The Longest Day
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Does he? he is a Time Lord after all and do we know whether or not he actually needs long periods of time to sleep and recharge or he can go for days, weeks or even months with out sleep.
He could be running on post-regeneration nervous energy. Or perhaps he has a nap before going to meet Churchill. After all it is a time machine.
perhaps that was why he was 12 years late. he overslept.
Probably at least as long as it takes for the Doctor to launder his outfit to get the Space Whale sick smell out of it...but then, I imagine that the TARDIS laundry can actually return your clean clothes BEFORE you send them down...
I think there was some reference either during Eccleston or early Tennant that the Doctor does not sleep. This might be a recent development as we've seen him taking naps in earlier eras. Maybe the Time War made him an insomniac?
It's not the first time we've seen "long days". The Tenth Doctor went from defeating the Master and saying goodbye to Jack and Martha to meeting his younger self to having an adventure on the Titanic without taking time off for a nap. And during Nine's era, it's implied that Rose, End of the World and The Unquiet Dead take place back-to-back as well.
But if you want to see real long days, follow some of the interlinked stories during the early Hartnell era. An Unearthly Child runs back to back with The Daleks, while The Edge of Destruction shows the characters sleeping, but then leads into Marco Polo and The Keys of Marinus without interval!
Alex
It's not the first time we've seen "long days". The Tenth Doctor went from defeating the Master and saying goodbye to Jack and Martha to meeting his younger self to having an adventure on the Titanic without taking time off for a nap. And during Nine's era, it's implied that Rose, End of the World and The Unquiet Dead take place back-to-back as well.
But if you want to see real long days, follow some of the interlinked stories during the early Hartnell era. An Unearthly Child runs back to back with The Daleks, while The Edge of Destruction shows the characters sleeping, but then leads into Marco Polo and The Keys of Marinus without interval!
Alex
Personally, I've always assumed he's able to fit in some sleep somewhere. Just like he fits in the occasional bathroom break that we never see.
And I don't see why there wasn't time between Eleventh Hour and Beast Below. Even though Amy hadn't yet changed, I still got the impression a few hours at least had passed since they left Earth. They could have both just woken up from a nap after a long day of exploring the new TARDIS, for all we know.
And I don't see why there wasn't time between Eleventh Hour and Beast Below. Even though Amy hadn't yet changed, I still got the impression a few hours at least had passed since they left Earth. They could have both just woken up from a nap after a long day of exploring the new TARDIS, for all we know.
In "The Shakespeare Code" the doctor is either thinking while Martha is asleep or sleeps with his eyes open.
Yeah last time he overslept Fermet got killed in duel and didn't complete his theorem, won't happen again
Took me awhile to understand what Eleven was saying
Yeah last time he overslept Fermet got killed in duel and didn't complete his theorem, won't happen again
Took me awhile to understand what Eleven was saying
The Doctor was shown clearly sleeping several times in the original series anyway.
Sleep is for tortoises!
Not necessarily. We don't know how long (relative to the Doctor) he was on Luna after he took off when he sent the Atraxi packing. Maybe the reason he was two years late getting back was that he decided to take a nap in the TARDIS after landing on the Moon and was still groggy when he set the date-o-meter for his landing back in Leadworth?
He could be running on post-regeneration nervous energy. Or perhaps he has a nap before going to meet Churchill. After all it is a time machine.
He also manages to change his shirt and bow tie and braces to the Tardis blue version that Smith has talked about.
That combination also appears randomly on the Crash Set toys.
Hopefully, they wont show him changing and we just assume its different and we havnt noticed, like Tennants suit was subtly different until we actually see 10.5 changing into the other one in TEOT.
I would find it very difficult to believe that the Doctor does not need sleep. I thought Enterprise was ridiculous when it stated Denobulans only need three straight days of sleep per year.
