Please Allow Me To Rant

[romana_dante]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

You've got to be kidding me.

Apparently, the BBC have just issued a "statement" or something (actually, it was a FAQ page) wherein they tackle the question "Is the Doctor Half-human?" and their response is "Yes, on his mum's side. It was established in the TV movie; though purists tend to disregard this."

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[maniacal_math]

THE DOCTOR ISN'T HALF HUMAN.

Why? BECAUSE I SAY SO.

AND I HAVE POWER OVER ALL.

[romana_dante]

Well, if anyone has power over it, it would be you, being Eight and all.

THE DOCTOR ISN'T HALF HUMAN BECAUSE EIGHT!MUN SAYS HE'S NOT!!!

So there.

[atraphoenix]

Doctor Who canon is extremely nebulous. What with the Eighth Doctor audios, the PDAs, Big Finish, etc, people generally choose to believe what they want. I believe Susan and the Doctor are genetically related, and that Romana did become President of Gallifrey after leaving E-Space.

I don't believe that the Doctor is half-human, but if people want to think that, they're more than welcome to.

[romana_dante]

I agree. That's one of the great things about Doctor Who. You can pick and choose whatever suits you, and somehow, somewhere, it usually manages to work out.

However, on a different note, I completely agree about the Doctor and Susan. I've always assumed they were genetically related, I've never really had a problem with it.

[atraphoenix]

It's only something that people have been pulling apart about recently. I think the idea of the Doctor reproducing - looms or otherwise - is just too much for some fans, hehe. Carole Ann Ford herself is rather bemused by the idea. She and William Hartnell used to talk about it a lot themselves, since they have so little information to go on in the scripts!