Originally Posted by adams66:
“Just to clarify, Ray... in the original tv series the Doctor was NOT strictly a Time Lord until The War Games revealed him to be one. With hindsight we can assume that he always was a Time Lord, but certainly at the time of the tv serials The Daleks and Dalek Invasion Of Earth the Doctor was merely a mysterious and unexplained traveller - "Susan and I are cut off from our own planet - without friends or protection. But one day we shall get back. Yes, one day...." He could have been, and was probably intended to be, human, but from a future civilisation on another planet.
His 'renewal' (it wasn't actually called 'regeneration' until Planet of the Spiders) at the Tenth Planet was the first concrete evidence that the Doctor definitely wasn't human.
However, the Peter Cushing character definitely was human. No hint of him being an alien, or from another time or civilization. And he was called Doctor Who. I'm constantly baffled by people's attempts to somehow retcon Cushing into the continuity of the tv series. Can't we all accept that the two Cushing films, charming and entertaining though they are, simply do not, will not, and should not be shoehorned into the tv series history, and they were never intended to be.”
“Just to clarify, Ray... in the original tv series the Doctor was NOT strictly a Time Lord until The War Games revealed him to be one. With hindsight we can assume that he always was a Time Lord, but certainly at the time of the tv serials The Daleks and Dalek Invasion Of Earth the Doctor was merely a mysterious and unexplained traveller - "Susan and I are cut off from our own planet - without friends or protection. But one day we shall get back. Yes, one day...." He could have been, and was probably intended to be, human, but from a future civilisation on another planet.
His 'renewal' (it wasn't actually called 'regeneration' until Planet of the Spiders) at the Tenth Planet was the first concrete evidence that the Doctor definitely wasn't human.
However, the Peter Cushing character definitely was human. No hint of him being an alien, or from another time or civilization. And he was called Doctor Who. I'm constantly baffled by people's attempts to somehow retcon Cushing into the continuity of the tv series. Can't we all accept that the two Cushing films, charming and entertaining though they are, simply do not, will not, and should not be shoehorned into the tv series history, and they were never intended to be.”
When did the whole two hearts thing come into Doctor Who?
