Oh please, 275 episodes. That’s a novella, in terms of serial fiction.
Also, Dr. Who plays fast and lose with continuity anyway.
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Okay, that is pretty awesome.
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I’d guess there was a bible written for the reboot of the series, though.
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I much prefer when characters wander off than die.
I think with their effects budgets lately it might be good to see Kamelion again. http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Kamelion
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Maybe. I’d be surprised though. It’s never struck me as that kind of show. Hell, the new series introduced the flying time monkeys, and then went back to the Blinovitch Limitation Effect. It also let the Big Finish continuity slip into the main continuity, regardless of what contradictions that would bring about. Also the heart of the TARDIS from the first season of the reboot seems to have vanished completely.
If they did write a show bible, I’m sure it went the way of the TARDIS manual: chucked into a black hole.
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it was printed on psychic paper anyhow.
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That’s the great thing about a time travel premise. You want to fuck with the continuity? Oops, I went back in time and messed something up and now the Zargleblots are 3-foot-tall lizards instead of giant furry orangutans.
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Slightly on topic, new Humble Bundle:
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I just realised something else. I’ve only ever bought River Song’s sonic screwdriver because she was the only woman who carried one so far. I’ll be buying the 13th doctor’s screwdrive too.
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826839 episodes, 275 stories
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Okay, novel.
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This year Ishildur aka “Me” expressed her suspicion that the Doctor might be “The Hybrid” by way of being half human. She said it would explain why he spent so much time on Earth.
At this point the writers are just taunting the audience for lulz.
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8th Doctor mentions being half human in his movie. I suppose it’s canon.
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But we saw so little of him, what do we really know about him? Perhaps it’s also canon that he’s just a bullshitter?
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Well, but apparently, thanks to the Night of the Doctor short, his Big Finish stories are canon now.
Entirely possible!
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Sadly, the Master also identifies him as half-human. But the film really strongly implies that Time Lords have weird snake eyes, like the Master does in that film. The Master identifies the Doctor as human because of his eyes, and, for some reason, only eyes with a human appearance can open the Eye of Harmony. It doesn’t work if they’re covered by weird black oil stuff. So… yeah, that film seemed to decide that Time Lords weren’t supposed to have human eyes.
Towards the end of the fourth season, the Doctor said that a half human/half Time Lord hybrid couldn’t exist. Hence the whole… Donna thing. So I think the official canon status of the whole half human thing is for canon to plug its ears and go “LA LA LA, I CAN’T HEAR YOU!”
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So this will go in my collection with the other Doctor Who actresses who have done nudes/nude scenes:
Katy Manning
Deborah Watling
Louise Jameson
Jenna Coleman
As a Doctor Who fan of several decades (and lech at heart), I wholeheartedly don’t mind.
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If the pilot had been picked up as a series, all the aliens would probably have had different kinds of weird eyes, like how in Star Trek of the same era all the aliens had weird forehead appliances.
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“The Doctor lies” is generally accepted as canon now.
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I don’t think you’re alone there, any time I’ve been to a Who-themed event in the last few years the audience has been more women than men and it’s usually the female fans who are going in costume and buying merch.
Even if you believe that all the haters are life-long fans who will now swear off the show (I don’t but let’s humour them) their numbers would pale in comparison to how many new viewers the show brings in each time the cast moves to include people who were left out before.
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