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92 In my CONCLUSION to Chapter 6, I point out that Susan has not graduated from the Gallifreyan Academy and is therefore not a Time Lord. Charles Mento has questioned this conclusion. Here then is an additional clue that suggests that Susan is not a Time Lord: It has struck me as being very odd that if Susan was a highly-educated Time Lord, having graduated from the Academy, why would she insist on attending a ‘primitive’ school in 1963 London? What could she possibly learn at Coal Hill School that she hadn’t already learned on Gallifrey? She doesn’t need that education. Is Susan simply attending the school to pass away the time while the Doctor fixes the TARDIS? The five-month-plus stay in Shoreditch 1963 wasn’t planned, so she can’t be at Coal Hill so she could learn more about humans and Earth. The Doctor must have gone to a lot of trouble and effort to get Susan enrolled at the school (such as creating a fake identity and background, etc), so unless he knew they’d be there for more than five months, why bother when in all likelihood the TARDIS could be fixed at any time in the near future and they’d be leaving? Susan does say her five months in London were the happiest of her life, but there is really nothing to support this claim on screen. It is clear from the flashback scenes in the very first episode that Susan is frustrated by the education system at the time (a fact borne out by Ian and Barbara’s comments about their unusual pupil), so why does she persist? She can’t have many friends (or certainly she’s never been able to invite any of them to her home), so she has nothing special to stay for. In my mind, Susan does need the
education on Earth as a substitute for what she is missing on her home
planet. Ergo, she is not a Time Lord… (Added 25 January 2002) HALF-HUMAN?
Page 94 A Calling To
Earth: second column, first paragraph. I have noted that the second Doctor
twice comments on the fact that the TARDIS keeps landing on Earth, and that
it is possible that it is the Time Lords' doing. Another possibility is that
it is the TARDIS: perhaps the ship has somehow received (from the Matrix?)
the foreknowledge that the Doctor will be put on trial and exiled. To ensure
that the Time Lords exile the Doctor on Earth, the TARDIS deliberately keeps
landing on the planet - so the Time Lords will note the frequency of the
Doctor's landings there, and choose that planet as the place to exile him! Page 100–101 The Faces of
Morbius: There is an additional quotation to add to those on page 100: In episode one
of The Brain Of Morbius, when Solon comments on the Doctor's
magnificent head, the Doctor replies: "I have had several". This is
a curious comment, given that we see all those faces during the mind-bending
contest, which only adds to the possible view that the fourth Doctor is
unaware that he might have had more than three previous incarnations - or at
least not that he would admit to, anyway! THE UNIT YEARS
Page 131 “1980” --- SOLUTION THREE (added 27/2/01) A third alternative is that
Sarah does come from 1980, or at least the Sarah who is in Pyramids Of
Mars does. My theory is that the Sarah in Pyramids Of Mars is not
the same Sarah seen in the previous 12 stories and the subsequent 5 stories;
she is the same woman, but for this one TV story only she is not from the
1970s. On the basis that we are seeing the Doctor’s adventures
in strict chronological order, this is not necessarily so of his companions.
The sequence of possible events is this: at the conclusion to Planet Of
Evil the Doctor and Sarah do successfully return to UNIT’s London HQ,
five minutes before they left Loch Ness, as they planned to do at the end of Terror
Of The Zygons. The Doctor then takes off in the TARDIS on his own, and
travels solo for at least 100 years - during which he encounters the Mordee
expedition (see The Face Of Evil) which must happen at this point in
the Doctor’s timestream (see THE DOCTOR’S AGE). During this time, the Doctor
arrives in 1980 where he meets an older Sarah Jane Smith. (UNIT has relocated
again to the country house from The Three Doctors, which explains why
UNIT HQ is in London in Zygons but the Doctor and Sarah are bound for
the country HQ in Pyramids). The older Sarah accompanies the Doctor in
the TARDIS for a time. During his recent solo travels the Doctor has become
more and more broody realising that he no longer wishes to be part of UNIT.
It is while trying to get back to 1980 to return Sarah home that they are
pulled off course and have the Pyramids Of Mars adventure… The Doctor subsequently returns
this Sarah to UNIT HQ in 1980, then travels on his own for a further period
of time, eventually returning to 1973 where he is reunited with the ‘younger’
Sarah (from post-Planet Of Evil). They resume their travels in the
TARDIS as seen on TV. When they once again head back for 1973 they end up on
Oseidon and foil The Android Invasion. A few months later, in early
1974, at the end of The Hand Of Fear, Sarah leaves the Doctor. As she
departs the TARDIS control room, the Doctor says “till we meet again, Sarah”,
knowing full well that she will meet his earlier-self in seven years’ time.
(And much later - from his own perspective - the Doctor delivers K9 Mark 3 to
Sarah’s South Croydon residence in 1979, however she doesn’t open K9’s case
until December 1981, over a year after her adventure in 1911…) Okay, so the Sarah in Pyramids doesn’t
look the same age as the Sarah in K9 And Company but I have noted
elsewhere that actors’ ages aren’t always a reliable dating tool… To summarise, Sarah’s TV adventures occur in this order: The
Time Warrior, Invasion Of The Dinosaurs, Death To The Daleks, The Monster Of
Peladon, Planet Of The Spiders, Robot, The Ark In Space, The Sontaran
Experiment, Genesis Of The Daleks, Revenge Of The Cybermen, Terror Of The
Zygons, Planet Of Evil, The Android Invasion, The Brain Of Morbius, The Seeds
Of Doom, The Masque Of Mandragora, The Hand Of Fear, Pyramids Of Mars, K9 And
Company, The Five Doctors. Page: 132-134 What Others Have
Said: my list of BBC novels only included the books I had read at the time
of publication of TIMELINK. I will add further titles and dates to
this web-page as I read more of the books but only if they warrant mention: Books – Fiction The Pescatons: in the original
1976 LP version of this story, the date is given simply as "the present
day". In the 1991 novelisation, it is "the mid-1970s". Verdigris: is set just
prior to The Three Doctors, the date is May 1973. Deep Blue: set six months
after The Green Death, and no more than 12 years before Tegan's time
(1984), which is circa 1972. Last of the
Gaderene: set before The Green Death, it has been 30 odd years since th
Second World War, around 1975. The King of
Terror: Set in 1999, it is mentioned that the events of Battlefield took
place over two years previously. The Brigadier, in 2050, recalls the events
of Season Seven; these were 80 years ago, eg the 1970s. Rags: The concert is
to take place on Tuesday 10 May [page 40], which makes the year 1977,
although there is a reference to Sham ' 79 on page 7. (added 8 July 2001) STORYFILE Page 245 Underworld Story Link: What is the
Doctor painting in the inner room? How about the casing for the new Mark Two
version of K9! (added 23 April
2001) Page 254 Destiny Of The Daleks Story Link: The number of
years between Genesis of the Daleks and Destiny of the Daleks
is 109, not 190. (Added 8 July 2001)
STORY ORDER
Page 321-322: the date for Horror
Of Fang Rock should be 1902, and the date for The Enemy of the World should
be 2013 (this error has been corrected for subsequent reprints). |
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