Things in Who that you need an answer to...

[Pip Madeley]

Perhaps because the Doctors are Time Lords, they were born with some kind of protection? They've got a special relationship with time, after all...

[Larry]

seems a senceble enough reason to me..

[WhiteCrow]

Daleks believe themselves to be the supreme being.

They are so xenophobic that Renegade and Imperial Daleks despise each other.

So why do they work for an Emperor who is a slightly different type of Dalek creature. When surely by being different he should be exterminated???

[Dirk Gently]

But he is still DALEK.

Why are all Daleks male?

[Pip Madeley]

Did you see any birds in the Kaled science club?

[Andrew Curnow]

This thread seems to be more questions than answers (hmm, isn't that a song...).

Anyway, another one - when the guard commander shoots the Castellan in The Five Doctors, is he doing it because he's in league with Borusa? Because he's blindly obeying an order from his President? Or because the Castellan is genuinely "armed and trying to escape"? In which case, why is the Castellan trying to escape when he must surely know he's innocent? The guard commander sounds so sinister when he says "as you can see, he's armed and trying to escape" it makes me wonder.

(Maybe he was just a very bad actor?)

[Captain Tancredi]

Given that they're genetically engineered, perhaps they're not so much male as neuter. Either that or "femaleness" as we understand it- in biological terms basically having to do with the production and rearing of young- is irrelevant to Daleks anyway.

[Pip Madeley]

when the guard commander shoots the Castellan in The Five Doctors, is he doing it because he's in league with Borusa? Because he's blindly obeying an order from his President?

I'd say that. In an attempt to get further up in the ranks...

Here's something from the Five Doctors I've never understood - if the High Council has the power to offer the Master a whole new lifespan, why did Borusa choose to pursue immortality in such a roundabout way?

[Si Hunt]

I'd say it was obvious the guard in "The Five Doctors" had been bribed by Borusa.

Talking of Time Monster on the first post, I've never understood how the Doctor was able to pilot the TARDIS in the story.

Perhaps he wired the coordinates into the programmer as he did for Metabelis? Alternatively, and more likely, it's seen from "City of Death" and "Shada" amongst others than a time ship can be followed through the vortex if you are quick enough (it leaves a sort of 'trace', footprints in the time vortex).

My question is - why and how has Lon got the Key to Time in his palace in "Snakedance"?

Si.

[Si Hunt]

if the High Council has the power to offer the Master a whole new lifespan, why did Borusa choose to pursue immortality in such a roundabout way?

Because in the interests of democracy, no president or even individual could be allowed to continually prolong their lifespan, even though it's possible. Alternatively, "immortality" is more than just not running out of regenerations - it's living forever, whatever. Even if granted a second cycle of regenerations, Borusa might still die if he was blown up or given anaesthetic or something (it destroys the regenerative process). He obviously believed that the power Rassilon had was unconditional everlasting life, not to mention access to all his secrets and that stylish coronet.

Si.

[duncan]

Now here's a theory...

Both The Three Doctors and The Five Doctors involve the various Doctors being taken out of their own time streams and plonked somewhere they shouldn't be... maybe this means that the adventures are therefore happening simultaneously for all the various Doctor's involved and so there aren't actually any memories to be had until after the adventure had happened....

Or something.

Si xx

Maybe, but logic would say that once back into their own time streams, they would eventually arrive back at the same point in their new persona and go through it all again?

[Si Hunt]

Perhaps it's "the wisdom of Rassilon" as Borusa puts it at the end of "The Invasion of Time", after the Doctor loses his memory of what's happened with the Sontarans. Borusa remembers, so time hasn't been changed. The only explanation is that Rassilon has wiped his memory of the events to protect his future, which presumably he does at the end of "The Five Doctors" too (is this "temporal fission"?). It's interesting that every time the Doctor meets himself it's under the control of the Time Lords, except in "The Two Doctors" when his memory loss is explained by the amnesia from Dastari's operation.

Si.

[Larry]

why is The Doctor, about the only Time Lord, who can actually regenerate just about every other Time Lord we have seen get shot or stabed always dies so why don't they ever regenerate.

[Si Hunt]

Borusa regenerates. Lots of people on Gallifrey are not Time Lords, merely Gallifreyans, which is why there are two names for the inhabitants of the planet, and why some of them don't regenerate.

Alternatively, some regenerate after a pause, as the Doctor did in "The Television Movie With The Pertwee Logo And Shit Plot".

Si.

[Larry]

but The War Chief, in The War Games did not regenerate, but then again i've seen silly arguments from people who claim he became or is The Master.

[Nathan]

So what about The Three and Five Doctors? No drugs were administered.

That's not what he asked though

There is some guff about "the wisdom of Rassilon" in the Five Doctors - best leave it to him to tidy things up.

[Si Hunt]

I just addressed that.

Si.

[Logo Polish]

but The War Chief, in The War Games did not regenerate, but then again i've seen silly arguments from people who claim he became or is The Master.

Maybe he was on his last incarnation? It's never stated how old he was. One of the New Adventures had an alternative theory too.

[Si Hunt]

What was it?

Si.

[Logo Polish]

It theorised that he did regenerate but just hadn't started at the time the camera last saw him in the story (but also claimed that the regeneration had aborted, leaving him stuck with bits of both bodies - or something).

The book was Exodus.

[Si Hunt]

It's as I suggested before then, a delayed effect like in the TVM.

Remember that the Pertwee Doctor didn't regenerate immediately - he had been dead for several minutes before changing, and even then it was because Cho-je/K'Anpo "gave the process a little push".

Si.

[Dirk Gently]

Also if you remember the Doctor (and presumably other Timelords) can die no matter where they are in their life cycle. They only regenerate when the body is damaged beyond repair but not dead.

[Pip Madeley]

This thread rocks

[Larry]

in School Reunion, when The Doctor, and his chums were trapped in the dinner hall how did K9 manage to get him self out of Sarah's car re-attach his side pannel and get him self up to the dinner hall.

[Nathan]

If you watch the George Lucas Special Edition you'll find out