The RTD explanation would fit that bill just as nice.
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I think it would be hilarious if all they do with that, is the Doctor running into her, having to look twice and go "naaaah!" carrying on with wjhatver he was doing. XD
RTD had an explanation for why John Frobisher looked like Cacaelius (or however it's spelled). Cacaelius was supposed to die at Pompeii but he didn't, so the universe recreated him and snuffed out his bloodline two millennia later.
Moffat apparently saw a way of tying this into the Doctor.
Well, actually I was thinking of that throwaway line in Journey's End where Ten and Rose comment on how the female lead from Torchwood looks like the the maid in The Unquiet Dead. I can't quite remember what it was.
Yeah, he no longer flails like a fish. I think "Last Christmas" marked the change. He's not going to quibble over stupid stuff when he gets a second chance to travel with his best friend.
The putative RTD explanation doesn't exactly inspire confidence; it sounds like pointless fan service at best. Hopefully there'll be some decent explanation of why the Doctor's face is familiar to him and why he chose it, but really I say that because of the scene in Deep Breath. Frobisher was on an adults-only TV show and Caecilius appeared briefly in DW about seven years ago. Other than the fact that the Doctor seemed to recognise his new face, it seems that the proposed solution lacks a problem as far as Doctor Who's core viewership is concerned.
Which really doesn't make much sense. If Cacaelius and his family were supposed to die at Pompeii couldn't the universe arranged an accident for them on their trip back to Rome as opposed to waiting two thousand years and eliminating his descendants?
Well, Moffat did say when Capaldi was cast that he was using RTD's explanation and even got in contact with RTD to see if the explanation could still work with the Doctor involved. Apparently, it can.
I don't see this being a problem for the "core viewership." Everyone knows Capaldi was on Doctor Who before and also on Torchwood. It was brought up constantly when he was cast, and one of the top questions people asked after season 8 finished was why didn't we get the explanation for why the Doctor now looks like this two guys. It's an issue very much in the spotlight for the general public, the "Not-We" if you will.
As mentioned above, the time/space multiplicity thing mentioned in Journey's End to explain why Gwen Cooper resembles Gwyneth should be good enough for that. Should be good enough for the Doctor/Cacaelius/Frobisher thing too, but apparently it's not.
Gwen/Gweneth is just a descendent that look alike. Cacaelius/Frobisher could also be a descendent. Why the Doctor looks like Cacaelius is what I want to find out. Frobisher is irrelevant in Doctor Who. The Doctor never ran into him so he wouldn't even know to look into that.
In all honesty, that has always been my problem with this explanation. If Cacaelius corrupted time by not existing, time has ways of dealing with it (like the Reapers), and he's going to have lots of descendants that were never supposed to exist, corrupting time even more.
I thought it was established that Cacaelius's family's survival was a predestination paradox as his is the family used in the books about Pompeii.
That or they were all Time Lords and the Tenth Doctor just didn't notice because, well, there are no more Time Lords....right?
That or they were all Time Lords and the Tenth Doctor just didn't notice because, well, there are no more Time Lords....right?
What if the Doctor was splintered in time like Clara?
Fires of Pompeii
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Fires of Pompeii
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Children of Earth
Meh, we've lasted thirty years without an explanation for why the Sixth Doctor looks like Maxil, or why the Fifth looks like one of the faces optioned in The War Games. Or nearly fifty years for why the Second looks like Salamander. It's debatable whether we really need to learn why the Twelfth looks like these two guys.
What's next, an actual explanation regarding who the Curator is?
Or why the faces in The War Games seem to match the next few British Prime Ministers? (and almost to the next few Doctors if you swap/change it a bit ("Too old, too mad, too young, that won't do at all").
Anyway, this is an old 1990s joke: the PMs sort of match up for a bit...
Home (1963/64): old.
Wilson (1964-70, 74-76): Middle-aged but trying to be Beatle-trendy.
Heath (1970-74): Camp ageing sailor.
Callaghan (1976-79): No parallel.
Thatcher (1979-90): Mad with piercing blue eyes.
Major (1990-97): Young, blond-grey, bit weak compared with his predecessor.
The parallels break up after that, though thinking about it, I suspect that you could make a case.
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I am incredulous after reading the list. It has been my experience, when something is described as being a fan favorite or an instant classic before release, that when that something is released, it has been anything but a fan favorite or instant classic. There are exceptions - however, they are rare.
Mark Gatiss has a mixed record. He had some successes - "The Unquiet Dead" and the "Crimson Horror"; yet, many of the other episodes were of far lower quality. So, while I don't discount the possibility of him writing a classic, I think it more probable that he will write a good or average script.
I have been catching up with the franchise this summer. I am finding the episodes from Series 8 more enjoyable without the annoying commercials breaking them up. I am more receptive to the relationship between Clara and the Doctor, and I am more interested in seeing how the relationship will evolve in the next series.
Mark Gatiss has a mixed record. He had some successes - "The Unquiet Dead" and the "Crimson Horror"; yet, many of the other episodes were of far lower quality. So, while I don't discount the possibility of him writing a classic, I think it more probable that he will write a good or average script.
I have been catching up with the franchise this summer. I am finding the episodes from Series 8 more enjoyable without the annoying commercials breaking them up. I am more receptive to the relationship between Clara and the Doctor, and I am more interested in seeing how the relationship will evolve in the next series.
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