Talk:The One (Time Lord)

DAB change and appearances

Do we really want to count every time the One (and later incarnations) speak through their future incarnations as an "appearance"? In my opinion, when a previous incarnation manifests, it should be covered in legacy, otherwise we'll get an excessively long list of appearances, which diminishes towards later incarnations.

What the appearances list should really be doing is telling the reader when that incarnation appeared, not every time they manifest. Danochy ☎ 09:53, October 1, 2019 (UTC)

Hard disagree.

If it were really just insanity and the past incarnations weren't "really" talking inside the current one's mind, Legacy would be appropriate; but apparently the minds of the past incarnations really do linger.

And here's the thing, in a sci-fi universe like Doctor Who, the mind's the thing, so to speak. If everything the One does as a disembodied mind trapped inside the Eleven is to be confined to "Legacy" and not counted as an appearance, then River Song doesn't appear in The Name of the Doctor, because she had lost her body by that point and was just a ghost manifesting through a psychic link with Clara. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 11:12, October 1, 2019 (UTC)