The stories from Doctor Who’s past that inadvertently created its future…
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Tosh! We would have had Blink without Love And Monsters. It was an adapted 9th Doctor story from years back.
No one acknowledges "the Chibnall Era".
I mean, about the number of regenerations, now that they made The Doctor be the timeless child, and making him the origin of the time lords regenerations, wouldn't he have infinite regenerations?
I hated when they started throwing in
Gay themes like really?😑
Still remember the T.V. woman one.
Hungry!!!!
One argument I read against the Timeless Child was that it takes away from William Hartnell being the "First Doctor".
Balderdash! Bullocks, I say!
Hartnell was the first actor to play the Doctor. He will forever be the First Doctor, just like the War Doctor didn't change Christopher Eccleston into the Tenth Doctor.
And actually, I think it makes things make a little more sense. It actually fits into him running away with the TARDIS. Why he never mentioned being a Timelord, and why Patrick Troughton's Doctor was justifiably afraid of them.
His memories were locked away in the Watch Fob of doom, but there has always been a mistrust between The Doctor and his fellow Timelords. And not just The Monk, The Master, and The Rani.
hold on there. a lightsaber and a sonic screwdriver used in conjunction with each other? imagine the possibilities.
Doctor Who is dead. It died after Peter Capaldi left. We’re now just waiting for the corpse to finish rotting.
Brain of morbius lead into the cartmel master plan which was then tinkered with by chibs
looking back at it, the only thing chibs SHOULD have explained is that the timelords knew the doctor was the other (in this case the timeless child) and that they blocked his memory of it, although the multiverse in who is quite the nice setup I'll admit.
McGann's doctor wasn't the first action oriented doctor, it was the third doctor, he used space martial arts to beat people up but only when necessary.
I still say that the other faces that we saw in The Brain Of Morbius were Morbius’ past incarnations.
7:37 you can practically hear Ellie’s aggressive side-eye at Timeless Child
The greatest DW plot twist: The Master and The Doctor are not time synced. That way the regenerations aren't lined up. Imagine some 95-year-old or 15-year-old taunting The Doctor (insert current number here) and it is The Master at season's end. This let's any writer bring The Master back! Missy and 4? Dhawn and 6? Endless Big Finish possibilities.
Fascinating indeed. Doctor Who really is a show forged upon genius ideas and spontaneous decisions.
I'm surprised you didn't talk about logopolis and how it introduced the cloister bell. One of the most recognizable sounds in doctor who from the TARDIS
Does anyone else really like love and monsters? It has the same appeal as Blink with the Doctor being portrayed as mysterious entity, a hilarious enemy, and ELO in the soundtrack. What more could you ask for in a Doctor who episode?
stupid top 10 idea the top ten moments of love and monsters
The Time Meddler isn’t the first time Historical and Science fiction had mixed, in fact just the story before this had done it with Daleks being the Cause of the Mary Celeste’s crew completely disappearing, as the Mary Celeste mystery being a Historical event and the Daleks being the first science fiction Monster in the show, that makes the chase the first time. That’s if we don’t count the doctor and the TARDIS being a science fiction element in the Stone Age.
I was perfectly content to think those eight faces were just Morbius' bodies. I'm still content to think so and firmly reject the Timeless Child and Chris Chibnall's era onwards as a whole.
I know im in the minority but i dont mind the timeless child story, im just sorry it wasnt and probaly never will be completed.
I don't understand how the Doctor thought he was going to die and didn't become all crusty like the Master, he just aged Also, did she just say internet forum? In 1996?!
the five doctors offers the master a brand new regeneration cycle why wasnt that mentioned
With 50 episodes a year, yje aerly years featured some episodes with the Doctor either absent or just in a short film insert. I believe one episode of The Chase has him missing completely!
the sonic screwdriver is definitely overused
Sydney Newman's initial rule was "No robots or bug-eyed monsters". the Daleks are technically both and neither.
The Master should've been the Timeless child, Gallifreyan screwed up his regeneration cycle so much it warped his mind, drove him to insanity thus more susceptible by staring into the time vortex. That's why he destroyed Gallifrey in the newest reincarnation.
Spearheads from space: the first episode to be broadcast in colour. 🙋🏻
We got 3 doctors at once
2 David Tenants and the new guy .
The Metachrosis doctor, And then the bio regeneration doctors (another David Tenant )
In the brain of morbius episode the 8 random faces before willam hartnell could have been have been the 4th dr tricking morbius and when they start you see morbius timelord face and that dr was known to trick his foes and seeing the 8 random faces have never been confirmed to indeed be the dr pre hartnell probably will never know the truth
The workaround was already known, Ellie. The master was given a new set of 12 regeneration in the 5 Doctors, when the High Council granted the master a new regeneration cycle in exchange for helping the doctor.
I think #5 describes the situation shown in Time of the Doctor very poorly. Moffatt was an egotist, he wanted to be the showrunner that saw the renewal beyond the 13 regenerations and thus opted to count the Meta-Doctor regeneration to make it work. This would retcon the presentation of Peter Capaldi as the 13th Doctor frommmm….
wait, I've got it here somewhere…
Oh yes…THE PREVIOUS F'ING STORY!
And then, egos abound and so do politics, 2 seasons later, Capaldi gets shoehorned into being the 12th Doctor instead, so that Sh*taker can be #13.
If only the series' self destruction would've ended there…if only…
This is the shows last season before a 5-10 year break while society gets back to reality.
The timeless child wasn't just picking up the plot thread of the morbius doctors but also the plans for the 7th doctor if the show wasn't cancelled. Which I'd argue probably inspired the timeless children more.
Also the morbius doctors have always been the doctor and were originally interested to be the doctor and when watching the scene they are framed to be previous incarnations, with morbius literally asking the doctor how many lives has he had. Those who argued/argue still that they aren't are ignoring the actual show. Whether you like it or not is a different subject, the fact is that they are.
Imagine if instead of the 13 incarnations people instead hooked on to the line that said they had 90.
Even back when The Deadly Assassin aired, we knew the 12 regenerations limit was going to bite them in the backside eventually. Of course, no one back then could have imagined they would still be making Doctor Who episodes 50 years and 8 Doctors later.
So, it was inevitable that, having established the 13 incarnation barrier, someone was going to have to find a way to move past it. And, really, the series already kinda established it was possible since in The Five Doctors, the Time Lords tempted the Master into helping the Doctor by promising him a new regenerative cycle. If they could do that for the Master then, there is no reason why they couldn't do that for the Doctor later. Since introducing the concept of "regenerative energy," never really named until the new series, we already had a bye to use it in different ways, which the Tenth Doctor did to regenerate his own hand.
I have long had a theory that Time Lords are not born with a second heart and only develop one after their first regeneration. It is the second heart that generates the regenerative energy when it is needed. Our heart is autonomic, and we have no control over its functioning. That doesn't mean a Time Lord does not. The regenerative process seems to be automatic once a Time Lord experiences a fatal incident, and the Twelfth Doctor showed that the process has become so engrained in the Time Lords that the Doctor can shoot the General without fear of killing him so long as the General retained regenerative energy.
The Doctor has never really been able to control his regenerations, but other Time Lords have proven that ability is always there. After all, Romana seemed to be able to select her next body and even test out potential forms before finally completing the regeneration. The Eighth Doctor was able to select HOW he regenerated (if not the precise form) with the aid of a draught from the Sisterhood of Karn. The Twelfth Doctor (and perhaps the First Doctor) was able to delay the regeneration process, but the next incarnation would still be catch can – neither Doctor had any idea what the next incarnation would be like.
It now all comes down to the concept of regenerative energy. As long as a Time Lord can continue to generate this energy, there can really be no limit to the number of lives the Time Lord can have — and how the Time Lord uses that energy. That was a good change because it opens up HOW the energy can be used in future stories. Of course, it totally ruins the denouement of The Five Doctors, but that's a lost argument now.
Naturally, the biggest changes to Doctor Who canon in recent years are establishing the Timeless Child and the fallback of bi-generation. Stephen Moffett pretty much rendered the Timeless Child a fait accompli that can be accepted or not, and bi-generation can now be used to justify any event in continuity because every Doctor has effectively bi-generated, allowing previous Doctors to continue having adventures into their old age. This MAY also explain the Watcher who manifested during Logopolis and aided the Doctor in regenerating into the Fifth Doctor – it's bi-generation. WHEN it happened is probably irrelevant, but it is still a game changer.
Personally, to use the proper British term, I say both are bollocks. Both basically give us a "everything is real so everything goes" vibe to the series which renders the very concept of continuity into a trash heap. DC Comics did that in its latest retcon (done purely to return the real Superman to continuity), and it is just as improper there as here.
It was actually mentioned in the 5 Doctors that a whole new life cycle can be given to a Time Lord who’s reached the end.
What's in a number but sometimes there a numerous other ways around the number 12 is just a fix it can be a negative to say how it affects the doctor regeneration process a stability point. But of course, Gallifrey isn't in any time it exists outside of our time so 12 isn't expected to be related to our timelines. Think why time lords need to be inside a tardis or nearby one because of the fact of their timelines related to the existence of their timelines being outside ours. 12 regeneration are designed to be a measure and connection to Gallifrian's timelines and possibly this means only for a time lord his or hers abilities to live beyond measure of time scales related to Gallifrey time scales a close connection between the tardis and the planet of origin. Bigger on the inside could mean a time of recovery for a time lord. 12 may expend regeneration in a time measure?
You didn't even mention the one and the only logical explanation for the other faces in The Brain of Morbius and that is, that they were incarnations of Morbius. There is nothing else that they could have been and or nothing else they could be. If there even is such a thing as The Timeless Child, so far all we have is this outlandish, ridiculous, insane story being told by two psychopathic, mass murdering, lunatics. If there is a Timeless Child it can't be the Doctor because it literally contradicts everything else that we and all the characters on the show know. It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
every thing was fine in this video, except for # 2 There were no other doctors before Hartnell, anything that happened pre-Hartnell was just a story created by The Toymaker. So get the facts straight before making fake stories like this.
Rule one of the doctor… That should explain him being half human
So many small moments that turned huge later on
Doctor Woke is is joke now, show used to be good such a shame
The 12-regeneration limit was the most unnecessary and stupid contribution to the lore that the otherwise brilliant Robert Holmes made. Not only had it been previously established that Time Lords could live forever "barring accidents", Holmes himself gave us pre-Hartnell Doctors (yes, that's they were) in The Brain of Morbius only a few stories earlier.
The 12-regen limit was only invented to inject some jeopardy into the Master's plight in The Deadly Assassin, by putting him on his final incarnation. However, Holmes could simply have stated that the Master was too weak/ill to regenerate, instead of which he chose to hang the ludicrous 12-regeneration albatross around the show's neck.