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::Purely speculative, but perhaps, having fled the Schism, exposure to which we're later told is one of the essential elements in brewing a Time Lord, he may not have had the ability to regenerate at this point, and thus his view of himself as an old man, having apparently gone on the run in his twilight years with nothing left to lose could be entirely genuine. Perhaps its only when he later does inadvertently receive a massive dose of temporal energy - from the Time Destructor, in ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)]]'', that everything changes for him. | ::Purely speculative, but perhaps, having fled the Schism, exposure to which we're later told is one of the essential elements in brewing a Time Lord, he may not have had the ability to regenerate at this point, and thus his view of himself as an old man, having apparently gone on the run in his twilight years with nothing left to lose could be entirely genuine. Perhaps its only when he later does inadvertently receive a massive dose of temporal energy - from the Time Destructor, in ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)]]'', that everything changes for him. | ||
::That he is "young in Time Lord terms" is irrelevant. By any objective measure, by the time we first meet him the Doctor is clearly an old man. It's just that he's actually even older than he looks, and that there are also people of his species even older than him. To put it in human terms, a 60-year-old is young compared to a 90-year-old, but that doesn't mean the 60-year-old somehow stops being old. | ::That he is "young in Time Lord terms" is irrelevant. By any objective measure, by the time we first meet him the Doctor is clearly an old man. It's just that he's actually even older than he looks, and that there are also people of his species even older than him. To put it in human terms, a 60-year-old is young compared to a 90-year-old, but that doesn't mean the 60-year-old somehow stops being old. And even if he is young in Time Lord terms, he is still incredibly old by the terms of the ''humans he is talking to''. | ||
:::::The real world reason is they hadn't decided he was a "Time Lord" yet. The in-universe reason is confirmed by Time Crash, in which the Tenth Doctor states that at this point in his life he truly WAS young, but acting "old and grumpy and important". | :::::The real world reason is they hadn't decided he was a "Time Lord" yet. The in-universe reason is confirmed by Time Crash, in which the Tenth Doctor states that at this point in his life he truly WAS young, but acting "old and grumpy and important". | ||
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