Undoubtedly a reference to the earlier scene, but if I use the same phrase twice in my lifetime, I didn't "get it from" myself on the second occasion.
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Undoubtedly a reference to the earlier scene, but if I use the same phrase twice in my lifetime, I didn't "get it from" myself on the second occasion.
Not bad I like that.
But I am sure in one serial the Doctor, possibly the 4th Doctor explained haunted places as places with breaks in the fabric of time. I think it was Image Of The Fendahl.
Cut material from an Eccleston script has the Doctor tell Rose that in the instant before landing the TARDIS analyses the environment and assesses a million possible forms... but he doesn't know why she bothers, as she always goes for a police box. "I think she just likes it."
You know, I'm realizing, long before "The Doctor's Wife" the TARDIS was to varying degrees, sentient. The 3rd Doctor played it up quite a bit around "The Time Monster," but it goes all the way back to "The Edge of Destruction."
During both 3 and 4, the Time Lords would shanghai the TARDIS from time to time to send the Doctor on a mission. And the Doctor notoriously had problems getting her to land where/when he wanted. Perhaps in addition to looking like a police box, the TARDIS sometimes picked locations that needed a Doctor.
During both 3 and 4, the Time Lords would shanghai the TARDIS from time to time to send the Doctor on a mission. And the Doctor notoriously had problems getting her to land where/when he wanted. Perhaps in addition to looking like a police box, the TARDIS sometimes picked locations that needed a Doctor.
There have been sentient TARDISes in the novels, haven't there? Such as...
Compassion
Are you sure that was cut? I remember seeing that scene.
To tell the truth, this is more fodder for my noncanon Who thread than the pet theories thread, but this is a more community thread sooo...
You know how they do "The x Doctors" stories and one of the problems is always that the actors have gotten older--sometimes to the point of being dead? It got me to thinking about "Quantum Leap" and how they could borrow that premise for a Who story. There's some kind of TARDIS malfunction and the Doctor finds himself slipping through past incarnations. Have the current actor play him, but stick him in past costumes and have the occasional reflection, a la young John Hurt. You could even have most of them be "lost" stories. 1, 3, 4, and pretty much every Doctor from 6 on have spots where they were without a companion. And they used 2 in "The 2 Doctors" so one could argue the Time Lords used him for a couple stories between "The War Games" and "Spearhead From Space." I'm trying to remember "The 5 Doctors." Wasn't 5 separated from his companions for that story? Even he could have had an adventure before going back to the TARDIS. I don't know if you just steal the "Quantum Leap" idea or do a full-on homage and have the companion stranded in the TARDIS, using the TARDIS' telepathic circuit to give the Doctor assistance like Al.
It could be fun.
You know how they do "The x Doctors" stories and one of the problems is always that the actors have gotten older--sometimes to the point of being dead? It got me to thinking about "Quantum Leap" and how they could borrow that premise for a Who story. There's some kind of TARDIS malfunction and the Doctor finds himself slipping through past incarnations. Have the current actor play him, but stick him in past costumes and have the occasional reflection, a la young John Hurt. You could even have most of them be "lost" stories. 1, 3, 4, and pretty much every Doctor from 6 on have spots where they were without a companion. And they used 2 in "The 2 Doctors" so one could argue the Time Lords used him for a couple stories between "The War Games" and "Spearhead From Space." I'm trying to remember "The 5 Doctors." Wasn't 5 separated from his companions for that story? Even he could have had an adventure before going back to the TARDIS. I don't know if you just steal the "Quantum Leap" idea or do a full-on homage and have the companion stranded in the TARDIS, using the TARDIS' telepathic circuit to give the Doctor assistance like Al.
It could be fun.
I'm struggling to remember how he left the TARDIS and his companions, but once he took the seal from the Master, he went to the Capital (Capitol?) where he got mind-controlled by Borusa. The two then travelled to the Tomb of Rassilon where his previous selves broke the control. He left the Tomb in the relocated TARDIS. So no real space for another adventure.
A part of the Doctor remained in the matrix from when he entered it in his trial, kind of like how there was an echo of Guinan in the Nexus. But for some reason this part of him aged and so if they wanted to bring back Collin Baker for an episode that's how they could do it.
I wonder if they're more receptive than Paramount has been about 'Trek. And I wonder if they could even consider it. In another life, I tried to submit a story to Dark Horse Comics and they returned it without opening it because you had to sign a form first. And I was too chicken to try resending it with the form. 
Oh, the other thing I wish they'd do that would greatly amuse me--I'm a member of a group of people who've built TARDISes--as garden sheds, liquor cabinets, for conventions, or just for the sake of having a TARDIS. Like the actual props, they are all a little bit different.
Remember the episode where 6 tried to get the chameleon circuit working and the TARDIS kept appearing as different things? I'd love it if they did a story where the Doctor kept materializing in backyards and apartments and on patios while trying to get somewhere and save the earth for another week and each time the TARDIS looked a little different because it was actually one of the fan-built props. Obviously it would be impractical for them to fly to Oregon or any of the other locations in the US, but there are a fair number of TARDISes in people's backyards in the UK. It would be fun to see some of them become screen-used.
Remember the episode where 6 tried to get the chameleon circuit working and the TARDIS kept appearing as different things? I'd love it if they did a story where the Doctor kept materializing in backyards and apartments and on patios while trying to get somewhere and save the earth for another week and each time the TARDIS looked a little different because it was actually one of the fan-built props. Obviously it would be impractical for them to fly to Oregon or any of the other locations in the US, but there are a fair number of TARDISes in people's backyards in the UK. It would be fun to see some of them become screen-used.
He brought the TARDIS to the Death Zone, where the crew encountered the First Doctor and Susan. The First Doctor remained in the TARDIS with Turlough while the Fifth, Tegan and Susan set off for the Dark Tower. Along the way, they encountered the Master, sent by the Time Lords to help ("Like Alice, I try to believe three impossible things before breakfast..."), but were then ambushed by a squad of Cybermen; Tegan and Susan ran back to the TARDIS (Susan twisting her ankle in the process, naturally), the Master was knocked unconscious, and the Fifth Doctor took the transmat recall device from him and escaped from the Cybermen by teleporting back to the High Council - "Sorry, must dash!"
You know how you have a favorite book and then they make a movie of it and you're kind of disappointed because in the book the protagonist's voice sounds like you, but in the movie it sounds different?
I'm kind of glad they don't do a "Young Dr. Who Chronicles." Because I know why the Doctor left. And it wasn't dramatic or anything. He was bored and unhappy. His boss paid him a bunch to sit around and do nothing. And he felt bad to be taking money to eff off on TimeLord Internet. And he felt worse that his boss didn't have any work for him. So since he wasn't going to be doing anything anyway, he might as well be doing it on mid-20th century Earth...
They'd never come up with something that mundane for a tv series.
[edit: Oh, and deep down, he was always a bit worried that his boss would realize they didn't need him.]
I'm kind of glad they don't do a "Young Dr. Who Chronicles." Because I know why the Doctor left. And it wasn't dramatic or anything. He was bored and unhappy. His boss paid him a bunch to sit around and do nothing. And he felt bad to be taking money to eff off on TimeLord Internet. And he felt worse that his boss didn't have any work for him. So since he wasn't going to be doing anything anyway, he might as well be doing it on mid-20th century Earth...
They'd never come up with something that mundane for a tv series.
[edit: Oh, and deep down, he was always a bit worried that his boss would realize they didn't need him.]
Not a pet theory but did anyone notice the whiteboard in the movie "The Cabin In The Woods" where all the scientists were betting on monsters.
One of them was "The Doctors"
I wonder if they meant Doctor Who?
Who?
One of them was "The Doctors"
I wonder if they meant Doctor Who?
Who?
Not a pet theory but did anyone notice the whiteboard in the movie "The Cabin In The Woods" where all the scientists were betting on monsters.
One of them was "The Doctors"
I wonder if they meant Doctor Who?
Who?
They probably just meant the people from the talk show: http://www.thedoctorstv.com/ . Spooky!
Briefly. You couldn't really insert any extra stories in there though. However, Big Finish has forcibly created some gaps where there are none. As I recall, Davison's "Key 2 Time" audios take place in a gap between "Planet of Fire" & "The Caves of Androzani" with the 5th Doctor temporarily dropping Peri off somewhere so that he can sort out the whole Key to Time mess with a new companion named Amy IIRC. (No relation to Amy Pond from the Matt Smith years, of course.)
They also had the 6th Doctor temporarily send Peri off to a botany conference so that he could deal with Davros in "Davros" (a story that takes place sometime after "Attack of the Cybermen" but before his next encounter with Davros in "Revelation of the Daleks").
IMO, the 6th Doctor's timeline doesn't make sense. The Doctor goes off with Mel at the end of "The Trial of a Time Lord" even though the Doctor hasn't actually met her yet? Remember, the "Terror of the Vervoids" stuff was supposed to be in the Doctor's future after the trial. Did the audios ever actually give us the Doctor & Mel's first meeting?
I forgot to mention last time that Big Finish did The Five Companions, by making the transmit to the Capitol get diverted to a pocket universe where five companions and a bunch of enemies (Sontatans, tyrannosaurus rexes and all but the one Dalek who made it to the Death Zone) we're also trapped on their way to the Death Zone.
There's a whole bunch of 5/Peri/ancient Egyptian phaoroah Erimem stories in there as well. Peri was separated from the Doctor on the planet at the beginning of the story. Very little time passes between then and the end of the trilogy, I think.
Not really, there's a book, though. It has the Brigadier, too. It's supposed that the Doctor dropped Mel off for his post-Vervoid self to retrieve. There is The Wrong Doctors, though. Post-Trial and Mel-era Doctors both arrive on Earth where there's a pre-Doctor Mel. I haven't heard it, though, so I can't say too much about it.
They probably just meant the people from the talk show: http://www.thedoctorstv.com/ . Spooky!
Oh bugger and bum.......... That's kind of disappointing.
The Doctor would have got the monsters to leave Earth alone.
