The Name of The Doctor

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 dr wu23 wrote:

 Dean wrote:

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