Contents (poem)

Contents was the eighth poem in the anthology Now We Are Six Hundred.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

• The Doctor

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

• The newly-regenerated Doctor wears boots and a hat.
• The Doctor's trunk contains a signet ring, a recorder, a stripes-handled sonic screwdriver, a scarf, a stick of celery, a cat brooch, a paisley scarf, a shoe, a sonic screwdriver, rectangular frame glasses, a fez, an electric guitar, and a handbag.

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

• Although it is not explicitly stated exactly where Contents falls within the Doctor's life, the illustration depicts a chest with an item owned by each known incarnation by that point (excluding the War Doctor), including a handbag presumably owned by the female incarnation from The Death List. The implication is therefore that this incarnation is the one that followed her. In a later interview to Radio Times, illustrator Russell T Davies mentioned the handbag as a reference to Jodie Whittaker's then-unannounced Thirteenth Doctor.^[1]
• The Fourteenth Doctor was revealed in TV: The Power of the Doctor to be portrayed by David Tennant and therefore identical to a previous incarnation. This Doctor's clothes regenerated along with him and as such he does not choose his new outfit, ruling him out as the incarnation from this story.
  • The Fifteenth Doctor is heavily implied to be this incarnation due to his appearance matching how this Doctor is described.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

• The Doctor has a trunk in the TARDIS with clothes and items from previous incarnations. (TV: The Power of the Daleks)

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]