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The fact that he visited Earth a lot when he couldn't control his TARDIS indicates that his TARDIS wished to take him to Earth a lot. She has said she "took him where he needed to go", which means as she defined it. She felt he needed to go to Earth, which means he needed to go there -- by her standards. Later, he was exiled to earth and the Time Lords installed some sort of function which made him a "cosmic yo-yo", heading back to Earth willy-nilly. Subsequently, she has still occasionally taken him places, but has been a little vague about exact position, particularly in time ''[[The Doctor's Daughter]]'' and orientation ''[[Fear Itself (TV story)|Fear Her]]''. Clearly, we are dealing with the sense of "where the Doctor needs to be" from a creature which exists simultaneously in all of space and time, but can't communicate particularly clearly in terms of human speech. Should we be surprised if it occasionally chooses places and times that make little sense to us? I have enough trouble figuring out what people think, let alone cats, and they're pretty close relatives who live in similar environments. The perspective of a TARDIS is pretty much beyond me.[[User:Boblipton|Boblipton]] <sup>[[User talk:Boblipton|talk to me]]</sup> 21:59, April 1, 2012 (UTC) | The fact that he visited Earth a lot when he couldn't control his TARDIS indicates that his TARDIS wished to take him to Earth a lot. She has said she "took him where he needed to go", which means as she defined it. She felt he needed to go to Earth, which means he needed to go there -- by her standards. Later, he was exiled to earth and the Time Lords installed some sort of function which made him a "cosmic yo-yo", heading back to Earth willy-nilly. Subsequently, she has still occasionally taken him places, but has been a little vague about exact position, particularly in time ''[[The Doctor's Daughter]]'' and orientation ''[[Fear Itself (TV story)|Fear Her]]''. Clearly, we are dealing with the sense of "where the Doctor needs to be" from a creature which exists simultaneously in all of space and time, but can't communicate particularly clearly in terms of human speech. Should we be surprised if it occasionally chooses places and times that make little sense to us? I have enough trouble figuring out what people think, let alone cats, and they're pretty close relatives who live in similar environments. The perspective of a TARDIS is pretty much beyond me.[[User:Boblipton|Boblipton]] <sup>[[User talk:Boblipton|talk to me]]</sup> 21:59, April 1, 2012 (UTC) | ||
Well, the Third Doctor obviously has a very good excuse for spending so much time on Earth, and the later ones could control the TARDIS(except when the Fourth Doctor was using the randomiser), but there isn't really any good reason that the TARDIS would feel that the Doctor needs to go to Earth any more than any other planet. I guess the TARDIS might sense that he has a human mother and feels that he needs to visit his ancestors homeworld, but it would be cool to see a few other major recurring planets than just Earth, Gallifrey, and Skaro. We've seen dozens of different periods in Earth history, but we usually only see other worlds once. If he had an alien companion, then he could take her to visit all the most interesting places in her planet's history.[[User:Icecreamdif|Icecreamdif]] <sup>[[User talk:Icecreamdif|talk to me]]</sup> 23:30, April 1, 2012 (UTC) | |||