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== Nature == | == Nature == | ||
=== | === Either the Doctor or their father === | ||
During the [[mindbending]] battle, after [[Morbius]] said, "Back! Back to your beginning!" and the eight faces began to flash on the screen, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|The Brain of Morbius]]'') the [[Fourth Doctor]] thought to himself, ''"You can't... not that far... I won't let you... Not even I."'' ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') The mechanism broke down after the eighth face appeared. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|The Brain of Morbius]]'') In the [[Fifth Doctor]]'s mind, memories of this event were associated with the times when ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') the [[Third Doctor]] claimed to have been a scientist for thousands of years ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'') and the Fourth Doctor said that Time Lords lived for 90 lives and that he'd lived for 130. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Creature from the Pit (TV story)|The Creature from the Pit]]'') | During the [[mindbending]] battle, after [[Morbius]] said, "Back! Back to your beginning!" and the eight faces began to flash on the screen, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|The Brain of Morbius]]'') the [[Fourth Doctor]] thought to himself, ''"You can't... not that far... I won't let you... Not even I."'' ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') The mechanism broke down after the eighth face appeared. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|The Brain of Morbius]]'') In the [[Fifth Doctor]]'s mind, memories of this event were associated with the times when ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') the [[Third Doctor]] claimed to have been a scientist for thousands of years ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'') and the Fourth Doctor said that Time Lords lived for 90 lives and that he'd lived for 130. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Creature from the Pit (TV story)|The Creature from the Pit]]'') | ||
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However, simultaneous to his memories of being these Doctors, the Doctor also had memories of being [[loom]]ed in the [[House of Lungbarrow]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') [[Glospin]] claimed that people could renew regenerative cycles by jumping looms and being reborn into new families. The Doctor impossibly ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') remembered being a strung-out consciousness waiting to be born ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'', ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') and immediately after being born he said, "Again." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'') The [[Seventh Doctor]] would find that his hazy memories of a life before the First Doctor belonged to [[the Other]], who was reborn as the Doctor after millions of years via looming. Evoking this past, the Doctor quoted Morbius by telling Lungbarrow to think "back to your beginning" to remember when it was made by the Other. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') The Fifth Doctor's encounter with Patience's husband also suggested the faces seen in the mind battle had some overlap or connection to the Other. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') | However, simultaneous to his memories of being these Doctors, the Doctor also had memories of being [[loom]]ed in the [[House of Lungbarrow]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') [[Glospin]] claimed that people could renew regenerative cycles by jumping looms and being reborn into new families. The Doctor impossibly ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') remembered being a strung-out consciousness waiting to be born ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'', ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') and immediately after being born he said, "Again." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'') The [[Seventh Doctor]] would find that his hazy memories of a life before the First Doctor belonged to [[the Other]], who was reborn as the Doctor after millions of years via looming. Evoking this past, the Doctor quoted Morbius by telling Lungbarrow to think "back to your beginning" to remember when it was made by the Other. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') The Fifth Doctor's encounter with Patience's husband also suggested the faces seen in the mind battle had some overlap or connection to the Other. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') | ||
In explaining the past of history involving the faces, the other told the Fifth Doctor that, "Time is relative. History repeats itself, and repeats itself again. Father to son." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') The Doctor's life was part of an [[eternal return]] which repeated each generation in a patrilineal line of Doctors. Several details suggested that Patience's husband may have somehow been [[Ulysses]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'', ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'', ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'') This repetition continued, with one of [[The Doctor's ninth incarnation|the Eighth Doctor's possible futures]] glimpsed in the [[Tomorrow Window]] suggesting he would regenerate into a "series of men in pseudo-Edwardian clothes" and, in time, the [[First Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Tomorrow Windows (novel)|The Tomorrow Windows]]'') | In explaining the past of history involving the faces, the other told the Fifth Doctor that, "Time is relative. History repeats itself, and repeats itself again. Father to son." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') The Doctor's life was part of an [[eternal return]] which repeated each generation in a patrilineal line of Doctors. Several details suggested that Patience's husband may have somehow been [[Ulysses]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'', ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'', ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'') This repetition continued, with one of [[The Doctor's ninth incarnation|the Eighth Doctor's possible futures]] glimpsed in the [[Tomorrow Window]] suggesting he would regenerate into a "series of men in pseudo-Edwardian clothes" and, in time, the [[First Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Tomorrow Windows (novel)|The Tomorrow Windows]]'') | ||
=== Travels in the TARDIS === | === Travels in the TARDIS === |