What's in your "head canon"?

[The Nth Doctor]

Leon Colbert from "The Reign of Terror" is the War Chief from "The War Games" incognito and collecting humans to dump into his war zone...

Now that's a curious and refreshing idea. It's been years since I've watched The Reign of Terror so I don't remember who Leon Colbert was and whether that's a viable idea (for me, anyways). It's certainly better than all of the times people (including in this very thread) have tried to link The War Chief with The Master or The Monk.

 

[matthunter]

Now that's a curious and refreshing idea. It's been years since I've watched The Reign of Terror so I don't remember who Leon Colbert was and whether that's a viable idea (for me, anyways). It's certainly better than all of the times people (including in this very thread) have tried to link The War Chief with The Master or The Monk.

Actually, the War Chief's mindset is quite similar to that of ancient Gallifreyans chucking folk into the Death Zone...

 

[jaime]

Actually, the War Chief's mindset is quite similar to that of ancient Gallifreyans chucking folk into the Death Zone...

War Chief is Rassilon confirmed…

 

[FalTorPan]

Susan "invented" the word "TARDIS" as a mental exercise by starting with the Time Lords' term for their space/time vehicles, writing it phonetically using English letters, treating it as an acronym, and coming up with an expansion that described what a TARDIS is within the limitations of the English language... and those six starting letters.

 

[FredH]

“Journey to the Center of the TARDIS” didn’t show us THE center of the TARDIS, it showed us A center of the TARDIS. It has any number of centers (literally, the number varies, all the time), of many very different designs.

 

[matthunter]

New head canon after a night on YouTube. The 11th Doctor doesn't use "Geronimo!" because of the historical reasons, but because he saw Terrahawks and thinks Sergeant-Major Zero is bloody awesome (and reminds him a bit of the Brig).

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[Turtletrekker]

I agree 1000% with all of this...

...except The Meddling Monk is The Master. Likewise The War Chief for either of them. They're separate characters who were grand adversaries of The Doctor's and deserve to stand on their own.

Spoiler: The War Games colorization

The colorized version of The War Games pays homage to the theory that the War Chief is the Master without confirming or denying or changing canon in any way. However, it is definitely fuel for the fire for those whose headcanon is that The War Chief is The Master.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

How does colorizing manage to do that?

 

[Turtletrekker]

How does colorizing manage to do that?

Spoiler

it's not in the colorization, it's in the music that they use. Every time the War Chief is on screen they play the musical cue for the Saxon Master. Also, they strongly suggest that the War Chief chief starts to regenerate when we see him last.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Ughhhhh...

Another reason not to bother with it.

Spoiler

Putting aside my distaste with connecting The War Chief with The Master, I absolutely disdain adding modern music to any classic serial.

 

[Chaos Descending]

I don’t understand why the hate for connecting The War Chief and the Master. The similarities between the two are so glaringly obvious that it’s very nearly silly for them to be two different guys.

 

[matthunter]

I don’t understand why the hate for connecting The War Chief and the Master. The similarities between the two are so glaringly obvious that it’s very nearly silly for them to be two different guys.

Hell, back in the day folk connected the Monk and the Master, and they have a much more different MO.

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

I can only say why it is so for me personally. And that is, that it makes sense that the guy whose rather elaborate plan was foiled by the Doctor, and not only foiled but also his involvement exposed by the Doctor to the Time Lords, causing him to waste a regeneration even, would take vengeance on that very guy for at least the forseeable future. Seeing Terror of the Autons for the first time, my impression was always that that War Chief dude is back.

 

[Chaos Descending]

It’s interesting that Malcom Hulke, who co-wrote The War Games, in his novelization of Colony in Space pretty much blatantly stated that the Master was the same guy that was up to no good in the War Games.

 

[Steve Roby]

Eventually, Doctor Who fandom will determine that everyone who is not the Doctor is either the Master or the Rani. A few holdouts may insist that Davros is just Davros and not the Master.

Of course, the Rani is also the Master. And so is the Doctor.

 

[The Wormhole]

Eventually, Doctor Who fandom will determine that everyone who is not the Doctor is either the Master or the Rani.

Or Romana.

 

[Steve Roby]

Romana is obviously the Rani, who is obviously the Master.

 

[Turtletrekker]

.

Or Romana.

Or Susan.

 

[JD]

Maybe they're all The Doctor?

 

[matthunter]

Maybe they're all The Doctor?

Or Spartacus.