Talk:The Valeyard

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Backstory

The backstory presented from Trial of the Valeyard is blatantly stated to be almost entirely false. It should almost certainly not be placed anywhere near the section describing his origins. OS25 (Talk) 00:31, June 22, 2017 (UTC)

Agreed. Many premices in Trial of the Valeyard ignore the TV episodes Five Doctors (where the Master was offered more regenerations), the Ultimate Foe itself (where the Valeyard is offered the Doctor's remaining regenerations), and The Brain of Morbius (where the Doctors explains why the Time Lords have a limited number of regenerations: "Death is the price we pay for progress, you know."

Here is the actual dialogue provided from a transcript of the show:

DOCTOR: Oh, I wouldn't think they're beyond a decent spectrograph, Maren. One could probably synthesise that stuff by the gallon, though the consequences would be appalling.

OHICA: What do you mean?

DOCTOR: What? Everyone trying to live forever? No. Death is the price we pay for progress, you know.

MAREN: You speak in riddles, Doctor. The Time Lords were glad enough of the Elixir.

DOCTOR: Only in rare cases. When, for instance, there's some difficulty in regenerating a body. We don't take it regularly like you, otherwise we'd fall into the same trap.

MAREN: And what trap are we in?

DOCTOR: Immortality. You must have been old when the Elixir was discovered. How many centuries have passed while you have remained unchanged. How long since anything here changed?

MAREN: Nothing here ever changes.

DOCTOR: Exactly my point. No progress. Please, stand back.

These three episodes make the whole plot of Trial of the Valeyard nonsensical in the extreme.--BruceGrubb ☎ 15:34, July 2, 2017 (UTC)