Any explanation for the Doctors link to modern times?
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Obviously actors age and so the majority of adventures with re-occurring characters are set chronologically.
Has there even been any explanation to why the Doctor seems to be connected to the same general period of time? He has a cell phone that is connected to the present day and seemed upset when the Brigadier passed away which seems odds for a time traveler.
You would think he'd be able to go back and interact with old companions all the time!
Has there even been any explanation to why the Doctor seems to be connected to the same general period of time? He has a cell phone that is connected to the present day and seemed upset when the Brigadier passed away which seems odds for a time traveler.
You would think he'd be able to go back and interact with old companions all the time!
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Otherwise, it might simply be that because he first arrived in 1963, its this period of Earth history that he feels most at home in.
Don't forget, though, that the Doctor has aged hundreds of years since episode one but time on Earth has only moved on 50 years . . . so he's not exactly in sync with modern-day Earth.
But the real reason is that it's less confusing for us as viewers.
This was thrown into disarray during Trial of a Timelord when it turned out the Master had met the Doctor's future self many times.
I think it's fair to say that this was nothing more than a tribute to Nicolas Courtney really.
The link to modern times stems from the fact that all shows have to relate to the modern audience really
This was done for the show and the fans,not for the Doctor imho, a tribute only!
Apart from mentioning many, many adventures in time on Earth, (as well as the ones we've seen, the Romans, Aztecs, medieval France, the Crusades, Marco Polo etc) He's also had companions from the past, the future and from other planets, just not recently.
Sure he could go back in time and visit the Brig, but surely The Doctor would still be upset that in the current time he is in, The Brig is now dead.
But the real real reason is that it's cheaper and easier.
At the beginning of Fury from the Deep Jamie and Victoria mentioned that the TARDIS always seemed to take them to Earth, and to England in particular. (With the exception of Tomb of the Cybermen Victoria's stories were all set on Earth.) Jamie theorised the TARDIS had been 'spiked' due to damage it had sustained. That was probably a lighthearted way of expressing what some viewers must have been thinking. Of course that's space rather than time, but it's the same general idea as what we're discussing here.
Any in-story explanation of the prevalence of present-day-Britain story settings is likely to seem feeble and only call undue attention to the real-word factors that are probably behind those decisions. Better to ignore it, along with 'why is the room in a stage play always missing the fourth wall?'
No. He said he could help her. But there's mouthing to suggest he would actually do it. He'd ruin things for his earlier self if he did.
Can he though? Doesn't Troughton make a throwaway reference to that not really being allowed in the Five Doctors? I don't own a copy so am unable to check, and my memory could be at fault...
yes, but I'd go so far as to say it was also a way for the Doctor to come to terms with his own forthcoming demise, the Tardis could have routed that call any time throughout the brig's life time and yet it routed it to a few months after his death, at a time when the Doctor was, from what he believed at the time, trying to cheat his own.
But of course your right and I'm just romanticising the moment