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**Chris** · 02-03-2020, 20:08

It’s science fantasy, aimed at families and accessible to primary school age children. It has never been what the black tee shirt brigade frequently say they remember it to be. If you want technical manuals, stick to Star Trek.

I just got a chance to see the finale and loved it.

The show has been at best ambivalent towards Gallifrey since the 2005 revival. The way they have dealt with it is rather good, in every way as vast as what the team behind the New Adventures novels tried to do in the 1990s but in my view rather more faithful to the spirit of the show.

The NAs tried to make the Doctor more mysterious by hugely expanding the lore of Gallifrey in a way you couldn’t comprehend without thoroughly understanding a whole pile of backstory in addition to fresh snippets often buried within dense, not always well-written original novels, produced while the show was off the air with no obvious means of revival. The TV series has done it by offering an accessible summary of the lore of Gallifrey (without any of the loombollox), then sterilising it and leaving us with a deeper mystery. If the Doctor is the alien child whose genetic code gave the Time Lords the ability to regenerate, but was found abandoned at the mouth of a gateway to some unknown corner of the universe, who is the Doctor really? What is her home planet? What race is she?

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Chris Trollsplatter Cable Forum Team Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 36,910	Re: Doctor Who It’s science fantasy, aimed at families and accessible to primary school age children. It has never been what the black tee shirt brigade frequently say they remember it to be. If you want technical manuals, stick to Star Trek. I just got a chance to see the finale and loved it. The show has been at best ambivalent towards Gallifrey since the 2005 revival. The way they have dealt with it is rather good, in every way as vast as what the team behind the New Adventures novels tried to do in the 1990s but in my view rather more faithful to the spirit of the show. The NAs tried to make the Doctor more mysterious by hugely expanding the lore of Gallifrey in a way you couldn’t comprehend without thoroughly understanding a whole pile of backstory in addition to fresh snippets often buried within dense, not always well-written original novels, produced while the show was off the air with no obvious means of revival. The TV series has done it by offering an accessible summary of the lore of Gallifrey (without any of the loombollox), then sterilising it and leaving us with a deeper mystery. If the Doctor is the alien child whose genetic code gave the Time Lords the ability to regenerate, but was found abandoned at the mouth of a gateway to some unknown corner of the universe, who is the Doctor really? What is her home planet? What race is she? Last edited by Chris; 02-03-2020 at 20:16.