Is the Doctor 1103 now?
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I'm kinda going with Brians theory on this one.
Though I actually like the idea of him aging. Leaves room for for lots of fan stories, alternate companions, etc.
Though I actually like the idea of him aging. Leaves room for for lots of fan stories, alternate companions, etc.
There are ways around it, it's not too big a deal. It could've just been a madcap adventure that started with him at the Titanic, hopping forward to WWII and stealing a U-Boat jacket, and then ending up in 2005 London without hardly having time to catch his breath.
Rule one.
LA LA LA LA!
Seriously, though, my wishful thinking aside, the new series has indeed been pretty consistant about his age. I do wish that it meshed better with older Who. He was in his 900s during the McCoy years, as I recall, and had obviously aged quite a bit in that incarnation by the time of the TV movie. Still, if the producers say he's 909, he's 909. Or maybe 1103.
^^Well, the old series was all over the place with the Doctor's age. Didn't Pertwee say he wa already over 1000?
Or maybe doctor #13 regenerated to look like 11 ..nah..lol
So the Doctor is now 1103 going forward that 'officially' (via screen canon) makes him the second longest lived incarnation after the 1st doctor who we know was around 450 or so. Between doctors 2 and 10 there is another 450 years but we can't accurately say who lived the longest.
Well we don't know how long Tennant lived after dropping Donna of before he Regenerated, that could very well have alot of years.
Eccelston, yea, he probably went really quick. Though I don't believe Rose was his first adventure, it's likely he wasn't that long out of Regeneration when he picked her up, since he didn't appear to even know what he looked like (But, he could've travelled a long time when he dematerialized and came right back to take Rose with him)
Yes we do. He said he was 903 in "Voyage of the Damned." Add a year to get to "The Stolen Earth," he's 904, and in "The End of Time" he told Wilf he was 906.
Oh, OK, so we do afterall. Though, "Rule 1, the Doctor Lies"
one of the lines I gave Eight when i was working out the start to my 50th anniversary special script was Ten telling Susan he's 905 and Eight says, 'Oh, so I started lying about my age after I hit the big One Thousand did I?"
Since the new series started in in 2005 the age has always been consistent between 903 and 909 and now a jump to 1103. Yes, it does clash against some things in the classic series but as far as the TPTB are concerned the new series is what dictates canon going forward. so as far as im concerned 10 only lived a few years.
yeah, but since the Ninth said '900 years of phone box travel' first, 903 etc. has to be wrong. it's all Russell's fault...
it usually is(RTD hater)
it usually is(RTD hater)
I think that the main reason Moffet aged the Doctor 200 years is so he could have all these adventures with River 'off screen' because he could not get Alex Kensington to commit as a full time companion. Now the Doctor and River could have had all their adventures, and they can move away from the River storyline if they decide to.
I think 200-odd years is a bit much. Making him 930 or so would have been sufficient. (I wonder if he spent a protracted period of time as a prisoner or something. Otherwise, Eleven is probably in-universe the most awesome of the NuWho Doctors in a way, surviving for about thirty times as long as Ten.)
Edited to add: I'm pretty sure that it'll never turn out to be the case, but maybe the Doctor is just playing it safe with the "1103" quote. He tends to preserve the causal nexus with his visits to modern-day Earth (eg it would be very unlikely for Eleven to go and have an adventure in 2005 London) so maybe he does the same with the 51st/52nd century. If everyone believes that the Doctor dies aged 1103 and he's really younger than 1000, then he's not letting the cat out of the bag if he gets caught saying that he's (say) 930.
Edited to add: I'm pretty sure that it'll never turn out to be the case, but maybe the Doctor is just playing it safe with the "1103" quote. He tends to preserve the causal nexus with his visits to modern-day Earth (eg it would be very unlikely for Eleven to go and have an adventure in 2005 London) so maybe he does the same with the 51st/52nd century. If everyone believes that the Doctor dies aged 1103 and he's really younger than 1000, then he's not letting the cat out of the bag if he gets caught saying that he's (say) 930.
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