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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: diddly on January 11, 2021, 09:39:58 AM
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Last night I watched a Rifftrax treatment of Dr Who and the Daleks (https://www.rifftrax.com/dr-who-and-the-daleks) on Amazon Prime. It's a terrible movie from 1965, but stars Peter Cushing as Doctor Who, and much like the fantastic Curse of the Fatal Death (https://youtu.be/tp_Fw5oDMao) is considered non-canon. This was referenced a few times during the riffing as a comfort, thank goodness it's not canon.
Well, after certain revelations in season 12 of Doctor Who, I put to you that it can indeed be canonical! Here are arguments against being canonical, and why they no longer apply:
- The canonical Doctor has no knowledge of being Peter Cushing - Technically we don't know everything The Doctor knows, but we do now know there are Doctors they don't remember
- Peter Cushing's Doctor has no knowledge of being anyone else - As we've learned, the Time Lords somehow kept The Doctor's other identities secret
- Peter Cushing's Doctor is human - The Doctor's fogwatch can turn him human
- Peter Cushing's Tardis is rubbish - We've seen the Tardis interior redesigned many times
- Peter Cushing's Susan, Barbara, and Ian are different than William Hartnell's companions - No two humans can have the same name, eh?
- Peter Cushing's Daleks are morons - Agreed. Chalk it up to eons of isolation. Their circuitry goes bad and they have to reinvent their history
Have I missed any?