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From: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho
Subject: Re: more inconsistencies in "Five Doctors"
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Date: Mon, 30-Dec-85 20:00:38 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 30 20:00:38 1985
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>From: ags@pucc-h (Dave Seaman)
>Message-ID: <2539@pucc-h>
>Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
>
>In article <11303@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> kupfer@ucbvax.UUCP (Mike Kupfer) writes:
>>Something else that's been bothering me about The 5 Doctors for quite
>>awhile:  when Troughton's Doctor is confronted with the images of Zoe
>>and Jamie, he deduces that they can't be real, because the real Zoe and
>>Jamie were returned to their respective times by the Time Lords and
>>made to forget their time with the Doctor.  HOW DID HE - the 2nd Doctor
>>- KNOW?
>
>For that matter, how did Pertwee's Doctor know the reason for Sarah's
>astonishment, that he was supposed to be "all teeth and curls, but
>not yet."
>
>It appears that the doctors have some sort of shared "memory."

The problem may be that we think of the Doctor's story linearly, following
the episodes. In the case of a time traveller, this can not be so.

Just because Pertwee's Doctor spends most of his time in the early 1970's,
there is no reason that Tom Baker's Doctor could not visit 1966. The First
Law only covers, I believe, two "versions" of the same person existing in
the same time/space region, not non-linear histories. This means that an
earlier Doctor could learn of a later Doctor.

At the risk of being slightly silly, imagine a scene in "The Two Doctors"
where Colin Baker brings Troughton's Doctor "up to date".


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