The Doctor's Every Journey 97
jc79 writes "David McCandless of InformationIsBeautiful.net has created a crowdsourced dataset of every time travel journey the Doctor made in every episode of the series since 1963. Who wants to visualise it?" Previous efforts have resulted in this amazing visualization of time travel intersecting Bill & Ted, Back to the Future, Time Bandits, Buck Rogers, Planet of the Apes and many more.
Cut it with the "crowdsourcing" bullshit. (Score:2, Insightful)
"Crowdsourcing" is one of the stupidest Web 2.0 terms yet devised.
Have some respect! (Score:3, Insightful)
In the name of the late Senator Ted Stevens, they are TUBES man, TUBES!
Re:Have some respect! (Score:3, Insightful)
Who's with me?
Re:Missing episodes (Score:3, Insightful)
He was 750 in the first season. Some of his off-screen adventures we know. Susan looked at a book on Revolutionary France and exclaimed that it wasn't right. Well, how did she know? The answer would seem obvious. She later mentions that the TARDIS has been a Sedan chair and an Iconic pillar. Given the gaps in her historical knowledge, it should be possible to infer which periods/places would most likely have been involved. (Susan only knows Earth history to the extent that she has been there, so what she knows = what she remembers from being there. She has almost zero background information from other sources.)
Tom Baker's scarf was knitted by Nostradamus' wife. I could see the First Doctor accepting it as a gift then throwing it into a junk box when he returned to the TARDIS. I can't see it making it that far with the Second Doctor. The third would have refused it as outrageous.
The First Doctor's remarks about birds in an alien sky imply that Earth is not the only world he visited in his pre-series travels after leaving Gallifrey. It's hard to infer from that what worlds he has been on, though.
Using the the screen age:real age ratio for known first regenerations (there aren't many), I estimate Gallifreyans age at roughly 1/5th the rate of humans. On that basis, Susan is much too young to have graduated from the Time Academy. Romana was 160 and had only just graduated when she met The Doctor, Susan was less than half that - probably closer to 75 actual Earth years in order to appear only 15. We don't know how old she was when she left, but I'd be surprised if she'd spent more than 5-10 Earth-years traveling with The Doctor. Especially not with such limited knowledge of the universe. Given that the travels involve maybe a few days on each world at most, you're looking at well over a thousand adventures.
(Perhaps her screaming so much was a warning sign of post-traumatic stress disorder.)
This ignores any adventures The Doctor had prior to traveling with Susan. We know that he spent time working with a monk outside of the city on Gallifrey (Spider of the Planets). Given that that was not safe territory, he likely had more than a few scrapes there. Based on interview tapes with Carol Ann Ford, we know that she and William Hartnell thought it most likely they'd escaped from a war or cataclysm on their own world. The only such war we have any in-series knowledge about was the rebellion of Morbius, and The Doctor seemed rather more... aware of him than those present at the time of Morbius' second attempt. On that basis, I'll say that although we have no real knowledge of why The Doctor left, this seems more likely than the rather contrived and strained explanation regarding the Hand of Omega.
So escaping from the uprising may well have been Susan's first "real" adventure. It seems a more likely explanation for her being there than looking after her grandfather (who, frankly, looked after her rather better than she did of him).
Re:Dr Who and the Daleks, 1965 c Peter Cushing (Score:3, Insightful)