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Was Susan just specific to the First Doctor?
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As its the 30 year anniversary, I'm currently rewatching The Five Doctors. When the First and Fifth Doctor first meet in the Fifth Doctor's TARDIS, the First Doctor introduces Susan to the Fifth as if they had never met before and Davison replied 'Yes I know'. Yet, Susan is the Doctor's supposed granddaughter? Am I just being stupid or have others picked up on this as a question mark moment?
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She also met with the 8th in the BBC Book Legacy of the Daleks.
I can't remember the scene at all, what are the lines? I can't see how this would have been intended at all. Susan was always known as the Doctor's Granddaughter; if it wasn't unacceptable in 1963, I don't see why it ought to be 20 years later. When has there ever been anything shameful and disgusting about having children? In any case, An Unearthly Child was running concurrently on BBC2 as part of the Five Faces of Doctor Who repeat season, so any attempt to "disguise" who Susan was to the Doctor was clearly futile and misguided.
Like I say, I can't remember the scene off hand, but it sounds like just bad writing.
They are both Time Lords/Ladies so they would know each other instantly when there minds connected.
That would have been a really interesting thing to play with
Maybe Steven Moffat can rewrite that as well.:)
"Yes, one day I shall come back.....etc" He DID!! What he do? Ignore the poor accident-prone child!!
I do remember the fan world in the Eighties and, good grief, did a good many agonise over the 'granddaughter' bit! It was mainly expunged and quite acceptable to consider 'grandfather' to be an 'honorary' title, like 'Uncle/Aunty' for your parents' friends that lived across the road.:eek: It was said (then) that it was so that it was to make sure that there was nothing dodgy-looking in the relationship. So the fact that it was referred to at all was nothing short of controversial for a good part of fandom. To focus on it would have just been a step too far and JNT would have been hounded into immediate retirement!
True but events in that contradict the Big Finishes
Given that the 8th Doctor mentioned his companions from Big Finish in The Night Of The Doctor I would say that that makes those audios more canon-ish than the BBC books
I think the point is not that it would be dodgier for him to be her grandfather but that simply having him as some old bloke she hangs out with would be more dodgy. The viewer can interpret it either as a sort of adopted relationship, with him as a sort of guardian, or literal, whichever they prefer.
I don't know much about the audio series but I did hear her in one of the Eighth Doctor's stories, and McGann's younger than her by twenty years.
In Fear Her, The Doctor stated he was once a dad.
In The Name of the Doctor, the Doctor and Susan are seen leaving Gallifrey together. Indicating she's a Time Lord.
Perhaps some of the fans are disturbed by the concept of the Doctor laying in bed ******** someone, but he must have done it. Susan was without doubt his granddaughter by blood.
People say "then why is she called Susan?" Well, why does the Doctor call himself the Doctor?
Besides Susan couldn't apply for the Coal Hill School under the name Romaoemamaouieoomeknal or whatever her real Time Lord name is, could she?
Not necessarily. Time Lords are not humans, so may reproduce in a completely different way. Genetic looms perhaps?
Runs for cover.
Interesting theory. But, hearts aside, Time Lords are essentially built like humans. So logically, it's most likely that they reproduce by ******* just the same as humans. I might be wrong.
Also, the Doctor left Susan with that David fellow, knowing that they'd fallen in love. So therefore one has to assume that Time Lords and humans are compatible sexually, and therefore, like humans they **** rather than use mystical Time Vortex power.
Runs for cover.[/QUOTE]
You'll never run fast enough...:)
Especially as they had a son who was human as far as I recall from the audio? And Alex was a bit freaked out to find out that his mother was an alien. Which raises the question again as to whether Susan was Time Lord or 'just' Gallifreyan.