A question about Doctor Who

[Quiet Stranger]

Now this may have been answered a LONG time ago in the series itself and many of you might have asked yourselves this same question.

If the Doctor is so lonely why doesn't he just go back in time before the great war between the Time Lords and the Daleks and warn them or save another time lord?

Yes I realize the whole "Oh, if it was destined to happen you mustn't change anything" but he's just always so lonely being the last timelord or can't he clone himself or like I don't know have sex with Martha or Rose or one of his other companions? Then go forward in time to when his song or daughter is an adult and take them on an adventure?

 

[Deofuta]

Hmm, this presents a good point. Since I only started watching it in the reboot, and have only watched up to season 4, I cant tell you for sure. Perhaps the time of the war has been so corrupted it is impossible to travel to that time period?

 

[sdafdfhrye3245]

Because the time lords started the war(or something like that) they are bad people and he chooses to remember them as they were before the war when they were good but doesnt want them around and the main thing here is he doesn`t want to save them. I also think there were hits that he time locked them but I could be wrong.

 

[lasherman]

If I'm not mistaken, that whole area of time and space has been "time-locked", or something, and it is impossible to interfere.

Also, near the end of the time war, the Time Lords had become such a violent and destructive people that it was for the good of the universe for them to die out.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

It really messes up time, and the War is Time Locked to prevent such things. He is lonely after the time war which is why he has companions. As for sex? Well some things aren't really shown on the BBC

 

[manaman]

I figured they where going to have him run into his daughter again.

 

[dekkarax]

I think it's because the time war happens "outside" time, or something silly like that. I think Gallifrey (the time lord homeworld) was also "outside", meaning you could only travel to Gallifrey's present.

Don't quote me on that though.

 

[DragonsAteMyMarbles]

He can't cross his own timeline, without direct intervention from a higher-up in Time Lord society. If he does, then he risks the repercussions of a <url=http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Blinovitch_Limitation_Effect>big explosion or <url=http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Reaper>giant flying lizards of doom.

 

[AkJay]

The Doctor often talks about fixed points in time; A thing which, no matter what you do, will always have the same outcome because it was destined that way. The most recent example of this was in "Vincent and The Doctor" where, even though they made him very happy, he still ended up committing suicide, because he was a "fixed point in time".

 

[bushwhacker2k]

They actually return but I don't wanna spoil that doctor who made-for-tv movie...

 

[oliveira8]

I'm not sure but....I think the Time Lords and Daleks are suppose to be locked in another dimension in constant war and their existence is gone from time itself, to prevent something bad of happening. Dunno, it's just my way of thinking.

For the other questions even if he has kids or tries to hook up with companions they can still die from old age. He can't cause he lives on forever, it probably would mess him up more than he is.

Meh, I dunno I bet some of the Doctor Who experts residents, will come and answer all the questions properly.

 

[Quiet Stranger]

They actually return but I don't wanna spoil that doctor who made-for-tv movie...

Which one is it? I really wanna see it now!!

 

[sdafdfhrye3245]

that is long past and actually where I got my info from ;D

 

[bushwhacker2k]

They actually return but I don't wanna spoil that doctor who made-for-tv movie...

Which one is it? I really wanna see it now!!

Check out 'The End of Time'... that should be the name of it.

 

[CloggedDonkey]

The first question has been answered, but as for why he doesn't just do the nasty with a companion is that 1) he's a couple hundred years old, and he knows that a few hundred years is too big a difference, 2) it wouldn't work, as they are different species, and 3) The Doctor doesn't love them, he just sees them as companions, nothing more, and nothing less.

 

[silver wolf009]

They are in an era that is time locked. This means that is supposed to be impossible to time travel to.

EDIT: timelords and humans cant mate without the child dieing of thier brains not being able to hold all the info they process.

 

[sdafdfhrye3245]

The Doctor doesn't love them, he just sees them as companions, nothing more, and nothing less.

I guess you never saw the last episodes with Rose

 

[Frungy]

Personally I think he's full of self-loathing, which may be why the series appeals to the British so much . He was responsible for the destruction of the Time Lords, and it was a choice he's been faced with a number of times, and each time he's made the same decision. That doesn't mean he's happy to make it. In fact his loathing of killing may in no small part spring from his guilt over his genocide of his entire race and his desire to prove to himself that he's not a "killer", and that he can find other solutions.

This self-loathing translates into his personal relationships. When he finds himself becoming too happy or suspects his partner may actually love him then he pushes them away or abandons them, because he simply can't handle the idea of being loved. He likes company, but the idea of a close personal relationship is actually painful.

Beneath his happy-go-lucky facade is an individual in constant pain, self-loathing and fighting an impossible fight to prove to himself and the universe that he's not a bad guy, but every time he fails to save everyone its more evidence to himself that he's a failure, and that he can never atone.

I love the character because in so many ways he's the most "human" individual on the show.

 

[CloggedDonkey]

The Doctor doesn't love them, he just sees them as companions, nothing more, and nothing less.

I guess you never saw the last episodes with Rose

No, I haven't. In fact, BBC America has never played any episodes with Rose while I have been watching (a good two years now) come to think. Maybe that's why he doesn't ever do anything with the companions.

And before you ask, I can't watch the episodes online. The BBC has blocked them here in America.

 

[Wicky_42]

Think about it: a war that Time Lords lost - there's going to be some SERIOUSLY fucked up temporal shit there. I dunno about any of this 'time-locked' stuff, but if the war saw the end of the time lords I'd say that such a cataclysm would probably not be hard to construe as making time travel around then pretty troublesome...