10 MORE Important Doctor Who Details That Are Almost Never Mentioned

[@Enterprise-D666]

For the chameleon circuit it’s because the TARDIS constantly rebreaks it intentionally because she likes the police box look.

[@doctor_sixty]

This answer is so Doctor Who! 😂 Nice one!

[@georgejcox9241]

I think....no hope you are right here.

[@Doctors_TARDIS]

I could have sworn that The Doctor once said this. That he fixed it ages ago but he just likes the police box.

[@georgejcox9241]

@Doctors_TARDIS It was the 6th Doctor Who (no pun intended) try to fix it. It did work for A time. But it broke again. So after that he just stopped trying to.

[@Enterprise-D666]

@@Doctors_TARDIS Now that I’ve looked it up he does fix it but he ends up breaking it and is unable to repair (probably because he threw out the repair manual) and one or more of his companions have tried to tell him how to fix it but are interrupted before they can reveal how.

[@thatjeff7550]

I can't remember where I read it but I recall some Doctor Who fanboi site had commentary on the Silence/Silent corpses being strewn about all over the Earth but since we dismiss the corpses when we turn away from them, that would explain the occasional "trip over your own feet" incidences throughout life. We tripped over a Silence/Silent corpse, gasped in horror when we saw the remains on the ground, then forgot about it when we turn away and assume be tripped over our own feet.

[@Thegaminglord4-6-7]

That is such a cool theory please tell me you have a link to that page!

[@ChrisEllorris]

Isn't that what she says in the video?

[@AngelWedge]

We wouldn't still be tripping over them, would we? She says we've been stepping over invisible corpses for decades; but I would think they were all dead within a year or two, and decomposed not long afterwards.

[@PosthumanHeresy]

@@AngelWedge Bones take ages.

[@sauvixcustoms]

My theory for the Doctor's behaviour post regeneration is that its a side effect of a forced regeneration as those who haven't had that process forced upon them seem to be fine

[@jessehammer123]

Only this falls apart when considering the General in Hell Bent. After he’s shot by the Doctor, she gets up post-regeneration perfectly fine.

[@sauvixcustoms]

@jessehammer123 Yes, but the General regenerated as a result of a serious injury, putting it kindly (regeneration for the sake of healing and survival), but when the Doctor was forced to regenerate at the end of the War Games, that, whilst a punishment, was regeneration for the sake of regeneration when the body wasn't ready. Sorry, I went on a bit there. I hope that makes sense

[@910luk]

​@@sauvixcustoms your theory actually falls apart when you get the 1st regeneration, where the Doctor dies of old age, and then after the 2nd Doctor has some SERIOUS hallucinations and stuff, nevermind his hectic behavior throughout Power of the Daleks

[@jessehammer123]

@@sauvixcustomsBut the Doctor’s regenerations are generally much more “forced” in the General’s sense of an unsurvivable injury rather than in the 2 sense of Time Lord punishment. So you’d expect the Doctor’s response to their regenerations to more closely accord with the General than with 2, no?

[@irishhi8333]

I would think that perhaps Tecteun and the Time Lords messing with the Doctor's mind/memory so s/he forgot numerous prior regenerations might cause hir struggle with the process.

[@jalaeluawaterhousecomposer]

6:41 - that one smell that you can never find the source of.

[@JohnAlzayat]

Well it has been established during 11's time and hinted at in later Doctors' stories but the Tardis is ALIVE and SENTIENT. So it feels like the chameleon circuit isn't broken, she just likes looking like a 1960s Earth Police Telephone Box.

[@robyoung8470]

The episode is the doctors wife....where he actually got to talk to the tardis in a human form...and she also informed him that she never took him where he wanted to go... but instead where he needed to go...

[@paulgifford4688]

We do see a Time Lord, if not flying, at least standing in mid-air in ‘Terror of the Autons’.

[@TimeForTeletubbiesFAN]

The Master needed to have marbles in the first place to lose them

[@GothAtheist]

Well, tbf, The Master had Marbles once. Then he was a Cheetah person, and then a plasma slug thing, and that's not to mention that time they were a literal corpse. What I mean is, the Time War is where they seem to have lost their marbles.

[@TimeForTeletubbiesFAN]

@@GothAtheist true true. And The Spy Master is so mad, even he doesn’t know what he will do next

[@Baughbe]

As you remember there is an episode where the Doctor recalls when he and the Master were shown the "Schism" in time, and that is where the Master lost his mind. Looking in to Schism is where he got the never ending drumbeat in his mind... which came from the Time Lord Council as I recall. (He will knock four times)

[@Lutrian]

Head Canon time. The Tardis's chameleon circuit works fine. But if you notice, that other female doctor who was part of a pre-Hartnel doctor regeneration, also had a police box TARDIS, if I recall. When the Doctor stole the Tardis, Clara redirected him to the same TARDIS he has used before, and the TARDIS was familiar with the Doctor. Basically the Doctor kept forgetting where he parked, so the TARDIS just kept the outer shell in the same familliar configuration.

[@so1opiniao]

About the regeneration's effects on the Doctor, it makes sense to be more difficult for them because the regeneration ability kinda came from the Doctor. So, the other Time Lords' regenerations aren't in the "original" style.

[@irishhi8333]

Also, didn't Tecteun and the Time Lords mess with the Doctor's mind/memory so s/he forgot numerous prior regenerations? I would think that might the process difficult.

[@jessehammer123]

To put it in American Civil War terms, I think it makes more sense to say Genesis of the Daleks was Lincoln’s election and Remembrance of the Daleks (the destruction of Skaro) was the attack on Fort Sumter. The inciting incident vs. the first military shot. I like this lens because it more closely accords with the “ripple effect” tea scene- the Doctor makes a huge decision, and the consequences ripple out.

[@PowerGaming02635]

Funny coincidence because I brought this up recently in a past video but the sontaron and rutan war is touched on quite a lot in doctor who the adventure games episode 6 or “the gunpowder plot”

[@justarandomguy2424]

Ah, yes how could one forget about this timeless classic that everyone definitely knows about?

[@DrWhoFanJ]

There were only five instalments of _The Adventure Games,_ not six.

[@PowerGaming02635]

@justarandomguy2424I think quite a lot of people would know about it to be honest it was also probably one of the most popular doctor who games

[@PowerGaming02635]

@DoctorWhoFanJ I just meant it came out alongside the adventure games as a 6th instalment- it was just so large of a game that it was kept separate to the others as its own game

[@DrWhoFanJ]

@ No, it was the fifth. There were four in the other app.

[@just_kos99]

Re: Time Lords flying. It's easy to fly, silly. You find a high place to leap off. The difficult part is missing the ground. Any fan of both Doctor Who and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (you know, written by Douglas Adams, one of City of Death's writers) will know that's what the Doctor and Romana II were talking about. They CAN do it (like HHGTTG hero Arthur Dent can), but they're choosing not to 'cause it'd look silly. Also, during the Key to Time season with Romana I, Douglas Adams was the script editor (he wrote one of the six stories, The Pirate Planet) so again, yeah, his concept of "jump but learn to miss the ground" applies as well. Sixth Doctor Colin Baker brags that HIS Doctor was the only one to fix the Chameleon Circuit. Granted, it became a pipe organ and a fancy cabinet, but still....

[@DrWhoFanJ]

Nope. Douglas Adams was script editor only for Season 17, not Season 16. He got the job based on having written _The Pirate Planet,_ not vice versa.

[@laurenceroberts5239]

Timelords are telekinetic. It's mentioned in the TARDIS manual type 40 book.

[@zoeherriot]

@@DrWhoFanJ Douglas was Script Editor on the Armageddon Factor (uncredited) in Season 16.

[@DrWhoFanJ]

@@zoeherriot Uncredited for one scene, so entirely non-germane.

[@zoeherriot]

@ did he do script editing in season or fucking not?

[@DittoGTI]

8:11 Wrong, in the Turn Left timeline, the Master is still Professor Yana and so the events of Utopia to Last of the Time Lords didn't happen in the first place

[@altosanon]

I came here to say that, because the Doctor died in what would have been the Runaway Bride

[@DanielLee-wc9gb]

I remember that Jodie Whittaker was asked to explain her choices for her costume/style. her reply was that she wanted to wait until her time as the Doctor was finished to explain, and that she wanted to see what the fans came up with as an explanation in the mean time. I'd love to see Jodie's thoughts about her look for the Doctor. Thanks!

[@connie_360]

I'd love to see Jodie's comments. I have this costume, because it's the only one I can actually pull off - VS skinny man 😂😂😂😂

[@josephcooter5763]

yes you can blame the Doctor for Starting the Time War. But if the CIA hadn't interfered with the Transmat Beem he was taking from Earth to Space Station Nerva it never would have happened.

[@badfairy9554]

Good point.

[@josephcooter5763]

@@badfairy9554 Exactly the CIA didn't And they didn't care how incredibly dangerous trying to intercept a Transmat beam could be.

[@labrow]

Spot on

[@irrevenant3]

It was the Doctor's actions, but the CIA initiated them.

[@golden_gloo]

I feel like the Sontaran-Rutan war is a bit like the Time War in that it's so advanced and beyond the level of human perception, that exploring it in any more significant capacity will likely make it feel underwhelming compared to what it's made out to be in all our heads. We only ever catch collateral glimpses of what the actual battle is like (the singular Sontaran in the Time Warrior for example). That being said, there's been a whole lot more Time War this and Time War that than there ever has been of the Sontaran-Rutan war but as the Time War's a lot more personal to the Doctor, there's been good reason to like during Day of the Doctor. Big Finish do have Sontarans versus Rutans too but it completely falls flat compared to their Time War catalogue lol.

[@irrevenant3]

The Sontaran-Rutan War seems to be a more standard military conflict (remember that the Sontarans wanted in on the Time War but were considered too primitive). We haven't seen too much of the Rutans but certainly the Sontarans mostly seem to just have guns, spaceships and numbers.

[@golden_gloo]

Time Warrior, Sontaran Experiment, Horror of Fang Rock all sort of just allude to it going on in the background which builds up a mythos about this great war we never get to see. Also, our limited exposure to Rutans definitely makes them feel more mystical and powerful than what we would see on screen if this conflict was ever depicted. I feel as though the Sontarans have been nerfed ever since their original appearance, they're a laughing stock in Invasion of Time, Two Doctors and in nuwho with Strax. This negates the original mystery and unknown/inconcievable power conveyed by them in their initial appearances.

[@irrevenant3]

​@@golden_glooThe Sontarans have been a laughing stock since their first appearance when a single Sontaran showed up, planted a flag in mediaeval England and went "We own this planet now" then got shot by the locals. They're a caricature of pompous militarism. For the most part they're joke antagonists, though they did get their moment in the sun in _The Invasion of Time._

[@esqulax]

Here's a theory: The Sontarans are all clones. the Rutans are a 'collectivity' - i.e a bunch of creatures (more-or-less) controlled by a hive-mind. Although maybe not 'clones' as such, certainly as easy to produce in the same sort of numbers. What if their war was simply a giant table-top wargame that got out of control. 2 people, or groups of people, at the top with a barren planet, and organic-matter production machines. Played the game, and as it went on, they improved their warriors by tweaking the cloning machine. Eventually they both stumbled on the idea to allow the warriors to produce other warriors. As they needed fighters now, and not when they have 'grown up', they didn't include any way to produce like we (or other animals) do it, but both sides went in different directions. Sontarans = Clones, Ruta = Queen laying eggs like bees. this would track, as in 'The Stolen Earth' , the Doctor tells donna that bees are originally from Planet Melissa Majora. Perhaps the Ruta 'player' saw how bees made workers, then ran with that idea.

[@THEsnapcrakklepop]

The captions for this video are magnificent. The Mona Lisa has been “returned to its normal place in the lou” has it? 😂

[@jessehammer123]

Yes! Somewhere there’s a large fellow named Lou, and they’ve decided to hide it just behind his spleen.

[@jb888888888]

Could be worse, it could say "loo."

[@jamesholland7268]

Perhaps the Doctor's issue with being able to smoothly regenerate has to do with the "Timeless Child' situation. I would imagine that, even as advanced as the Time Lords might have been, it would have taken extensive experimentation in order to reverse engineer regeneration. That means that the Doctor likely experienced profound trauma throughout the whole process. This could have resulted in the Doctor's own ability to regenerate being slightly damaged and maybe even becoming painful and destructive to the surrounding area. The nature of the Doctor's "death' leading to the regeneration and perhaps even their emotional state at the time could be additional variables in to how their damaged regenerative ability behaves.

[@DavidSmith-bc8nk]

If the Timelords pulled the Doctor out of his timestream and assigned him to wipe out the Daleks, surely they started the Time War - the Doctor is just their agent. And their oath to never interfere would have been established long before that but they themselves broke it by setting those chain of events in motion.

[@EthanKristopherHartley]

But if the Doctor had actually prevented them from existing they wouldn't be able to go to war with the Time Lords. So he started it because he didn't do what he was supposed to. 😉

[@Wolf359inc]

@@EthanKristopherHartleybut then, the Doctor would have committed genocide. Also, they were forced into the situation, and did the best they could under the circumstances.

[@EthanKristopherHartley]

@@Wolf359inc Those are definitely great reasons why The Doctor wouldn't do it, and I agree completely. But, if the Daleks were prevented from existing (as the High Council ordered), there wouldn't be a Time War. Because the decision went the other way (as we would expect from The Doctor at that time), that opened the door for the Daleks to wage the Time War. Which means the Time War is technically The Doctor's fault. 😉

[@ProfArmitage218]

Technically, Winters introduced himself as President-Elect. That title refers to someone who has been elected President but hasn't actually been sworn-in and assumed the office yet. It was likely just a misunderstanding of the term by the writer though.

[@brainlock72]

On one hand, we can brush him off as, say wee donold’s current status. Otoh, we had a wee donold proxy in that Jodie ep with the giant spiders. Either way, my Headcanon was they rewound time to before Saxon was elected, as they never really addressed Saxon as PM after that. This means Winter was never in harm’s way, let alone in the UK at that time.

[@Domihork]

​​@@brainlock72 they addressed Saxon being PM a few times actually. First in The End Of Time when Master is eating with those two guys and one of them says "you look like Harold Saxon!" Then in After the Flood, the UNIT woman says "1980s, so pre-Harold Saxon?" And another time was in World Enough and Time when he says he needed to disguise himself from Bill because she could recognize him as the former PM

[@ThatAnArchyDude]

4:50 The Doctor's regeneration actually works differently because it was forced on the 2nd Doctor before AND the 8th took a potion from the Sisterhood of Karn which allowed them to CHOOSE their regeneration. So, what with the intervention of others before COMBINED with the changes caused by the potion, it stands to reason The Doctor's regeneration into "War Doctor" has likely caused permanent changes to their regeneration which would interfere with any control they once had over the transformation. This is, basically, the "in-universe" reason why The Doctor seems to explode in each regeneration since 9th-10th. And before anyone "corrects" me... Yes, 11th-12th did so, too, but they held off the final stage until in the TARDIS & THAT is why they seemed to just "sneeze" the 12th into existence, but the explosive nature of The Doctor's regeneration since 9th-10th was still there first, and has been since 9th-10th.

[@thecatinthehat8243]

I remember hearing somewhere that the doctor didnt pay attention in the academy much, and especially with regeneration. He passed, but barely. So if a timelord who has a grudge against regeneration also doesnt learn how to properly control regeneration, they probably cant do it very well. Of course it wasnt explosive until 10s regeneration, but thats also because he held it of for a really really long time

[@ThatAnArchyDude]

@thecatinthehat8243 As far as describing it as "explosive" I was referring to the fact the regeneration energy would shoot out of their arms & head, and such. Which DID happen with the 9th-10th as well. As far as passing in the academy, I remember Clara visiting The Doctor as a child & overhearing how they weren't good enough to be a Time Lord. So I'm not so sure The Doctor ever actually passed anything in the academy. 🤣

[@PosthumanHeresy]

@@ThatAnArchyDude Usually the lore is that they _did_ but just barely. C's get degrees.

[@syriustank]

"River Song, the best character..." Yes! Instant subscribe.

[@icon_uk624]

Whether the Doctor can fly or not is a more open question than you think. In City of Death they say he says they'd look silly, but then somehow the Doctor and Romana make it down from the upper deck of the Eiffel Tower almost instantly, as they are already on the ground and a good distance away in the time it takes Duggan to look at a postcard and then walk back to the viewing platform. Probably the only way they could be THAT fast is if they DID fly.

[@shannonsmith924]

If Timelords have strong genius minds maybe they have Telekinesis. So maybe them flying is just using Telekinesis. But it has a limit like exercise. So they’d usually get wore out before they can use it much. Supposedly they had a game called the chasm where they use Telikensis

[@RajaniIsa]

@@shannonsmith924 Or they could have flying devices. Belts, rings, etc.

[@devilmay]

the doctor chosing not to delete the Daleks from history isnt the first shot. the first shot is when the Time Lords decided to ask him to do it. he didnt start the war. he just chose not to be the hand that pulls the trigger.

[@misterwolf3817]

Time Lords being able to fly wasn't on my Monday checklist, but hell!

[@badfairy9554]

is it flying or big jumping.🤔

[@PhantomObserver]

@@badfairy9554All it is, is throwing oneself at the ground, and missing

[@badfairy9554]

@@PhantomObserver 🤣😂😆😅🤣😂🙂

[@VinnieBartilucci]

If I had to make a guess as to why we've not seen the Sontaran / Rutan War, it's because they've decided to give the Rutans a form that seems rather helpless and hard to make menacing.

[@josephcooter5763]

Each Time I watch City of Death I half expect a Monty Python Episode.

[@irrevenant3]

You half get a Monty Python episode. 🙂

[@karlstuber6399]

I half see that.

[@JRHainsworth]

I like the idea that flight, and other abilities, were also limited by the timelords along with the 13 regeneration limit, which is why the only time we've seen it used was when the master was reborn in The End of Time.

[@medafan53]

3:15 I think it's worth noting that the mission on Skaro was something that the Doctor was forced to go on by the Time Lords, so not really in his control, we could argue that not following through is, but if Rose broke time by saving her dad, then the Doctor erasing the Daleks before he, Susan, Ian and Barbra ever stumbled on them would probably be a far bigger paradox. Manipulating Davros into destroying Skaro (another event retroactively considered part of the early stages of the Time War) however... On regeneration, it's not people's favorite retcon, but there are people who theories that the Doctor's troubles with Regeneration may stem from the fact that they are the timeless child, perhaps Tecteun modified the process to be easier on the body, a change that the original couldn't get On the case of the Master, as I recall we've only saw him immediately post regeneration once, and onlyfor a short scene, when he regenerated into Saxon; as seen with 10 and 13, the Doctor can function well enough immediately after regeneration and then suffer side effects, and in some cases, like 11, the post regenerative effects can be fairly mildl, it's as much of a pot luck as the new face! 8:16 On that front, it wouldn't be a factor, in the Turn Left timeline the Doctor died a few hours after saying goodbye to Rose, after which the TARDIS lay dying in a UNIT base. Their paths never again crossed with Jack, they never went to the end of the Universe and presumably the Master never woke up and died with Yana. This is hinted at during the destruction of the Web Star, the line about the tank being ordered by Mr Saxon is removed, becasue he wasn't there.

[@michaelpecoraro486]

I always took the resolution of the Silents not to be "they were massacred by humanity which had been brainwashed into being their killers" but "they all immediately realized Earth was no longer safe and fled the planet, leaving humanity alone forever."

[@ChrisEllorris]

Can they flee? Haven't they been on earth as long as we have? I forget

[@veevs]

Agreed, the Doctor even says, "How fast can you run? This is the day they throw you off their planet." In other words, killing them wasn't the aim, just the threat of it..

[@TheGlobadier]

@@ChrisEllorristhe Silent have their own ships that are similar to TARDIS’. The show reused the design from the disguised ship the episode “The Lodger” for the Silent’s ship design.

[@aqdrobert]

They met the Doctor, then basically ran?

[@qdllc]

Really? Humans would dispose of the corpses…then forget all about it.

[@Necrozene]

Gotta say. I love listening to your beautiful voice. No AI could replicate that.

[@t.j.armendariz354]

Just pointing out, the doctor may not wear spandex but he does wear a kinda unusual costume (it may blend in everywhere, but it really shouldn’t blend in anywhere.)

[@stevehorne5536]

TBH I thought Romana trying on bodies just meant that time-lords had more ways to change faces than just regenerating, perhaps using equipment that was in the Tardis when Romana was, but then (in one of IIRC at least a couple of possible episodes) dumped along with other rooms and stuff because of some emergency. Which is absolutely not to say that the Doctor doesn't have a particular problem with regeneration - but maybe they know we're watching and are just making a show of it?

[@fathousecatstudios5951]

Can we get a video about how Stephen Moffit kills all his companions. Amy, Rory, River (que Ellie's, "Theee best character), Clara, Bill, most likely Nardole (I know he's a robot, but he can still be taken off line) since he stayed to fight the cybermen. Before and after the companions get to live their lives... maybe on parallel worlds or without their memories, but they are all alive. He even almost took out Ruby in Boom!

[@billybutcher9238]

8:13 in turn left the doctor dies before he went to the end of the universe so the master never came back

[@davidchism6081]

0:44. That reminded me of when Rory said of The Doctor's glow stick compared to Rory's, as in actual glow sticks mind you(Vampires of Venice): yours is bigger than mine. The Doctor: Let's not go there.

[@Xeraghusta]

The mona lisa one could actually be explained. Felt-tip pens were invented in 1910. The Mona Lisa was stolen in 1911 and was hidden for 2 years. When it was eventually returned, it was checked for authentication and was deemed real. However, with this being checked with 1913 forensics, if a message underneath the paint said "this is fake," was revealed. Then they'd assume that Vincenzo Peruggia, the theif, created an amazing imitation copy. Or that when it was stolen in the doctor who episode that it was replaced with a fake

[@hollymatton474]

Great video! Thanks Ellie and Who Culture! 😊😊

[@GetheS]

According to the timeless child arc... The time lords modified their genes to adapt the regeneration genes so perhaps they modified it...

[@timidwolf]

The Mona Lisa thing makes it hard to believe RTD and Chibnall were actually fans. Also the "Doctor being bad at regenerating" makes even less sense when you consider they're supposed to be the ORIGIN of Timelord regeneration, though we all know that that's best forgotten.

[@Roxor128]

Yet another reason to be irked at Chibnall!

[@thecatinthehat8243]

Okay well im sure that the most die hard of all die hard fans forget little tiny details the the mona lisa being fake, and you can't say judge weather YOU think they are a fan or not just because they never SPECIFICALLY mentioned it. Also regeneration may have come from a version of the doctor, but the doctor is a regular timelord now. They had their genetics changed and their memories wiped. The doctor was never an A+ student in the academy, he barely even passed with D's and low C's. Kinda fitting for a student who didnt pay attention to his regeneration class to not know how to properly regenerate.

[@DrWhoFanJ]

@@Roxor128Nope. There are zero.

[@irrevenant3]

The Doctor and the Timeless Child are, for basically all practical intents and purposes, two different beings. TTC was chameleon-arched into a Gallifreyan child who started life from there with none of TTC's abilities or memories.

[@pwcabach]

So, I'm old and may have misremembered, but didn't Romana specifically comment that the Doctor slept through the class on controlling one's Regeneration while attending the Prydwen Academy? Prydon? Bugger. I could look it up. But I won't do.

[@DrWhoFanJ]

Nope. No such scene has ever occurred.

[@ClockMaster-mq2hm]

Funfact: In New Who, the cyan-ish TARDIS starting with the Thirteenth Doctor is the longest active style of the TARDIS with seven years having ellapsed: 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024. Also, it is technically the first TARDIS to be actively turqoise - almost greenish - rather than (greyish-)blue. (I like it. 😌)

[@connie_360]

You’ve brought up a great point about The Doctor being a superhero - love that perspective! Let’s just hope The Doctor doesn’t end up as a Marvel character, or in the Marvel universe, now that it’s airing on Disney. 😂 I’d probably keep watching if it happened, but please, don’t do that to our beloved Doctor. 🙏😂 Oh, and honestly, I’m so tired of The Master - probably the one character I wouldn’t want to revisit.

[@Wulf_Plays_Games]

A comment about number 7. You got to remember, timeless child is cannon, so maybe the Doctor "sucking at regeneration" is because unlike anyone else who regenerates, the doctors ability is their own, rather than a copy. It could be that the Doctor is dealing with alot more energy when they regenerate, compared to a traditional timelord, and all that cosmic power they hold within themselves leaks out a bit when they regenerate. I know timeless child came out way after alot of the examples given, so is more in line with it being a side effect of recon, but still, gotta work with what we have. Lol

[@jb888888888]

Did something go wrong with the rendering of this video? From 6:08 to 7:11 it's just a blank screen with no audio.

[@Rocketpigs]

The main reason America would have offered help in Turn Left is that, with the Doctor dying during the events of The Runaway Bride, he never met Martha. As a result, he didn’t travel to the end of the universe where the Master was hiding. Without this encounter, the Master couldn’t steal the TARDIS and return to the early 21st century, meaning President Winters is still alive during the events of Turn Left.

[@Suleiman-y8r]

1:40 huh what do you mean the doctor started the time war

[@TheLoneTimelordOffical]

Watch the video, it’s explained

[@101pcgamer]

May be it's all the rage and fury that releasing to much energy when he regens

[@sarahclapp505]

The chameleon circuit it works fine , The tardis likes the blue box💙💙💙💙

[@jackthefrog80085]

The doctor regeneration drama might be explained by them being the timeless child

[@volch2991]

For the regneration one I always thought it was due to the more it has happened the more explosive it is. In the older series it was relatively controlled, and with the timeless child reveal it means he's regenerated waaaay more times than any other timelord.

[@octaviasaenz6666]

There's also the floating Time Lord K'anpo who was present for the Third Doctor's regeneration, and that time the Fifth Doctor levitated inside the portable zero chamber in Castrovalva.

[@sophiachalloner8951]

I like to think that the reason regeneration is explosive sometimes, is that it was forcibly held back. The twelfth doctor wasn't nearly as violent in his regeneration as the tenth, because ten took way longer to come around to regenerating.

[@cypher98]

Lol he edged himself into a bomb 😂

[@sophiachalloner8951]

@cypher98 that's one way of putting it. 😆

[@stevecampkin8613]

The Doctor is the Timeless Child, where all regenerations come from. They’re not Gallifreyan. That’s why their regeneration is more dangerous…

[@nervosuss]

Regarding the messy regenerations, you forget that The Doctor isn't from Gallifrey originally, and their regenerative powers are native, plus they were abused with the forced regen's as a kid, unlike the Time Lords had to mess with their genes (or whatever it was) to get the regenerative powers, stands to reason they may tweak things to make the effect less violent and traumatic (at least that's my theory), gives them some advantage in the field.

[@geoffroi-le-Hook]

Speaking of forgetting old episodes, they sent a monster into Loch Ness twice in the classic series.

[@matriculus2]

One aspect of timelord physiology that's never been addressed is the symbiotic nuclei which Timelords use to control time travel. Basically time travel.is literally part of a timelord's DNA. Rhos was introduced in the Two Doctor's and subsequently ignored ever-increasing. A bit like the midi chlorides in Phantom Menace.

[@TheMultiGamerOfficial]

For the Flying Time Lords bit, I like to imagine The Doctor simply never learnt how to.

[@lesterdinerstein7156]

Big Finish did a few audio plays based on the Sontaran Rutan War which is close as the fans are ever going to get.

[@EtherRich23]

6:53 The Doctor told the Silence to run. A few might have been killed initially but it’s not unreasonable to assume most of them managed to escape (as soon as the Silence go round a corner the humans will stop pursuing them, even zombies are more persistent when chasing prey)

[@erubianwarlord8208]

well we know of at least One silence ship that was left without a crew

[@AngelWedge]

"Writes 'this is a fake' on the canvases for the six Mona Lisa copies" Canvas suitable for painting on hadn't been invented then… the Mona Lisa is painted on wooden boards (which is one of the things that makes it so hard to make a fake; because even if you had another one painted by Leonardo, the boards would have warped differently. The damage the painting has suffered over the years, and the techniques and period materials used to repair a crack, are well documented but replicating them exactly would probably be harder than copying the actual painting) Not sure if that error is in the episode, or just in the voiceover.

[@richard3365]

For the part about leaving the parking brake on ... if that's true, then other Time Lords have no clue how to pilot their own TARDIS either, because literally every time any other TARDIS has ever been shown it always made the same sound. So we have two choices, River Song was lying and all TARDIS normally make that sound but she found a way to avoid it that one specific time, or River Song was telling the truth and not only the Doctor, but the Master, the Rani, the Professor, the Meddling Monk, anybody who ever managed to hijack the Doctor's TARDIS, and even just a random Time Lord who was giving him instructions when he was trapped on Earth as Jon Pertwee, have no idea how to pilot their own TARDIS.

[@akshatjain6432]

For no 7, after timeless children, we can say that other time lords regeneration can be considered a derivative (probably stabilized but also weaker in some way) version of the doctors regeneration

[@maximilianlipp7246]

I think, the chameleon Circuit is not broken. I think the tardis is intentionally keeping the phone box look altering it a little over time, because it knows that the doctor likes the look of that. He calls it sexy!

[@qdllc]

That, and it’s implied the TARDIS also has a “perception filter” that makes most people just ignore its presence. Also keep in mind that the TARDIS matrix (it’s “soul”) is a multi-dimensional consciousness that sees all of space and time. That the Doctor is so pivotal to the history of the universe, the TARDIS has to be an icon because the doctor can radically change how he/she looks from regeneration to regeneration.

[@amigriffiths7861]

Gotta say, I never get tired of the Legendary Purpose portrayal of a renegade Archdeacon Frost - Doctor Fate more specifically, in some cases; right, Eleven, you superhero counterpart of a mad Titan in a box? - travelling in the timeship disguised as a Beebo Imagination Box with a Chillblain sticker occasionally on the front while going up against Beebo’s counterhero counterpart, the Daleks, Tik Tok’s counterpart, the Sontarans, and Cyborg’s counterpart, the Cybermen, although in one episode, Eleven getting a little schmoozey with the Archdeacon Frost counterpart, Deacon Frost in the midst of dealing with them, instead, although given how even renegade Daleks have confused the renegade Archdeacon for being a Good Dalek who lost his way, isn’t there a reason for other Legends telling a small time supervillain that impersonating a Powerful Light of Pure Obedience to the Greater Good was off limits? Sorry. Just ripping on the hunters again. But really hoping I can get a stable net connection for long enough to catch up with the Doc. Getting there, at least.

[@Creek932]

So, about America helping Britain in Turn Left. If the Doctor died in The Runaway Bride, then he would have never travelled to the end of the universe, so the Master would have never woken up, which also means that he would have never killed the president. So that wouldn't be an issue in the Turn Left timeline.

[@zoeherriot]

There was the flying Timelord in Terror of the Autons.

[@inspector2363]

Romana's regeneration options are clearly projections, only the Lalla Ward version physically interacts & the rest are just extremes to persuade the Doctor to accept the body she's already chosen.

[@cbpoppet1288]

A levitating timelord can be seen in Terror of the Autons. A representative of the Timelords visits the Doctor to warn him of the Master's arrival on earth, he gets his coordinates wrong and materialises in mid air, before levitating toward the Doctor.

[@geoffroi-le-Hook]

After City of Death aired, Mona Lisa seems to be smiling more than she did before.

[@jeffreycox3780]

The clip of the president's assassination shows it being done by a toglafane, so after the paradox ended, the assassination was reversed. I also don't think there are as many silence corpses as you think. People that see the silence seem to remember past experiences with the silence. Whenever I forget what I'm doing or where I am, I look around, and would see the body again, so I feel most were collected, buried, or destroyed

[@judithstrachan9399]

There are just a few left for us to trip over them.

[@neilsullivan6416]

Flying could be fun, maybe the sonic screwdriver is used to interact with a planet's magnetic field, so while possible it would be really hard to hold onto the sonic, or maybe it drains it's power to fast to really be practical

[@nathanelb721]

One thing I learned is that my brother is one day older than the first episode of the revival. Rose premiered on march 26th 2005 right. My brother was born on the 25th of march

[@JoelPit]

As to regeneration the issues around the drs regeneration could be explained due to the unknown number of times they regenerated

[@jeffwalker7185]

I imagine the Doctor's regenerations are more chaotic because they occur more often. Since the Time Lords adopt a non-intervention policy, they live long boring sedentary lives on Gallifrey. That is why the Doctor left Gallifrey in the first place. Obviously the Time War and the most recent incarnation of the Master changed all that.

[@Mattylewis98]

If you watch closely in the Eleventh Hour, as the tardis is crashing over London; the police box resembles 11th Doctors police design rather than 10ths, then few minutes into that episode you see it’s meant to be the 10ths

[@jed1mstr]

What if the Doctor has more problems in regeneration because he's the original source of regeneration (ala Timeless Child) so his is much more chaotic and powerful?

[@andromedagaming39]

I'd say that the doctor is not bad at regeneration and that's only because of them being timeless child, they are the source of all regeneration, they contain the raw essence that allows for regen, who's to say that since they are the source of regeneration who's to say their regen wouldn't be more powerful and also causes those memory side affects because of the shear raw power coming out because with each regen the doctor seems to be getting more explosive/chaotic/unexpected, heck they've even split themselves because of it

[@colinmoore7460]

I think the second doctors forced regeneration (into third) upset the doctors regeneration sequence.

[@chriswillis3571]

The Master never became Saxon in Turn Left. The Doctor had died in the Christmas special before that season, so he never went to the end of the universe to unveil the Master...

[@inspector2363]

If you have to step over a Silent's body you can see it, they aren't invisible.

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

Chaotic Regeneration is a ModernWho thing. ClassicWho was always pretty calm (aside from the mind-scrambling thing). Ah, the rise of CG and pyro...

[@GothAtheist]

I mean, 3 was strange, 4 was nuts, and 5 was basically lethargic for a week, nit to mention 6 was psychotic, and while 7 was pretty sane, 7 was also a ruthless imp and destroyer of worlds. It's not really as NuWho as you might think.

[@tzarg]

after 2's forced regen into 3, he spends almost the entire episode in a hospital bed, doesn't he? And for 4 it's quite hard to say because he never really calmed down, but I feel like he was just a tad bit more chaotic in his debut giant robot episode

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

@@GothAtheist I was talking about the elaborate regen effects on NuWho. Notice that I did mention the mind-scrambling as being part of ClassicWho regens. Bring back the foam, rubber, and cardboard! ;-P

[@tomhyde9938]

Big Finish finally gave us an in depth look into the Sontaran/Rutan war with the 'Sontarans vs Rutans' mini series, great stories.

[@MisterUnlikely]

You don't know that you haven't seen more of the Sontaran-Rutan war. Rutans can change shape, after all.

[@andrewpickford4152]

The Rutans appear in the BBV story Shakedown, also with the Sontarans, which stars Sophie Aldred & Carole Ann Ford. The Rutan is probably the best character.

[@NathanHeadActor]

we did see a timelord fly once, didn't we? i forget his name, but that timelord in the bowler hat who warned the Doctor that the Master was on Earth, didn't he fly from the sky upon arrival?

[@DrWhoFanJ]

You didn’t forget the name. They never had one. (And it’s Time Lord.)

[@RumRunneerFilms]

Thank you for pointing out his poor regeneration skills.

[@TwilightRage2099]

Remember, a good number of theories and mysteries are explained away by the simple fact that the timeline has changed multiple times. Things that happened in previous series don't necessarily apply anymore due to being overwritten by "newer" occurrences.

[@marcusjordan1955]

At one point he could have had but nowadays she couldn't because of like you remember the doctor and the time Lord has made a thing where he couldn't change his face but he's for sure change his face and his emotions chooses what he changes his face into think about it from the gladiator perspective from the Roman doctor.

[@mikesbasement6954]

Regeneration could also be based on age. If the doctor really is the timeless child, then he/she is quite a lot older than any of the other time lords.

[@laurenceroberts5239]

The Daleks literally hated everything so they would always have wanted to fight anything. Regeneration is a skill , plus dying violently puts a Timelord of their stride.

[@Midnightmiaaaaaa]

Also remember - all graves from before the season 8 finale are empty

[@DrWhoFanJ]

Not sure why _The Dæmons_ would be relevant there.

[@whooshwhoosh]

You could argue that the Doctor sucks at regeneration because they're the original, thanks to Chibnall. So all other timelords have a sort of "fixed/corrected" version of that DNA

[@RubyWhit-80]

Think a bigger detail than the silence corpses is the humans who would have been killed in combat with them turning up dead mysteriously.

[@mulengroak4687]

You mean he wrote "this is a fake" on the panels. Mona Lisa is painted on wood not canvas.

[@brookse746]

6:16 if you remember silence in the library, its easy to assume that the vashta nerada eat all the silence bodies the vashta nerada are eating GOOD on earth since 1969

[@HereticReborn]

The regeneration thing makes even less sense after the timeless child. As tecteun experimented there wasn’t such explosive booms. Plus as the origin of regeneration he ought to be the best at it right? All I can think of is maybe with each regeneration it becomes more chaotic and explosive so after hundreds of regenerations the Doctor has no control? Or tecteun engineered the ability in Gallifreyans to be more controllable. But it really doesn’t make sense.

[@charlesminckler2978]

River Song was able to pilot the Tardis alone without the chaos.

[@qdllc]

The whole “6 pilots” line was bad writing. Normally, you can argue the doctor is so bad at piloting the TARDIS because he never reads the manual (4th Doctor era). Saying you need multiple pilots flies in the face that (1) for many Doctors he has no issues flying the TARDIS, and (2) the TARDIS has actually flown itself (4th Doctor era).

[@xavierwalko4175]

For the regeneration one, combining it with the Timeless Child nonsense, it means the only one BORN with it is the WORST at it. Fits the Doctor's old stuff about him being a dropout and all.

[@DrWhoFanJ]

TTC is not nonsense.

[@Tardisius]

There is Nothing More Enjoyable than CHAOS...=))