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::I have a great theory to explain it and even make it an awesome foreshadowing (but I have no idea if it might go against the "Spoiler-Free" rule or the "Not yet released" thing or something) Anyway, I personally believe that in [[The Time of the Doctor]], when the message (Doctor Who?) was send to all of space and time, becoming the oldest question in the universe, it was received by WOTAN. Confronted by a question of which he didn't know the answer, he just went crazy, planned to wipeout mankind with killing War Machines and, because he was't able to identify the Doctor, started calling him "Doctor Who" and requiring him in order to absorb his intelligence, his knowledge AND to know the Answer to the question! Like he said : "DOCTOR WHO is required!" | ::I have a great theory to explain it and even make it an awesome foreshadowing (but I have no idea if it might go against the "Spoiler-Free" rule or the "Not yet released" thing or something) Anyway, I personally believe that in [[The Time of the Doctor]], when the message (Doctor Who?) was send to all of space and time, becoming the oldest question in the universe, it was received by WOTAN. Confronted by a question of which he didn't know the answer, he just went crazy, planned to wipeout mankind with killing War Machines and, because he was't able to identify the Doctor, started calling him "Doctor Who" and requiring him in order to absorb his intelligence, his knowledge AND to know the Answer to the question! Like he said : "DOCTOR WHO is required!" | ||
::'Who' in this context may very well in fact be [[WOTAN]]'s version of "Insert Name Here". The computer's intended role was as a co-ordinator to increase efficiency- with that in mind it likely already had a large number of sub-routines dealing with "Analysis of the needs of project Y, and cross referencing with personnel records indicates that Person X is required for project Y: notify the user of this so that they may be dispatched. | |||
Ordinarily, these personnel records would probably be of a format "Title, Identifier" etc- e.g. Professor Krimpton, Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart, etc etc. While [[the Doctor]] very likely ''does'' have personnel records on file, at this point- as he hasn't infamously given the "John Smith" alias to the Brigadier yet - those records would have an anomalous blank where the name should be. The syntax for issuing a personnel request is probably something along the lines of "WHAT-WHO is required; DISPATCH/BRING to LOCATION"- in this instance 'WHO' remains in the final statement, like a string of programming syntax in HTML when an error has occurred, because the embedded request to substitute this for name data comes up with a Null Pointer Exception. The mind controlled slaves have been programmed to think as WOTAN does, and as such follow the same process. | |||
As to why WOTAN ''wants'' his Doctor Who, WOTAN is given the problem of identifying the derivation and meaning of the word '[[TARDIS]]'. From its database of Earth records, it can identify that the word is an acronym - Time and Relative Dimension[s] in Space- the first part of the answer, which prints out immediately before WOTAN begins to act unusually, but its database doesn't contain sufficient information to correctly define what a TARDIS is, what it does, the theory by which it operates. Therefore, in order to answer the task set for it by Dodo, it has to increase the information available to its database, which requires a significant restructuring and upgrading of its data acquisition peripherals (i.e. the human race and the government of planet Earth). Its files do, however, indicate that the Doctor is closely interrelated with the TARDIS, making the Doctor required personnel for this project. | |||
Finally, in the aftermath, the Doctor presumably learns about this slip up on WOTAN's part, and is sufficiently amused by it- and the idea of the literal minded being blindsided by him simply not having a name he uses, that he uses it as a joke on occasion- Doctor Von Ver, Doctor W in the early Troughton era, a number of occasions in the Smith era, and so on. | |||
*Why does [[WOTAN]] stamp a big "W" on the boxes containing the bits of [[War Machine]]? Isn't it a bit of a giveaway? | *Why does [[WOTAN]] stamp a big "W" on the boxes containing the bits of [[War Machine]]? Isn't it a bit of a giveaway? | ||
