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::::::::I thought that's what you meant. That ''is'' Morbius. It can be compared with [[:File:Morbiushead.jpg]] for further proof. --[[User:Borisashton|Borisashton]] [[User talk:Borisashton|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 11:44, March 6, 2018 (UTC) | ::::::::I thought that's what you meant. That ''is'' Morbius. It can be compared with [[:File:Morbiushead.jpg]] for further proof. --[[User:Borisashton|Borisashton]] [[User talk:Borisashton|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 11:44, March 6, 2018 (UTC) | ||
:::::::::Oh, well then, sorry to waste your time. ([[User:JMC Red Dwarf|JMC Red Dwarf]] [[User talk:JMC Red Dwarf|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 01:31, March 8, 2018 (UTC)) | :::::::::Oh, well then, sorry to waste your time. ([[User:JMC Red Dwarf|JMC Red Dwarf]] [[User talk:JMC Red Dwarf|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 01:31, March 8, 2018 (UTC)) | ||
== All relevant information? == | |||
I think that, rather than trying to resolve what "the truth" is behind all of the different possibly-contradictory and internally ambiguous stories, it might be better to list the relevant stories (and behind-the-scenes info) and let people come to their own conclusions: | |||
* [[The Power of the Daleks (novelisation)]] is, I think, the earliest implication that the First Doctor had regenerated at least once. | |||
* [[The Three Doctors (TV story)]] is, I think, the earliest implication that the First Doctor is the first. | |||
* [[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)]] is really pretty ambiguous. Hinchcliffe and others involved certainly meant to imply that these were past incarnations of the Doctor, and have said so in interviews, but, if you watch it, even the once-popular fan theory that the faces are Morbius's isn't impossible. | |||
* [[The Five Doctors (TV story)]] and a number of later stories ignore the Morbius Doctors, and make it pretty clear that the First Doctor is the first incarnation, but none of them even attempt to explain the Morbius faces. | |||
* [[Silver Nemesis (TV story)]], [[Remembrance of the Daleks (novelisation)]], etc. don't answer the question. And it's pretty clear from interviews with Cartmel and friends that he was more interested in adding new mystery than in resolving old ones. | |||
* [[Original Sin (novel)]] reopens the question, but does little more. | |||
* [[Cold Fusion (novel)]] makes it pretty clear that the Doctor has memories of at least two incarnations from before the First Doctor. But are they his? Are they reliable? Are they the Morbius Doctors? Parkin has made it clear out-of-story that he intended the Morbius Doctors to be Patience's husband, who has some mysterious connection with the Doctor's past, but there's only the barest of hints in-story. | |||
* [[Lungbarrow (novel)]] implies that Patience's husband was the Other, and loom-reincarnated himself into the Doctor, but it's all left pretty ambiguous. And the connection to the Morbius Doctors is even more oblique (basically just a chapter title). | |||
* [[Doctor Who (TV story)]] doesn't really add anything. (Not surprising when you consider that Lungbarrow was written specifically to accommodate the movie's "half-human" idea.) | |||
* [[The Eight Doctors (novel)]] implies that the Doctor was a child and had a mother, but it's not entirely clear that this is the First Doctor (and, even if it were, it wouldn't contradict him having been reincarnated from whoever the Morbius Doctors were). | |||
* [[The Infinity Doctors (novel)]] shows that the Doctor of that novel's alternate history is the current incarnation of Patience's original husband. But the only implication that this is even connected with the Morbius Doctors is Parkin's out-of-universe statements about earlier drafts of the novel. And how that alternate history relates to the "main" one is left unclear. | |||
* [[Unnatural History (novel)]], and the EDAs in general, make it abundantly clear that the Doctor's past actually is contradictory, and even more so as all of history, and the Doctor's in particular, is being repeatedly fought over. | |||
* [[Sometime Never... (novel)]] "resolves" everything by replacing all of the contradictory pasts with one in which the First Doctor was actually Soul. But [[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)]] obliquely implies that history is soon going to be rewritten again by the Doctor restoring Gallifrey—just in time for another Time War. | |||
* The new series shows us the First Doctor as a child ([[Listen (TV story)]]), and possibly his mother ([[The End of Time (TV story)]] and/or [[Hell Bent (TV story)]]), but that doesn't add anything new. And meanwhile, the possibility that the Doctor's history has retroactively changed is a central plot point to Clara's story, and the idea that history is contradictory is a central theme of the entire Moffat era, but again, none of that is really new. | |||
* Big Finish, in adapting [[Cold Fusion (audio story)]] and other novels post-2013, left things as open as ever. (The most notable difference is the Doctor saying he was "unambiguously" loom-born.) | |||
Other stories could be added, but I think that's enough to cover the fact that the Doctor may have those memories, they may be someone else's, he may be a reincarnation of or otherwise connected to that someone else, the stories really are contradictory but history may just be like that Amy, or history may have changed, or his memories may be faulty, etc. (I suppose you could also throw in things like Gary Russell implying that the EDAs are a different timeline, Lawrence Miles implying that the NAs were in a different universe, etc., but I don't think that really adds much.) Anyone looking for "the answer" should just watch/listen to/read the relevant stories. --[[Special:Contributions/157.131.170.189|157.131.170.189]]<sup>[[User talk:157.131.170.189#top|talk to me]]</sup> 00:33, October 3, 2018 (UTC) | |||
== Rename tag == | |||
The rename tag said the following: "The article refers to multiple incarnations, rather than one singular. The Doctors (The Brain of Morbius) may seem a more apt choice of title." | |||
This is not a valid reason...[[The Doctor]] also refers to multiple incarnations but is named singular. That's just the basic rule on this wiki. The overwhelming majority of articles are named in the singular. Removing the tag. [[User:Shambala108|Shambala108]] [[User talk:Shambala108|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 01:28, March 1, 2020 (UTC) | |||
: But [[The Doctor]] is about "the Time Lord in general, across their incarnations". Whereas this page is not about a Time Lord in general, it is about eight particular incarnations of a Time Lord who already has a general page — [[The Doctor]]. Heck, it might make more sense to split it into [[The Doctor 1 (The Brain of Morbius)]], etc., like we do for the Doctors in the ''Rose'' novelisation. --[[User:Scrooge MacDuck|Scrooge MacDuck]] [[User talk:Scrooge MacDuck|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 10:52, March 1, 2020 (UTC) | |||
::That used to be the state of affairs but the pages were all merged into this one, since it’s much more useful to have a page for the Morbius Doctors in general. – [[User:NateBumber|<span title="User:NateBumber">N8</span>]] ([[User_talk:NateBumber|<span title="Leave me a note">☎</span>]]/[[Special:Contributions/NateBumber|<span title="Spy on my edits">👁️</span>]]) 13:41, March 1, 2020 (UTC) | |||
::In light of further precedent and the emergence of more specific information about incarnations, I propose we split the page according to Scrooge's naming proposal. – [[User:NateBumber|n8]] ([[User talk:NateBumber|☎]]) 19:34, 26 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
:::You may want to have a look at [[#Split]] below, which postdates the above. <span style="color: #baa3d6;font-family:Comic Sans;">[[User:Scrooge MacDuck|'''Scrooge MacDuck''']]</span> <span style="color: #baa3d6;">[[User_talk:Scrooge MacDuck|⊕]]</span> 20:28, 26 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
::::Cheers! – [[User:NateBumber|n8]] ([[User talk:NateBumber|☎]]) 21:06, 26 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
== How many faces in TTC?== | |||
The legacy section notes that all eight faces appear in the Matrix segment in ''The Timeless Children'', but the behind the scenes section says that seven of the eight faces appear. When watching the episode, I can't tell due to the speed of the montage. Does anyone have the ability to slow the montage to check this, and amend the page as appropriate? [[User:JDPManjoume|JDPManjoume]] [[User talk:JDPManjoume|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 21:10, October 1, 2020 (UTC) | |||
== Harper incarnation's origins == | |||
As written in the behind the scene section fans publicly discovered the origin of the Harper's picture: (Spoilers for those awaiting [[Babelcolour]]'s upcoming fan film) | |||
It is the exact same picture of Martin Jurgens, the adjudicator impersonated by the Delgado master in 'colony in space': there is no doubt about it if you check the fax with his credentials in Episode 5. (note that we also see a blurry colour version when Jo picks up his credentials in the Master Tardis in the same episode). In the novelisation, he is called Martin Jurgen with no 's' and the Third Doctor presumes that the master killed him. | |||
Surprisingly we currently don't have a page for this character but i am not sure what we should do with it. Personally, I see two options: | |||
*we consider them the same character and cover him on this page with a redirect from "martin jurgens". (the mindbending sequence order puts Harper as the incarnation Camfield directly regenerates into) But, if we do this, should we still title it 'the doctor (the brain of morbius)' since one their incarnation is from the previous 'colony in space'? | |||
*We create the "Martin Jurgens" page while in 'the doctor (the brain of morbius)' we create a new section about him and use the "main article" template directing to this page to avoid a naming conflict | |||
Personally, I prefer the first option while keeping the current title as it is the most common one and we did not create a distinct page for the Timeless Child incarnation who appeared in flashbacks before the big reveal season finale. | |||
[[User:RingoRoadagain|RingoRoadagain]] [[User talk:RingoRoadagain|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 11:51, October 22, 2020 (UTC) | |||
== Split == | |||
As the page's main image is already split 1-8, perhaps it is time that this page is split completely? [[First Doctor (The Brain of Morbius)]], [[Second Doctor (The Brain of Morbius)]], etc, seem like good enough titles. Some may argue that there isn't enough information per Doctor to warrent individual pages, but I think that the Doctors with more information - such as the [[Douglas Camfield]] incarnation - suffer as a result of only having a joint page. With individual pages it would allow editors to add more in-depth BTS information from sources like Forgotten Lives. [[User:RadMatter|RadMatter]] [[User talk:RadMatter|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 16:08, 7 January 2022 (UTC) | |||
: This proposal certainly has some pros. Equally I can see some cons. It is easy to link to a gestalt "Morbius Doctors" page on {{tlx|doctors}}; it would perhaps be trickier to find room for eight different Doctors, some of them with very little narrative to their name. Yet if we split, I don't think policy would allow for an overall page on the eight Morbius Doctors to remain. | |||
: Naming is also problematic, given that the Morbius Doctors appear in reverse order of their timeline. By [[First Doctor (The Brain of Morbius)]], do we mean the first Morbius Doctor seen on-screen — [[George Gallaccio]]? Or do we mean the diegetically earliest of the Morbius Doctors, the one who (in a pre-Timeless reading of the scene) might be the one purported to be the ''real'' First Incarnation of the Doctor — [[Christopher Barry]]? Whichever one we settled on, a more casual editor might well assume the opposite. Hence, confusion. | |||
: Should the split happen, something like [[The Doctor 1 (The Brain of Morbius]], using on-screen order and making no claims about in-universe order, would have to be the way we went, using the precedent of such pages as [[The Doctor 1 (Rose)]]. And that's quite cumbersome. <span style="color: #baa3d6;font-family:Comic Sans;">[[User:Scrooge MacDuck|'''Scrooge MacDuck''']]</span> <span style="color: #baa3d6;">[[User_talk:Scrooge MacDuck|⊕]]</span> 16:36, 7 January 2022 (UTC) | |||
:: Addressing your concerns in turn; | |||
:: {{tlx|doctors}} could simply be listed as [[The Doctor (The Brain of Morbius)|"Morbius"]] ([[First Doctor (The Brain of Morbius)|1]], [[Second Doctor (The Brain of Morbius)|2]], [[Third Doctor (The Brain of Morbius)|3]], [[Fourth Doctor (The Brain of Morbius)|4]], [[Fifth Doctor (The Brain of Morbius)|5]], [[Sixth Doctor (The Brain of Morbius)|6]], [[Seventh Doctor (The Brain of Morbius)|7]], [[Eigth Doctor (The Brain of Morbius)|8]]) • [[The Doctor (Battlefield)|"Muldwych"]], etc. | |||
:: There is a whole appearance section on the article which lists the individual appearances as "First incarnation", "Second incarnation", so I don't understand why it would be an issue for the page name? | |||
:: I personally wouldn't mind how the pages are named, or in what order, for now. However, it is something that I think needs to happen for best coverage on this site. [[User:RadMatter|RadMatter]] [[User talk:RadMatter|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 17:16, 7 January 2022 (UTC) | |||
::: No, we couldn't ''quite'' do that on {{tlx|doctoes}}, because again, we can't split off all the incarnations ''and'' retain the page [[The Doctor (The Brain of Morbius)]], at least in its current form. But even if we could do what you suggest, my point is that this would take up a ''lot'' of space; more than the importance of the individual Morbius Doctors warrants. | |||
::: As for the names, it is one thing that people already on a page explaining the Morbius Doctors will know in context what we mean by "first incarnation"; and another to have page names using those terms. I forgot to mention that in the absence of context, if I see a link to a page called [[First Doctor (something something)]], I'm going to assume it's a page about an alternative counterpart to Hartnell's First Doctor. <span style="color: #baa3d6;font-family:Comic Sans;">[[User:Scrooge MacDuck|'''Scrooge MacDuck''']]</span> <span style="color: #baa3d6;">[[User_talk:Scrooge MacDuck|⊕]]</span> 17:26, 7 January 2022 (UTC) | |||
::::Given the recent interest in splitting Time Lord pages, I think Radmatter's proposal seems very do-able. As they say, splitting would allow for more specific and organized coverage of each of the faces. As the page is now, we need this big table to clearly convey who plays each Doc, and lots of the incarnation-specific info is quite scattered. Plus, we have the fact that some stories, like ''Cold Fusion'', only feature appearances by a few of these Doctors, and distinctions like that cannot be as easily conveyed on a single page, arguably lessening the distinctness of the few Morbius Doctors we know a bit about. Plus, when it comes to the Doctor, significance has never been a factor anywhere else in which incarnations get their own pages; this is a main character and pages with little information other than "There was this face, which looked like this and appeared between two other faces. Here's some BTS." are still quite informative. | |||
::::If we are to separate, the issue of keeping this main page could also be important precedent for other Time Lord incarnation splitting. I think that pages for distinct sets of incarnations would make a lot of sense, with an example adjacent to this issue being the distinct [[Life cycle]] of incarnations from the First to Eleventh Doctors. However, there are several sources by which we could say that this "Doctor" is a distinct Time Lord from the individual we cover on [[The Doctor]], possibly being either [[The Other]] or [[Ulysses|the Doctor's father]], so I think that alone justifies keeping the current page. | |||
:::: Also, using [The Doctor 1 (The Brain of Morbius)] in a diegetic numerical order is IMO the way to go, and if these guys are in a template they can be displayed like |"Morbius" (8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1)|. Treat 'em like they're BCE. [[User:TheChampionOfTime|<span style="font-family:Old English Text MT">CoT</span>]] [[User talk:TheChampionOfTime|<span title="Talk to me">?</span> ]] 19:03, 7 January 2022 (UTC) | |||
::::: I like Champion's solution for the numbering. | |||
::::: Concerning keeping the overall page, I think a good rationale to keep it, without wading into the minefield of regeneration cycles, would be to, going forward, consider it not so much a page about an individual as an overview on the possible identities given in valid sources for the eight "Morbius faces" — in a similar spirit to the likes [[Time Lord messenger (Genesis of the Daleks)]]. <span style="color: #baa3d6;font-family:Comic Sans;">[[User:Scrooge MacDuck|'''Scrooge MacDuck''']]</span> <span style="color: #baa3d6;">[[User_talk:Scrooge MacDuck|⊕]]</span> 19:13, 7 January 2022 (UTC) | |||
:::::: I agree with everything Champion had to say. I do think that this page should be retained and so appreciate Scrooge's rational too. [[User:RadMatter|RadMatter]] [[User talk:RadMatter|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 19:55, 7 January 2022 (UTC) | |||
:::::: I agree with the plan of action proposed by Champion and Scrooge. It makes sense to retain this page as an overview alongside the individual incarnation pages: there's already some precedent for this in "era of a Time Lord's life" pages, like what [[The War Chief]] is to [[The Master]], or what [[K'anpo Rimpoche]] is to [[Ansillon]] or [[The Hermit]]. – [[User:NateBumber|n8]] ([[User talk:NateBumber|☎]]) 21:06, 26 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
::::::: I'm contributing to this discussion in favour of a split; the new illustrated edition of [[Rose (novelisation)|the ''Rose'' novelisation]] has just been released and the scene with Clive Finch's photographs has been updated to included the first and fifth seen ''Morbius'' Doctors. I went to add information to this page, and I found the experience throughly confusing, as it wasn't clear which incarnation was which, and the numbering the incarnations section doesn't align with the numbering in the infobox. As these Doctors are getting more appearances, it makes sense to split them so we can have more fleshed out biographies for each Doctor, instead of this weird solution we currently use. | |||
::::::: Furthermore, if we do a split, we absolutely should have a table displaying which Doctor is which, accompanied by a photograph to clearly identify them; this is a departure from other similar pages where we just have a list, but I feel it is absolutely necessary to do it. {{User:Epsilon the Eternal/signature}} 02:42, 25 November 2023 (UTC) | |||
I agree with the split. These should all have separate pages, as per precedent, and because this would make it easier to cover the appearances we already have and any theoretical new ones. CoT makes good points above, and I agree with their numbering solution. This page, I think, should be retained solely for the BTS info, although I also see the benefit in using it as a page akin to [[Time Lord Messenger (Genesis of the Daleks)]] or [[the Doctor's reality (Death Comes to Time)]]. {{User:Aquanafrahudy/Signature}} 07:38, 25 November 2023 (UTC) | |||
