Talk:Goth

Where was Goth in the Mind Robber? 210.84.21.190 11:43, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

He is "Gulliver" its mentioned in the article that he was working for the Time Lords if i remember correctly Bigshowbower 11:52, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Has anyone ever speculated about his character in Planet of the Daleks, who appears to be quite the anomaly amongst the more pacifist Thals and even stands out amongst the bunch he's with in that story as being the brave, less pacifist one, which very much gels with his character in The Deadly Assassin, who can be quite brutal, and is certainly the most commanding member of the tribunal in The War Games. And if Troughton didn't recognize/sense Gulliver was Goth or a Time Lord, it's possible to also work in the Pertwee appearance as another CIA incident where the Time Lords were keeping tabs on him. It's interesting speculation at least and makes for an even more interesting character if they are actually all one and the same, sometimes undercover with some way of masking his identity (which even works well with the fact that he is disguised through much of The Deadly Assassin, which makes that a recurring behavior of his). NileQT87 07:55, May 20, 2011 (UTC)

For discussion speculation I would suggest The Howling. --Tangerineduel / talk 15:29, May 20, 2011 (UTC)

Hm.

I don't know about inferring all of that from Future Imperfect.

In it, the Doctor realizes Gulliver has broken from the pattern of repeating Swift's lines, and notices - "That face. Long ago, he had seen it, presiding over hearings at the Celestial Intervention Agency." It seems that Goth has merely disguised himself as Gulliver in Future Imperfect, and there's nothing to imply that he had been disguised as Gulliver for all of The Mind Robber. Especially as he's in the Land of Fiction just to pick up the Doctor and take him to The Three Doctors. There's also nothing that says definitively that Goth is the Time Lord from The War Games in Future Imperfect. The trial isn't even mentioned. The closest is this exchange:

Doctor: "No! I won't stay! I won't be locked up by you and your boring bureaucratic… inkslingers!"

Goth: "That time is long in your future. And long in our past."

…which could just mean the Time Lords' past. Course, considering the Time Lord in The War Games is unnamed, it very well could be Goth, and it seems a safe assumption, but to use Future Imperfect as a citation (or to say Gulliver is always Goth) is going a bit far. - Constonks 02:16, November 2, 2013 (UTC)