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If the Morbius incarnations are the same Time Lord he would have reached his limit before the War. Peter Davison (at the very least) would have been the last Doctor if he only had thirteen lives.

The seventh Doctor made out he was somehow more than just a Time Lord.

He seemed to have been present at the beginning of Time Lord history (helping Omega and Rassilon form the society of Time Lords and Tardis technology).

The novels extend this by having the Doctor a resurrected form of a Gallifreyan patriarch known as the Other.

Bingowings said:

Here's fun...

Bill Hartnell looks like Laurence Ollivier there

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Bingowings said:

If the Morbius incarnations are the same Time Lord he would have reached his limit before the War. Peter Davison (at the very least) would have been the last Doctor if he only had thirteen lives.

yes, it would be the 5th Doctor that would have been the 13th live of that Timelord.   I somehow miscount the number of incarnations from The Brain of Morbius. 

Bingowings said:

The seventh Doctor made out he was somehow more than just a Time Lord.

in (according to wiki) an untelevised scene of Remembrance Of The Daleks.    I am not sure you can say it is part of the cannon.

Bingowings said:

He seemed to have been present at the beginning of Time Lord history (helping Omega and Rassilon form the society of Time Lords and Tardis technology).

if that is true, he wouldn't need to go the timelord academy and on the 2nd attempt score only a 51%  (according to Romana in The Ribos Operation).    

The scene is certainly part of the canon (everything is) it was broadcast once and has been seen on the re-runs, VHS and DVDs ever since (the original broadcast can't be broadcast again because of music use rights).

The same is true of Silver Nemesis which includes the same claims.

The Doctor had to go to the Academy to become a Time Lord. Why he had such a low achievement record is anyones guess. Maybe he was a bit of a Shobogan in his youth... I know I was.

Possibly there will be as Peter Capaldi's :

resemblance to Caecilius and John Frobisher (the human not the shape shifting penguin) aren't going to be ignored.

Romana 2 (the one that claimed she could fly) looks like Princess Astra because she liked the look.

Perhaps Doctor 2 looked like Salamander so the Tardis could be in a position to do what she does to him (she has a hand in the renewal process and can see the future).

Bingowings said:

The Doctor had to go to the Academy to become a Time Lord. Why he had such a low achievement record is anyones guess. Maybe he was a bit of a Shobogan in his youth... I know I was.

youth?  according to your theory, he was helping Omega and Rassilon form the society of Time Lords.  If that is true,  I'd doubt you'd be able to refer to him as young by the time the academy got started.

If the Doctor is the Other it was literally another life. He lived on ancient Gallifrey during the dark time and threw himself into the genetic looms to eventually be born again as the Doctor. Who would be born a baby and have to go to school again.

If the Doctor is just the Doctor he would have to have travelled into Gallifreys ancient history and that would mean he would still be born as a a baby, be a Time Tot go to the academy and then travel back in time to before the academy began.

Either way he still has to be the snotting nosed youth of 90ish who collapsed the Medusa Cascade.

More fun :

There is a three minute snippet of the Dalek Invasion of Gallifrey up on iTunes.

And the Chancellery Guard are back (scarlet uniforms, seals of Rassilon, no silly plumes on their helmets though).

It's called The Last Day.

More fun :

is there a bigger version of this?  It is just too small. 

adywan said:

I bet the BBC aren't happy with Tom Baker ;) (contains a big spoiler)

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-11-20/doctor-who-50th-anniversary-special-former-doctor-drops-major-spoiler

As I said earlier all bets are off.

This leek may be a lemon or a red herring... would you like a jelly baby?

well, just several hours away from the 50th anniversary.

timdiggerm said:

SilverWook said:

Another AAISAT promo.

http://youtu.be/Z-N7t3SL-AY

The resemblance to Hartnell is uncanny!

So, what are the chances of 1st Doctor appearing in DotD?

I was divided on my take of the final result.

The sets were amazing (though the giant ceiling light was missing on the Tardis and the backdrop was different on the pilot episode). The period feel was right and there were some brilliant little moments like the Cyberman having a fag and the Dalek in need of a pee.

Out of the characters the only ones that felt right were Waris and sometimes Billy.

It was also a bit emotionally flat.

The one moment I did approve of was Mr Smith turning up.

I didn't see him as The Doctor rather Matt getting ready to do his last scene and looking back and seeing Billy going through it for the first time.

I still think it would have worked better as a piece of metafiction.

The Doctor having to make sure the first episode of the show goes out. That way you could forgive the blatant character and plot differences because it would exist in a separate fictional universe.

Now get on and remake the Dalek Masterplan with those sets and Bradley of Gallifrey hmm!

BTW have we all played this yet?

I enjoyed An Adventure a lot. I'm glad it was a straight docudrama as I think it has wider appeal. I recommended it to Mom (who was 11 in Nov '63) and she adored it despite not knowing the first thing about Doctor Who. Suddenly she's curious to see the first episode of the classic series. I think it managed to convey the mood and message quite well even if one could nitpick its accuracy.

1 hour 50 minutes and counting . . .