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- From: "daniel bishop" <daniel.bishop@canrem.com>
- Subject: the five doctors
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.4153.14310@dosgate>
- Reply-To: "daniel bishop" <daniel.bishop@canrem.com>
- Organization: Canada Remote Systems
- Distribution: rec
- Date: 20 Nov 92 09:23:26 EST
- Lines: 65
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- Oh ho ho ho ho ho ho!
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- Believe me, Neal, I'm not out for blood. Where did this little
- misconception come from, hmmm? NO, IGOR! I SAID THE OTHER KNIFE!
- Pardon the little...interuption....(that's a good boy, Igor, now give
- the knife to Daddy)...and let's...discuss...the Five Doctors.
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- Whew! That does, indeed, seem to be a large inconsistancy, and I'll do
- my best to answer it, but I don't know how satisfying the answer will
- be. Bear with my convoluted logic, please, or just press the big "n" if
- you are still fearful of little 'ol me. (maniacal cackling)
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- Seriously, how did this start?
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- WARNING---SPOILERS AHEAD
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- I never, in absolutely none of my posts, ever resorted to name calling,
- etc. etc. etc. Sure, I'm opinionated, but NORMAN BATES? Maybe I just
- can't seem to face up to the facts. I'm tense and nervous, can't relax.
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- O.K., In The War Games, the Doctor reveals that the Time Lords have not
- been able to find him since he left Gallifrey. Yet, they do find him
- (in both his 1st and 2nd incarnations) in the Three Doctors and the Five
- Doctors, and *send him on a mission* (some of us have earned these
- little priviledges) in The Two Doctors. How to explain this?
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- Well, aparently after the Doctor was forced to call upon the Time Lords
- for help, they could trace him through time both forward and backward in
- his history. In The Three Doctors they are reluctant to tamper with his
- past, but do so anyway, thus creating a paradox in the Doctor's history.
- Can the Second Doctor in the Five Doctors *really* have the same past as
- the one in The War Games? Not unless the Time Lords have given him (and
- Jamie) selective amnesia on 5 occasions.
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- Anyway, two possible explainations:
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- 1. The Five Doctors took place after the Three Doctors, when
- 2nd Doc met 3rd Doc. Because Time Lords are telepathic and
- these two are the same Time Lord, there was some ammount of
- "mixing" of memories.
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- 2. The 6th Doc, in Trial of a Time Lord, recounts a future
- adventure...perhaps Time Lords are sensitive to time and
- paradox in ways we can't understand....or....hmmmm.
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