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The Doctor and Susan's escape from Gallifrey (edit)
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Although the [[First Doctor]] initially told [[Ian Chesterton]] and [[Barbara Wright]] that he and Susan were "[[exile]]s" from their home planet, ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'') most accounts suggested that this was a figure of speech and they had left of their own accord, albeit possibly as a way of escaping from dangerous circumstances. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'', ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Disassembled (audio story)|Disassembled]]'', etc.) | Although the [[First Doctor]] initially told [[Ian Chesterton]] and [[Barbara Wright]] that he and Susan were "[[exile]]s" from their home planet, ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'') most accounts suggested that this was a figure of speech and they had left of their own accord, albeit possibly as a way of escaping from dangerous circumstances. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'', ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Disassembled (audio story)|Disassembled]]'', etc.) | ||
[[Boy (Unnatural History)|A boy]] from [[Faction Paradox]] pondered that the Doctor | [[Boy (Unnatural History)|A boy]] from [[Faction Paradox]] pondered that the Doctor may have [[Original palimpsest universe|started out]] as a [[49th century]] [[human]], who had to leave their home planet to escape from [[the Enemy]]. The Enemy would have subsequently kept rewriting their past until they remembered having been a [[Time Lord]] from [[Gallifrey]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'') | ||
[[The Doctor]]'s most common explanation as to why they left [[Gallifrey]] was that "[he] was bored". ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') However, a confession to [[the Veil]] suggests this was a lie, or at least not the whole truth, ([[TV]]: ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'') with [[Davros]] once confronting the [[Twelfth Doctor]] about how "no one [ran] the way [the Doctor] [had] [ran] for so small a reason". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') Indeed, the [[First Doctor]] did admit to a [[glass avatar]] of [[Bill Potts]] that there were "many pressing reasons" for his departure from Gallifrey, ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'') something that the [[Fourth Doctor]] would later alluded to when describing his theft of the TARDIS to [[Adric]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') | [[The Doctor]]'s most common explanation as to why they left [[Gallifrey]] was that "[he] was bored". ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') However, a confession to [[the Veil]] suggests this was a lie, or at least not the whole truth, ([[TV]]: ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'') with [[Davros]] once confronting the [[Twelfth Doctor]] about how "no one [ran] the way [the Doctor] [had] [ran] for so small a reason". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') Indeed, the [[First Doctor]] did admit to a [[glass avatar]] of [[Bill Potts]] that there were "many pressing reasons" for his departure from Gallifrey, ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'') something that the [[Fourth Doctor]] would later alluded to when describing his theft of the TARDIS to [[Adric]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') | ||