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Thread: Getting into Doctor Who.
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2012-11-14, 10:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2012
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- Across the spiraling sea.
Re: Getting into Doctor Who.
So, having only watched one episode of Nine's run, most of Ten's run, and the first season of Eleven's run, I'm curious...
Is there a canonical reason that the Doctor gets progressively younger each time he regenerates?
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2012-11-14, 10:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2008
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2012-11-15, 11:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2006
Re: Getting into Doctor Who.
Ne, no given reason. However, I have my theory is that he's pretending to be the opposite of what he is. As Hartnell he looked really old, but often acted like an anti-social teen. As time progresses he acts more 'mature' while at the same time his appearance looks less abd less so.
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of the trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise.
-Camus, An Absurd Reasoning
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2012-11-16, 04:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2007
Re: Getting into Doctor Who.
The easiest answer to this is that he's Merlin.
In the 7th doctor era I believe the name of that set of episodes is "Battlefield" the Doctor actually is "Merlin"!
Otherwise I believe its because the choices for each incarnation of the Doctor has steadily grown younger I believe the BBc have got into trouble for removing their older presenters and replacing them with younger versions but thats an argument for another thread!
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2012-11-18, 01:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2005
- Location
- USA
Re: Getting into Doctor Who.
The doctor has gotten older too, at times. If you look back to the transitions 5 to 6 to 7, each of them was older than the previous.
I think the original intention for Matt Smith's doctor was to pick someone older for the role. I seem to recall an interview from around the time saying that they really wanted someone older, but Smith just knocked it out of the ballpark in his audition so they took him anyway.
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2012-11-19, 08:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2006
- Location
- Under a 1st Ed AD&D DMG
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2012-11-19, 09:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2009
- Location
- The Elemental Pole of Oil
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Its worth noting that 5 was the youngest until 11 came along.
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2012-11-20, 02:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2005
- Location
- USA
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2012-11-20, 02:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2009
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- Runite
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2012-11-20, 02:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2008
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- Germany
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2012-11-20, 04:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2008
Re: Getting into Doctor Who.
The Daleks are in-universe defined as being eternal survivors, and as long as some of them survive, they've been shown capable of reconstructing their entire race from a mere handful of Daleks.
This frustrates the Doctor to no end, as the Time Lords haven't managed to do the same.
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2012-11-20, 06:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2008
Re: Getting into Doctor Who.
I think in the episode it's mentioned in brief, the insane Dalek Emperor fled the destruction of the Dalek race and was manipulating the DNA of humans to recreate the Daleks from scratch.
Get used to this. I'm a Dalek fan, but there pretty much space cockroaches, angry, genocidal, tank wearing cockroaches, you can wipe them out as much as you want but they're always gonna come back.