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At the end of his life!

At the beginning of the TV movie, the Seventh Doctor stated that he was nearly at the end of his current life. Therefore from the perspective of the Doctor, the TV movie must have took place many decades after the Seventh Doctor's previous adventure. -- Freemarket 07:30, 1 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No, that's speculative, even if we take into account the Seventh Doctor's aged appearance. At best, you can say it's "near the end". --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 10:58, 1 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, the Eighth Doctor, in narration, said that he was nearing the end of his seventh life. Whether this is knowledge the Eighth Doctor had in retrospect, or whether the Seventh Doctor knew at the time that his incarnation would soon come to an end isn't clear. However, there's nothing either stated or shown on screen to indicate the Seventh Doctor had any awareness that his life would soon end. It's not like the Third Doctor in "Planet of the Spiders" knowing he'd be exposed to devastating energies by going to Metabelis III and confronting the giant spider. Enki Nabu (talk) 19:44, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Seventh Doctor image

Why has the image of the Seventh Doctor in this article (and others where the same image is used) been replaced with one that's half in darkness and showing him wearing clothes he only wore in the television movie? A wikipedia member with an awful username 09:34, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Family/Time War

I just reverted this addition to the "biography" section:

In the serial The Curse of Fenric the Seventh Doctor is asked about his family. His mood darkens and he replies he is unsure of their fate due to "the war" which may be an early reference to the Time War rather than the Second World War, the period in which the serial takes place.

First of all, the exchange in The Curse of Fenric is more ambiguous than this text suggests. The Doctor doesn't explicitly say that he is unsure "due to 'the war' ". The dialogue goes like this:

KATHLEEN: Do you have any family yourself?

DOCTOR: I don't know.
KATHLEEN: Oh, I'm sorry. It's the war, isn't it? Must be terrible not knowing.

DOCTOR: Yes.

That "yes" could be "yes, it's due to the war", but it could also simply be "yes, it's terrible not knowing". We shouldn't force one interpretation on readers.

Also, it's original research to connect "the war" specifically to the Time War — even if we assume that the Doctor is thinking of a "war" as the reason why he doesn't know his family's status, it could just as easily refer to some other conflict.

Now, if some reliable source has suggested that in retrospect, this line could be interpreted as a reference to the Time War, then we can mention that with a reference to that source. But if it's just one fan's opinion, we can't include it here. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 22:09, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

15 Oct 2012

This has been part of the article for 6 months but it has gone unchallenged. I will citation required it but I suspect it is a dodgy edit that slipped through the net.

"Towards the end of the series, producer John Nathan Turner had planned to reveal that the Doctor had been God throughout, and had been travelling around the universe trying to amend his mistakes. However, possibly as a result of the show's cancellation in 1989, this was never established. " Mtpaley (talk) 23:51, 10 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

They're probably getting confused with Silver Nemesis where the writer pitched the idea that the Doctor was God and wrote the story around that. It's mentioned in the making-of documentary. DonQuixote (talk) 12:16, 11 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Last regular appearance

The infobox lists the Seventh Doctor's last regular appearance as the 1996 TV movie, but his tenure as ending in 1989. Other articles list the first and last episodes in which that incarnation of the Doctor was the series lead. For consistency, shouldn't the last regular appearance be "Survival (1989)"?--Trystan (talk) 03:28, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

See reply at Talk:Fourth_Doctor#Tenure_start_date. MarnetteD|Talk 18:58, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]