I like that Doctor Who’s canon is so versatile, however I discover sure contradictions actually exhausting to disregard. The greatest Doctor Who stories of all time introduce every kind of bizarre and wacky items of lore, however as a result of the present is so enormous, it’s simple for the writers to combine issues up.
Even the upcoming Doctor Who season 15 wants to repair some contradictions from the earlier installment. Whereas the present will ceaselessly be my favourite, I want Physician Who would pay extra consideration to the little particulars.
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The Tenth Physician Pretending To Nonetheless Be John Smith
Season 3, Episode 9 – “The Household Of Blood”
Doctor Who forgets the Doctor’s abilities frequently, nevertheless it additionally makes some up on the fly, merely in order that the titular character has a fast answer to an issue. Considered one of my most hated examples of that is in “The Household of Blood,” when the Physician confronts the Household whereas nonetheless pretending to be John Smith. Nonetheless, the entire level of him utilizing the Chameleon Arch is in order that the Household can’t sniff the Time Lord out. So, why don’t they instantly detect the Physician when he enters their ship on the climax of the episode?
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Physician Who awkwardly explains this as an previous trick of the Physician’s, utilizing the phrase “Ventriloquism of the nostril” as a justification. Nonetheless, it’s fairly handy that he’s solely in a position to do that after spending months in 1913. What’s much more irritating is that the Household can sense the watch whereas it’s close to, and even when they’re distracted by energy, it nonetheless doesn’t add up that they fail to comprehend the Physician is again.
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John Smith Is Snug With One Coronary heart Working, However It Hurts The Physician
Season 3, Episodes 8 & 9 – “Human Nature” & “The Household Of Blood”
One other evident inconsistency within the Doctor Who two-part story “Human Nature” and “Household of Blood” is the difficulty surrounding the Physician’s hearts. In earlier episodes, like “The Shakespeare Code” it’s established that the Physician finds it drastically painful when solely considered one of his hearts is working. Whereas it’s doable for the Time Lord to maintain going with only one coronary heart, it’s nonetheless uncomfortable. Despite the fact that the Metacrisis Physician is ok with one, his response to his new organic construction proves that it’s an odd feeling.
Audiences know for a proven fact that John Smith solely has one heartbeat, as a result of Joan checks it for him.
Nonetheless, John Smith by no means appears to have any complaints. Though his recollections aren’t because the Physician anymore, he bodily nonetheless is, so it doesn’t make sense that he spends months as a “human” with out as a lot as a singular chest ache. Audiences know for a proven fact that John Smith solely has one heartbeat, as a result of Joan checks it for him. His second coronary heart doesn’t magically vanish, both, so why do the results of Physician’s physiology abruptly change inside a matter of episodes?
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Clara Says She Noticed All 11 Faces In The Physician’s Time Stream
Season 7, Episode 13 – “The Title Of The Physician”
Whereas I suppose that the many versions of Clara in Doctor Who could be accountable for the companion miscounting Docs of their time stream, it’s nonetheless baffling. In “The Title of the Physician,” one of many first issues Clara tells the Eleventh Physician upon reuniting with him is that she noticed all 11 of the Time Lord’s faces. Nonetheless, Doctor Who’s controversial Timeless Child storyline utterly modifications this. Whereas the Timeless Youngster is now retconned, it doesn’t excuse the truth that showrunner Chris Chibnall fails to comprehend that there’s a evident difficulty.
If the Physician has dozens extra previous regenerations, a quantity that neither the Time Lord nor audiences are absolutely positive about, then why doesn’t Clara see them as nicely?
In truth, why doesn’t she give the Physician a heads-up? Russell T Davies has simply made the Shalka Physician, one other model of the Ninth, canon too, and Clara doesn’t point out this incarnation both. I do know it may be argued that the Physician forgets these previous regenerations, however what in regards to the Morbius Docs from the basic period serial “The Mind of Morbius?”
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The Fifteenth Physician Hasn’t Had Youngsters “But”
Season 14, Episode 7 – “The Legend Of Ruby Sunday”
The Doctor’s children in Doctor Who is all the time a sophisticated matter, however my greatest frustration from Russell T Davies’ present period is that he ignores canon that’s established throughout his unique run as showrunner. For instance, in “The Empty Youngster,” the Ninth Physician and Dr. Constantine share a young second over shedding kids and grandchildren to battle. “Worry Her” sees the Tenth Physician inform Rose that he has been a father earlier than and misplaced them, too, as soon as once more implying that his offspring are victims of the Time Battle.
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The fifteenth Physician tells Kate Stewart that he doesn’t have kids “but” in “The Legend of Ruby Sunday,” blanking on the existence of Jenny. It’s unhealthy sufficient that Physician Who forgets Jenny, which proves the Physician is already a dad or mum, nevertheless it’s much more baffling contemplating the star of “The Physician’s Daughter” is portrayed by David Tennant’s spouse and Peter Davison’s daughter, Georgia. Time is difficult, granted, and the Time Lord may have extra children sooner or later, nevertheless it’s weird how a lot lore is ignored, particularly because it’s comparatively new to the canon in comparison with Doctor Who’s classic era.
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Donna Noble Reacting To The Saxon Grasp
2009/2010 Specials – “The Finish Of Time”
The mechanism in Donna’s head activating on the climax of “The Finish of Time: Half One” makes little sense in itself, however the companion’s return within the Physician Who Sixtieth-anniversary specials contradicts this second much more so. After the Saxon Grasp converts each human on Earth to look precisely like him, Donna panics and, after seeing considered one of his many faces on the street, she collapses. Whereas the Physician’s safety saves her, it makes zero sense that Donna reacts to the Grasp within the first place.
The Tenth Physician doesn’t arrange one other protection mechanism, however she should nonetheless have the primary one, in any other case she would’ve died within the early moments of “The Star Beast.”
In her unique run, Donna crosses paths with the Saxon Grasp. Even when she remembers the Physician or Martha telling her the story of Prime Minister Harold Saxon, this nonetheless doesn’t add up. Donna spends hours across the Time Lord in “The Star Beast” with no difficulty, and even calls him the Physician earlier than getting her recollections again, but she’s superb. The Tenth Physician doesn’t arrange one other protection mechanism, however she should nonetheless have the primary one, in any other case she would’ve died within the early moments of “The Star Beast.”
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The Eleventh & Twelfth Docs Each Took River To Darillium
“Final Evening” Minisode & Christmas 2015 “The Husbands Of River Track”
“Final Evening” is an amazing Doctor Who story that doesn’t happen on TV, nevertheless it serves as an excellent DVD minisode. Each time I watch it, I’m all the time shocked that Steven Moffat decides to arrange the heartbreaking occasions that result in the demise of the Physician’s spouse in a minisode. Nonetheless, Moffat seems to neglect that the Eleventh Physician takes River to Darillium in “Final Evening” when the Twelfth Physician does the very same factor in “The Husbands of River Track.”
It’s clear that these situations don’t happen concurrently, however on the similar time, Physician Who by no means clarifies whether or not Twelve decides to take River once more so he can have one final night together with her, or whether or not that is only a continuity error. Though the very fact “Final Evening” is a minisode can argue that the occasions aren’t canonical, it’s nonetheless wild that the author of each tales misses this, particularly contemplating Moffat is the creator of River Song’s entire timeline in Doctor Who.
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Susan Created The Title TARDIS
Season 7, Episode 13 – “The Title Of The Physician”
The very first Doctor Who story, “An Unearthly Child” introduces Susan for the primary time, by which it’s established that the Physician’s granddaughter is the genius behind the TARDIS identify. TARDIS stands for time and relative dimension in house, one thing that Susan comes up with in some unspecified time in the future across the time they depart Gallifrey. Earlier than this, it’s unknown what the Physician’s iconic ship is referred to on his residence planet. Nonetheless, the Gallifreyan model of Clara Oswald in “The Title of the Physician” suggests in any other case.
It’s price noting that though Gallifreyan Clara could use the time period TARDIS as a result of her unique self is aware of it, this isn’t the actual contradiction. In an early scene of the episode, a Gallifreyan engineer who’s engaged on the ships additionally calls them TARDISes, too. Maybe Susan borrows the identify after she hears Clara saying it, maybe not, however contemplating the a number of a long time between these installments, I believe it’s extra doubtless that Physician Who merely forgets its personal lore.
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The Tenth Physician Alters Timelines By Inflicting The Downfall Of Harriet Jones
Christmas 2006 – “The Christmas Invasion”
Harriet Jones, former MP for Flydale North, is arms down the most effective Prime Minister in Doctor Who, not that it is exhausting for her to prime the rating. The Time Lord continually talks about how he is not going to change timelines and affect historical past, however the Tenth Physician contradicts this shortly after regenerating in “The Christmas Invasion” when he causes the political decline of Harriet Jones. What’s unusual is that when the Ninth Physician clocks who she is on the finish of “World Battle Three,” he by no means mentions Harriet’s downfall, simply that she is about to develop into a tremendous Prime Minister.
Despite the fact that the Physician has a private relationship with Harriet, no less than extra so than among the different historical figures in Doctor Who, it doesn’t make sense that he will get concerned. The Physician is both the explanation Harriet loses political management, and had been unaware of her destiny in “World Battle Three,” or he chooses to change it due to her assassination of the Sycorax. Both method, the Time Lord oversteps massively. The Physician doesn’t mess with historical past if he can in Physician Who, and I discover this contradiction actually exhausting to disregard.
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Doctor Who
5/10
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December 25, 2023
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Douglas Camfield, David Maloney, Christopher Barry, Michael E. Briant, Barry Letts, Michael Ferguson, Richard Martin, Peter Moffatt, Pennant Roberts, Lennie Mayne, Chris Clough, Ron Jones, Paddy Russell, Paul Bernard, Michael Hayes, Timothy Combe, Morris Barry, Gerald Blake, Graeme Harper, Waris Hussein, Rodney Bennett, Mervyn Pinfield, Hugh David, John Gorrie
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Doctor Who
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2005 – 2021
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Graeme Harper, Euros Lyn, Douglas Mackinnon, Jamie Magnus Stone, Charles Palmer, Rachel Talalay, Joe Ahearne, James Sturdy, Jamie Childs, Saul Metzstein, Toby Haynes, Wayne Che Yip, Nick Hurran, Richard Clark, James Hawes, Daniel Nettheim, Colin Teague, Keith Boak, Azhur Saleem, Adam Smith, Andrew Gunn, Nida Manzoor, Lawrence Gough, Paul Murphy
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Jodie Whittaker
The Physician
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