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Post by Audio Watchdog on Apr 7, 2018 14:40:48 GMT
The Doctor able to speak horse, and baby. The Doctor can presumably speak caterpillar if he wants to. The TARDIS telepathic circuits are involved and since every living thing 'thinks' at some level, even if it's just 'cabbage leaf=yum', 'bird=hide!' or (vaguely) 'where the heck did these wings suddenly come from', the Doctor can hear those thoughts as words. "Wriggle. Wiggle. Chomp, nosh, wriggle." ('Caterpillarese' isn't very expressive, unless one is an actual caterpillar, but you get my drift.) Exactly. It is the idea of the telepathic circuits being extrapolated and carried on. I think it is more whimsical than sad or pathetic.
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Post by theotherjosh on Apr 7, 2018 14:56:12 GMT
The Doctor able to speak horse, and baby. The Doctor can presumably speak caterpillar if he wants to. I'm pretty sure there's a joke about the Twelfth Doctor's eyebrows somewhere in there.
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Post by mrperson on Apr 7, 2018 16:37:19 GMT
The Doctor can presumably speak caterpillar if he wants to. I'm pretty sure there's a joke about the Twelfth Doctor's eyebrows somewhere in there.Possibly actual caterpillars...
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Post by number13 on Apr 7, 2018 23:37:46 GMT
The Doctor can presumably speak caterpillar if he wants to. I'm pretty sure there's a joke about the Twelfth Doctor's eyebrows somewhere in there. He would come over loud and clear in Delphon - but perhaps to the Delphons it would be too much like HAVING CAPS LOCK ON ALL THE TIME
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Post by shutupbanks on Apr 8, 2018 2:37:30 GMT
Will probably get some flak for this but I was never a fan of the Cartmel Masterplan. I like it as an attempt to put some mystery back into the character but it made him far too capable and really turned the show into the "Sofa of reasonable comfort" sequence from Curse Of Fatal Death. I much preferred the wandering character who toured the universe doing good. I may have liked it more if it had come from some event, but we were lumbered with it from Remembrance onwards and it seemed that the NAs were largely an exercise in making the Doctor as anti-heroic in the service of good as possible. I t feel like I could trust him completely anymore.
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Apr 8, 2018 4:02:32 GMT
The Doctor can presumably speak caterpillar if he wants to. The TARDIS telepathic circuits are involved and since every living thing 'thinks' at some level, even if it's just 'cabbage leaf=yum', 'bird=hide!' or (vaguely) 'where the heck did these wings suddenly come from', the Doctor can hear those thoughts as words. "Wriggle. Wiggle. Chomp, nosh, wriggle." ('Caterpillarese' isn't very expressive, unless one is an actual caterpillar, but you get my drift.) Exactly. It is the idea of the telepathic circuits being extrapolated and carried on. I think it is more whimsical than sad or pathetic. One of the recent 12th Doctor novels (The Shining Man) takes that to the logical conclusion, everything is slightly psychic (except Squirrels oddly) even plants. The Doctor used the TARDIS telepathic circuits to find out what plants are talking about and discovers that they like to discuss thr football.
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Post by J.A. Prentice on Apr 8, 2018 5:27:22 GMT
One of the Doctor Who tie-in sites for the New Series suggested Sarah Jane wrote for the Daily Mail. I don't believe Doctor Who has a canon, but if it it did, I would specifically design it to exclude this. I'm not a fan of 6B as I think it undercuts the drama of the War Games – but I LOVE Simon Butcher-Jones's (unlicensed) take from A Second Target For Tommy. {Spoiler}The Doctor, Jaime, and Zoe are duplicates – but still completely REAL in their own way – made from the Doctor's timeline by the CIA. The idea that Thals and Kaleds were two completely different species that just coincidentally looked the same and that the Dals were a third, separate extinct humanoid species was the only thing I hated in the otherwise brilliant Davros series and I'm doing my best to ignore it. Zagreus's attempt to shove the comics and novels into separate universes was absurd and I'm glad it seems to have been ignored since. Other than that, I think most of the issues I've had with Doctor Who media have been more to do with people getting characters wrong (or stories just being rubbish) than additions to the mythos. I do very much like the term "mythos." It captures the brilliant immensity of the Doctor Who universe without the sense of rigid rule-keeping and exclusion you get from "canon."
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Post by thethirddoctor on Apr 8, 2018 12:17:50 GMT
The Doctor being colour blind from 1963 to 1969, as written in the DOTD novel. Actually, makes no sense at all. Does that mean we are all colour blind, cause we watch those episodes in black and white?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2018 12:33:34 GMT
I think it's just a fun throwaway line for us fans, and not to be taken too seriously.
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Post by thethirddoctor on Apr 8, 2018 12:57:22 GMT
I think it's just a fun throwaway line for us fans, and not to be taken too seriously. Unfortunately, I can't unsee it. So, if novels are canon, this paragraph is now canon - same author.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Apr 8, 2018 12:58:58 GMT
The Doctor being colour blind from 1963 to 1969, as written in the DOTD novel. Actually, makes no sense at all. Does that mean we are all colour blind, cause we watch those episodes in black and white? Really? That is really funny.
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Post by mark687 on Apr 8, 2018 13:21:01 GMT
I think it's just a fun throwaway line for us fans, and not to be taken too seriously. Unfortunately, I can't unsee it. So, if novels are canon, this paragraph is now canon - same author. So a joke about early show Production is now fictional Cannon for you?!
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Post by thethirddoctor on Apr 8, 2018 14:32:00 GMT
Unfortunately, I can't unsee it. So, if novels are canon, this paragraph is now canon - same author. So a joke about early show Production is now fictional Cannon for you?!
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No. It's CANON!
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Post by mark687 on Apr 8, 2018 14:38:58 GMT
Ok then
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2018 14:43:14 GMT
The Doctor being colour blind from 1963 to 1969, as written in the DOTD novel. Actually, makes no sense at all. Does that mean we are all colour blind, cause we watch those episodes in black and white? Can a joke not just be a joke?
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Post by thethirddoctor on Apr 8, 2018 14:47:01 GMT
The Doctor being colour blind from 1963 to 1969, as written in the DOTD novel. Actually, makes no sense at all. Does that mean we are all colour blind, cause we watch those episodes in black and white? Can a joke not just be a joke? How is saying it is a joke?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2018 14:58:05 GMT
So a joke about early show Production is now fictional Cannon for you?!
No. It's CANON! Says who? Please provide a link to something where this is offcially stated. After all, I'm sure you would like to back up 'your' opinion as you seem so assertive about it.
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Post by thethirddoctor on Apr 8, 2018 15:00:51 GMT
Says who? Please provide a link to something where this is offcially stated. After all, I'm sure you would like to back up 'your' opinion as you seem so assertive about it. Erm, it's stated in the book!
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Post by sherlock on Apr 8, 2018 15:01:59 GMT
The Doctor being colour blind from 1963 to 1969, as written in the DOTD novel. Actually, makes no sense at all. Does that mean we are all colour blind, cause we watch those episodes in black and white? Why does it make no sense at all? I can't think of anything that definitively says the first and second Doctors weren't colour blind or anything that's contradicted by them being so.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2018 15:04:10 GMT
Says who? Please provide a link to something where this is offcially stated. After all, I'm sure you would like to back up 'your' opinion as you seem so assertive about it. Erm, it's stated in the book! But who said the book is canon? The BBC have never stated as such so why do you assume it so? Do you know an authorative Doctor Who source higher than the BBC? If so, please share. It isn't canon in my eyes, plus I have a good sense of humour so like an odd joke or two. It's nothing to get worked up about... really!
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