Doctor Who/Analysis: Difference between revisions

=== "The Doctor"<ref>Not his real name, hardly anyone knows his real name, but the viewers might learn it soon thanks to [[Steven Moffat]].</ref> ===

 

 

([[I Am Not Shazam|The Doctor, not "Doctor Who"]]<ref>Except when it is, like in ''The Highlanders''</ref>), a [[Human Alien]] who [[Time Travel|travels through time]] and [[Walking the Earth|space]]. He started off as an [[Anti-Hero]] (or even [[Anti-Villain]]) but soon settled into the [[Knight Errant|hero role]]. He usually (though not always) functions as the series' moral center.

 

=== Companions ===

 

The Doctor is rarely alone in his travels. For the purposes of [[Exposition]] and for [[Audience Surrogate|someone the audience can identify with]], he has had a large number of companions (''mostly'' non-romantic, though Fanfic disagrees). In the show's very early days, he just traveled with his granddaughter and two of her high school teachers--who, in the very first episode, he actually kidnapped in a [[He Knows Too Much]] scenario. The idea was that the companions would be the "point-of-view" characters for the audience at home, in contrast to the mysterious, anti-heroic Doctor. Even as the Doctor became more identifiable and less of a curmudgeon, the companion remains the human element to tie him down, especially post-revival. They also give him someone to talk to. In ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S14 E3 The Deadly Assassin|The Deadly Assassin]]'', the lone serial without a companion (other than ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S3 E2 Missiontothe Unknown|Mission to the Unknown]]'', which didn't feature the Doctor, and ''The Doctor The Widow And The Wardrobe'', which featured substitutes) the writers found it difficult to explain what he was thinking. In-universe, he claims that he's "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 E01 The Eleventh Hour|lonely]]", while others have [[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S3 E9 The Family of Blood|surmised the same]] and that he "[[Doctor Who/2006 CS the Runaway Bride/Recap|needs someone to stop him]]" from making drastic and, sometimes, awful decisions to rectify situations.

=== UNIT, Torchwood Institute, etc. ===

 

 

Secret (or, in some stories, not-so-secret) organizations designed to kick alien ass and/or aid the Doctor. UNIT, a Unified (originally United Nations) Intelligence Taskforce that deals specifically with alien or superscientific threats, was introduced in 1968. Torchwood, an organisation funded by the British royalty (as opposed to the government) with the specific aim of arming [[The British Empire]] with alien technology, was introduced in the 2005 Christmas special, ten months before the [[Darker and Edgier]] [[Torchwood|spinoff series]].