What's in your "head canon"?
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Obviously I haven't read the novelization, but this is confirmed by the book's Wikipedia page. Hey, if it was good enough for the head canon of guy who co-created the character, then it's good enough for my head canon as well.
Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon (novelisation)
Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon was a novelisation based on the 1971 television serial Colony in Space. The evil MASTER has stolen the Time Lords' file on the horrifying DOOMSDAY WEAPON with which, when he finds it, he can blast whole planets out of existence and make himself ruler of the...
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I can already see the cover with the Chris Achilleos illustration."Doctor Who and All You Zombies," novelized by Terrance Dicks.
"Doctor Who and All You Zombies," novelized by Terrance Dicks.
Go all in. Add ‘in an exciting adventure with’ or completely change the title between screen and TV version.
Before finally being released from the Division and restarted into the cycle of generations that began with William Hartnell, the Doctor lived thousands of generations, maybe more — all in a continuing cycle of working for the Division, fleeing the Division and going off on their own, then being recaptured, reprogrammed and restarted. As such, the incarnation we call the Fugitive Doctor is only one of no doubt many, many such fugitive incarnations, most probably thinking they’re the first one to go rogue. (Why don’t all these Doctors run into each other more? Because the universe is really freaking big, that’s why.)
Well, that MAY work. If the Doctor was the source of regeneration, then they've been around as long as Rassilon and the dawn of the Time Lords, which could span 6 million years (depending on whether the Sixth Doctor was referring to how long the Time Lords had BEEN Time Lords, was including an earlier Gallifreyan space empire, or was talking about the total span of time the TLs controlled - the last of which seems a bit short cosmically speaking).
So you'd expect a LOT of bodies in that timeframe, even if most just led quiet boring TL lives of a tens of thousands of years.
So you'd expect a LOT of bodies in that timeframe, even if most just led quiet boring TL lives of a tens of thousands of years.
Plot twist:
They never found a way to transfer the energy, so they just offed the TC over and over exponentially by erasing their memory and throwing them back in time. Every Time Lord (capable of regeneration) is in fact a Doctor. The Doctor is the entire race. The entire race is The Doctor. A race of one, the ultimate minority. At least until, due to series of ludicrous events involving rubber bands and a particle accelerator (hey, if the current production team can steal, so can I) they become *every person in the universe* and they always have been. Forever. Apart from Susan and The Rani, because it’s never Susan or The Rani.
Well, that WOULD explain the Master's hatred of the TC reveal - that they're only "special" because of the Doctor.
It also fits with some creation myths, that we are the One, shattered so it can experience multiple lives.
I'm not gonna do the Optimus quote. You can hear Peter Cullen in your head well enough.
That reminds me of a short story I read once, I can't remember its name or author, but it went like this:
A man dies and finds himself in some kind of afterlife. The "angel" who meets him, says that he is literally every human being who has ever lived and ever will live. He just keeps dying and being reincarnated as other people, at random points in the timeline. So he is literally every human being, ever.
Not sure what the point of all this was supposed to be, but there we are.
As for the Doctor....I'm not sure it would work, in that case. If the Doctor is also, for example, Borusa in "The Five Doctors", how is he supposed to get out of that?
That reminds me of a short story I read once, I can't remember its name or author, but it went like this:
A man dies and finds himself in some kind of afterlife. The "angel" who meets him, says that he is literally every human being who has ever lived and ever will live. He just keeps dying and being reincarnated as other people, at random points in the timeline. So he is literally every human being, ever.
Not sure what the point of all this was supposed to be, but there we are.
As for the Doctor....I'm not sure it would work, in that case. If the Doctor is also, for example, Borusa in "The Five Doctors", how is he supposed to get out of that?
He isn’t. Most of my supposition in these posts is… slightly sarcastic xD Though it’s not much different to when every human became the Master I suppose. All for a pun.
You may be thinking of "The Egg", written by Andy Weir.That reminds me of a short story I read once, I can't remember its name or author, but it went like this:
A man dies and finds himself in some kind of afterlife. The "angel" who meets him, says that he is literally every human being who has ever lived and ever will live. He just keeps dying and being reincarnated as other people, at random points in the timeline. So he is literally every human being, ever.
Not sure what the point of all this was supposed to be, but there we are.
As for the Doctor....I'm not sure it would work, in that case. If the Doctor is also, for example, Borusa in "The Five Doctors", how is he supposed to get out of that?
The story has been adapted by several creative teams. Here is the one I first encountered, animated by Kursgesagt. It is really touching "afterlife" concept.
It sounds absolutely horrifying. 
It's by Andy Weir, so yes. Not horrifying conceptually. Just... horrifyingly dull.It sounds absolutely horrifying.
I can imagine what, for instance, Ted Chiang would do with the concept, and it would be emotionally gutting. I can imagine Jonathan Letham's take; "Five Fucks" is pretty close, actually. Weir is just... subworkmanlike.
Thinking back to Ecclestone Doctor speech about "feeling" the universe and subsequent stuff like "fixed point in time", I since decided in my head that The Doctor, on some level, gets into situations knowing he isn't going to die and there is no chance of him dying and if he does die, the universe will unfuck it or there is a reason for it. Now he can't do the same for companions or others, but for himself - yes. Whether it is active or some other sense.
It's like the Water on Mars episode, he is fighting "time itself" because he knows time is actually a real, thinking thing on some level. And it wasn't his time to die, he could feel that he was going to survive it. But he couldn't predict all the other stuff.
It always made sense in my head, it worked well with that one where Capaldi Doctor is stuck in a loop as punishment by the timelords too.
Pretty much every "realistic" idea of the afterlife is horrifying, though we have a limited understanding of reality. Our current understanding makes stuff like that more realistic than just "everything goes black and you die".
It's like the Water on Mars episode, he is fighting "time itself" because he knows time is actually a real, thinking thing on some level. And it wasn't his time to die, he could feel that he was going to survive it. But he couldn't predict all the other stuff.
It always made sense in my head, it worked well with that one where Capaldi Doctor is stuck in a loop as punishment by the timelords too.
It sounds absolutely horrifying.
Pretty much every "realistic" idea of the afterlife is horrifying, though we have a limited understanding of reality. Our current understanding makes stuff like that more realistic than just "everything goes black and you die".
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