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[Allezfan]

How about doctor NO.

The actors are always credited as doctor who in the end credits.

 

[icburns]

The actors are always credited as doctor who in the end credits.

"Although listed in the on-screen credits for nearly twenty years as "Doctor Who" or "Dr Who", the Doctor is never really called by that name in the series, except in a tongue-in-cheek manner."

Don't make me go all Damon on you lot.
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[Allezfan]

"Although listed in the on-screen credits for nearly twenty years as "Doctor Who" or "Dr Who", the Doctor is never really called by that name in the series, except in a tongue-in-cheek manner."

Don't make me go all Damon on you lot.
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He signs his name as D. Who at one point.

 

[icburns]

He signs his name as D. Who at one point.

In what context? It's a nickname that he's adopted over 900 years of the same question, most like. Much of the Doctor's early history has been explored when it was only implied before.

I think our fault is in directly comparing the new and old series. While both have their merits, some of he new cannon has washed over the old. Each series, in my opinion, should be treated as Herodotus' accounts of Greek History: fairly accurate as a guide for events and chronology, but largely unreliable for details. Perhaps a better analogy is made if the story of the Doctor is treated as a Myth from two different accounts/cultures. The premise is essentially the same, but names and a few key points have changed.


It's still just the doctor though, mate.

 

[icburns]

Before I get infracted for going off topic, lobster sports.

 

[Allezfan]

In what context? It's a nickname that he's adopted over 900 years of the same question, most like. Much of the Doctor's early history has been explored when it was only implied before.

I think our fault is in directly comparing the new and old series. While both have their merits, some of he new cannon has washed over the old. Each series, in my opinion, should be treated as Herodotus' accounts of Greek History: fairly accurate as a guide for events and chronology, but largely unreliable for details. Perhaps a better analogy is made if the story of the Doctor is treated as a Myth from two different accounts/cultures. The premise is essentially the same, but names and a few key points have changed.


It's still just the doctor though, mate.

Fair enough only the new series counts.

 

[Julian Carax]

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[icburns]

Fair enough only the new series counts.

I want to believe that he only refers to himself as the doctor because he wants people to ask doctor who (which would be his real name?), and answer their own inquiry, but that's a bit mad, innit? Perhaps he's embraced this handle because it's said as often as the tardis being bigger on the inside, but Tennant's Doctor gives a pretty clear origin for his title 'the Doctor.' Unless he was just on a wind-up, like.