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==Merger with Reg Cranfield== | |||
The information on [[Reg Cranfield]] might suggest that this page and that page should be merged. But reading Reg Cranfield's page there's nothing exactly that links him to the policeman seen at the start of ''An Unearthly Child'', and as this page notes Fred Rawlings is also a contender for the role of the policeman. | The information on [[Reg Cranfield]] might suggest that this page and that page should be merged. But reading Reg Cranfield's page there's nothing exactly that links him to the policeman seen at the start of ''An Unearthly Child'', and as this page notes Fred Rawlings is also a contender for the role of the policeman. | ||
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BTW, my headcanon is that Fred Rawlings was a normal, human police officer, and NOT the policeman seen in An Unearthly Child, while Reg Cranfield WAS said policeman, who was created by the TARDIS complete with a fake backstory including a dead father, with Whittam actually being the same entity as Cranfield, with new false memories created by the TARDIS automatically rewriting his backstory to protect against the Shroud's attack. Not strictly relevant to editing of this page as it's basically just a fantheory but just I thought may as well mention it while we're on the topic. [[User:NightmareofEden|NightmareofEden]] [[User talk:NightmareofEden|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 11:49, 28 August 2021 (UTC) | BTW, my headcanon is that Fred Rawlings was a normal, human police officer, and NOT the policeman seen in An Unearthly Child, while Reg Cranfield WAS said policeman, who was created by the TARDIS complete with a fake backstory including a dead father, with Whittam actually being the same entity as Cranfield, with new false memories created by the TARDIS automatically rewriting his backstory to protect against the Shroud's attack. Not strictly relevant to editing of this page as it's basically just a fantheory but just I thought may as well mention it while we're on the topic. [[User:NightmareofEden|NightmareofEden]] [[User talk:NightmareofEden|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 11:49, 28 August 2021 (UTC) | ||
: Wait, stop, stop, ''stop''. Fred Rawlings is as much as the same individual as the policeman from ''An Unearthly Child'' as Bernard Whittham is. | |||
: Reg Cranfield was initially assumed to be the policeman from ''AUC'', hence the original proposed merger; however, upon inspecting ''[[Shroud of Sorrow (novel)|Shroud of Sorrow]]'', it seems pretty explicit that Fred Rawlings was the individual from ''AUC''. | |||
{{quote|This wasn’t his regular beat. He’d swapped shifts at the last minute with his drinking buddy, PC Rawlings, who claimed he was coming down with the flu. Reg wasn’t convinced. Fred was as healthy as a horse; he’d never had so much as a sniffle in all the time they’d known each other. Sergeant Clough reckoned it all had something to do with what had happened last night, when Fred had returned to the nick as white as a sheet, blabbering on about ‘people in the mist who weren’t really there’. More likely he’d stopped off for one too many bracers at the Rose and Crown, but Fred had swapped with him plenty of times over the past few months so he could go and visit his dad.|[[PROSE]]: ''[[Shroud of Sorrow (novel)|Shroud of Sorrow]]''}} | |||
: From this, it is pretty clear that Reg and Fred are absolutely not the same inindividual, but two separate individuals named both in homage to the disputed actors of the original policeman, as well as essentially serving the same job. | |||
: But as I have previously said, Fred is absolutely the same character as the policeman as Bernard Whittham is. <div style="background-color:#0E234E; border: solid 0.5px gold; display: inline; white-space: nowrap;">[[doctorwho:user:Epsilon the Eternal|<span style="background:#0E234E; color:white"><code>Epsilon</code></span>]][[doctorwho:user talk:Epsilon the Eternal|📯]] [[doctorwho:special:Contributions/Epsilon the Eternal|📂]]</div> 12:16, 28 August 2021 (UTC) | |||
