Recorders can also legitimately be called “flutes”. What most people think of as a flute is the German transverse flute, but that’s actually only one kind of flute. Piccolos, fifes, recorders, and certain organ pipes are also called flutes — they all work by passing air over a gap in a tube’s wall (either from inside or outside the tube).
The Doctor frequently referred to his recorder as a flute, in fact (though not exclusively).
Have to point out one notable bit of innaccuracy:
The Eleventh Doctor’s sonic screwdriver didn’t regenerate with him. In fact, the old one was destroyed, and the newly-regenerated TARDIS made him a new one.
You’re welcome.
Ragnarok, perhaps he was confused, Six faced The Rani once and Seven faced her once… Even still, the character was a rather weak foil for The Doctor. They could have done more with her. tsk tsk.
This was REALLY helpful to me! I just started watching the reboot, now on season 2, and I was lost on the backstory. Thanks, Cheezburger! But, I think Christopher Eccleston was better than David Tennant.
Eccleston really doesn’t get near enough love. I wish we could have gotten at least one more season out of him, if not three or four. Ah well, at least we got him, eh? Much as I love most of the other Doctors, I think Eccleston is MY Doctor.
I highly recommend checking out the classic series as well. There’s definite style and budget differences from today’s Who, but it’s still quite entertaining. There’s a Dr. Who wiki if you want more info, too.
The thing about the eighth Doctor saying he was half human, was later revealed by him to be a lie he contrived just to screw with The Master’s head.
Also despite what the Doctor says, he is over 1100, he has a tendancy to talk down his age, not talk it up. Therefore since he once claimed to be about 1012 in his 7th form, and he was in his 8th for more then 100 years, he is definantly no longer in the 900′s.
2 if we don’t count the Paul McGann TVM, which violates canon in so many ways it’s just not funny. Also, there are at least 2 mechanisms by which a Time Lord can gain another full set of regenerations, both of which are canon.
But The Master used up all his regenerations in the 1970′s and we’ve had 4 different Masters since then so if The Doctor knew how he did it there could be no limits.
He attempted to get a new body in The Deadly Assassin, but that would have destroyed Gallifrey. He finally got a new body in The Keeper of Traken, but only by possessing (and ultimately killing) a Trakenite scientist. The Time Lords offer him more lives in The Five Doctors, but never actually do it. He gets another new body in the TV movie, but that’s because he possessed Bruce, a paramedic. The only time he gets an extra regeneration is when the Time Lords resurrected him during the Time War, but given that at that point the whole of time was in flux, the Doctor might find it a bit difficult to ‘resurrect’ himself
It also depends on if the duplicate Doctor counts as a regeneration. If it does, then Matt Smith is TECHNICALLY the 12th Doctor, and there is only one left. Then again, the Time Lords are the ones who put the limitation on regenerations, and they’re gone, so who knows…
5. The TARDIS supposedly disguised itself as a 1960′s era police box, not 1950′s.
6. The 4th Doctor’s scarf was 7 ft long in his first season, and 14 ft. long in subsequent seasons. The red one in his final season might’ve been a tad longer, but the one he had the longest was 14 ft.
5 – The TARDIS diguised itself as a British police box in 1963 (based on transmission date of “An Unearthly Child”), but the basic design was first created in the 1930s, and only began to fall into disuse in the 1970s with the increasing use of 2-way radios and local patrol (panda) cars.
I consider myself fortunate to have seen a good number of the Doctors (some of the 1st and 3rd in reruns, all of the 4th, 5th, 9th, 10th and 11th so far, mostly due to the PBS stations here and their wonky schedules). One thing that always stuck out to me was a point I argued with a friend (and fellow fan) was that despite his dislike for weapons, the Doctor did use them at least 2 times:
the 4th Doctor used a matchlock rifle to kill a giant rat (Episode arc: “Talons of Wang-Chiang”) that was attacking Leela
the 5th Doctor carried (not sure if he used) one to kill the organic part of a Dalek that had gotten loose on Earth.
Useless bit of dumb trivia but when I showed him tapes I had of the episodes, it got me a free steak dinner.
They were destroyed. The time lock was put in place afterwords to keep anyone from changing anything more. Most of the Time War was just that. The Daleks and Time Lords going back and forth through time trying to destroy or prevent the other from existing. Rassilon used a loophole and almost managed to escape the destruction with the signal in the Master’s head, but the Doctor stated several time that the planet and the Daleks “burned together”
the sonic screwdriver wasnt grown in the tardis but made by the doctor on a long, boring night when he needed to install new shelves after chickening out on kissing a girl.
How dare you deface Tennant! *hugs tennant poster on wall* ‘It’s okay I won’t let the nasty people hurt you’
Okay I admit I have a small problem (That I’m overly OBSSESSED with Dr.Who!)
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P.S David Tennant and Christopher Eccleston are good, too.
To me, Tom Baker will always be THE Doctor.
The second doctor didn`t play the flute. He played the recorder.
Thats what I was thinking.
Recorders can also legitimately be called “flutes”. What most people think of as a flute is the German transverse flute, but that’s actually only one kind of flute. Piccolos, fifes, recorders, and certain organ pipes are also called flutes — they all work by passing air over a gap in a tube’s wall (either from inside or outside the tube).
The Doctor frequently referred to his recorder as a flute, in fact (though not exclusively).
Have to point out one notable bit of innaccuracy:
The Eleventh Doctor’s sonic screwdriver didn’t regenerate with him. In fact, the old one was destroyed, and the newly-regenerated TARDIS made him a new one.
You’re welcome.
I still miss K-9.
Tennant era will always be my fav.
One wore reading glasses way before Five.
Seven didn’t ‘often’ fight the Rani, unless once is the new ‘often.’
Ragnarok, perhaps he was confused, Six faced The Rani once and Seven faced her once… Even still, the character was a rather weak foil for The Doctor. They could have done more with her. tsk tsk.
If she only hadn’t gotten that job on “Dallas”….
This was REALLY helpful to me! I just started watching the reboot, now on season 2, and I was lost on the backstory. Thanks, Cheezburger! But, I think Christopher Eccleston was better than David Tennant.
I agree, but I also think that Tennant was better than Smith, although he does have his moments.
Eccleston really doesn’t get near enough love. I wish we could have gotten at least one more season out of him, if not three or four. Ah well, at least we got him, eh? Much as I love most of the other Doctors, I think Eccleston is MY Doctor.
I highly recommend checking out the classic series as well. There’s definite style and budget differences from today’s Who, but it’s still quite entertaining. There’s a Dr. Who wiki if you want more info, too.
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Doctor_Who_Wiki
A bit inaccurate:
1. The Doctor was almost certainly teasing Clyde when he said he could regenerate over 500 times.
2. The seventh Doctor faced the Rani once.
3. As someone else mentioned, it is a new sonic screwdrive not a regenerated one.
4. The fifth Doctor wore a celery stick because it would change color in the presence of certain gases he was allergic to.
On that last one, of course, it was also because he could say, “Look at me, I’m wearing a vegetable.”
(I love Time Crash.)
The thing about the eighth Doctor saying he was half human, was later revealed by him to be a lie he contrived just to screw with The Master’s head.
Also despite what the Doctor says, he is over 1100, he has a tendancy to talk down his age, not talk it up. Therefore since he once claimed to be about 1012 in his 7th form, and he was in his 8th for more then 100 years, he is definantly no longer in the 900′s.
If he only has 12 regenerations we’ve only got one doctor left!!
2 if we don’t count the Paul McGann TVM, which violates canon in so many ways it’s just not funny. Also, there are at least 2 mechanisms by which a Time Lord can gain another full set of regenerations, both of which are canon.
Time Lords have 12 regenerations, but 13 incarnations – regeneration is the process by which he changes. Seeing as we’ve had 10 changes of Doctor, that means he’s used 10 regenerations, and still has two left -> two more Doctors
Oh, and there’s no such thing as canon with Doctor Who:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoniverse#Inclusion_and_continuity
http://www.paulcornell.com/2007/02/canonicity-in-doctor-who.html
But The Master used up all his regenerations in the 1970′s and we’ve had 4 different Masters since then so if The Doctor knew how he did it there could be no limits.
He attempted to get a new body in The Deadly Assassin, but that would have destroyed Gallifrey. He finally got a new body in The Keeper of Traken, but only by possessing (and ultimately killing) a Trakenite scientist. The Time Lords offer him more lives in The Five Doctors, but never actually do it. He gets another new body in the TV movie, but that’s because he possessed Bruce, a paramedic. The only time he gets an extra regeneration is when the Time Lords resurrected him during the Time War, but given that at that point the whole of time was in flux, the Doctor might find it a bit difficult to ‘resurrect’ himself
It also depends on if the duplicate Doctor counts as a regeneration. If it does, then Matt Smith is TECHNICALLY the 12th Doctor, and there is only one left. Then again, the Time Lords are the ones who put the limitation on regenerations, and they’re gone, so who knows…
5. The TARDIS supposedly disguised itself as a 1960′s era police box, not 1950′s.
6. The 4th Doctor’s scarf was 7 ft long in his first season, and 14 ft. long in subsequent seasons. The red one in his final season might’ve been a tad longer, but the one he had the longest was 14 ft.
5 – The TARDIS diguised itself as a British police box in 1963 (based on transmission date of “An Unearthly Child”), but the basic design was first created in the 1930s, and only began to fall into disuse in the 1970s with the increasing use of 2-way radios and local patrol (panda) cars.
The 16th season one was the longest, at around 20 feet. I know this only because I’m in the middle of knitting the darned thing.
Yay Whosday Tuesday!!!!!!!!!!
Just sayin’.
Oh, so full of win!
I consider myself fortunate to have seen a good number of the Doctors (some of the 1st and 3rd in reruns, all of the 4th, 5th, 9th, 10th and 11th so far, mostly due to the PBS stations here and their wonky schedules). One thing that always stuck out to me was a point I argued with a friend (and fellow fan) was that despite his dislike for weapons, the Doctor did use them at least 2 times:
the 4th Doctor used a matchlock rifle to kill a giant rat (Episode arc: “Talons of Wang-Chiang”) that was attacking Leela
the 5th Doctor carried (not sure if he used) one to kill the organic part of a Dalek that had gotten loose on Earth.
Useless bit of dumb trivia but when I showed him tapes I had of the episodes, it got me a free steak dinner.
Don’t forget that the Tenth Doctor carried one while he was fighting the Time Lords just before his regeneration in ‘The End of time’.
“the eleventh doctor recently stated that he could regenerate over 500 times”
well he can then why doesn’t he regenerate till be becomes Ginger?
Because it “feels like dieing”
Why die when you could just dye ?
i doubt he was being serious when he said that.
did anyone else notice each time he regenerates its to an even younger form
This show and all it’s fans are ghey.
But nothing is as ‘ghey’ as trolls who can’t spell.
Or use punctuation correctly.
‘It’s'? Lolwut?
The bit at the bottom about the time war is also wrong. Both sides were not destroyed. They were time locked.
They were destroyed. The time lock was put in place afterwords to keep anyone from changing anything more. Most of the Time War was just that. The Daleks and Time Lords going back and forth through time trying to destroy or prevent the other from existing. Rassilon used a loophole and almost managed to escape the destruction with the signal in the Master’s head, but the Doctor stated several time that the planet and the Daleks “burned together”
DAVID TENNANT FTW!!!!!!!!!
the sonic screwdriver wasnt grown in the tardis but made by the doctor on a long, boring night when he needed to install new shelves after chickening out on kissing a girl.
How dare you deface Tennant! *hugs tennant poster on wall* ‘It’s okay I won’t let the nasty people hurt you’
Okay I admit I have a small problem (That I’m overly OBSSESSED with Dr.Who!)
TOM BAKER TOM BAKER TOM BAKER TOM BAKER TOM BAKER TOM BAKER TOM BAKER TOM BAKER TOM BAKER TOM BAKER TOM BAKER TOM BAKER TOM BAKER TOM BAKER TOM BAKER TOM BAKER TOM BAKER TOM BAKER
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P.S David Tennant and Christopher Eccleston are good, too.