Tea with Morbius: May 2014

Another Doctor Who Fan Page!

This is a blog about Doctor Who, the greatest show in the galaxy.

My perspective: I am a huge fan of the classic series and am not so keen on the RT Davies series. I absolutely detest the stuff produced by Moffat. My favorite Doctor is the seventh (Sylvester McCoy) and I even like the early camp McCoy stories, Paradise Towers and Delta and the Bannermen. I appreciate and enjoy the way the Seventh Doctor was developed in the Virgin New Adventures.

On controversial questions, I hold that the UNIT stories took place in the 1980s, that there is a Season 6B, that Gallifreyan Mean Time is probably some time in the past, that history cannot normally be changed in the Whoniverse, that John Nathan-Turner revitalised the show, that Colin Baker was great, that the events of Genesis of the Daleks changed absolutely nothing, that the TV Comic and The Infinity Doctors are canon and that his name really is Dr. WHO.

Tuesday, 27 May 2014

Great Comment on the Doctor's Proper Name

An anonymous commenter made a great comment on my post '12 Reasons he really is called Doctor Who:'

The other silly thing is that just because he is often referred to as "the Doctor" doesn't mean that his name isn't 'Doctor Who'.

Take the Brigadier. His name is Lethbridge-Stewart. He is referred to as Brigadier-Lethbridge-Stewart and also as just "The Brigadier". However, while the Doctor, Jo, Benton, Yates, Sarah etc. call him "The Brigadier", that is NOT his name. That is what he is. His name is Lethbridge-Stewart.

Likewise, 'The Doctor' is equivalent to 'The Brigadier', and 'Doctor Who' is equivalent to 'Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart'.