Doctor n00b question

[Stevil2001]

The scarecrow story is in some of the old comics. They wanted to do comics after The War Games, but Pertwee hadn't been cast yet, so they just kept on going as with the second Doctor, claiming he'd been exiled to Earth, but got away before they changed his appearance, until the Time Lords sent their scarecrows after him.

The second Doctor actually says that line in The Five Doctors before he meets the other Doctors; I think he says it because he's meeting the Brigadier out of order.

 

[Sindatur]

The Time Lords (The Doctor's Race) have a rule about not interacting with former or future selves

Is this what the Second Doctor was talking about in "The Five Doctors" when he says 'I'm not exactly BREAKING the laws of time, but I am bending them a little...'?

Meaning this: At this scene's point in time, in which this Doctor is visiting UNIT (to see the Brig and his replacement, Colonel Crichton), the Fifth Doctor is the current one. So the Second is doubling back on his own timeline by visiting UNIT at that point. Am I understanding this right?

Yes, I believe that is bending, actually running into and/or interferring or changing is breaking <I think>

 

[Iamnotspock]

The scarecrow story is in some of the old comics. They wanted to do comics after The War Games, but Pertwee hadn't been cast yet, so they just kept on going as with the second Doctor, claiming he'd been exiled to Earth, but got away before they changed his appearance, until the Time Lords sent their scarecrows after him.

The second Doctor actually says that line in The Five Doctors before he meets the other Doctors; I think he says it because he's meeting the Brigadier out of order.

There is of course the Season 6B theory - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season_6B - arising from certain continuity errors in the multi-Doctor stories in which Troughton appears.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

I hope you see the irony in claiming my post is too long and then referring me to read a 10 page thread which might or might not have anything to do with my question.

Frankly, I find the over analysis of Doctor Who to be a waste of time. It's lasted so long - albeit with a break of a over a decade - that its internal rules and history are frequently contradictory. It's just a TV show - you really should just relax.

I can assure you that I am quite relaxed where it comes to watching Doctor Who. I just thought it would be fun (and relaxing) to discuss this topic with people who also have a fondness for the show and clearly more knowledge about it then me. If that's not for you, then fine, but I do have to wonder what made you join up with a Star Trek message board if you do not enjoy discussing about tv shows.

Yeah, sometimes I wonder myself after seeing the same old thread discussions again and again and again repeated ad nauseam. There's the occasional nugget of gold in all the crap, but it does seem I would be better off selling extortionately priced digging implements.