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Post by James Smith on May 28, 2007 6:27:21 GMT -5
So the TARDIS has a device onboard that can re-write The Doctors biology, in this case making him human. His Time Lord essence is then stored in a pocket watch.
Aside from this being yet another example of a sci-fi show doing a "Magic Fun With DNA™!" episode (a trick that Voyager played, and sucked at badly, with "Threshold"), this does raise rather important questions - could this machine re-write The Doctor as a Time Lord in an earlier life cycle, thus granting him more regenerations? Is this how the Council intended to give The Master his reward in "The Five Doctors"?
And yes Atra, presumably this device could make him a woman so that Billie Piper could play The Doctor ;D
Good ep though, despite the slightly silly premise of turning The Doctor into a human being living in 1913 with no memory of his real life beyond having vivid dreams about it. It's based on a 7th Doctor DW novel by Paul Cornell.
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Post by Atrahasis on May 28, 2007 9:30:27 GMT -5
How about this? Ever wonder why the Time Lords look so Human?
So you have Omega, Rassilon, and The Other being the three who started it all, with Rasillon eventually being entombed (who knows if this means "dead" with Time Lords), and the one who is left is The Other, who throws himself into the genetic looms in the non-canonverse.
What if The Other was a human, and it was from that point on that it became fashionable to assume almost-human form with the Time Lords? Say that their original form was something else entirely.
This DNA device that you speak of could be a mini-version of the looms.
And I was very upset with Billie for not showing enough skin! ;D
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Post by James Smith on May 28, 2007 9:49:43 GMT -5
What if The Other was a human, and it was from that point on that it became fashionable to assume almost-human form with the Time Lords? The novel that this episode is based on implies (fairly obliquely) that The Other was a Victorian scientist, who built a TARDIS-like machine and travelled to Gallifrey in the Old Time. This could explain that revelation in the DW TV Movie that The Doctor is half-human....much as I'd love to ignore that particular entry in DW canon.... |
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Post by Atrahasis on May 28, 2007 9:52:12 GMT -5
LOL The Other was Peter Cushing!
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Post by James Smith on May 28, 2007 9:56:56 GMT -5
LOL The Other was Peter Cushing! ;D I love the Cushing DW movies. I don't seem to be in the majority though  |
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Post by Atrahasis on May 28, 2007 10:09:35 GMT -5
They may not have been canon, but the Daleks in those two movies were like 1950's Cadillacs....shiney with bright colors, and big as whales too.
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Post by James Smith on Jun 2, 2007 17:30:49 GMT -5
Second part aired tonight....I loved it. Paul Cornell is officially one of my favourite DW writers now.
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Post by Atrahasis on Jun 7, 2007 10:52:27 GMT -5
That was quite a moving scene where the English boys created a wall of defense with their guns to protect the Doctor. He's protected England through time and space, it was time for England to return the favor!
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Post by CaptainPierce on Dec 16, 2007 23:10:10 GMT -5
You know, having been recently on a crash course to finally catch up on the "new" Dr. Who and Torchwood... this two-parter was the first time up to this point in the "new" Who that I said to myself, "This just doesn't work." It was OK up to the point where the human version of the Doctor went all self-righteous about how he had to die for the Doctor to live, and that was the point where it all went "Tuvix" for me. Tennant was very good as an actor in this, BTW, the way he was able to shift from human to Doctor and right back again in one scene was probably the best part of the whole two-parter, but I just didn't buy the script. Oh, and I have to ask--were English private schools in 1913 really that well armed? They had more machine guns than the freaking Montana Freemen...  |
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