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How did they know the Timelords were alive
In the time of the Doctor, apart from the Doctor and Clara, how did the others know that the TimeLords had survived the Time War.
I know Handles knew the signal was of Gallifreyian origin but still |
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In the time of the Doctor, apart from the Doctor and Clara, how did the others know that the TimeLords had survived the Time War.
I know Handles knew the signal was of Gallifreyian origin but still |
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Oh, not another pointless thread! [Yawn! Yawn!]
Try re-watching the Time of the Doctor on DVD, then you'll be able to work it out for yourself, instead of starting a pointless thread.
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In the time of the Doctor, apart from the Doctor and Clara, how did the others know that the TimeLords had survived the Time War.
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Until that point, no one knew the signal was the timelords, not even the Doctor.
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I guess Handles explicitly saying I can't translate this message of Gallifreyan origin without everyone orbiting Trenzalore hearing it as well, was lost on the OP?
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True, and there's not even any suggestion when he does find out it's them that he remembers his conversation with the Curator either because TTOTD is self explanatory enough for it not to be necessary... and also that would fit with Doctors not fully remembering encounters with future incarnations ... and the Curator's appearance did come straight after conversations with both the War Doctor and 10 that brought up that very subject.
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Oh, not another pointless thread! [Yawn! Yawn!]
Try re-watching the Time of the Doctor on DVD, then you'll be able to work it out for yourself, instead of starting a pointless thread. ![]() |
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If a thread is asking a valid question, about an episode that was most recent no less, then it is not pointless. Someone has curiosity about something they saw, felt the need to ask it, and other people in posts before and after yours have seen fit to engage in a civilised way by actually trying to give their opinion in response to the op's question. If a thread bores you, then just go straight to another one. Don't post just for the point of making the op feel bad by telling them how boring their thread is.
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In the time of the Doctor, apart from the Doctor and Clara, how did the others know that the TimeLords had survived the Time War.
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If a dismembered Cyber-head can figure it out I'm sure vast armies of Daleks, Cybermen, and the Church of the Papel Mainframe etc... could work it out too.
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Jake_Green is particularly quiet on this topic since posting the original question .....
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It's his first post. Perhaps some of you lot have scared him off.
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Even in the conversation with the Curator, it was left deliberately ambiguous - for the Doctor at least, we know the plan would never fail, right? - as to whether Gallifrey survived. So whether or not he remembered the conversation is still up in the air.
I think it could get referenced in Series 8 because of the 12th Doctor supposedly having some degree of amnesia .... I'm thinking he might either temporarily remember meeting the Curator as he regains his memory, or that Clara might mention it as she tries to help him remember things? |
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True, but either way Clara would remember it herself anyway because she's in her normal time when she tells the Doctor the Curator is looking for him.
I think it could get referenced in Series 8 because of the 12th Doctor supposedly having some degree of amnesia .... I'm thinking he might either temporarily remember meeting the Curator as he regains his memory, or that Clara might mention it as she tries to help him remember things? |
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Clara didn't witness the meeting right?
...so Clara met the Curator off screen, not in the company of the 11th Doctor, and in her own time ..... she's going to remember it whether the Doctor does or not
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If a thread is asking a valid question, about an episode that was most recent no less, then it is not pointless. Someone has curiosity about something they saw, felt the need to ask it, and other people in posts before and after yours have seen fit to engage in a civilised way by actually trying to give their opinion in response to the op's question. If a thread bores you, then just go straight to another one. Don't post just for the point of making the op feel bad by telling them how boring their thread is.
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None of them had the Seal of the High Council, though.
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Warning. Translation will be available to all lifeforms in range.
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What gets me is that, if hearing the message is the first time the universe realises that the Time Lords survived and that the Doctor is required to facilitate their return then this is the point at which Madame Korvarian must have decided that the Silence need to kill the Doctor and creates her breakaway faction and yet when the Doctor confronts Tasha Lem, the leader of the Silence, it seems to be old news
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Even in the conversation with the Curator, it was left deliberately ambiguous - for the Doctor at least, we know the plan would never fail, right? - as to whether Gallifrey survived. So whether or not he remembered the conversation is still up in the air.
![]() Why would he have forgotten anyway? The third Doctor didn't forget the events of the Three Doctors, he remembered seeing Omega when they met again. The fifth Doctor remembered the events of the Five Doctors. I don't get why there's any question about it. |
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I'm confused, what indication did we ever get that the Doctor didn't remember the events of Time of the Doctor?
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I didn't even know that was a question! I thought the whole point was that he now had renewed purpose to find the Time Lords
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Why would he have forgotten anyway?
...when multiple incarnations meet, after going their separate ways the earlier incarnations forget the details of their encounter with their future selves... Quote:
The third Doctor didn't forget the events of the Three Doctors, he remembered seeing Omega when they met again. The fifth Doctor remembered the events of the Five Doctors. I don't get why there's any question about it.
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I'm confused, what indication did we ever get that the Doctor didn't remember the events of Time of the Doctor? I didn't even know that was a question! I thought the whole point was that he now had renewed purpose to find the Time Lords
![]() Eleven didn't know for sure if his plan succeeded - the Curator strongly suggested that it did, but there's enough leeway that whether or not he had that conversation, there would still be doubt. |
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They are the latest incarnations in those stories, they don't forget because they haven't crossed paths with their possible FUTURE selves
![]() Still, wasn't it the Curator that specifically wanted to talk to him? What would have been the point if the Curator knew he would forget the meeting straight afterwards? I think the forgetting may be a consequence of a Doctor being pulled out of his natural time stream rather than just having timestreams cross? Although, thinking about it, Day of the Doctor was really the War Doctor's natural timestream and ten and eleven were the ones pulled out of theirs by the Moment into the War Doctor's! Oh well, that's timey wimey for you ![]() Personally, I think it's ust the writers not thinking things through properly and we're left to try to make sense of it! |
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They didn't need to:
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What gets me is that, if hearing the message is the first time the universe realises that the Time Lords survived and that the Doctor is required to facilitate their return then this is the point at which Madame Korvarian must have decided that the Silence need to kill the Doctor and creates her breakaway faction and yet when the Doctor confronts Tasha Lem, the leader of the Silence, it seems to be old news
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