Re: From the Archives .....

On 21/04/2024 01:21, Blueshirt wrote:

The Doctor wrote:
 

In article <xn0okt4k1cdpbe1000@post.eweka.nl>,
Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

The True Doctor wrote:

>
Morbius is winning the game because his faces are on the
screen indicating that the more past regenerations you have
had the stronger your mind becomes in the game. Hinchcliffe
didn't write the story, it was Dicks.

>
Robert Holmes re-wrote the script as you well know and it was
the intent of the Production team of that story that those
were the faces of the Doctor. When you watched "The Brain of
Morbius" as a child, that was the intent behind that scene.
This is a simple fact that has been mentioned many times
over the years by members of the production team (whose
faces they actually were) and it is easily researched.
>
Terrance Dicks - like some fans - did not like the idea of
pre-Hartnell Doctors, so revised it in his novelisation. So
yes, in the Target novel they are the faces of Morbius.
>
There has been plenty of interviews with Uncle Terrance over
the years where he explained why he changed it. But him not
liking the idea of pre-Hartnell Doctors is the short
version! He was aware of the original intent behind that
scene in the episode though and has often talked about it.

>
I go with 4 Doctors taking on Morbius!

 You can take from that scene whatever you like... it doesn't
change the way the scene was conceived. There is no Doctor Who
bible so whatever works for you and your enjoyment of the show
is fine. We are all free to make our own head-canon.
 

What there is are established facts. No regenerations existed before Hartnell as stated by Hartnell in The Tenth Planet and the 1st Doctor in The Five Doctors. What transpired in The Brain of Morbius can only be interpreted one way, the faces viewers did not recognise were those of Morbius, just as Terrance Dicks states in the Target novelization.

Unfortunately, Chris Chibnall decided that he liked the original
idea and ran with it when he created the "Fugitive" Doctor. So,

Chibnall decided that he totally despised Doctor Who and wanted to completely destroy it to piss off the fans.

right or wrong, a pre-Hartnell 'Doctor' has now appeared
on-screen in multiple episodes of Doctor Who and is officially

No. Doctor Who ended in 2017. Nothing after The Doctor Falls is real.

part of the show. If anyone doesn't like that fact they can
ignore it and move on, or pretend Doctor Who ended in 2017, or
wait for Patrick Duffy to step out of the shower!

Clara will wake up from a bad dream. Peter Capaldi will walk out of the shower and Doctor Who will continue from where it ended. Or there are other ways to bring back Doctor Who from where it ended also.
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