Time Lord" AND just another Companion? Honestly, I think it's worth mentioning that there are female Gallifreyans who are characters in the stories and also recurring characters in their own right. BTW, Lethbridge-Stewart's middle name is Gordon. That's mentioned on more than one occasion.
She's not: she's the Doctor's granddaughter. He mentions her regularly and some might say that she's the main reason why the Doctor likes to travel with young women.
Plus she was in the Five Doctors and Dimensions in Time and is the only companion to get her own spoof documentary (Whatever happened to Susan Foreman?) - that is leaving aside what I mentioned above, she's arguably more important in how she means different things to different fan groups and what it tells us about their relationship with Doctor Who.
Those seven years happen to be part of the 50 years, so it's three times during a 50-year-period. I mentioned The Five Doctors. I never saw the other stuff you mention.
I made a simple request regarding all the female Gallifreyans who are not Susan (since she seems to be Special somehow). The show is 50 years old, not 7. Please stop trying to make this character seem more "referenced" than she really has been.
Regardless of how many references, I don't see how his granddaughter can be anything but special when you're talking about the show's mythos. The existence of female Time Lords isn't a particularly noteworthy thing in and of itself (unlike the potential gender-bending). His child/ren and their mother/his wife (other than Elizabeth I and River of course) would also be special but we've never met them or learned their name. Speaking of, the Ponds should probably be put in under the 11th since they're his parents-in-law. And Jenny under the 10th as his clone/daughter. 10th - regeneration "continues" for some time during which serious injuries continue to be healed. 11th - regeneration energy can be shared/passed between Time Lords for healing. A human conceived while traveling in the time vortex becomes a Time Lord - that should go under 11, though not sure how you'd word it. She's also alluded to in "The Empty Child" and 'appears' (as audio and a body double) in "Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS" and "The Name of the Doctor."
The idea of using solar engineering to power their time travel was introduced in Pertwee's The Three Doctor's. Omega was the engineer, so he's more important than just a typical villian. Mr Awe