How the Doctor perceives the world

[HappyDayRiot]

What's great about blindly chanting some (potentially)imaginary blokes name?

Not too much. But this makes me wonder if Martha, on her travels, visited a certain redhead in a sleepy village called Leadworth and told her the tale of the Doctor. What a conversation that would have been...

 

[Sci]

In all of these episodes, the Doctor makes morally ambiguous choices that the episode is not clearly endorsing, or he makes a major mistake, or he behaves in a selfish manner, or he becomes extremely emotionally vulnerable, or he generally behaves like an asshole.

I don't see how this doesn't make the Doctor godlike. Human myth is full of Gods with all these faults.

That's moving the goalposts, then. If you define the Doctor as being godlike even if he is morally imperfect by appealing to pre-monotheistic religions' depictions of morally imperfect dieties, then any character with additional powers is by definition godlike. That makes Captain Jack godlike, it makes the Daleks godlike, it makes the 3-5-6 godlike -- it renders the term "godlike" frankly meaningless.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

We saw a little bit of that in "The Waters of Mars." Apparently, the Time Lords' sixth sense takes the form of BBC News Online. Who won't change their layout for at least a half-century.

I didn't so much take that as the Doctor seeing the BBC News website as being a representation of the way in which he senses changes in time, adapted for our perception.

The Doctor also talks a bit about his perceptions of time and its flow in "The Fires of Pompeii."

I also seem to remember something in The Parting of the Ways as well (through Rose's mouth) that gives an idea of how the Doctor perceives things. That being said, I get the impression that, although he can see these things, he can't really understand them just because it's so much more information.

I don't think anyone could watch "The Next Doctor" and successfully not claim that there's some Doctor deification going on. Not that I have a problem with it-- he is pretty dang amazing.

As far as this thread topic goes, the Doctor's different perception of the universe is pretty clearly established in the old series, though-- think of the cafe scene in City of Death.

I remember the serial, but not the specific reference you're making. What was it that he said in that episode?

 

[David cgc]

I don't believe much was explicitly said, but there were a couple of moments where time doubled back on itself and the same short sequence repeated two or three times, and the Doctor and Romana were the only ones to notice.

 

[Orcus]

^
He certainly loves to have a god in the machine.

I can't believe no one else has got this yet!

 

[The]

Oh, I think we ALL got it. It was just too obvious to be funny...

 

[Bones2]

Just because my jokes are better than your's.