History Fridge / DoctorWhoRussellTDaviesEra

** Another possibility: Yana told the doctor that he heard drums in his head (I think? It's been a while since I've watched this.) The master had had the drums since he was a child; when he and the doctor were still friends, the master may have told the doctor about them, and he connected the dots with the knowledge that Yana was a time lord.

** First of all, we don't really see Harold Saxon or the Master until the last three episodes of Series 3. But there were always hints that the Master was around, as we know. "[[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride The Runaway Bride]]" established that the Master ordered the military to fire on the Webstar, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E1SmithAndJones Smith and Jones]]" established that the Master was publically advocating to the public about the existance of alien life, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E6TheLazarusExperiment The Lazarus Experiment]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E742 42]]" established that the Master had government agents working directly with the Jones family, telling Francine Jones that the Doctor was a dangerous man and ensured a peaceful cooperation with her as they wiretapped her conversations with her daughter during Martha's travels with the Doctor. All of these actions are in direct contrast as to what the Doctor would do. The Doctor is the type of person who would be in the field, working alongside their companions to solve the mystery and save the day. The Master is very much the person who would work behind the scenes, never getting their hands dirty until all other options were exhausted.

* When Davros calls the Doctor "the destroyer of world's" in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd "Journey's End"]], he wasn't necessarily being a hypocrite. He was trying to induce the already present guilt upon the Doctor about being a [[OmnicidalManiac genocidal maniac]] like him.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E2TheFiresOfPompeii "The Fires of Pompeii"]] - A callback to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild "The Empty Child"] with the Doctor calling this day Volcano Day and a small reference to the First Doctor's adventures in Rome during [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E4TheRomans "The Romans"]].

* In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E1Rose Rose]]," it seems rather out of character that the Doctor brushes off Ricky/Mickey potentially dying when the Consciousness was through with him. Usually, every life matters for the Doctor. However, we later learn that he suspected Mickey was alive all along ("they might have needed him to maintain a copy"), he's just impatient and doesn't feel like coddling Rose.

* I was reading this very site going over the episodes involving Rose Tyler's stint as a time deity, and it hit me that the reason the Doctor lands where and when something bad is going to happen each episode is because the TARDIS knows he was there and then from information gathered from the Time Vortex! This is why it seems there are so many times in which the Doctor ends up off course from his intended destination. I didn't know if this belonged just here or in WildMassGuessing so I placed it in both.

* Like many, I wondered why in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E2TheEndOfTheWorld "The End of the World"]] the designers of Space Platform One would put an essential emergency override switch behind a giant fan over a long walkway; an obvious NoOSHACompliance Contrivance. Then, it struck me — earlier, the Doctor notes that the people tend to talk of Space Platforms like they did with the ''Titanic'' — namely, words like "unsinkable" tend to be raised, with the Doctor archly mentioning that last time he was on a ship called that, he ended up "clinging to an iceberg". As well as an obvious "disaster" reference-point, one of the things that made the ''Titanic'' such a notorious tragedy was that, while oversupplied with lifeboats by comparison with relevant law, she didn't have enough boats on board for everyone on the ship and spare lifeboats that turned out to be essential were tucked away in awkward-to-reach places because it was assumed that, with all of her safety features, they would never be needed; even if the ship did founder, she'd stay afloat long enough for help to arrive. Far from just being another danger contrivance, the safety switch is intended as a reflection of that same arrogance; the designers have provided a safety feature, but they've dumped it in an inconvenient, awkward-to-reach place because, erroneously and arrogantly, ''they assume that no one will ever need to use it''.

** I'm also not much of a Rose fan, but I did eventually decide on an interpretation of his obsession that makes her feel like less of a RelationshipSue to me. As mentioned, he just came out of the Time War. He's had to commit multiple genocides, including that of his own species, murdering all the friends and family he ever had. As established later in Series Fnarg, [[TheDreaded most of the universe is absolutely terrified of him]], regarding him as an [[EldritchAbomination incomprehensible and utterly alien]] monster who brings death, destruction and chaos in his wake. At this point? [[ShellShockedVeteran He's probably]] [[SurvivorGuilt wondering]] [[HeroicBSOD if they're right]]. Then all of a sudden he stops by his pet planet for yet another round of his battle with everything ever and runs into this girl who has no idea who he is. To her, he's not the Lonely God or the Oncoming Storm or the Bringer of Darkness, he's just a mysterious weirdo with big ears and a leather jacket. And Rose practically makes reaching out and befriending random people into a superpower. Basically, he latched onto Rose because it's the first time in a long time someone's treated him like a ''person''; she gave a lifeline back from total isolation. The fact that she dragged him back from the abyss and he knows it leads him to obsess over her, even though really, ''anyone'' who had managed to connect to him at that time and that place in his life could have helped him much the same.

*** I too agree that this is the case. However, Rose's end is definitely not. I don't just mean the crush she has on Ten either: I'm going right back to Nine. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E1Rose "Rose"]], Rose meets a very strange older man who does amazing things and whisks her off for adventures, and has no trouble accepting the situation. But later on we hear how Jackie describes Rose's father to her. Rose didn't join up with Nine because of any crush — she joined up because he serves as a ReplacementGoldfish for her ''dead father''. It's only when he regenerates that her feelings change.

** Captain Jack Harkness, a former time-agent and military man who's experienced with weapons and killing... starring in a fashion show where he has to strip naked every few minutes.

* The Judoon not leaving enough oxygen in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E1SmithAndJones Smith and Jones]" seems incredibly callous--everyone almost died of oxygen starvation, and would have if they'd left it another couple minutes. However, remember that they seem to have a really poor understanding of human nature. Presumably, there would have been enough air for everyone if the patients hadn't been running around, screaming and panicking and using up lots of extra air, at the beginning.

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* Season 4 ran in 2008, which marks the 45th anniversary of the show. However, there isn't an official multi-Doctor crossover given that the year ended in an 8 instead of a 3 like [[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E1TheThreeDoctors "The Three Doctors"]] or [[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors "The Five Doctors"]]. But the years that ended with an 8 brought something new to the series. In 1968, we were introduced to UNIT in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion "The Invasion"]] which would be a major focus in the next Doctor's tenure. In 1978, The Fourth Doctor embarked on a quest to find the Key to Time, accompanied by a Time Lady who was more or less his equal, at the time. In 1988, the Seventh Doctor faced off against the Daleks accompanied by Davros and created the start of the Time War in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks]]. That said, Season 4 brings a lot of homages to the Classic Series in celebration of the show's 45th anniversary while bringing more to the show's mythos.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E4TheSontaranStratagem "The Sontaran Stratagem"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E5ThePoisonSky "The Poison Sky"] which brings back the Sontarans who last appeared in the Sixth Doctor serial [[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E4TheTwoDoctors "The Two Doctors"]]. Perhaps by coincidence the Sontarans appear in a serial featuring two Doctors, The Tenth Doctor and Doctor Martha Jones. Also the Doctor's fears of two companions bickering is a nice call back to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion "School Reunion"]]. These two episodes also features UNIT extensively, who were most associated with the Third Doctor.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E6TheDoctorsDaughter "The Doctor's Daughter]] features the Doctor's daughter. A recursive enough statement in a recursive enough episode which wouldn't be too out of place of the Fifth Doctor era given how dark the episode ends up. Despite a low body count, the Tenth Doctor is still emotionally impacted by the loss of Jenny, similar to how the Fifth Doctor was impacted by Adric's death in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock "Earthshock"]].

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E1PartnersInCrime "Partners in Crime"]] - The first time the show has introduced a long-term companion after her debut episode.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E2TheFiresOfPompeii "The Fires of Pompeii"]] - A callback to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild "The Empty Child"] with the Doctor calling this day Volcano Day.

* Season 4 ran in 2008, which marks the 45th anniversary of the show. However, there isn't an official multi-Doctor crossover given that the year ended in an 8 instead of a 3 like [[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E1TheThreeDoctors "The Three Doctors"]] or [[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors "The Five Doctors"]]. But the years that ended with an 8 brought something new to the series. In 1968, we were introduced to UNIT in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion "The Invasion']] which would be a major focus in the next Doctor's tenure. In 1978, The Fourth Doctor embarked on a quest to find the Key to Time, accompanied by a Time Lady who was more or less his equal, at the time. In 1988, the Seventh Doctor faced off against the Daleks accompanied by Davros and created the start of the Time War. That said, Season 4 brings a lot of homages to the Classic Series in celebration of the show's 45th anniversary while bringing more to the show's mythos.

* FridgeBrilliance AND [[FridgeHorror Horror]] — In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature "Human Nature"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood "The Family of Blood"]], the Doctor disguises himself as the human John Smith. In the end though, he changes back to himself, but offers Joan to come along with him, saying that everything John Smith is and was - he's capable of that too. So, what did John Smith do? He fell in love with a human, misunderstood and judged, cared and teached, despaired and cried and briefly contemplated to sacrifice the rest of the world to keep on living himself, but decided not to and killed himself. John Smith was basically both {{Foreshadowing}} and one big [[LampshadeHanging Lampshade]] hanging on Ten's life.

** Perhaps the drums grew stronger/louder over time, so that they weren't as bad for Delgado?

** Who says it was the fact that it was a same-sex couple that Thomas was objecting to? It could have been the whole concept of marriage, or a marriage with only two people involved, or a long-term marriage instead of a short-term contract, or any number of other factors we'd never even think of.

* While reading the article on Creator/ColinBaker, and specifically, what the [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Sixth Doctor was supposed to have been like]], I realized that the Ninth Doctor is essentially the Sixth Doctor, but done well. Like Six, he outright insults and belittles some of his companions, and is generally DarkerAndEdgier. ("You would make a good Dalek.") However, Nine has a ''[[ForeverWar damn]] [[LastofHisKind good]] [[WarIsHell reason]]'' to be a little angry at the world. Also, [[CharacterDevelopment he gets better over time]], and by the time he regenerates into Ten he's once again an AllLovingHero ("What are you, a killer or a coward?" "Coward, any day")- just like the original plan for the Sixth Doctor. Heck, even Nine's clothing reflects this — if you take Six's [[RummageSaleReject infamously garish coat]], PaintItBlack and make it leather, you've essentially got Nine's signature U-Boat Captain jacket.

* The shows picked during the 'Bad Wolf' / 'The Parting Of The Ways' two-parter aren't just randomly picked (considering the sheer volume that Lynda mentions), they're specifically chosen to play AGAINST the strengths of each of the heroes
** The Doctor, a brilliant intellect who, in his 9th incarnation, has struggled to show empathy at times... now part of 'Big Brother', a show about surviving other people through socialising
** Rose, slightly ditzy even by 21st century standards with no knowledge at all of the future world they're in... thrown into a quiz show with questions she could never possibly answer
** Captain Jack Harkness, a former time-agent and military man who's experienced with weapons and killing... starring in a fashion show where he has to strip naked every few minutes

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!!! FridgeBrilliance — 2009 Specials

** The result is that by the time we watch the Metacrisis Doctor form out of that hand, we’ve seen so many bizarre births that this seems almost normal. At least it’s not little blobs of fat crawling out of your shirt.