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Post by ladydetemps on Jun 1, 2007 8:30:19 GMT
I just wondered what the people here thought about the issue of the 8th Doctor saying he was half-human...true or a bluff?
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Post by Kit on Jun 1, 2007 13:50:20 GMT
I really don't know. It seems true that he's half human with the whole retinal structure thing. Then there's the debates an whether all of the Doctors are half human or if it's only Eight. And then it gets confusing.
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Post by ladydetemps on Jun 1, 2007 13:55:16 GMT
I didn't know if it was a sachastic comment. i.e. he's been on earth so much he's half human.
yes I did hear a theroy once about how he could be half human and the others weren't.
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Post by Kit on Jun 2, 2007 6:09:33 GMT
Ah, I've never thought of that.
Eight's awesomeness obscures everything about him.
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Post by A TimeLord ReBorn on Jun 2, 2007 8:21:01 GMT
Perhaps his Time Lord DNA is evolving to become more human considering the length of time he seems to spend in Wales... urmm... I mean... Earth!
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Post by taevia on Aug 18, 2007 18:36:56 GMT
Wouldn't Eight be half-human because of his Mother? His human DNA had to come from somewhere so why not have him have a Human Mother? Makes perfect sense to me.
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Post by Kit on Aug 18, 2007 18:52:47 GMT
Oh, yes. We've completely overlooked that. xD
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kinvoidstuff123
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Post by kinvoidstuff123 on Aug 21, 2007 18:25:18 GMT
THis topic is still on debate in my own mind so I can't really get to something.
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Post by the8thdoctor on Nov 15, 2007 21:29:59 GMT
I think it's true. 100% If you look at the other Timelords, the Doctor is more humane than them. As four put it: "You would postpone an execution to pull the wings off a fly."
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Post by clocketpatch on Nov 16, 2007 2:26:16 GMT
I'm of the firm opinion that the entire movie was a giant regeneration-induced hallucination, and in reality Eight's entrance to the world was cloaked in brilliant writing, plots, and good acting. Pity he doesn't remember it.
Pity we didn't get to see it.
I still love Eight.
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Post by lynda on Nov 16, 2007 5:04:36 GMT
Having him half-human would certainly explain how terrible he was at school and the immense trouble he seems to have with regenerations. I don't know; I kind of like the idea, myself.
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Post by Abbyromana on Nov 16, 2007 17:37:50 GMT
I prefer see it as a sarcastic comment he made to avoid the annoying questions about his past. All the Doctors enjoy saying such cryptic and strange things to avoid answering. Any way, he really couldn't be a half human if you consider the fact that Time Lords don't' have the ability to reproduce sexually. They're made in the legendary Loom, a matrix of random DNA. So he might not necessarily even know who his parents were. Even if he did, before Leela no humans were allowed on Earth, so how could a human female even become involved with a Time Lord, especially enough to create a child. There's too many difficulties for me to believe it is possible.
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Post by the8thdoctor on Nov 19, 2007 10:58:49 GMT
They wouldn't need to reproduce sexually. All they need is a DNA sample from two people. One could've been human somehow.
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Post by Kit on Nov 19, 2007 17:05:10 GMT
If it's true, then Susan can be anywhere from 1/8 human to 7/8 human and anything in between.
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Post by the8thdoctor on Nov 19, 2007 22:18:09 GMT
Ok now it's just getting confusing
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Post by clocketpatch on Nov 19, 2007 23:16:19 GMT
What? it's DW canon, were you expecting everything to make sense? The best course of action is to take everything confusing and/or contradicting and label it the poduct of a temporal paradox. --- and on that note, there's also the fall-back that Susan isn't his real grand-daughter. In which case she may be %100 either way.
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Post by Kit on Nov 20, 2007 0:27:10 GMT
...My brain hurts now. Hurrah for paradoxes!
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Post by ladydetemps on Nov 21, 2007 13:33:07 GMT
I don't see why people object to the thought of him being half human so much?
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Post by clocketpatch on Nov 21, 2007 16:28:55 GMT
I dunno, personally I think he's a more inspiring character if he was completely normal and realised the flaws of his society and rebelled against them, then if he was an outcast from the start and had no choice but to rebel.
But personally I don't really care one way or the other.
I do think the TV movie was crack though, and will stick by that until the bitter end.
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Post by the8thdoctor on Nov 21, 2007 18:33:57 GMT
Crack? Is that good or bad?
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