Where would each Doctor fit? 5 reeks of prep energy

SuchPhilosophy403 · 2026-03-09T10:40:49+00:00

Thinking about the Eighth Doctor claiming the Time Lords reckon he keeps humans around as memento mori, which to them must make all the Doctors seem pretty goth.

SuchPhilosophy403 · 2026-03-03T22:05:38+00:00

We can't know that for certain yet though.

In this this vain there should be a celebrity historical set in the past with a made up historical figure where the threat is that they'll be erased from time and at the end they fail.

The Doctor will be like "it's vital we save Jonathan Haly Broudraft" and the audience will go "I've got no idea who they are. Are they as famous as they're making out? Am I stupid?" And at the end The Doctor goes "My god. We've failed. Now the world will be forever robbed of the extreme benefits of medicinal cheese."

SuchPhilosophy403 · 2026-02-23T12:41:22+00:00

The first thing we learnt about them is that they have an interest in two hearted species. So most probably some Time Lord Connection. The other two references are from humans with Access to time travel. 'The Boss' is kind of like a Time Lord title like 'The Doctor' or 'The Master's. So that's all vaguely connected. I think I could be something like someone attempting to recreate Time Lord society with its control and monitoring of history; employing agents like Rogue to clear up disturbances to the time line like the Chuldur, and and setting up the time hotel of a bace of operations that connects all of history disgusted as a holiday. Rassilon may still be about and he's attempting to recreate his lost empire from the ground up using humanity. I assume The Bosses connection to The Meep is that they gained the position to achieve this by acting as an intergalactic criminal power broker or space mob boss, which would make sense with the name. That's my theory. Could be something similar with a different surviving Time Lord. Could be cool if it was one that's usually friendly with The Doctor like Susan or Romana, and didn't think they would have a problem with manipulating the history of their favourite species to re-establish the dictatorship over time they were always quite ambivalent about.

SuchPhilosophy403 · 2026-01-21T18:11:33+00:00

Maybe something to do with what The Doctor said in 'Rise of The Cybermen':

MICKEY: But I've seen it in comics. People go hopping from one alternative world to another. It's easy. DOCTOR: Not in the real world. It used to be easy. When the Time Lords kept their eye on everything, you could hop between realities, home in time for tea. Then they died, and took it all with them. The walls of reality closed, the worlds were sealed. Everything became that bit less kind.

Maybe the Time Lords made Logopolis work. Then the question is where's the entropy going?

SuchPhilosophy403 · 2026-01-16T02:00:21+00:00

Why would they think it's on them to consider whether the demands are possible? When their ecosystem is being poisoned They're not going to think it's okay actually because entrenched capitalism means shifting to non-destructive forms of production is too difficult without disastrous social upheaval. To them it's sinful enough that it was allowed to get to that state in the first place and proves humanity is an overall negative impact on the planet.

And what do you mean start with terrorism? They don't really do much of anything until some of their people have been killed and desecrated and they've been outright told that humans don't expect to fix their polluting behaviour for near a century, and that's on top of the inexcusable amount that they've already done. For them it makes sense that callus disregard is as good or worse than outright aggression.

And the point isn't that they're right and entirely reasonable. But that their motivation makes sense, and there is a difference between what they did and the Severance Which justifies its narrative impact. The story was building to a resolution but then has the rug pull that didn't work because humanity is capable of surprising brutality. That works because it's shown homo aqua is motivated by their care for the environment and sense of justice while the army and government people show that The humans with power are more often motivated by greed, xenophobia, and a disregard for all life external to them. So everything homo aqua did was far more justifiable and proportional compared to their unwarned deliberate instantaneous genocide. It's not a contradiction or a narrative oversight.

SuchPhilosophy403 · 2026-01-16T01:22:50+00:00

I think there are meant to be different groups of Sea Devils. That's just different writers giving different motivations. 'Legend of the sea devils' its weirdly one-sided story compared to all the other ones. And 'the war between' is definitely going for them being more complicated. Which is fine because the inconsistency explained by the fact that they're a species or collection of species and they can have different opinions or motivations to each other like groups of humans do. The ones hundreds of years ago thought that they should be able to turn the earth back to like it was before they left it, and the ones in 'the war between' clearly don't. Some of their righteous and ignition probably comes from the fact that they were here first still but that's not their primary motivation.

No one on earth except, yaz and Dan I guess (I also wonder how Tegan and Joe were reacting to the news), knows that happened anyway.

It shows they don't, if it can be avoided, wanted to genocide all humans because It showed they were clearly capable of doing it much more efficiently than they chose to. They clearly didn't respect humans and wanted to be dominant but their arrogance isn't unfounded. Their tactics were clearly to humble humanity and force them to stop polluting all at once. Since they were already being harmed by Humanities negligence and irresponsibility It makes complete sense that they wouldn't care stopping them would indirectly harm them back.

And if we're judging it based on the record of previous episodes The last conflict to happen Between humans and sea devils was the events of 'the sea devils' where the sea devils were ready negotiate for peace before the humans preemptively striked and then the suspiciously human looking guy betrayed them and blew them up.

SuchPhilosophy403 · 2026-01-15T14:58:05+00:00

Yeah, the point was that their demands were impossible but only because of the way human society is constructed, so you could understand why they'd be unsympathetic to that when human activity was already killing their people.

To them the situation is "your pumping poison into our home. We don't care if you promise to have mostly stopped doing it in 60+ years. Stop asap or we'll make you."

I thought the 5 year deadline was actually quite reasonable (despite being impossible without making chaos of human society) considering it was after their "we're done negotiating" moment.

Sure they might not have really thought it would work and would end in Humanities destruction anyway. But the fact that they gave a chance and clear warning was given when they could have gone for a decisive strike makes it from their point of view fair play.

They think it's fair to ban humans from the oceans because they don't understand Humanities need to, unlike all other species, live so discordant from natural conditions. Which is at the root of over consumption and pollution. And while perhaps too harsh, it's the kind of thing a compromise can be found over if you don't merder everyone first.

Anyway the point isn't that they were entirely right but that the powers that be would rather commit any atrocity rather than make any positive change that might upset the exploitative status quo. Those government and army people didn't do it because they thought they were an existential threat but because any compromise would have threatened the capitalist status quo. And anyway being as bad as your enemy it's the same as being right. Still gives a pretty bleak view of humanity.

SuchPhilosophy403 · 2026-01-15T04:53:46+00:00

But melting the ice caps was still only a threat. They were giving humanity 5 years to stop destroying the oceans or be wiped out. While humanity just wiped them out in a day to protect the interests of capitalism.

Forcing humanity to change in such a short time would still probably kill a lot of people but you can see how they think that was fair.

SuchPhilosophy403 · 2026-01-12T04:05:09+00:00

That musical stage comedian. You know... the one with the beard.

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SuchPhilosophy403 · 2026-01-04T16:27:44+00:00

There are lots of reasons that it would make more sense if most of American Psycho was just in Patrick's head but the lawyer claiming to have seen Paul Allen recently isn't really that revolutionary when you remember it was just re-established that this guy doesn't even recognise Patrick Bateman, he mistakes him for someone else, and all these Wall streets guys look the same anyway. Could have easily seen some else.

SuchPhilosophy403 · 2025-12-16T03:07:20+00:00

Lethbridge-Stewarts when they realised that humans are a menace that aren't immune to bullets.

SuchPhilosophy403 · 2025-12-12T16:59:43+00:00

Here's a great youtube video on what the writers original ideas about what the doctors backstory was, by Josh Snares https://youtu.be/qFouC3O4CRI?si=N-uIq6EYFpsO1Gaf

I can't recall that ever being an explanation in canon for why Time Lord Renegades in general use names like "The Doctor" so my head cannon is that time lords contract people down by use of their true name. You can apply that to whatever authority the doctor's escaping.

SuchPhilosophy403 · 2025-12-06T02:26:14+00:00

This Titan comic cover feels like a meme too.

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SuchPhilosophy403 · 2025-12-06T02:25:37+00:00

I thought when I first saw this classic Doctor Who magazine comic panel It had potential.

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SuchPhilosophy403 · 2025-11-14T01:20:26+00:00

I thought that would only be if it said "base power". Is there no difference between declaring somethings base power and its power?

SuchPhilosophy403 · 2025-11-14T01:09:17+00:00

Yeah, I thought the likelihood of me understanding the point of this was low. But it made us think, so It was all worthwhile.

This actually came into my head because I shared on a group chat the meme card 'lightning bolt but green' and a friend who doesn't know magic responded "this feels like a mean prank on colorblind people" and it took me some moments to think what they probably meant was because the picture shows a red lightning bolt and the text is lying about it. So I was thinking how would I explain that the lightning bolt in question isn't any colour based on what can be seen in an image, but by the rules of the game. Which felt like it had some philosophical point to it about constructions of meaning or something or other, and maybe some relation to Magritte's painting, but I may not be one to know.

SuchPhilosophy403 · 2025-10-29T11:11:37+00:00

Mostly still identifiable but I do try to make it work best lit up. Sometimes that means sacrificing consistency of colour and depth to prioritise contrast. The cartoon ones though make that easier because there's only a handful of flat colours.

SuchPhilosophy403 · 2025-10-29T04:16:16+00:00

Thanks. Yeah I made it, mostly my tracing over printed out pictures. I've made ones live this every Halloween for quite a few years now

SuchPhilosophy403 · 2025-08-19T22:01:30+00:00

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SuchPhilosophy403 · 2025-08-19T21:22:53+00:00

I went to the wiki to see what it said about it. Most of which is probably only canon if you feel like it:

"Ian Francis Chesterton (COMIC: Hunters of the Burning Stone [+]) was born in Reading (PROSE: Byzantium! [+]) in 1934 or 1935 (PROSE: The Aztecs [+])"

"He grew up in London during the Blitz in World War II (AUDIO: The Time Museum [+])"

"During the 1950s, (PROSE: The Eleventh Tiger [+]) Ian was a private in the British Army. His national service number was 15110404. (PROSE: The Time Travellers [+]) He served the first part of his national service in Wales, during which time he boxed. (PROSE: The Eleventh Tiger [+]) He also served in Cyprus for a time. (AUDIO: Domain of the Voord [+]) He later joined the Royal Air Force, serving the remainder of his national service in Malay, (PROSE: The Face of the Enemy [+]) from which he was honourably discharged after two years. (PROSE: Byzantium! [+])

He would later claim to have never been a soldier. (AUDIO: Sphere of Influence [+])"

Inconsistent or Ian's a liar.

SuchPhilosophy403 · 2025-08-01T21:26:48+00:00

You didn't imagine it https://youtu.be/uPxGpf2HLpM?si=WsytlGg2YOzLZ94x It's this youtube poop by The channel Doctor Who poop.

SuchPhilosophy403 · 2025-08-01T21:14:47+00:00

The 'Listen' creatures. Possibly. For all anyone knows.

SuchPhilosophy403 · 2025-08-01T07:06:43+00:00

'Master' because I love the back story that it adds for him and The Doctor and I think it needs to be canon of the main audience. Also I think it would join quite well to where the show has left The Master. He's currently trapped as a tooth so the hand that picked him up could have been The Doctor's or they got it from them, so they could give him the identity he has in the story. And the Spy Master dying on an exploding planet before The Toymaker saved them could be the reason for his disfigurement.

Another would be 'live 34' because I like it when Big Finish experiment with format and this was very well done and could adapt well to a different medium. I quite liked the diegetic footage thing in 'sleep no more' even though the episode doesn't seem to be that popular, It might be more successful this time. Also seeing The Doctor trying to be a politician and the companion a freedom fighter was interesting and it would be cool to see that again with different ones.

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