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The Valeyard (Possible Spoilers)

mdtaukmdtauk Posts: 620
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I was browsing another forum, and came across these images in a Doctor Who thread.
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It may be relevant to the 50th Anniversary, but I was wondering if some long-term whovians could possibly offer more information about the classic serial this reference is from, so we may understand things better.

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    ea91ea91 Posts: 2,363
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeyard
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    mirrorman74mirrorman74 Posts: 337
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    Very relevant. But doubt Moff is going to be so obvious to use someone else's character.
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    mdtaukmdtauk Posts: 620
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    Looking at a dedicated Doctor Who Wiki...
    Writer's guidelines for the Virgin New Adventures specifically asked writers not to discuss the continuity issues created by the Valeyard or the Doctor's trial in The Trial of a Time Lord ("Anything featuring the Valeyard is out — he's a continuity nightmare, and a rather dull villain") and took the official line that those events had taken place in the Doctor's personal future. Some novels, however (Love and War by Paul Cornell, among others), did not do so.
    The Valeyard was similar to several of the Doctor's incarnations, cunning and verbal, with a knack for manipulation. He had a bit of a temper, and was prone to outbursts, but generally calm and collected, traits of several incarnations of the Doctor. However, his actions were constantly defined by his egotism. The Valeyard would risk or sacrifice anything to ensure his own existence, even break the Laws of Time and kill his own past self and try to control the Dark Matrix despite the dangers its presence would pose to established history.

    http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Valeyard
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