Bloody timeless child is rassilon always has been ever since John peel wrote his stories the black scroll of rassilon which states biological nanos gave gallifreyans there regeneration abilities Chris chinbil story is trash
My theory is the TARDIS doesn’t want to be anything else. To summon the TARDIS is to summon help. The plaque on the front basically means “help is on its way”.
The cannon reason is the 11th went back and messed with the chameleon circuit before it was stolen. Its why the Doctor's attempts to repair it never work.
I always loved the idea that the TARDIS likes being the Police Box, that's why she doesn't want to transform in to anything else. Simply put she knows that it brings hope and security when people see her.
THe chameleon circuit's function (in the Doctor's specific TARDIS) has, in my opinion, best been summed up by the Doctor: "It scans the nearby environment, determines the best thing it could turn into to blend in, and then turns into a blue police call box." Side joke: I wonder if the TARDIS does this because it got tired of the Doctor forgetting where he parked.
Maybe, except it happened after he leaves 1963 suggesting that it was working, and 1 wasn’t the type to just forget where he parked the tardis, even if he flubbed his lines all the time.
The TARDIS keeps her form for the convenience of the companions - she looks like the telephone box, as long as she is with the doctor ... but everytime River steals her for a little ride, she might change her appearence to keep themselves hidden from prying eyes of whitnesses looking for the doctor (Unit, any companion, foes and friends and even the Doctor himself)
@@LisaBeta-42I like this view, The Doctor loves his blue box and the TARDIS it telepathically connected to him, so convenience for companions/joy for the Doctor is definitely good reason for her to stay as she is. The TARDIS has been established to be sentient in some way even if she is held within machinery to be contained so it wouldn't be too far out to say that the TARDIS keeps the police box exterior simply to please the Doctor
at this point i almost want a story that reveals two things, at this point, everyone knows the blue police box means the Doctor and maybe even that if you get in you might be important and get to travel with them. and that if it isn't a blue police box something really bad happens.
It did occur to me shortly after the reveal of Tennant's return that the 14th Doctor is the show's chance to re-introduce River without changing the timeline. I'd love to see her come back
One point that always was weird to me, that could kind of make sense now, is when River asks 10, "Crash of the Byzantium, have we done that yet?". I find it such a strange question to ask. When it aired, it could just be passed off as off screen throwaway line, but obviously, later we come to find out that's the story we see in the first Angels episode with Matt Smith. With this additional context, why would she ask that question? It's not like she wasn't there, she saw the 11th Doctor, I can't imagine she'd forget the face she saw. Especially if she can tell he's younger than the 11th Doctor, the answer should be obvious, how could he be familiar with this event had he not even reached that regeneration yet? If River had met fourteen, the ambiguity she may have around timelines could make some sense. She'd have then met a version of the Doctor that shared the same face, completely familiar with those events she'd experienced alongside 11.
Her storyline has become full of plot holes because of changes to the story as the show moved on. Like how she says that the doctor gave her his sonic, specifically his sonic that had been upgraded in the future. But we know that 10's sonic screwdriver was destroyed in The Eleventh Hour and replaced with his emerald sonic, The sonic that 12 gives River is a different sonic but she says otherwise. We also know that River did not know about the doctor having more faces than the 11th doctor until The Husbands of River Song. But in The Forest Of The Dead River implies she had never seen the doctor as 10, but in The Husbands of River Song she has a picture of each incarnation of the doctor in order of regeneration. Basically, This does not mean that she met 14(who will regenerate into the true next doctor at the end of his specials), it instead just means that Stephen Moffat is bad at keeping his continuity straight
People keep saying 'It must be 14, it must be 14'. Or, really obvious answer being, it 'must' be what she suggests it is - 10. She meets a 'younger' 10 in the Library, and meets an 'older' Ten between Donna and Time Lord Victorious. Not really that difficult. And more elegant than trying to insert the timeline of a 14th Doctor who we don't know anything about as of yet.
@@LordgraysonAmusingly enough, you'll notice there's a repaired version of 10's screwdriver on set as a reference in 12's office with Bill. It's implied that all the screwdrivers are just upgraded versions either by the Doctor themself or the TARDIS as we do see the TARDIS on numerous occasions give the Doctor a new screwdriver.
I have really loved the idea of River having met the 14th Doctor and that's why she said about how young he was ever since I heard about it. She just meant in his lifetime but did she. ..? 😉 Big Finish with River and Ten is one of my favourite audios ❤
I just wish they'd do something to fix the plot hole that the Sonic she had in the Library was supposed to be The Doctor's. That's bugged me since THoRS aired and I say this as someone who adores that special (it's easily my favorite 12th Doctor Christmas episode).
@@ShinGallon To be fair, she didn’t say it was the Doctor’s screwdriver, she just didn’t correct him when he referred to it as his; Spoilers! 😉 This allowed him to come up with the idea of a gift for her all by himself, thus not causing a problematic paradox.
I always assumed it was an off screen date (Bone Meadows?) before End of Time/during the specials but it being 14 makes a lot more sense, though 11 seems to be a bit more familiar with her in Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone for the last time being the Library.
that statement by river makes a lot more sence now cause david is coming back and as far as david coming back i think the masters forced regeneration caused him to go in to reboot mode like a pc
I think that the reason regenerations are so explosive now compared to the classic series is answered in "Night of the Doctor." Ohila from The Sisterhood of Karn gave him a special mixture of the elixir of life. When he asks will it hurt, she says yes. Plus, you see Ohila with top Gallifreian generals and leaders in a few episodes. I think it was the elixir that changed the way he regenerates. So, it might be safe to say that the Sisterhood might have weaponized regeneration for the Time Lords.
That’s an excellent theory, to me it was always taht ggey either held it in for too long, aside from classic where it just happens, and when 11 broke the rules
Then how come all the timelords glow when they regenerate now? Also as stated multiple times, the sisterhood of Karn has no business being in the lord president’s chamber or even on galifray. As far as the show goes, they either cursed the timelords with sterility which is why they use the genetic looms, or they are a group of nuns that live very far away, either way, they shouldn’t be on galifray at all.
@@tgiacin435 Same way the Doctor does now. He didn't glow like that until he drank the elixir. I think the sisterhood weaponized regeneration for the timelords because of the war.
I like to think the doctor in his older 4th doc/curator body goes and sees Sarah jane before she dies. They fill each other in on their adventures, I particularly like the idea of her filling him on how Luke came into her life.
But didn’t the Doctor meet Like in the Sarah Jane adventures? Idk, how would they pull that off since Liz died years ago, and having anyone else try to take her place would feel kinda empty. I kinda preferred her send off in the Scratchman book because you could hear the emotion in Tom’s voice as he read the letter
Considering that The Husbands of River Song shows that River at least knows OF all of the Doctor's incarnations from 1-11, and the Big Finish adventures established that she has indeed encountered earlier incarnations than 10, she would certainly have been aware that she had met earlier forms of the Doctor than him. Thus it would absolutely make sense that she was referring to the young appearance of 10 as opposed to an older version of that face as seen on 14 rather than an earlier incarnation. River has been my favorite character ever since she was introduced, so I'm all for seeing her reappear for another adventure or two with 14!
@@HuntingViolets I always wondered that myself. The best I could come up with is that either they never directly interacted (that is, River saw him and new who he was, but whatever she managed to keep him from getting involved in what she was doing) or they only ever met under circumstances where it never made much of an impression on the Doctor. I haven't listened to the Big Finish adventures, I've just heard a little about them, so I can't say what circumstances they set up. All we know from the show (specifically "The Husbands of River Song") is that she knows what the Doctor's past incarnations looked like, not that she ever actually met any of them.
I'm glad River and 14 was included. I rewatched River's first appearance the day the 14th doctor was teased and the moment she mentioned his face I got very excited. I want to add that River describes their timelines together as coming from opposite ends but when River meets 12 it gives away the true nature of their timeline. Their life was never in any specific order. River's journeys with the doctor began with 11, then the older 14, the younger 10 and finally with 12 before her last moment with 10.
I always thought that Clara's TARDIS was the exact same place as the diner seen in the Impossible Astronaut, but it never occured to me that it's because Clara used it to go back in time to check in on the Doctor and help him along on one of his adventures much like her splinters did when she was trying to save him from the Great Intelligence. That would be genius! She could be watching him from the back room on her monitor so as to not interfere with what was going on, and of course to not have either the Doctor or River see her. It makes sense that she would miss him so much that she would try to go back in his history to at least observe him from afar (in a sense) and make sure he was all right. Just proves how much she loved him and how strong their connection to each other was. Besides, she has a TARDIS, why wouldn't she go back in time to try to see him again? It makes all the sense in the world, wouldn't we do the same thing if we were his Companion?
This made me think of something. Clara is destined to die when she returns to Face the Raven. Could she subvert her destiny by collecting and sacrificing a splinter of herself? Like Zoom did with time remnants in The Flash.
OH MY GOSH, I LOVE the idea of the Time Lords modifying their biology to make regenerations like kamikaze attacks!! OMG that is SUCH a good explanation for why regenerations are so different now!!
Time Lords were able to decide number of regeneration they get. Maybe, they could do other changes (they have lot of time). Like putting limiter on destructive effects, that they them removed in time war. Also, wasn't there something about Doctor couldn't control to who he regenerates but other could (to some level) or something like that. It was in old who, so I'm not sure, but it could be another upgrade they did to original regeneration from Doctor (we don't know source of regeneration, it could be accidental or natural).
Given that the TARDIS literally tells the Doctor, "I may not have always taken you where you wanted, but I always took you where you needed to go." (Or something like that) you could argue that the Chameleon Circuit is "stuck in Police Box mode" for a similar reason, if you wanted. Honestly, I'd like to think it's to support the legend of The Doctor. The Good Man. The one who tries to save people. Throughout the universe, the blue Police Box should be known as the symbol of The Doctor. And maybe that makes less people shoot at it or something lol. Could even get into some real world stuff about how police should be trusted... but let's not jump into that black hole.
So far I've only seen the thumbnail but the proverbial light bulb just went on over my head. Back in "Silence In The Library", River had never seen him (i.e. with that face) so young--because she'd seen that face when he is older. Makes sense. Also explains why she felt that the picnic at Asgaard (sp?) and the crash of the Byzantium might have already happened for him back when he was Ten. Makes sense. Okay, proceeding to watch the video now...
I thought for YEARS that River said “picnic at Ascot”. After reading it was Asgard, I went back & listened again very carefully & still only heard lAscot”. I had visions of her in the “My Fair Lady” black & white dress, even put it in my fanfiction. Of course, she’d fill out that dress a bit more than Audrey Hepburn did…..
I've heard the theory that Series 7A happened out of order for the 11th Doctor from several articles concerning fan theories of the show. A couple of pieces of evidence holding up this theory were A: the Doctor, Amy and Rory going back in time during King Henry VIII's time in The Power of Three, despite having already done so in A Town Called Mercy (which was explained in some offscreen source as being the three were retrieving Rory's iPhone charger which was mentioned to have been accidently left behind in the latter episode); and B: the Doctor crying at the end of The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe as that would be the last time he would see them. Some people even think in Pond Life (the five-part mini episode that served as a prequel to Series 7A), when the Doctor attempted to see his best friends but they were out, he was hoping to possibly see them again and say goodbye. This was also apparently why he was upset while he was leaving the voicemail he sent them. Also, the Doctor already explained in School Reunion that he's afraid of seeing his companions grow old and die while they're with him, as per why he didn't mention Sarah Jane or go back for her. And there have been some thoughts that the regeneration energy built up in the Doctor from when his 10th, 11th and 12th incarnations prolonged theirs for as long as they did. Did you not notice that the 8th, War, 9th, 10th (initially, that is) or 11th Doctors (the second time, anyway) didn't destroy anything when they changed and were in their TARDISes? Overall, one theory I can't help but shake off is all of the non-Doctor Who fictional characters believed to be Time Lords (Mary Poppins, James Bond, Miss Frizzle).
Also: 9. Jack’s “shady dealings” were something of an “ends justify the means”; in Adrift, all those people had been taken by the rift and couldn’t re-enter into society (like with Jonah Bevan, who had been traumatised). Meanwhile, in Children of Earth, Jack handed over those children because it was either give the 456 a few orphans or allow for humanity to be massively wiped out by a flu epidemic. Do you think he would see having someone arrested and killing another person’s girlfriend the same as that? 8. The face behind the original adjudicator/that previous Doctor was Graeme Harper, the assistant floor manager on Colony In Space and a director on both the Classic and Revived Series, The Sarah Jane Adventures and the lost stories Yellow Fever and How to Cure It and The Dark Dimension. In the novelisation of Colony in Space, The Doctor stated at one point that he believed the original adjudicator (who’s real name was Martin Jurgens) may have been killed by The Master to usurp his position (though this is just a thought, not fact). 6. There's another character in The Sarah Jane Adventures thought to be a Time Lord; Erasmus Darkening, the bad guy from Series 3's The Eternity Trap. His dress sense was kind of like that of the Time Lords, Sarah Jane thought his technology had similarities to the TARDIS and he was rather obsessed with living forever, like a Time Lord on his last life (Clyde even used The Doctor as an example of an alien that looks human while he and Rani were talking about Darkening).
@@judithstrachan9399 Bad joke incoming. He could just follow the sounds of the TARDIS being so fustrated at him being an idiot that she figures out how to project her consciousness into a second humanoid form just to face palm. LIke what happened in that one episode but isn't plucked out of her body and won't risk death.
In “The Fires of Pompeii” we’re introduced to the idea that the Police Box is so much a part of history that perhaps it is synonymous to any time and place. So for all we know, the chameleon circuit is working perfectly, because everywhere in the universe has seen a police box by now. 😂
Rory was the Master under a chameleon arch. That was how Prisoner Zero - the Master in his morphant "snake" form per the telemovie - actually escaped, and this explains Rory's anachronistic 1990 badge. The real human Williams, never seen on screen, was an orderly in Grace Holloway's hospital in the 90s. All the multi-form stuff was just extra morphants. And this is how Rory can die and die again. And why River, the Master's daughter, is a Time Lady. This is also the reason Eleven poked Rory in the head when they first met and said he has a "living but dormant mind". And, of course, the Master's Tardis, made invisible thanks to its working chameleon circuit, was parked on the duck pond - which is why there were no ducks there.
@@blindknitter the conventional explanation that the ducks were taken by a crack doesn't explain most of these things. Rory the Master is all kinds of perfect. It also gives Arthur Darville a way back into the series. Karen Gillan is too big for it now, but Darville would be amazing.
Surely River Song has met the 10th and 14th Doctor prior to events in the library. She asks if theyve done "the Byzantian Yet?" a question the 14th would say yes too where the 10th would say no, therefore checking which incarnation she's talking to.
One common theory about the more explosive regenerations is that overall regenerations build in strength over time which is why Time Lords have a limit to them as eventually the build up would kill them outright.
I always just assumed that the diners were the same place.. The series 7a theory: a lot of the Doctor's life happens in the wrong order. Wibbly wobbly. I have absolutely no problem with River having encountered 14. I have no problem with River encountering ANY Doctor at any time at all. And that plaintive "Yes, pleeeeease!" makes me think I may not be alone. Binary.
I meant 11 should’ve recognized a tardis considering he walked out that same door. Plus I can’t stand Clara. She’s up there with Rose for worst new who companions for me. The fact that Clara got her own tardis because “she’s entitled to her past” was one of the worst reasons as to why she gets a tardis at all.
and a fun factette (though not a surprising one) the actual filming location for the inside of the diner is in Cardiff. I visited it on a walking tour of Doctor Who filming locations in the city. I think it was called Eddie's Diner.
My regeneration theory is that regenerations get more intense based on 1) how far along the cycle you are and 2) the severity of the damage that caused the regeneration. Matt Smith is a good example. Last in the traditional cycle and also he should have regenerated decades prior (John Hurt regenerated because he was "wearing a bit thin" and was in significantly better outward health than Smith). I also think it gets more explosive the longer the doctor tries to hold it in, like a lid on a boiling pot (see 10 and 12 who held their regenerations for most of their grace periods). 10s first regeneration into himself and Yana into Simms's Master were a lot less explosive because they didn't hold a regeneration back. Same with 9 into 10
I like your Theory I have a thought that each doctor when they regenerate the situation they are in that causes them to regenerate forms the personality that will present itself post regeneration like with the 9th Doctor was the post time war doctor full of anger and trauma however with Rose helping to heal those wounds he regenerated into a into a more cocky confident personality when the 10th doctor regenerated he was at a place of emotional turmoil breaking down in a previous special about how the laws of time are his to control this doctor was quiet emotional at the end of his regeneration so when he regenerated into the 11th doctor he was buried into a more childlike persona but with that very same anger deep down and then the 12th Doctor regenerated post a 900 year war and so he regenerated into a more Gruff standoffish no nonsense personality who didn't have time for manners when the 12th doctor begins to calm down and lean more into rock and roll and opened himself up more that allowed him to regenerate into a more fun and bubbly doctor in the 13th
While Clara's TARDIS may appear to be the one in _The Impossible Astronaut, _*_IN_*_ The Impossible Astronaut,_ the Doctor emerges from the door in which _Clara's_ TARDIS shows to be the way to its main control room, and in _The Impossible Astronaut_ we can see during the Doctor's entrance that behind him is _not_ a TARDIS control room...
But like the doctors tardis, Clara's can move and make rooms whenever it pleases, so if it wants to mimic a real diner, it can just move the control room behind a staff only door or something. Tho tbh I've never really subscribed to the idea that they're the same place.
@@libbymissand it just decided to put the control room behind that door when 12 was supposed to have his memory wiped of her? Sorry, but no, screw Clara and her “let me get whatever I want because I said so” mentality
Years ago my dad built me a TARDIS wardrobe and he said the hardest part was decorating the outside because of all the changes 😅 He ended up going with the 10th doctor's version since it was the one on tv at that time
My theory is that the Time Lords are a necessary paradox within the universe. For example the timeless child was already a time Lord with regenerative powers, possibly hinting that she was the last incarnation of the doctor, snatched back in time to provide the race with their main attribute. But I also think it gets more convoluted than this. When 10 encountered Jackson Lake, I do not think that it was a simple infostamp that he had absorbed, but a page from the cyberium ... in effect a genetic snapshot of the doctor (something that could not simply be removed). Armed with that knowledge (and practical immortality), Lake was able to create the first TARDIS, travelling to a Gallifrey that did not yet possess Intelligent life, thereby being able to guide their society as it emerged so that they were prepared for the arrival of the timeless child. This would explain why human appearance is prevalent, and the borderline obsession of some time Lords with earth.
It would be possible for River to have met future reincarnations of the Doctor. We know she is from the future but no specifics were give in the time period she came from. What comes to mind for me is the lines from The husbands of River Song. The part where she says that she is an archeologist from the future and that she dug him up, and then she says see you in 400 years. So she traveled 400 years to the future to dig up that wreck, so we have no idea how many times she appeared in between when she was on the ship with the Doctor and when she dug up that ship's wreck. There is a lot of fluidity with the timeline of River Song that it is possible that she meets up with the Doctor in the future.
She's been taking the tardis on joyrides all throughout his timeline. She saw him leave the tardis as a variety of his incarnations, without him ever knowing. Would be easy to confuse that new version an old one.
For her to meet anyone post-12 would majorly undermine the dramatic point of River in the first place. To have River meet future regenerations would just be poor storytelling.
Oh he 100% likes the tardis the way it is, it has been mentioned tons of times including like you said when donna told him how to fix it but the biggest example that comes to mind is Bill saying that he likes it because it advertises that assistance is available to all who ask
River being confused why 10 doesn't recognize her in the Library would make sense since, if she met 14 before 10, then she'd already know that face, and figured that when she saw 10, he was actually 14, and thought he *was* 14.
*the perceived problem with the TARDIS chameleon circuit is actually very simple...when fully engaged in chameleon mode it tends to crawl off as an actual lizard would be inclined to do when left alone where as a police call box is less likely to do so*
A personal theory I've had since long before Clara went running up and down The Doctor's timeline, (Tom Baker era?) answers how The Doctor always seems to know a little bit more (I think) than perhaps they should: The Doctors memories are influenced by both directions of time, the past and the future. This would be a subconscious thing, thus he doesn't always know (Or does he? The Doctor Lies.) for sure, and why they're sometimes a little confused (especially after regeneration). As always thank you so very much for the videos. (I ❤The Riversong and 14 crossover idea!) While thinking about this, I was struck by a list I'd love to see: Show theories that aren't "cannon" but (at least some) fans wish they were! Like Riversong having a brother, who visited their grandad (Rory's Dad - As we saw in a storyboard, but wasn't filmed). And Dr. Moon (Colin Salmon) being "The Final Doctor" as Steven Moffat has been quoted about.
Re: 10 - It makes sense that Clara would be the diner 11 and Co go to. She saw the Doctor’s whole life in Name of the Doctor, plus it’s the adventure that puts 11 on the path to meeting her, so Future Clara would want to ensure that moment happens and would enjoy being the facilitator
My own theory is that the Hartnell and Troughton Doctors remembered being the Timeless Child, but their memories were excised/blocked as part of the sentence that the Time Lords subjected them to at the end of “The War Games”.
yeah and Jo Martin is the Doctor this happened to, after they caught her again and made her (or some later incarnation) regenerate into Jon Pertwee - series 6B theory -> SAVE YOURSELF by Terrance Dicks in The Target Story Book of 2019
haven't seen the video yet so idk if this is one of them but judging on the thumbnail i assume it is: ever since Tennant was announced as the 14th Doctor, i always had in mind that when River said "Your eyes... I've never seen you this young" was because she thought that he was the 14th, and she had never met him in his 10th incarnation before. it would make sense. but at the same time, it wouldn't, because of all the extended media that show River Song meeting every single incarnation of the Doctor.
The Doctor has often been described as having old eyes older than his face. River says she's never seen him this young before because she can tell his age by his eyes, she was used to being with 11 and 12 who were significantly older
@@DrWhoFanJ No, according to the true timeline aka my stuff, the Fourteenth Doctor is played by Martin Freeman and gets three full series instead of three specials
I absolutely adore the theory regarding River! We'll see what these specials brings, but I'm already taking this for my head canon 🙈 Same with Sarah Jane Smith!
As far as the Chameleon Cricut goes, the TARDIS scans the entire planet in the nanosecond before materialization, picks the best camouflage for said planet and then discards that and becomes the Police Box. Because she wants to be that.
Idk, I don’t think Moffat or RTD had that in mind. Now if Alex returns in the new specials, or the David Tennant’s farewell parade of death part 3, I’d be happy because I still like River
Come to think of it, that would also explain why she appears to be so disappointed that he has absolutely no memory of her. She should be prepared for that if she's never encountered this face before and knows it's chronologically earlier than the one she spent the most time with (11), but she appears not only heartbroken that he doesn't remember her (understandably so), but also really quite surprised (considerably less understandable).
I have a theory that the 9th, 10th, and 11th Doctors are faces of Time Lords who died in the Time War, to pay tribute to those he couldn't save. After Day of the Doctor, then, he remembers someone he could save and the 12th Doctor comes about.
Personal favorite theory is that Missy is the last incarnation of the Master. And the reason why season 13's Master was so unhinged was because he knew what was comming. He didn't know how or when, but he knew he would become Missy eventually.
The "last" incarnation of the Master was during the Tom Baker era, remaining in that form (although played by two different actors, five years apart). He was a leathery, kind of melted being who was desperate to get a new regeneration. He went past his real cycle by stealing the body of Tremas, Nyssa's father. The last known version of the Master (Sacha Dhawan) is really Master #19.
It's already stated canon from the original series that the Chameleon circuit is no longer broken, The Doctor is just fond/nostalgic of the Police Box look at this point.
Yeah, it turned into that organ in the middle of the street for comic effect, but by the end of that story, it had reverted to the police box again. The Doctor just figured it preferred it that way.
River has already had more adventures with the 10th Doctor in Big Finish, set post library for 10, which also makes that line in the library story make sense.
The reason why the NewWho regenerations look the way they do is not just better budget. It's because 9th Doctor regenerated like that because of the Time Vortex damaging his body (which had the same visual effect). When the Master then regenerated, the production team needed to show that what is happening is a regeneration without confusing the audience. So they used the same effect as before. When they then used it for the fake-out meta-regeneration to again make clear to the audience what is happening, it just kind of stuck and became lore. Also, the theory about weaponizing the regenerations would require you to ignore the retcon from Twice Upon a Time and Timeless Children.
Either the Doctor is a sentimental old time lord and just secretly loves the blue phone box look, or the TARDIS is a stubborn box that refuses to change. Equally likely scenarios
I think the regenerations changed when the Sisterhood of the Karn made him choose between death and the forced regeneration of the Eighth Doctor into the War Doctor. It's the first time we see that kind of regeneration and fully see it when The War Doctor turns into the 9th Doctor.
I assumed the diner Clara was supposed to be the same one from Impossible Astronaut. It looked the same, The Doctor points out that it's the same and Clara is all over The Doctors timeline, saving him.
Maybe it was the Sisterhood of Karn's elixir that permanently changes his regenerations to a powerful explosion since he wanted to be a warrior instead of a doctor.
I'm not sure the 7 A theory makes sense. The doctor's behaviour in The Snowman seems to suggest that he's only just lost Amy and Rory and is incredibly depressed about it
Before grief comes denial, visiting the Ponds after they’d gone was merely his way of denying that it had happened and the Snowmen was just after he’d accepted it and started to grieve
@@Viper017 Yeah you are correct. Was just saying that the behaviour of the doctor in the snowman seems to debunk the theory that that 7 A is in a different order
The 1st doctor had the prototype sonic screwdriver ... he said he designed and built it himself A Christmas Carol : KAZRAN: What, now? I kiss her now? DOCTOR: Kazran, trust me. It's this or go to your room and design a new kind of screwdriver. Don't make my mistakes. Now, go.
Of course Clara has been watching over the Doctor before they met. She literally scattered herself across the Doctor's time stream to protect him from the great intelligence. The Doctor's regenerations started getting explosive after he forced his regeneration into the the 8th. They've shown a steady growth, even going so far as to deliberately make the 8ths regeneration smaller than the 9ths in the 50th special. Even the General's regeneration is just a mild inconvenience and is treated more like a slip and fall than a 'he's gonna blow'. River is not a reliable benchmark either as she is unique, being neither a timelord or having contact with timelords to be 'modified' even though she has a regeneration on par with the 9ths.
Ok the whole River meeting 14th literally blow my mind and fill my heart with hope that this will became canon, plsss Russel T remember this i beg of you 🙏
With characters in mixed media, I fall back to what a Paramount rep said at a Star Trek convention decades ago about novels, comics, etc. being "canon". He said, "If it's not on-screen, it's NOT canon...". I can live with that in Doctor Who, as well (saves me brain cells)... I see that early penlight as the prototype Sonic Screwdriver, or using it implants the idea in his head to create his own "multi-tool"... works for me... ;-)
Personally my theory is that the more a time lord clings onto a regen the more violent the regeneration will be like 10 blowing up the tardis with his regen
The 10th Doctor essentially had the power of two regenerations, unlike the Doctors before him, and the 12th desperately held his regeneration back for quite a while unlike the 1st Doctor, the 13th Doctor regenerated outside, so numbers 10 and 12 were the only ones who blew up the TARDIS.
As for the River Song theory, I like that idea (don't necessarily need to see it on screen, but as an idea its nice) and I have a theory I like to add to that is the fact that Fourteen may have lied to River and hid the fact that he's not Ten from her.
I'm glad to see that this video isn't disparaging 13's Timeless Child arc in any way. I personally loved that reveal because it made sense of a major plot hole regarding Time Lord lore and 11's regeneration into 12 that has always bugged me. I never understood why it was canon that Time Lords could only have a maximum of twelve regenerations and no more. They're biological beings after all and average life spans of species have individual exceptions. To be so rigid with the regeneration limit was like saying that human beings can never live past 90 or 100 without any possible exceptions. Also, the idea that the Time Lords suddenly had the power to give the Doctor a whole new set of regenerations seemed ludicrous to me, because then they should be able to do that for all Time Lords. But the Doctor being the original source of regenerations as the Timeless Child from whom the Time Lords then artificially reproduced the ability to regenerate for themselves makes all of that make sense. Time Lords can only regenerate twelve times because this is not a biological ability they evolved naturally. It is something they artificially grafted onto their biology. And they didn't give 11 a new set of regenerations at all so he could become 12. They just unlocked whatever mental block they put in his unconscious mind to make him think he was like them and that he was on his last life when he still had a possibly infinite number of regenerations left. And this regeneration was so destructive because of how long his unconscious mind had repressed it as he grew to old age.
I have a feeling she did a similar thing to rose, where she searched him up and having the knowledge of how many faces she believed he could have only picked those ones. Either searching through the internet or breaking into a government building like unit or torchwoood
My fan theory on the fiery regenerations is because Rose looked into the TARDIS became the Bad Wolf and The Doctor in kissing her took all that energy into himself and that is the residual TARDIS energy flowing out of him not causing him to regenerate but because of the regeneration trauma that he or she undergoes. Not all Timelords regenerate that way.
Definetly but for the Doctor it's because of the residual energy of The TARDIS as well. Just my fan theory we're allowed to disagree. The General didn't regenerate so much as to harm the immediate area he was in when the 12th shot him
@@IamJustJ.yeah, I just kinda hate how that’s the de facto regeneration now when in classic who it actually looked like they were dying when they were regenerating unless they regenerate within the 13 hour post regeneration weirdness
The River/14 theory actually explains a plot hole. She tries to sync diaries with 10 and asks about the Crash of the Byzantium. However, she'd know that was with 11 and that he didn't do diaries prior to 11. She MUST have thought 10 was actually a later incarnation, not an earlier one. More to the point she had to KNOW he used the same face twice of the Byzantium question would make no sense. Since it was a different incarnation than the one who'd been on the Byzantium then either he was older and the answer was YES or younger and the answer NO. If the latter, then again trying to do diaries makes no sense. If the former, then she'd already know the answer and the question doesn't help her at all. Therefore she must have met 14, done diaries and at least be aware it was a second go around with that face.
I don't look at theories very much so I never heard of any of these, but I did think of the Regeneration theory on my own, it makes a lot of sense for them to turn it into a weapon during the war, they usually lost consciousness during regeneration which would allow them to be captured by the Daleks and used give them the power of regeneration. Destroying the Daleks when regenerating would stop that from happening.
Disagreement on the Chameleon circuit theory. The doctor originally said it was broken because it refused to be anything other than a police box. He/she still does not grasp the obvious. Since we now know canonically that not only is the type 40 capsule intelligent but actually HAS a female personality AND that she considers herself to have stolen a Time Lord, not the other way around as the Doctor commonly claims. With this in mind it is completely reasonable to assume that the TARDIS has chosen a form and that is what she looks like. I personally suspect that the doctor could completely replace the circuit and it would change nothing. But if he politely ASKED her to change she might consider dressing up or doing a bit of CosPlay for a special occasion.
I think the TARDIS just *likes* staying in the form of a police box. When you get a great outfit, you want to stick with that base look, making little alterations along the way... why wouldn't a sentient space/time traveler want to do the same? 😊❤❤😉
The chameleon circuit was fix by Colin baker’s doctor but having the circuit working upset some fans so after getting multiple letters from fans about it the circuit mysteriously stopped working again and never changed from the police box again
It wasn't the letters that forced the reversion. JNT had the Doctor fix it in a publicity stunt to get a reaction but they never intended to keep it that way. The letters were their intended goal but didn't change their plans at all. Varus was WAAAAAY underway by the time the first letter hit, for example.
Twice upon a time proves 1st doctor having a sonic wrong since the 1st doctor doesn't know what a sonic screwdriver is when the 12th doctor is using his
the chameleon circuit as micky asked we dont see police boxes any more so dont people notice? well if the chameleon circuit also works with a perception filter that would explain it ( to be honest i got the idea from douglas adams he called it "somebody elses problem" field )
The BBC web short "The Night of the Doctor" in which the 8th Doctor regenerates at the beginning of the Time War with help from the Sisterhood of Karn apparently intended to justify the difference in his regenerations in modern series as distinct from the classic era, but that doesn't explain other Time Lords regenerating in the same way in modern shows. Perhaps the theory presented in your list occurred in combination with this info -- the Doctor (who had become a warrior) and the Sisterhood might have supported spreading the weaponizable form.
The second time we met River it felt like it’s not the second but forth of fifth time so I think there is a possibility she’s simply had other meetings with Ten in his later solo travels
The only thing in the River met 14 theory that makes sense is that she mistook him as 10 but we will have to wait for the second or third special to see
please give us river x 14 please give us river x 14 please give us river x 14 also i would LOVE to see how the interaction between whoever Neil Patrick Harris' character is and River. the two seem like completely different sides of the spectrum i love the chaotic energy
I like how matt smiths tardis is bigger than the others because when his doctor went to his own grave the tardis was huge so i thought that his tardis being slightly more bulky was just the beginning of that but i think jodies is smaller so maybe not but i thought it was cool
According to the old 1980's Doctor Who Technical manual, the sonic screwdriver was simply a part of the basic TARDIS toolkit, along with a Master Drone Clamp and other items. The First Doctor no doubt used it when he was repairing the TARDIS, but properly left it _in the kit_ instead of carrying it around everywhere.
A theory I came up with (and since learned that others have also thought of) is that "the Hybrid" was actually what we saw at the end of "The Timeless Children".
How about the fan theory that the Timeless Child was actually the Childlike Empress from the Neverending Story? That one has the approval of Tami Stronach who played her.
The Eighth Doctor is the key in the shift of artron energy 'shedding'. When Seven became Eight, it was essentially the same as previous ones. When Eight died, and the Sisterhood of Karn brought him (temporarily) back to life, they gave him elixir options to choose how... and into who, he would regenerate. He picked warrior to fight the Time War. As he goes from Eight to a Doctor of WAR, we get the now familiar artron energy explosive fountains. For those who try to point out about the 'prequel' Doctors of Chibnall et al. having the modern style... The Children of Time concept was a strategem of the Daleks in the Time War. Without elaboration, these earlier than Hartnell's Doctor incarnations had the same pattern as extrapolated from the War Doctor's physiognomy... How's THAT for a theory? A REGENERATION theory...
Another early appearance of the sonic screwdriver was in the novelization of "The Faceless Ones". The Doctor needs to open a crate, so author Terrence Dicks just retconned the device he used into being the sonic. (It still fits with its introduction in "Fury from the Deep", as Jamie wasn't there when the Doctor used it in "The Faceless Ones".)
I still don't think we can conclusively say River has met [ what everyone is calling the ] 14th Doctor. Aside from the brevity of his existence, I still think the "younger than I've ever seen you" line was a throwaway that probably should be retconned now that we know she's met earlier versions. Not out of the realm of possibility, but I'm of the opinion it's highly unlikely.
Superb!! Especially the River Song theory!! While doing a rewatch of Era 2 today, I remembered Cassandra, the oldest "pure" human alive, who was portrayed by none other than the actress who plays River Song! There are some neat parallels to be drawn there...
The chameleon circuit isn't broken, and that's canon. When The Doctor Donna explains how the circuit could be fixed, what most forget is that Donna and The Doctor's minds became like one. What Donna knew, The Doctor already knew.
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Bloody timeless child is rassilon always has been ever since John peel wrote his stories the black scroll of rassilon which states biological nanos gave gallifreyans there regeneration abilities Chris chinbil story is trash
My theory is the TARDIS doesn’t want to be anything else. To summon the TARDIS is to summon help. The plaque on the front basically means “help is on its way”.
The cannon reason is the 11th went back and messed with the chameleon circuit before it was stolen. Its why the Doctor's attempts to repair it never work.
She likes it.
Sexy knows what she's about.
I always loved the idea that the TARDIS likes being the Police Box, that's why she doesn't want to transform in to anything else. Simply put she knows that it brings hope and security when people see her.
Sliding in materialising sideways with the handbrake on is the sound of help arriving!
THe chameleon circuit's function (in the Doctor's specific TARDIS) has, in my opinion, best been summed up by the Doctor: "It scans the nearby environment, determines the best thing it could turn into to blend in, and then turns into a blue police call box."
Side joke: I wonder if the TARDIS does this because it got tired of the Doctor forgetting where he parked.
Maybe, except it happened after he leaves 1963 suggesting that it was working, and 1 wasn’t the type to just forget where he parked the tardis, even if he flubbed his lines all the time.
The TARDIS keeps her form for the convenience of the companions - she looks like the telephone box, as long as she is with the doctor ... but everytime River steals her for a little ride, she might change her appearence to keep themselves hidden from prying eyes of whitnesses looking for the doctor (Unit, any companion, foes and friends and even the Doctor himself)
@@LisaBeta-42I like this view, The Doctor loves his blue box and the TARDIS it telepathically connected to him, so convenience for companions/joy for the Doctor is definitely good reason for her to stay as she is. The TARDIS has been established to be sentient in some way even if she is held within machinery to be contained so it wouldn't be too far out to say that the TARDIS keeps the police box exterior simply to please the Doctor
@@LisaBeta-42 that's a great theory! ^^
at this point i almost want a story that reveals two things, at this point, everyone knows the blue police box means the Doctor and maybe even that if you get in you might be important and get to travel with them. and that if it isn't a blue police box something really bad happens.
It did occur to me shortly after the reveal of Tennant's return that the 14th Doctor is the show's chance to re-introduce River without changing the timeline. I'd love to see her come back
in the new doctor who, everthing is canon until proven wrong
I guess that's still not impossible.
One point that always was weird to me, that could kind of make sense now, is when River asks 10, "Crash of the Byzantium, have we done that yet?". I find it such a strange question to ask. When it aired, it could just be passed off as off screen throwaway line, but obviously, later we come to find out that's the story we see in the first Angels episode with Matt Smith. With this additional context, why would she ask that question? It's not like she wasn't there, she saw the 11th Doctor, I can't imagine she'd forget the face she saw. Especially if she can tell he's younger than the 11th Doctor, the answer should be obvious, how could he be familiar with this event had he not even reached that regeneration yet? If River had met fourteen, the ambiguity she may have around timelines could make some sense. She'd have then met a version of the Doctor that shared the same face, completely familiar with those events she'd experienced alongside 11.
Her storyline has become full of plot holes because of changes to the story as the show moved on.
Like how she says that the doctor gave her his sonic, specifically his sonic that had been upgraded in the future.
But we know that 10's sonic screwdriver was destroyed in The Eleventh Hour and replaced with his emerald sonic, The sonic that 12 gives River is a different sonic but she says otherwise.
We also know that River did not know about the doctor having more faces than the 11th doctor until The Husbands of River Song.
But in The Forest Of The Dead River implies she had never seen the doctor as 10, but in The Husbands of River Song she has a picture of each incarnation of the doctor in order of regeneration.
Basically, This does not mean that she met 14(who will regenerate into the true next doctor at the end of his specials), it instead just means that Stephen Moffat is bad at keeping his continuity straight
People keep saying 'It must be 14, it must be 14'.
Or, really obvious answer being, it 'must' be what she suggests it is - 10. She meets a 'younger' 10 in the Library, and meets an 'older' Ten between Donna and Time Lord Victorious.
Not really that difficult. And more elegant than trying to insert the timeline of a 14th Doctor who we don't know anything about as of yet.
@@Lordgrayson I have the answer to all of your questions: Wibbley-wobbley timey-wimey.
The answer is, of course, because they were still trying to keep Tenant on for another season
@@LordgraysonAmusingly enough, you'll notice there's a repaired version of 10's screwdriver on set as a reference in 12's office with Bill.
It's implied that all the screwdrivers are just upgraded versions either by the Doctor themself or the TARDIS as we do see the TARDIS on numerous occasions give the Doctor a new screwdriver.
I have really loved the idea of River having met the 14th Doctor and that's why she said about how young he was ever since I heard about it. She just meant in his lifetime but did she. ..? 😉 Big Finish with River and Ten is one of my favourite audios ❤
I just wish they'd do something to fix the plot hole that the Sonic she had in the Library was supposed to be The Doctor's. That's bugged me since THoRS aired and I say this as someone who adores that special (it's easily my favorite 12th Doctor Christmas episode).
@@ShinGallon To be fair, she didn’t say it was the Doctor’s screwdriver, she just didn’t correct him when he referred to it as his; Spoilers! 😉 This allowed him to come up with the idea of a gift for her all by himself, thus not causing a problematic paradox.
I always assumed it was an off screen date (Bone Meadows?) before End of Time/during the specials but it being 14 makes a lot more sense, though 11 seems to be a bit more familiar with her in Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone for the last time being the Library.
that statement by river makes a lot more sence now cause david is coming back and as far as david coming back i think the masters forced regeneration caused him to go in to reboot mode like a pc
@@richarddennis3793 ooh I like the idea of a reboot mode like a pc! 😊
I think that the reason regenerations are so explosive now compared to the classic series is answered in "Night of the Doctor." Ohila from The Sisterhood of Karn gave him a special mixture of the elixir of life. When he asks will it hurt, she says yes. Plus, you see Ohila with top Gallifreian generals and leaders in a few episodes. I think it was the elixir that changed the way he regenerates. So, it might be safe to say that the Sisterhood might have weaponized regeneration for the Time Lords.
That’s an excellent theory, to me it was always taht ggey either held it in for too long, aside from classic where it just happens, and when 11 broke the rules
@@hyhena-gaming9986 8th Doctor didn't hold it in because he was dead. The elixir jumpstarted the process.
That can't really be true, since it wasn't an actual elixir of life, it was revealed to be lemonade and dry ice
Then how come all the timelords glow when they regenerate now? Also as stated multiple times, the sisterhood of Karn has no business being in the lord president’s chamber or even on galifray. As far as the show goes, they either cursed the timelords with sterility which is why they use the genetic looms, or they are a group of nuns that live very far away, either way, they shouldn’t be on galifray at all.
@@tgiacin435 Same way the Doctor does now. He didn't glow like that until he drank the elixir. I think the sisterhood weaponized regeneration for the timelords because of the war.
I like to think the doctor in his older 4th doc/curator body goes and sees Sarah jane before she dies. They fill each other in on their adventures, I particularly like the idea of her filling him on how Luke came into her life.
But didn’t the Doctor meet Like in the Sarah Jane adventures? Idk, how would they pull that off since Liz died years ago, and having anyone else try to take her place would feel kinda empty. I kinda preferred her send off in the Scratchman book because you could hear the emotion in Tom’s voice as he read the letter
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@@tgiacin435 He did, and on the main show, even so far as to save him from a car during 10's farewell tour.
@Sharolyn Wells air date does not dictate the date of the events in the show.
The Doctor already knows about and has spent time around Luke.
Considering that The Husbands of River Song shows that River at least knows OF all of the Doctor's incarnations from 1-11, and the Big Finish adventures established that she has indeed encountered earlier incarnations than 10, she would certainly have been aware that she had met earlier forms of the Doctor than him. Thus it would absolutely make sense that she was referring to the young appearance of 10 as opposed to an older version of that face as seen on 14 rather than an earlier incarnation. River has been my favorite character ever since she was introduced, so I'm all for seeing her reappear for another adventure or two with 14!
Why doesn't Ten know her if he's met her in previous incarnations?
@@HuntingViolets I always wondered that myself. The best I could come up with is that either they never directly interacted (that is, River saw him and new who he was, but whatever she managed to keep him from getting involved in what she was doing) or they only ever met under circumstances where it never made much of an impression on the Doctor. I haven't listened to the Big Finish adventures, I've just heard a little about them, so I can't say what circumstances they set up. All we know from the show (specifically "The Husbands of River Song") is that she knows what the Doctor's past incarnations looked like, not that she ever actually met any of them.
I'm glad River and 14 was included. I rewatched River's first appearance the day the 14th doctor was teased and the moment she mentioned his face I got very excited. I want to add that River describes their timelines together as coming from opposite ends but when River meets 12 it gives away the true nature of their timeline. Their life was never in any specific order. River's journeys with the doctor began with 11, then the older 14, the younger 10 and finally with 12 before her last moment with 10.
I always thought that Clara's TARDIS was the exact same place as the diner seen in the Impossible Astronaut, but it never occured to me that it's because Clara used it to go back in time to check in on the Doctor and help him along on one of his adventures much like her splinters did when she was trying to save him from the Great Intelligence. That would be genius! She could be watching him from the back room on her monitor so as to not interfere with what was going on, and of course to not have either the Doctor or River see her. It makes sense that she would miss him so much that she would try to go back in his history to at least observe him from afar (in a sense) and make sure he was all right.
Just proves how much she loved him and how strong their connection to each other was. Besides, she has a TARDIS, why wouldn't she go back in time to try to see him again? It makes all the sense in the world, wouldn't we do the same thing if we were his Companion?
and now they just have to reuse that dinner set to imply Clara is involved somewhat
One problem, the doctor comes out of the door that is a door to the Diner. 11 would walk out of control room then?
@@Sydneymotor2yeah, catch 22. Well spotted
@@Sydneymotor2eh the control room could just be in a pocket dimension until Clara wanted otherwise
This made me think of something. Clara is destined to die when she returns to Face the Raven. Could she subvert her destiny by collecting and sacrificing a splinter of herself? Like Zoom did with time remnants in The Flash.
OH MY GOSH, I LOVE the idea of the Time Lords modifying their biology to make regenerations like kamikaze attacks!! OMG that is SUCH a good explanation for why regenerations are so different now!!
Except the Timeless Child says 'whoops they were always like this'. Because we can't have fun fan theories to fix things any more.
Time Lords were able to decide number of regeneration they get. Maybe, they could do other changes (they have lot of time). Like putting limiter on destructive effects, that they them removed in time war. Also, wasn't there something about Doctor couldn't control to who he regenerates but other could (to some level) or something like that. It was in old who, so I'm not sure, but it could be another upgrade they did to original regeneration from Doctor (we don't know source of regeneration, it could be accidental or natural).
@@liborohanka5010Romana first mentions taking a class to control how one looks during/after a regeneration that the Doctor failed.
Given that the TARDIS literally tells the Doctor, "I may not have always taken you where you wanted, but I always took you where you needed to go." (Or something like that) you could argue that the Chameleon Circuit is "stuck in Police Box mode" for a similar reason, if you wanted. Honestly, I'd like to think it's to support the legend of The Doctor. The Good Man. The one who tries to save people. Throughout the universe, the blue Police Box should be known as the symbol of The Doctor. And maybe that makes less people shoot at it or something lol. Could even get into some real world stuff about how police should be trusted... but let's not jump into that black hole.
I really like the theory about River having met Tenant's new Doctor. It nicely resolves one of Moffat's many plotholes.
Fixing one Moffat plot hole is like healing a minor bruise on somebody who got caught in a nuclear blast.
So far I've only seen the thumbnail but the proverbial light bulb just went on over my head.
Back in "Silence In The Library", River had never seen him (i.e. with that face) so young--because she'd seen that face when he is older. Makes sense.
Also explains why she felt that the picnic at Asgaard (sp?) and the crash of the Byzantium might have already happened for him back when he was Ten. Makes sense.
Okay, proceeding to watch the video now...
I thought for YEARS that River said “picnic at Ascot”. After reading it was Asgard, I went back & listened again very carefully & still only heard lAscot”. I had visions of her in the “My Fair Lady” black & white dress, even put it in my fanfiction. Of course, she’d fill out that dress a bit more than Audrey Hepburn did…..
See also knew off Donna...she says she's sorry
@@NeilCWCampbell Donna says River didn't know her in the Doctor's future/River's past and worries about why she isn't in his future for River to know.
I've heard the theory that Series 7A happened out of order for the 11th Doctor from several articles concerning fan theories of the show. A couple of pieces of evidence holding up this theory were A: the Doctor, Amy and Rory going back in time during King Henry VIII's time in The Power of Three, despite having already done so in A Town Called Mercy (which was explained in some offscreen source as being the three were retrieving Rory's iPhone charger which was mentioned to have been accidently left behind in the latter episode); and B: the Doctor crying at the end of The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe as that would be the last time he would see them. Some people even think in Pond Life (the five-part mini episode that served as a prequel to Series 7A), when the Doctor attempted to see his best friends but they were out, he was hoping to possibly see them again and say goodbye. This was also apparently why he was upset while he was leaving the voicemail he sent them. Also, the Doctor already explained in School Reunion that he's afraid of seeing his companions grow old and die while they're with him, as per why he didn't mention Sarah Jane or go back for her. And there have been some thoughts that the regeneration energy built up in the Doctor from when his 10th, 11th and 12th incarnations prolonged theirs for as long as they did. Did you not notice that the 8th, War, 9th, 10th (initially, that is) or 11th Doctors (the second time, anyway) didn't destroy anything when they changed and were in their TARDISes? Overall, one theory I can't help but shake off is all of the non-Doctor Who fictional characters believed to be Time Lords (Mary Poppins, James Bond, Miss Frizzle).
I like this and you also got me on the Miss. Frizzle bit. It would make sense.
Omg I'm going to watch the Bond movies with the timelord theories in mind now
Also:
9. Jack’s “shady dealings” were something of an “ends justify the means”; in Adrift, all those people had been taken by the rift and couldn’t re-enter into society (like with Jonah Bevan, who had been traumatised). Meanwhile, in Children of Earth, Jack handed over those children because it was either give the 456 a few orphans or allow for humanity to be massively wiped out by a flu epidemic. Do you think he would see having someone arrested and killing another person’s girlfriend the same as that?
8. The face behind the original adjudicator/that previous Doctor was Graeme Harper, the assistant floor manager on Colony In Space and a director on both the Classic and Revived Series, The Sarah Jane Adventures and the lost stories Yellow Fever and How to Cure It and The Dark Dimension. In the novelisation of Colony in Space, The Doctor stated at one point that he believed the original adjudicator (who’s real name was Martin Jurgens) may have been killed by The Master to usurp his position (though this is just a thought, not fact).
6. There's another character in The Sarah Jane Adventures thought to be a Time Lord; Erasmus Darkening, the bad guy from Series 3's The Eternity Trap. His dress sense was kind of like that of the Time Lords, Sarah Jane thought his technology had similarities to the TARDIS and he was rather obsessed with living forever, like a Time Lord on his last life (Clyde even used The Doctor as an example of an alien that looks human while he and Rani were talking about Darkening).
If the Doctor fixes the Chameleon Circuit, he might forget what shape the TARDIS is and forget where he parked it.
That makes total sense to me!
he park it in the itchy lot
You’re supposed to take a photo when you park your car, so you can find it when you come back. Somehow I don’t think that would occur to the Doctor….
@@judithstrachan9399 Bad joke incoming. He could just follow the sounds of the TARDIS being so fustrated at him being an idiot that she figures out how to project her consciousness into a second humanoid form just to face palm. LIke what happened in that one episode but isn't plucked out of her body and won't risk death.
In “The Fires of Pompeii” we’re introduced to the idea that the Police Box is so much a part of history that perhaps it is synonymous to any time and place. So for all we know, the chameleon circuit is working perfectly, because everywhere in the universe has seen a police box by now. 😂
Rory was the Master under a chameleon arch. That was how Prisoner Zero - the Master in his morphant "snake" form per the telemovie - actually escaped, and this explains Rory's anachronistic 1990 badge. The real human Williams, never seen on screen, was an orderly in Grace Holloway's hospital in the 90s. All the multi-form stuff was just extra morphants. And this is how Rory can die and die again. And why River, the Master's daughter, is a Time Lady.
This is also the reason Eleven poked Rory in the head when they first met and said he has a "living but dormant mind". And, of course, the Master's Tardis, made invisible thanks to its working chameleon circuit, was parked on the duck pond - which is why there were no ducks there.
That's... Strangely intriguing.
@@blindknitter the conventional explanation that the ducks were taken by a crack doesn't explain most of these things. Rory the Master is all kinds of perfect. It also gives Arthur Darville a way back into the series. Karen Gillan is too big for it now, but Darville would be amazing.
Surely River Song has met the 10th and 14th Doctor prior to events in the library. She asks if theyve done "the Byzantian Yet?" a question the 14th would say yes too where the 10th would say no, therefore checking which incarnation she's talking to.
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We do indeed.
One common theory about the more explosive regenerations is that overall regenerations build in strength over time which is why Time Lords have a limit to them as eventually the build up would kill them outright.
My theory is that the chameleon circuit was never broken. The sentient TARDIS just likes the blue box best. 😉
She was considered broken by the time lords, as she is a stubborn tardis.
@@myria2834 But it did work very briefly in "Attack of the Cybermen" when going back (or near to) to the Totteers Lane junkyard.
That would explain why Professor River Song recognized 10th's face, thinking he's the 14th in the library.
I always just assumed that the diners were the same place..
The series 7a theory: a lot of the Doctor's life happens in the wrong order. Wibbly wobbly.
I have absolutely no problem with River having encountered 14. I have no problem with River encountering ANY Doctor at any time at all. And that plaintive "Yes, pleeeeease!" makes me think I may not be alone.
Binary.
I meant 11 should’ve recognized a tardis considering he walked out that same door. Plus I can’t stand Clara. She’s up there with Rose for worst new who companions for me. The fact that Clara got her own tardis because “she’s entitled to her past” was one of the worst reasons as to why she gets a tardis at all.
and a fun factette (though not a surprising one) the actual filming location for the inside of the diner is in Cardiff. I visited it on a walking tour of Doctor Who filming locations in the city. I think it was called Eddie's Diner.
My regeneration theory is that regenerations get more intense based on 1) how far along the cycle you are and 2) the severity of the damage that caused the regeneration. Matt Smith is a good example. Last in the traditional cycle and also he should have regenerated decades prior (John Hurt regenerated because he was "wearing a bit thin" and was in significantly better outward health than Smith). I also think it gets more explosive the longer the doctor tries to hold it in, like a lid on a boiling pot (see 10 and 12 who held their regenerations for most of their grace periods). 10s first regeneration into himself and Yana into Simms's Master were a lot less explosive because they didn't hold a regeneration back. Same with 9 into 10
I like your Theory I have a thought that each doctor when they regenerate the situation they are in that causes them to regenerate forms the personality that will present itself post regeneration like with the 9th Doctor was the post time war doctor full of anger and trauma however with Rose helping to heal those wounds he regenerated into a into a more cocky confident personality when the 10th doctor regenerated he was at a place of emotional turmoil breaking down in a previous special about how the laws of time are his to control this doctor was quiet emotional at the end of his regeneration so when he regenerated into the 11th doctor he was buried into a more childlike persona but with that very same anger deep down and then the 12th Doctor regenerated post a 900 year war and so he regenerated into a more Gruff standoffish no nonsense personality who didn't have time for manners when the 12th doctor begins to calm down and lean more into rock and roll and opened himself up more that allowed him to regenerate into a more fun and bubbly doctor in the 13th
I actually had headcanoned River’s encounter with the 14th Doctor from the very start. As you said, it just makes too much sense to not be true.
While Clara's TARDIS may appear to be the one in _The Impossible Astronaut, _*_IN_*_ The Impossible Astronaut,_ the Doctor emerges from the door in which _Clara's_ TARDIS shows to be the way to its main control room, and in _The Impossible Astronaut_ we can see during the Doctor's entrance that behind him is _not_ a TARDIS control room...
So?
But like the doctors tardis, Clara's can move and make rooms whenever it pleases, so if it wants to mimic a real diner, it can just move the control room behind a staff only door or something. Tho tbh I've never really subscribed to the idea that they're the same place.
@@libbymissand it just decided to put the control room behind that door when 12 was supposed to have his memory wiped of her? Sorry, but no, screw Clara and her “let me get whatever I want because I said so” mentality
I rearrange my desktop all the time…
@@tgiacin435 Clara got a TARDIS no other companion ever got one
Years ago my dad built me a TARDIS wardrobe and he said the hardest part was decorating the outside because of all the changes 😅 He ended up going with the 10th doctor's version since it was the one on tv at that time
Omg that's amazing, do you still have it if so I'm very jealous lol. Its something that I would keep forever lol
My theory is that the Time Lords are a necessary paradox within the universe.
For example the timeless child was already a time Lord with regenerative powers, possibly hinting that she was the last incarnation of the doctor, snatched back in time to provide the race with their main attribute.
But I also think it gets more convoluted than this.
When 10 encountered Jackson Lake, I do not think that it was a simple infostamp that he had absorbed, but a page from the cyberium ... in effect a genetic snapshot of the doctor (something that could not simply be removed).
Armed with that knowledge (and practical immortality), Lake was able to create the first TARDIS, travelling to a Gallifrey that did not yet possess Intelligent life, thereby being able to guide their society as it emerged so that they were prepared for the arrival of the timeless child.
This would explain why human appearance is prevalent, and the borderline obsession of some time Lords with earth.
TARDISes are not created, but grown
It would be possible for River to have met future reincarnations of the Doctor. We know she is from the future but no specifics were give in the time period she came from. What comes to mind for me is the lines from The husbands of River Song. The part where she says that she is an archeologist from the future and that she dug him up, and then she says see you in 400 years. So she traveled 400 years to the future to dig up that wreck, so we have no idea how many times she appeared in between when she was on the ship with the Doctor and when she dug up that ship's wreck. There is a lot of fluidity with the timeline of River Song that it is possible that she meets up with the Doctor in the future.
She's been taking the tardis on joyrides all throughout his timeline. She saw him leave the tardis as a variety of his incarnations, without him ever knowing. Would be easy to confuse that new version an old one.
Знаю не тоже будущее время
For her to meet anyone post-12 would majorly undermine the dramatic point of River in the first place. To have River meet future regenerations would just be poor storytelling.
Oh he 100% likes the tardis the way it is, it has been mentioned tons of times including like you said when donna told him how to fix it but the biggest example that comes to mind is Bill saying that he likes it because it advertises that assistance is available to all who ask
i really hope River shows up in the 60th if not ill be really upset :c if that doesnt happen i hope she meets 15.
I 'd love to see River in a mini skirt
River being confused why 10 doesn't recognize her in the Library would make sense since, if she met 14 before 10, then she'd already know that face, and figured that when she saw 10, he was actually 14, and thought he *was* 14.
The doctor also could’ve lied and said he was the 10th instead of saying he was the 14th
*the perceived problem with the TARDIS chameleon circuit is actually very simple...when fully engaged in chameleon mode it tends to crawl off as an actual lizard would be inclined to do when left alone where as a police call box is less likely to do so*
A personal theory I've had since long before Clara went running up and down The Doctor's timeline, (Tom Baker era?) answers how The Doctor always seems to know a little bit more (I think) than perhaps they should: The Doctors memories are influenced by both directions of time, the past and the future. This would be a subconscious thing, thus he doesn't always know (Or does he? The Doctor Lies.) for sure, and why they're sometimes a little confused (especially after regeneration).
As always thank you so very much for the videos.
(I ❤The Riversong and 14 crossover idea!)
While thinking about this, I was struck by a list I'd love to see: Show theories that aren't "cannon" but (at least some) fans wish they were! Like Riversong having a brother, who visited their grandad (Rory's Dad - As we saw in a storyboard, but wasn't filmed). And Dr. Moon (Colin Salmon) being "The Final Doctor" as Steven Moffat has been quoted about.
Re: 10 - It makes sense that Clara would be the diner 11 and Co go to. She saw the Doctor’s whole life in Name of the Doctor, plus it’s the adventure that puts 11 on the path to meeting her, so Future Clara would want to ensure that moment happens and would enjoy being the facilitator
My own theory is that the Hartnell and Troughton Doctors remembered being the Timeless Child, but their memories were excised/blocked as part of the sentence that the Time Lords subjected them to at the end of “The War Games”.
yeah and Jo Martin is the Doctor this happened to, after they caught her again and made her (or some later incarnation) regenerate into Jon Pertwee - series 6B theory -> SAVE YOURSELF by Terrance Dicks in The Target Story Book of 2019
I've always liked the series 6b hypothesis...
haven't seen the video yet so idk if this is one of them but judging on the thumbnail i assume it is:
ever since Tennant was announced as the 14th Doctor, i always had in mind that when River said "Your eyes... I've never seen you this young" was because she thought that he was the 14th, and she had never met him in his 10th incarnation before.
it would make sense. but at the same time, it wouldn't, because of all the extended media that show River Song meeting every single incarnation of the Doctor.
The glory of Doctor Who, literally pick your own continuity
The Doctor has often been described as having old eyes older than his face. River says she's never seen him this young before because she can tell his age by his eyes, she was used to being with 11 and 12 who were significantly older
@@Lightbringer115 exactly. that's what i'm saying
The 14th Doctor theory is awesome and even if its not Who canon its now head canon for ME!!!
The Fourteenth Doctor is a lazy marketing scheme
@@mattthesilent777RED Nope. The 14th Doctor is David Tennant. Accept it.
@@mattthesilent777RED it was more because Gatwa was busy filming Barbie
@@DrWhoFanJ No, according to the true timeline aka my stuff, the Fourteenth Doctor is played by Martin Freeman and gets three full series instead of three specials
@@mattthesilent777RED And that is your fancast, not reality. Learn the difference!
Loved this! Really interesting video and I would love to see a river and fourteenth doctor story happen! 😊😊
I absolutely adore the theory regarding River! We'll see what these specials brings, but I'm already taking this for my head canon 🙈 Same with Sarah Jane Smith!
As far as the Chameleon Cricut goes, the TARDIS scans the entire planet in the nanosecond before materialization, picks the best camouflage for said planet and then discards that and becomes the Police Box.
Because she wants to be that.
My favourite fan theory is that the Doctor's real name is 42. The answer to the ultimate question of life the universe and everything
I’ve been saying this since 13 regenerated into 14. I’m glad y’all made a video on it. It just made since that she meant 14 when she first met 10
Im so happy to learn that I'm not the only one that have think of this
Idk, I don’t think Moffat or RTD had that in mind. Now if Alex returns in the new specials, or the David Tennant’s farewell parade of death part 3, I’d be happy because I still like River
@@tgiacin435 They definitely didn't plan this far ahead, but they can certainly use it to their advantage
Come to think of it, that would also explain why she appears to be so disappointed that he has absolutely no memory of her. She should be prepared for that if she's never encountered this face before and knows it's chronologically earlier than the one she spent the most time with (11), but she appears not only heartbroken that he doesn't remember her (understandably so), but also really quite surprised (considerably less understandable).
@@killernyancat8193 yeah, but apparently Moffat had the whole River Song story planned out
You forgot. River met Post-Journeys End 10 before this in Big Finish
I have a theory that the 9th, 10th, and 11th Doctors are faces of Time Lords who died in the Time War, to pay tribute to those he couldn't save. After Day of the Doctor, then, he remembers someone he could save and the 12th Doctor comes about.
Personal favorite theory is that Missy is the last incarnation of the Master. And the reason why season 13's Master was so unhinged was because he knew what was comming. He didn't know how or when, but he knew he would become Missy eventually.
The "last" incarnation of the Master was during the Tom Baker era, remaining in that form (although played by two different actors, five years apart). He was a leathery, kind of melted being who was desperate to get a new regeneration. He went past his real cycle by stealing the body of Tremas, Nyssa's father.
The last known version of the Master (Sacha Dhawan) is really Master #19.
River also had an interaction with the 13th Doctor in The Ruby’s Curse Novel, although I’m not sure when exactly it occurs in her timeline
It's already stated canon from the original series that the Chameleon circuit is no longer broken, The Doctor is just fond/nostalgic of the Police Box look at this point.
Yeah, it turned into that organ in the middle of the street for comic effect, but by the end of that story, it had reverted to the police box again. The Doctor just figured it preferred it that way.
River has already had more adventures with the 10th Doctor in Big Finish, set post library for 10, which also makes that line in the library story make sense.
The reason why the NewWho regenerations look the way they do is not just better budget.
It's because 9th Doctor regenerated like that because of the Time Vortex damaging his body (which had the same visual effect). When the Master then regenerated, the production team needed to show that what is happening is a regeneration without confusing the audience. So they used the same effect as before. When they then used it for the fake-out meta-regeneration to again make clear to the audience what is happening, it just kind of stuck and became lore.
Also, the theory about weaponizing the regenerations would require you to ignore the retcon from Twice Upon a Time and Timeless Children.
I'm perfectly okay ignoring the retcon from The Timeless Children if we're being perfectly honest >_>
Loved Thirteen but that was just...ugh.
ignore them. they are crap!
Either the Doctor is a sentimental old time lord and just secretly loves the blue phone box look, or the TARDIS is a stubborn box that refuses to change. Equally likely scenarios
I think the regenerations changed when the Sisterhood of the Karn made him choose between death and the forced regeneration of the Eighth Doctor into the War Doctor. It's the first time we see that kind of regeneration and fully see it when The War Doctor turns into the 9th Doctor.
I assumed the diner Clara was supposed to be the same one from Impossible Astronaut.
It looked the same, The Doctor points out that it's the same and Clara is all over The Doctors timeline, saving him.
River having meet 10/14 before husbands and forest of the dead makes sense
Maybe it was the Sisterhood of Karn's elixir that permanently changes his regenerations to a powerful explosion since he wanted to be a warrior instead of a doctor.
But that would explain River's regenerations or The Master's NuWho regeneration.
I'm not sure the 7 A theory makes sense. The doctor's behaviour in The Snowman seems to suggest that he's only just lost Amy and Rory and is incredibly depressed about it
Agreed, I’m currently rewatching series 7 and he literally has Jenny and Vastra there to help him with his isolation
Before grief comes denial, visiting the Ponds after they’d gone was merely his way of denying that it had happened and the Snowmen was just after he’d accepted it and started to grieve
Was The Snowman part of 7A? I thought 7A ended with the Angel Take Manhattan?
I thought it was:
7A
Christmas Special
7B
@@Viper017 Yeah you are correct. Was just saying that the behaviour of the doctor in the snowman seems to debunk the theory that that 7 A is in a different order
The 1st doctor had the prototype sonic screwdriver ... he said he designed and built it himself
A Christmas Carol :
KAZRAN: What, now? I kiss her now?
DOCTOR: Kazran, trust me. It's this or go to your room and design a new kind of screwdriver. Don't make my mistakes. Now, go.
Of course Clara has been watching over the Doctor before they met. She literally scattered herself across the Doctor's time stream to protect him from the great intelligence.
The Doctor's regenerations started getting explosive after he forced his regeneration into the the 8th. They've shown a steady growth, even going so far as to deliberately make the 8ths regeneration smaller than the 9ths in the 50th special. Even the General's regeneration is just a mild inconvenience and is treated more like a slip and fall than a 'he's gonna blow'. River is not a reliable benchmark either as she is unique, being neither a timelord or having contact with timelords to be 'modified' even though she has a regeneration on par with the 9ths.
Ok the whole River meeting 14th literally blow my mind and fill my heart with hope that this will became canon, plsss Russel T remember this i beg of you 🙏
With characters in mixed media, I fall back to what a Paramount rep said at a Star Trek convention decades ago about novels, comics, etc. being "canon". He said, "If it's not on-screen, it's NOT canon...". I can live with that in Doctor Who, as well (saves me brain cells)...
I see that early penlight as the prototype Sonic Screwdriver, or using it implants the idea in his head to create his own "multi-tool"... works for me... ;-)
Personally my theory is that the more a time lord clings onto a regen the more violent the regeneration will be like 10 blowing up the tardis with his regen
The 10th Doctor essentially had the power of two regenerations, unlike the Doctors before him, and the 12th desperately held his regeneration back for quite a while unlike the 1st Doctor, the 13th Doctor regenerated outside, so numbers 10 and 12 were the only ones who blew up the TARDIS.
Oof the idea that The Doctor had already lost the Ponds and goes back to get more time with them is legit making me cry.
As for the River Song theory, I like that idea (don't necessarily need to see it on screen, but as an idea its nice) and I have a theory I like to add to that is the fact that Fourteen may have lied to River and hid the fact that he's not Ten from her.
@timrob12: Rule 1, the Doctor lies.
@@IamJustJ. Exactly.
Ooh! I like that.
I'm glad to see that this video isn't disparaging 13's Timeless Child arc in any way. I personally loved that reveal because it made sense of a major plot hole regarding Time Lord lore and 11's regeneration into 12 that has always bugged me. I never understood why it was canon that Time Lords could only have a maximum of twelve regenerations and no more. They're biological beings after all and average life spans of species have individual exceptions. To be so rigid with the regeneration limit was like saying that human beings can never live past 90 or 100 without any possible exceptions. Also, the idea that the Time Lords suddenly had the power to give the Doctor a whole new set of regenerations seemed ludicrous to me, because then they should be able to do that for all Time Lords. But the Doctor being the original source of regenerations as the Timeless Child from whom the Time Lords then artificially reproduced the ability to regenerate for themselves makes all of that make sense. Time Lords can only regenerate twelve times because this is not a biological ability they evolved naturally. It is something they artificially grafted onto their biology. And they didn't give 11 a new set of regenerations at all so he could become 12. They just unlocked whatever mental block they put in his unconscious mind to make him think he was like them and that he was on his last life when he still had a possibly infinite number of regenerations left. And this regeneration was so destructive because of how long his unconscious mind had repressed it as he grew to old age.
Well, of course River met 14, and she didn't know it was 14 (thought he was 10). 14's photo is in her journal.
To add to the river song theory, she only meets the 10th at her end, but she already has a picture of him in her?
I have a feeling she did a similar thing to rose, where she searched him up and having the knowledge of how many faces she believed he could have only picked those ones. Either searching through the internet or breaking into a government building like unit or torchwoood
My fan theory on the fiery regenerations is because Rose looked into the TARDIS became the Bad Wolf and The Doctor in kissing her took all that energy into himself and that is the residual TARDIS energy flowing out of him not causing him to regenerate but because of the regeneration trauma that he or she undergoes. Not all Timelords regenerate that way.
Every timelord in new who regenerates like that. The Doctor, the Master and that security captain
@@tgiacin435 As well as River, both at the end of "Day of the Moon" and in "Let's Kill Hitler".
Definetly but for the Doctor it's because of the residual energy of The TARDIS as well. Just my fan theory we're allowed to disagree. The General didn't regenerate so much as to harm the immediate area he was in when the 12th shot him
@@tgiacin435 Also River in Day of the Moon.
@@IamJustJ.yeah, I just kinda hate how that’s the de facto regeneration now when in classic who it actually looked like they were dying when they were regenerating unless they regenerate within the 13 hour post regeneration weirdness
The River/14 theory actually explains a plot hole. She tries to sync diaries with 10 and asks about the Crash of the Byzantium. However, she'd know that was with 11 and that he didn't do diaries prior to 11. She MUST have thought 10 was actually a later incarnation, not an earlier one.
More to the point she had to KNOW he used the same face twice of the Byzantium question would make no sense. Since it was a different incarnation than the one who'd been on the Byzantium then either he was older and the answer was YES or younger and the answer NO. If the latter, then again trying to do diaries makes no sense. If the former, then she'd already know the answer and the question doesn't help her at all. Therefore she must have met 14, done diaries and at least be aware it was a second go around with that face.
I don't look at theories very much so I never heard of any of these, but I did think of the Regeneration theory on my own, it makes a lot of sense for them to turn it into a weapon during the war, they usually lost consciousness during regeneration which would allow them to be captured by the Daleks and used give them the power of regeneration. Destroying the Daleks when regenerating would stop that from happening.
Disagreement on the Chameleon circuit theory. The doctor originally said it was broken because it refused to be anything other than a police box. He/she still does not grasp the obvious. Since we now know canonically that not only is the type 40 capsule intelligent but actually HAS a female personality AND that she considers herself to have stolen a Time Lord, not the other way around as the Doctor commonly claims. With this in mind it is completely reasonable to assume that the TARDIS has chosen a form and that is what she looks like. I personally suspect that the doctor could completely replace the circuit and it would change nothing. But if he politely ASKED her to change she might consider dressing up or doing a bit of CosPlay for a special occasion.
I think the TARDIS just *likes* staying in the form of a police box. When you get a great outfit, you want to stick with that base look, making little alterations along the way... why wouldn't a sentient space/time traveler want to do the same? 😊❤❤😉
The chameleon circuit was fix by Colin baker’s doctor but having the circuit working upset some fans so after getting multiple letters from fans about it the circuit mysteriously stopped working again and never changed from the police box again
It wasn't the letters that forced the reversion. JNT had the Doctor fix it in a publicity stunt to get a reaction but they never intended to keep it that way. The letters were their intended goal but didn't change their plans at all.
Varus was WAAAAAY underway by the time the first letter hit, for example.
My own headcanon regarding the Chameleon Circuit... the TARDIS looks like a police box because... _she LIKES to look like a police box._
Twice upon a time proves 1st doctor having a sonic wrong since the 1st doctor doesn't know what a sonic screwdriver is when the 12th doctor is using his
I’ve a theory that the real time lords are the Tardis, Gallifreyans are used by them but given the illusion of control.
the chameleon circuit
as micky asked we dont see police boxes any more so dont people notice?
well if the chameleon circuit also works with a perception filter that would explain it
( to be honest i got the idea from douglas adams he called it "somebody elses problem" field )
the doctor may worry he may forget what he set his tardis to look like, so a blue box is the easiest to remember.
The BBC web short "The Night of the Doctor" in which the 8th Doctor regenerates at the beginning of the Time War with help from the Sisterhood of Karn apparently intended to justify the difference in his regenerations in modern series as distinct from the classic era, but that doesn't explain other Time Lords regenerating in the same way in modern shows. Perhaps the theory presented in your list occurred in combination with this info -- the Doctor (who had become a warrior) and the Sisterhood might have supported spreading the weaponizable form.
Yes, pleeeeease!!! 😍
One more River - Tennant story!
The second time we met River it felt like it’s not the second but forth of fifth time so I think there is a possibility she’s simply had other meetings with Ten in his later solo travels
The only thing in the River met 14 theory that makes sense is that she mistook him as 10 but we will have to wait for the second or third special to see
please give us river x 14 please give us river x 14 please give us river x 14
also i would LOVE to see how the interaction between whoever Neil Patrick Harris' character is and River. the two seem like completely different sides of the spectrum i love the chaotic energy
I like how matt smiths tardis is bigger than the others because when his doctor went to his own grave the tardis was huge so i thought that his tardis being slightly more bulky was just the beginning of that but i think jodies is smaller so maybe not but i thought it was cool
According to the old 1980's Doctor Who Technical manual, the sonic screwdriver was simply a part of the basic TARDIS toolkit, along with a Master Drone Clamp and other items. The First Doctor no doubt used it when he was repairing the TARDIS, but properly left it _in the kit_ instead of carrying it around everywhere.
A theory I came up with (and since learned that others have also thought of) is that "the Hybrid" was actually what we saw at the end of "The Timeless Children".
How about the fan theory that the Timeless Child was actually the Childlike Empress from the Neverending Story? That one has the approval of Tami Stronach who played her.
Or the TC is a memory altering parasite because there are aliens more powerful than the timelords including the monsters of HP Lovecraft.
@@tgiacin435 Finally. Something that makes sense out of that nonsense.
I LOVE the River/14 theory! Picnic in Asgard, anyone?
The Eighth Doctor is the key in the shift of artron energy 'shedding'. When Seven became Eight, it was essentially the same as previous ones. When Eight died, and the Sisterhood of Karn brought him (temporarily) back to life, they gave him elixir options to choose how... and into who, he would regenerate. He picked warrior to fight the Time War. As he goes from Eight to a Doctor of WAR, we get the now familiar artron energy explosive fountains. For those who try to point out about the 'prequel' Doctors of Chibnall et al. having the modern style... The Children of Time concept was a strategem of the Daleks in the Time War. Without elaboration, these earlier than Hartnell's Doctor incarnations had the same pattern as extrapolated from the War Doctor's physiognomy...
How's THAT for a theory? A REGENERATION theory...
Clara's diner was in Cardiff Bay. It had 'TARDIS' doors on the toilets out the back.
Another early appearance of the sonic screwdriver was in the novelization of "The Faceless Ones". The Doctor needs to open a crate, so author Terrence Dicks just retconned the device he used into being the sonic. (It still fits with its introduction in "Fury from the Deep", as Jamie wasn't there when the Doctor used it in "The Faceless Ones".)
Maybe but she also met Tenth that was before the Library for her, but after the Library for him.
I still don't think we can conclusively say River has met [ what everyone is calling the ] 14th Doctor. Aside from the brevity of his existence, I still think the "younger than I've ever seen you" line was a throwaway that probably should be retconned now that we know she's met earlier versions.
Not out of the realm of possibility, but I'm of the opinion it's highly unlikely.
Superb!! Especially the River Song theory!! While doing a rewatch of Era 2 today, I remembered Cassandra, the oldest "pure" human alive, who was portrayed by none other than the actress who plays River Song! There are some neat parallels to be drawn there...
As soon as David Tennant became the 14th doctor my brain went straight to River
River has met Tenth also. It was post Library for him.
the chameleon circuit isn’t broken at all. the TARDIS just prefers being a police box.
But if the tardis can choose its appearance, why have any controls at all?
I Always wanted to see a Spin Off the Adventures of River & the Doctor....
Where It can be any One of his Incarnations on that Weeks Adventure...
The chameleon circuit isn't broken, and that's canon. When The Doctor Donna explains how the circuit could be fixed, what most forget is that Donna and The Doctor's minds became like one. What Donna knew, The Doctor already knew.
It is broken but he broke it on purpose from what I remember