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Topic: The Name of The Doctor
Posted: May 26 2013 at 18:19

I think his real name is something like Marvin.

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Posted: May 18 2013 at 20:46

As I suspected, his name was not revealed (though I didn't expect it to happen the way it did).

But a very enjoyable episode overall.

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Posted: May 18 2013 at 20:37

WHAT

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Posted: May 18 2013 at 03:27

Dean wrote:

Davros

That was my thought exactly! What a twist that would make to the entire fifty years....

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Posted: May 17 2013 at 11:47

smartpatrol wrote:

Who

The Doctor.
You see, the hero from this BBC TV show? Been on the air since 1963. Somewhat of an extraterrestrial with the ability to travel in time, fighting strange aliens such as the Daleks, the Cyborgs, the Sontarains and many others.
They plan to reveal his true name in the next expisode.

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Posted: May 17 2013 at 09:33

Who

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Posted: May 17 2013 at 07:14

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This weekend? I read it was planned to be revealed in november, exactly for the 50th birthday! Confused

My guess is it'll be undecided and they'll leave us on tenterhooks until the 50th anniversary special.

And I won't be around to watch it tomorrow anyway.

Not dieing are you?

Not as far as I know.

I'm travelling back in time to 11th May so I can stick a bet on Wigan.

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Posted: May 17 2013 at 07:12

chopper wrote:

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This weekend? I read it was planned to be revealed in november, exactly for the 50th birthday! Confused

My guess is it'll be undecided and they'll leave us on tenterhooks until the 50th anniversary special.

And I won't be around to watch it tomorrow anyway.

Not dieing are you?

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Posted: May 17 2013 at 07:07

CPicard wrote:

This weekend? I read it was planned to be revealed in november, exactly for the 50th birthday! Confused

My guess is it'll be undecided and they'll leave us on tenterhooks until the 50th anniversary special.

And I won't be around to watch it tomorrow anyway.

Edited by chopper - May 17 2013 at 07:08

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Posted: May 17 2013 at 05:33

"Logic, my dear Zoe, just enables you to be wrong with authority" ~ The 2nd Doctor

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Posted: May 17 2013 at 05:19

^ I'm going to ignore any of the logic Dean has posted and say his name will be Garbanzo Cabron IV

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Posted: May 17 2013 at 05:03

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The first Gallifreyan we ever see in Dr Who (before the Doctor himself even) was called Susan and she was/is the Doctor's granddaughter. Another Gallifreyan who appeared in many episodes is Romanadvoratrelundar (Romana). Other's have been called Runcible, Rodan and Damon, so it seems they can have quite mundane names.

Do you recall what happened to the grandaughter after the other doctor took over? Maybe she's Clara being regenerated..?

I recall a President Berosa (sp?) on Gallifrey also from one of Baker's episodes.

BTW... I heard that John Hurt is going to be in the 50th Anniversary episode and that he's playing a lost 9th version of Dr Who.

Susan [re]appeared in the 20th and 30th anniversary episodes having left the 1st Doctor to marry a human and have normal life (she wears make-up to give the appearance that she is aging). Since this is the Doctor Who universe we can never be sure whether she is a blood relative or "grandfather/granddaugher" is merely a honorific title, though personally I think it would be a revisionist sacrilege to alter the blood-relationship in the storyline of the first ever Dr Who episode merely as a plot-device for later anachronisms and script paradoxes. In recent episodes the Doctor has a wife (or two) and created a daughter from his own DNA, so Susan's bloodline is sort of established even if we don't know who the father is (or the mother come to that). The reaction to Clara by the TARDIS could be problematic in the Clara/Susan scenario given the strong bond that it had with Susan, then it could be an over-reaction to Susan's rejection of the time-travelling lifestyle as the TARDIS is a little capricious and somewhat jealous by nature (as seen when it was personified as Idris).

The whole Doctor numerology is suspect anyway, the 1st Doctor is the first one we meet, but in one of the 1970s episodes we saw several previous incarnations of the Doctor prior to Hartnell in a flash-back. It has later been "explained" that there is a difference between regeneration and rejuvenation (which is what the transition from Hartnell to Troughton was called) so those earlier Doctors could have been rejuvenations prior to the first actual regeneration from Troughton to Pertwee. Having Hurt as a missing link between McGann and Eccleston is a neat plot-device, but nothing more, any problems it creates can be circumvented.

Basically, even with the apparent constraints and limitations imposed by the existing chronology, anything and everything is possible in the imagination of a scriptwriter when time-travel is the central premis of the story.

Edited by Dean - May 17 2013 at 05:07

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Posted: May 16 2013 at 13:15

Do you recall what happened to the grandaughter after the other doctor took over? Maybe she's Clara being regenerated..?

I recall a President Berosa (sp?) on Gallifrey also from one of Baker's episodes.

BTW... I heard that John Hurt is going to be in the 50th Anniversary episode and that he's playing a lost 9th version of Dr Who.

One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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Posted: May 15 2013 at 13:14

The first Gallifreyan we ever see in Dr Who (before the Doctor himself even) was called Susan and she was/is the Doctor's granddaughter. Another Gallifreyan who appeared in many episodes is Romanadvoratrelundar (Romana). Other's have been called Runcible, Rodan and Damon, so it seems they can have quite mundane names.

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Posted: May 15 2013 at 12:21

Nah, I don't think the Gallifreyan civilisation is all about matricules and numbers.

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Posted: May 15 2013 at 12:16

XZ122198# maybe

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Posted: May 15 2013 at 11:20

Maybe he would be likely to have a more-than-exotic name, due to his extraterrestrial origins. So, none of us would guess right.

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Posted: May 15 2013 at 10:21

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Posted: May 15 2013 at 10:06

IMO...They will not reveal his name to us since that's been a running 'gag' for 50 years now.

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Posted: May 13 2013 at 13:44

Maybe we should the case to the Tropers:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WMG/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor

My other bet would be that his ancestors not only created the TARDIS, but also baptized it from their family name. Wild Mass Guess at its worst...