Doctor Who/Recap/S29/E08 Human Nature: Difference between revisions

Weirder yet, John's maid Martha ''also'' insists that he is the Doctor, and begs him to change back. Obviously, she's gone mad; she believes that his dreams are real, that she can travel among the stars, and even that -- withthat—with her skin color! -- she can secretly be a medical student. Smith dismisses her ideas as African lunacy. But some of her ramblings spark memories inside him, memories of a life he's sure he never lived. And there was an odd watch in his living room, which Martha desperately wants, but which has been stolen by a young school boy named Timothy Latimer.

It turns out that the Doctor has changed himself into a human to escape the hunters. Completely. Because the aliens will die after three months without food -- andfood—and the Doctor is food -- hefood—he's decided to subject himself to the agonising process of reprogramming his own body during that time. He has one heart, one human brain, and one hell of a confused look on his face when he's eventually cornered by the monsters, who demand that he turn himself into the Doctor again. But he, completely bewildered, still has no idea what they're talking about... not even when they take his friends hostage.

Continued in [[Doctor Who/Recap/NS/S3S29/E09 The Family of Blood|S3 E9 The Family of Blood]].

* [[Shout-Out]]: John Smith's parents are named Sydney and Verity, after [[Sydney Newman]] and [[Verity Lambert]], the names of the two people most often considered to be the "creators" of ''Doctor Who'' (they weren't -- the show was created essentially by committee, but Newman offered the most input of anyone there and Lambert was the show's first producer -- butproducer—but they are the next closest thing).

* [[World War OneI]]: Lurks just over the horizon.