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::[In regards to the TARDIS bulb and the outside appearance: I heard someone theorize somewhere else (can't really remember where, may have even been here) that the TARDIS's Chameleon Circuit isn't actually still broken, and that she chooses to keep that shape because she knows the Doctor is fond of it. Which I suppose would be a fair thing to say since the TARDIS can rebuild itself. So if the light bulb is "real" it would seem reasonable to then assume it could fix such a minor problem all on its own. That would also make me stop questioning '''why''' the outside of the TARDIS changes appearance when the inside does, since it being "stuck" as a police box seems like it would stop that from being able to happen.] [[User:Saghan|Saghan]] [[User talk:Saghan|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 18:39, October 1, 2012 (UTC) | ::[In regards to the TARDIS bulb and the outside appearance: I heard someone theorize somewhere else (can't really remember where, may have even been here) that the TARDIS's Chameleon Circuit isn't actually still broken, and that she chooses to keep that shape because she knows the Doctor is fond of it. Which I suppose would be a fair thing to say since the TARDIS can rebuild itself. So if the light bulb is "real" it would seem reasonable to then assume it could fix such a minor problem all on its own. That would also make me stop questioning '''why''' the outside of the TARDIS changes appearance when the inside does, since it being "stuck" as a police box seems like it would stop that from being able to happen.] [[User:Saghan|Saghan]] [[User talk:Saghan|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 18:39, October 1, 2012 (UTC) | ||
:::Well, we don't really know how often the lightbulb needs changing—but the fact that River brought it up casually implies that it's fairly often. It's possible that it's still a sign of something wrong, it's just that the something wrong goes back to before series 6, so River just takes it for granted as normal. But that seems like a stretch—most of River's knowledge about the TARDIS seems to come from the TARDIS herself. | |||
:::As for the chameleon circuit: The 6th Doctor fixed it in season 22, it started going wrong again, and he announced that he liked it better that way anyway. It sounded like sour grapes, but… Anyway, since then, the only thing we've ever heard on TV is "it's broken". | |||
:::Meanwhile, early in the NAs, we learn that it didn't really break again; the Doctor turned it off because it was a security hole in the Type 40. And to confirm that, after he started traveling in the parallel 3rd Doctor's TARDIS, the Monk hacked into it and changed its shape into the Statue of Liberty. | |||
:::The EDAs implied that it's the TARDIS who likes that shape and refuses to change, rather than the Doctor who doesn't want it to change. And of course there's Marie, the type 103 humanoid TARDIS who's stuck in the shape of a blue-uniformed 1960s WPC, but hints that it's intentional. And then Compassion, who could choose any form she wants, but instead chooses something just barely different enough from her previous form that the observant can tell something's changed (just like the TARDIS each time she rebuilds herself). --[[Special:Contributions/70.36.140.233|70.36.140.233]]<sup>[[User talk:70.36.140.233#top|talk to me]]</sup> 03:40, October 2, 2012 (UTC) | |||
