The Doctor is Out

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by henry quirk

"a combat damaged veteran"

Not really, no.

From Wiki: "...the Tenth Doctor laments that demise of his current incarnation, with its own personality and attributes, makes for something much akin to an actual death."

I'd say that makes each incarnation of the Doc akin to being 'brothers' to the others, or witnesses to the others.

Another example of this is when First met Second and Third, referring to them as clown and dandy.

Sure the Eccleston Doc may feel terrible about what his predecessor did in the Time War (even as he sees the necessity of it), but it wasn't 'him' who did the deed(s).

As for my assessing the majority of Docs as pussies or near pussies: *shrug* We could go 'round and 'round on that one.

I'm far more interested in an assessment of my theory about Hurt's Doc.

Any one?

Yeah. That's one way of looking at it. But other Doctors have expressed the view that they are basically the same person. Whilst also talking about their former selves as very different. Clearly they remember the events of their past selves' lives as their own (they often reminisce about things that they remember in this way).


As to your Hurt theory. Yeah, I can go with the idea that the Eighth Doc knew that he couldn;t make himself do what needed to be done and forced a regeneration into someone who could. Either that or he was fatally wounded in battle and regenerated into the Hurt Doctor who then activated the Moment, thereby saving all of time and space whilst damning himself and 'breaking the promise' of his name.

The pussy bit I don't agree with.