I'm thinking...
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this previously unknown Doctor (Ruth) may be a call back to the untapped storyline during the Seventh Doctor's run. A writer/or co-producer with John Nathan Turner (whose name escapes me), plotted out a storyline, where the Doctor had many secret lives (reincarnations, if you will) before his first incarnation (the First Doctor). He supposedly lived all the way back to the time of Rassilon and Omega and was a Time Lord known as "The Other". The story was later novelized in the book titled "Lungbarrow".
It would definitely explain why he had other faces during the mental battle with Morbius in "The Brain of Morbius". The idea was canned by John Nathan Turner, because he thought it revealed too much about The Doctor, however...there are hints sprinkled throughout the Seventh Doctor's run, that he is more than he seems.
Another interesting thing, in addition to trying to explain those mysterious faces during "Brain of Morbius", the storyline, could also clear up why the Third Doctor claimed many times to be many thousands of years old, while earlier and later incarnations only claimed to be only 700 or 900 years old, respectively.
Dana
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this previously unknown Doctor (Ruth) may be a call back to the untapped storyline during the Seventh Doctor's run. A writer/or co-producer with John Nathan Turner (whose name escapes me), plotted out a storyline, where the Doctor had many secret lives (reincarnations, if you will) before his first incarnation (the First Doctor). He supposedly lived all the way back to the time of Rassilon and Omega and was a Time Lord known as "The Other". The story was later novelized in the book titled "Lungbarrow".
It would definitely explain why he had other faces during the mental battle with Morbius in "The Brain of Morbius". The idea was canned by John Nathan Turner, because he thought it revealed too much about The Doctor, however...there are hints sprinkled throughout the Seventh Doctor's run, that he is more than he seems.
Another interesting thing, in addition to trying to explain those mysterious faces during "Brain of Morbius", the storyline, could also clear up why the Third Doctor claimed many times to be many thousands of years old, while earlier and later incarnations only claimed to be only 700 or 900 years old, respectively.
Dana
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