From: utzoo!decvax!watmath!bstempleton Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Title: Re: The Doctor"s name is... Article-I.D.: watmath.2569 Posted: Thu Jun 10 01:22:08 1982 Received: Thu Jun 10 05:23:21 1982 References: pur-phy.331 We must remember, Doctor Who has been running since '63, and has had many many writers. A great number of them have decided to completely ignore precedents set up by other writers, in particular from the very early days. Certainly the new Baker->Davison regeneration was nothing like the previous. But let's look at more: 1) The Time Lords can easily control the Tardis and the Doctor. Common ideas today seem to be he is allowed to dabble in time (and is a member of the Celestial Intervention Agency, some high ranking Galifrean society) as long as he does a few jobs. Remember the beginnings of "Genesis of the Daleks" and "The Brain of Morbius". The Doctor never stays long, or fights for a known cause when asked too. Romana did just this when she quit. 2) Somehow, in some way, Doctor Who is the President of the Time Lords. He did lose his memory after use of the Great Key, but I don't see how that means he must give up his presidency. He can have a fancy Tardis when he likes by this. Anyway, at LOGOPLIS, they fixed his Tardis so that it can change shape. No doubt Davison wants to not use the Police Box as much.