The Doctor Who "personal canon" meme going around

[scarfman]

Since I don't actually believe in canon, it took me awhile to come up with ten.

1. Rose and Mickey went to bed together for the last time between School Reunion and The Girl in the Fireplace, and realized it was over between them, and that's why Rose's reluctance to have Mickey aboard the TARDIS vanished between episodes. Though obviously not all Mickey's resentments did.
2. Skaro is Dalek for home. To everyone else it means the Dalek origin planet, but to a Dalek it means the capital planet of its faction. It was only Davros' faction's home planet the Doctor destroyed in Remembrance of the Daleks.
3. Both versions of Shada happened. It was necessary for the events to be lived over because Borusa unwound them when he stuck the Timescoop in and lost control of it. (This fix is so not mine that until recently I misremembered that it was worked into the script of the second version.)
4. Of course the Doctor's half human. That's why there's no evidence he has a second heart till he's regenerated twice. Duh.
5. The Doctor used the call to Gallifrey as an excuse; he really dropped Sarah Jane off home in Aberdeen because he thought he'd try dumping a companion once instead of waiting to be dumped, and if he didn't like it better he wouldn't do it again. He hasn't done it again.
6. Time Lords reproduce in the lab and suppress the pairbonding instinct societally, genetically and medically. Time Lords have family and domestic lives that the mainstream viewing audience would find normal. Also (just an observation, not a "personal canon"), what the Doctor answered Martha about the Master being his brother in Utopia was not semantically responsive, and - particularly in this personality - the Doctor is rarely semantically unresponsive unless he's hiding something.
7. The Master we saw during the UNIT years, then saw all decayed on Gallifrey and Traken, then saw subsuming the bodies and lifeforce of Tremas and of Bruce the ambulance driver (among, no doubt, others) - all that was one personality, his thirteenth. By whatever means the Master managed on the occasion of the Time War to acquire another regenerative cycle, Professor Yana was only the second incarnation of the Master we'd ever seen, and Harold Saxon only the third. Except, really the fourth and fifth, because the Monk and the War Chief also were the Master. Everyone who argues that the Monk and/or the War Chief can't've been the Master because their personalities were too different from his can thank Davies and Simm for tanking their argument.
8. Remember the Lois & Clark episodes with H.G. Wells time-travelling? That was actually the Doctor (and "Tempus" was actually the Master). A different incarnation in the middle of his three episodes than in the others, too, if you were paying attention. Also there's no such person as Zathras. And it wasn't Lorne who warned Angel about the postgraduate student plotting to stop time. And...
9. Susan is still alive.
10. The reason the Doctor and Peri still traveled together after he regenerated despite how poorly they got along most of the time was just because the sex was that good.

Comments

[athelind.livejournal.com]

I don't know Who well enough to have a "personal canon", but I could probably come up with a decent one for Star Trek.

[scarfman]

I say go for it.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Hamilton Camp played The Doctor??!!??

[scarfman]

Eventually, everyone plays the Doctor.

[scarfman]

You know, it could be argued that Hamilton Camp played the Doctor in the M*A*S*H episode he was in, too.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

The reason the Doctor and Peri still traveled together after he regenerated despite how poorly they got along most of the time was just because the sex was that good

It's not that the sex was any good, it's just that when he was stark naked, she didn't have to look at The Coat of Many Psychotic Colors

[truthmaker]

Susan is still alive.

Of course she is. It takes more that a post apocalypse society to kill a Gallifrian.
:-)

I had tried to write up my personal cannon, but the meme quickly turned into a thesis :-(

[pedanther]

Remember the Lois & Clark episodes with H.G. Wells time-travelling? That was actually the Doctor (and "Tempus" was actually the Master).

"I know two things right now: The Master is evil and has to be stopped; and Harry Saxon is a darn nice guy."

[melwicker.livejournal.com]

Where did you find that meme?

[scarfman]

It was all over my friendslist. There were a lot of people who responded to it on doctorwho too, but a stop was put to that.

[melwicker.livejournal.com]

My personal DW canon:
1.The Doctor is a superhuman alien hero of the cosmos, yet he has human emotions and feelings like any earth man. The Doctor is a positivist, a scientist and also a Romantic. The Doctor is a noble kind-hearted soul who can make mistakes. He can also be ethically and morally wrong without becoming evil. Thus the Doctor is Good, yet has a dark side, just like everyone else.

2.Gallifreyans have families and children. The Doctor was a child once, and he married and had kids and at least one surviving granddaughter: Susan Foreman.

3.Gallifreyans MAY be related to humans, or they may have actually seeded the planet with microbial life that evolved into us. They may have guided our evolution through genetic engineering. Or it could be a case of convergent evolution.

4 Humanoid and non-humanoid sentient life is abundant throughout the universe. They may not think as we do, but they are out there and they have the same questions to life, the Universe and Everything as we do. (I believe this its true in real life as well.)

[(Anonymous)]

Yay for #9, -gigglesnort- at #10, and as for #5, what about The Deadly Assasin? Unless you have a witty retort ;3

[scarfman]

What do you mean, what about The Deadly Assassin? I don't understand how that relates to number five.

[elliptic-eye.livejournal.com]

2. Makes too much sense not to adopt.

4. Would solve a lot of things. Still doesn't explain how Ten got away with it [in S&J] until Martha, though.

7. Point.

10. I still cannot be swayed from the view that they stayed together because they were both so annoying that they each knew no one else would have them about. But I definitely buy that the sex was that good.