"Ok, what have you got for me this time?"

[knine]

It could very well be that the Time Lords can "build" a TARDIS, but they later found the better way to do it was to "grow" them.

We can build computers using vacuum tubes, and in fact we did it that way years back. But the laptop on my desk suggests there is a better way.

 

[Shazam!]

We can build computers using vacuum tubes, and in fact we did it that way years back. But the laptop on my desk suggests there is a better way.

Holy shit, your laptop magically grew?!

 

[OmahaStar]

We can build computers using vacuum tubes, and in fact we did it that way years back. But the laptop on my desk suggests there is a better way.

Holy shit, your laptop magically grew?!

Let's not talk about things growing while one is surfing the net.

 

[ParticleMan]

I personally loved that line in the trailer...the moment, the tone of that brief glimpse gave me the impression that 11 is finally ready to move on from the grief and anxiety over the Time War and all the crap with the end of series 4 and anticipating his death/regeneration and the Time Lords almost returning and so forth...

 

[davejames]

Also do you think they will explain the new look of the Tardis exterior? It has changed appearance before. Has it ever been explained? A slight modification of the chamelon circuit perhaps?

I think Moffat already said in an interview that we will get to see the exterior change.

Although only the diehard fans are probably going to notice the difference anyway.

 

[knine]

We can build computers using vacuum tubes, and in fact we did it that way years back. But the laptop on my desk suggests there is a better way.

Holy shit, your laptop magically grew?!

No, not magically. The midichlorians did it.

 

[The]

I just assumed he meant that the interior is grown, somehow, and the mechanical shell, link-up to a blackhole/processor for rift energy. and all the extra dimensions, are added by clever Gallifreyan tech. Whatever the natural substance of a TARDIS is actually called, it's probably the only or most beneficial material to use when constructing the various "Type" models of TARDII...

 

[Worf2DS9]

Considering how impossibly huge the interior of a TARDIS is, how long would it even take to actually build one? It would be less hardship to just sit back and let them grow, watering them every couple of days or so.

 

[The Wormhole]

Considering how impossibly huge the interior of a TARDIS is, how long would it even take to actually build one? It would be less hardship to just sit back and let them grow, watering them every couple of days or so.

Ah, the TARDIS growing farms of Gallifrey. Surely one of the Daleks' first targets in the Time War.

 

[David cgc]

I just got an image of a Time-Lord in overalls spotting a Dalek eye-stalk sticking out of the ground and then weeding it out with a hoe.

 

[Awesome Possum]

Supposedly Jack had a piece of TARDIS coral on his desk on Torchwood and he was trying to grow one.

 

[Bones2]

This Tardis growing idea is similar to so much of new Doctor Who. Slightly silly when you first hear it, then absolutely stupid when you think about it some more. I prefer to think of it as an uncanonised bastardisation.

 

[Starkers]

Oh you do surprise us...

I'm sure someone more au fait with the Classic series than me can point out the classic mentions to the TARDIS being 'alive' in some sense.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Indeed. The TARDIS is referred to beign alive in the third serial, The Edge of Destruction.

 

[Shazam!]

I don't think anyone is denying that it has ever been mentioned/inferred.

It's just an element of the series that I happen to dislike.

Having said that, something being 'alive' is not the same as something being 'grown'.

 

[Sci]

Why? I like the idea of them having a somewhat organic nature to them, even if all we ever see is mechanical.

I prefer the idea that the Time Lords are just really clever bastards who can build time-travelling machines. The idea that a TARDIS can be 'grown' is Doctor Who's version of midichlorians.

Wouldn't it make them even cleverer if they were able to design and grow time-traveling organic machines?

Besides, the TARDIS should look organic. The idea of it just being another cold, generic, metallic sci-fi spaceship is both boring and disappointing. Having it look organic adds an element of magic and mystery to it.

 

[Starkers]

Indeed. The TARDIS is referred to beign alive in the third serial, The Edge of Destruction.

Why thank you

 

[The Nth Doctor]

^No problem.

Why? I like the idea of them having a somewhat organic nature to them, even if all we ever see is mechanical.

I prefer the idea that the Time Lords are just really clever bastards who can build time-travelling machines. The idea that a TARDIS can be 'grown' is Doctor Who's version of midichlorians.

Wouldn't it make them even cleverer if they were able to design and grow time-traveling organic machines?

Besides, the TARDIS should look organic. The idea of it just being another cold, generic, metallic sci-fi spaceship is both boring and disappointing. Having it look organic adds an element of magic and mystery to it.

I agree and I would take it a step further: I think it's interesting to have organic time traveling space ship that has the appearance of both being alive and built at the same time. In fact, that's one of my favorite aspects of Farscape in regards to Moya and Talyn.

 

[The Mirrorball Man]

In fact, that's one of my favorite aspects of Farscape in regards to Moya and Talyn.

Though interestingly enough, Leviathans seem to be smaller on the inside.

 

[Bones2]

Oh you do surprise us...

I'm sure someone more au fait with the Classic series than me can point out the classic mentions to the TARDIS being 'alive' in some sense.

I don't so much mind the Tardis being alive in some way. Like Shazam said, it's not the same thing as being grown.