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Two things that have gone without a trace
Jolly Jester
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1. The fact that The Master is supposed to be The Doctor's brother
2. The fact that it was sensationally revealed that The Doctor is half human.
any ideas why?
Obviously I know point 2 was deleted from Doctor Who history as it is a pile of ----(insert your own 4 letter word)
2. The fact that it was sensationally revealed that The Doctor is half human.
any ideas why?
Obviously I know point 2 was deleted from Doctor Who history as it is a pile of ----(insert your own 4 letter word)
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I think classic Who was hinting at something with the Masters cut off dialogue in Planet of Fire but that was it!
2/ You answered that question yourself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VjuZN2gedQ http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Doctor_Who_%28TV_story%29
However, as it has never been mentioned on-screen (except as a joke during The Sound of Drums), it doesn't count.
2. The half-human thing was another part of the proposed story arc for the 8th Doctor in the abandoned 1990s version. Unfortunately, this did find its way on-screen as part of the TV Movie.
It was merely a story arc which was never developed further on-screen, just like the "Caramel Masterplan" had been for the previous production team.
Nope, the Tenth more or less dismissed that in S3 when Martha suggested it ("you've been watching too much tv")
This was invented by fans, and is in no way true, and never was.
RTD was to have a line in The End of Time where the Doctor recalled using a Chameleon Arc in San Francisco years ago to become part-human but it was cut.
Wasn't it different aspects of the same personality, not brothers?
BIB - Planet of Fire very strongly implies that the Doctor and Master are brothers, and JNT intended it that way.
And your other point - wow, I didn't know that! Very interesting. Wish they'd done that and put it to bed once and for all.
There's nothing to say that the echo couldn't have reverberated even further back in time, and that the creation of the half-human 10.5 is something the Eighth picked up on in his slightly frazzled post-regenerative state.
It's a pet theory of mine anyway, but would fit with established canon. :-)
The same episode has this exchange:
Donna: So you're... half human?
Doctor: Uggh, that's disgusting!
So that basically states outright that the half-human thing never really happened.
*Tries not to be sick out of sheer horror*