... and you know what else, the real life age gap between Billie and Chris didn't make one iota of a difference in their intense and amazing chemistry. In 2005 she was 23 and he was 41...yet the age gap doesn't register like it should. Idk why, I'm usually really sensitive to age gap between Actors.
I love Rose's comment here. She's totally thinking of Nine as a potential boyfriend, or she'd never say that!
The canon hound in me always itches at the Age Problem. The Doctor should be well over a thousand by the time he's Nine -- he had already reached a thousand more or less by the time he was Seven. So I always wonder why he says 900? Any head canon on why he would say that??
The canon hound in me always itches at the Age Problem. The Doctor should be well over a thousand by the time he's Nine -- he had already reached a thousand more or less by the time he was Seven. So I always wonder why he says 900? Any head canon on why he would say that??
Maybe because part of the Time War didn't just erase his species but bits of himself as well, like adventures he can't quiet remember because they ceased to exist in normal time and space?
It's one of those big gaps in canon we never talk about (like the, "I'm half human, on my mother's side" from The Movie), but I have to remind myself that it wasn't just the Daleks and the Time Lords that got the boot, it was every advanced civilization that knew about them. That's why Ten was called a "legend" a lot.
I love this scene. I never noticed the age difference. Maybe because I was pining over Chris Eccleston so much :P I just thought they were explosive on screen so much so they left me thinking we've come a long way since Jon Pertwee. :)
Hahaha! This scene makes me laugh SO hard. I think most of my fandom couples have an age gap (whether questionable or slight), but these two take the cake. It does seem like the Doctor's all, 'Oh, I said nine hundred, let's just say that's my age.'
When I first saw this scene and he said, "Nine hundred years of time and space..." I always thought that's how long he'd been traveling for that long, so when I heard him say that was how old he is, I was like, "SURE Doctor, sure." Apparently, this wouldn't be the first time he lied about his age...
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The canon hound in me always itches at the Age Problem. The Doctor should be well over a thousand by the time he's Nine -- he had already reached a thousand more or less by the time he was Seven. So I always wonder why he says 900? Any head canon on why he would say that??
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Maybe because part of the Time War didn't just erase his species but bits of himself as well, like adventures he can't quiet remember because they ceased to exist in normal time and space?
It's one of those big gaps in canon we never talk about (like the, "I'm half human, on my mother's side" from The Movie), but I have to remind myself that it wasn't just the Daleks and the Time Lords that got the boot, it was every advanced civilization that knew about them. That's why Ten was called a "legend" a lot.
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When I first saw this scene and he said, "Nine hundred years of time and space..." I always thought that's how long he'd been traveling for that long, so when I heard him say that was how old he is, I was like, "SURE Doctor, sure." Apparently, this wouldn't be the first time he lied about his age...
It's okay, Doctor and Rose FTW!
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