What other origin is there?

The first Doctor encountered them in The Daleks and basically wiped out the entire species at the end of the arc. Then they were brought back a bunch more times in the 60's with whatever backstory & abilities seemed cool to the writers at the time. Genesis of the Daleks was Terry Nation wiping the slate clean and starting over more or less from scratch.

ita, I see your point regarding to kick-ass moms. You're right, we're missing those on TV.

Gemma on Sons of Anarchy. She shoots (owns an arsenal of guns), she delivers beat-downs, she scares hardened biker guys. Katey Sagal is awesome in the role.

Obviously, not enough.

When you can play with the whole of time, there are going to be conflicting beginnings and endings. And indeed middles. I suppose the trick is doing that more convincingly than, say, Heroes plays with alternate timelines.

She shoots (owns an arsenal of guns), she delivers beat-downs, she scares hardened biker guys. Katey Sagal is awesome in the role.

Of course. She is Leela, after all.

Zoe would have made a kickass mom.

Vampire Diaries: I like Logan SO MUCH better as a vampire. He's just more fun.

Drive-by--a totally love picspam of Jack O'Neill over the years: [link]

When fans are debating what they, individually, consider to be "part of the story" that's not canon. They're disagreeing with each other, not with the official version -- because there isn't an official version. And that's what the word "canon" means. There is continuity, and more than a few contradictions within that continuity, but the story's premise is quite tolerant of contradictions, so that's okay. That isn't the same as having a canon.

If Davies refuses to say what is canon, there isn't one. If Moffat says that the word doesn't even apply to Doctor Who, there isn't one.

Here's Paul Cornell on the subject:

Because when you say ‘the books just aren’t “canon!”’ or ‘the books “happened” and the TV show can’t ignore them!’ you’re not saying something like ‘for every action there is an equal but opposite reaction’, you’re saying something like ‘the South will never surrender’. You’re yelling a battle cry, not stating the truth. Because there is no truth here to find. There was never and now cannot be any authority to rule on matters of canonicity in a tale that has allowed, or at the very least accepted, the rewriting of its own continuity.

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Personally, I couldn't care less if there is, or isn't, canon.

If it's working on the emotional level of pretty-consisted characters I'm a happy fangirl. Hell, the automatic heaven solutions (as in, send a random character into what the Doctor thinks will be heaven for it) pisses me off a lot more than a "but it wasn't like this in the original show!" cry.

Which is why, I think, in WoM, I immediately understood that something is wrong with the Doctor from the beginning of the episode. For me, he was acting out of the character of Ten - and still being enough Ten left in him - which only showed, IMO, how badly he needs a companion. His sense of jumping into the nearest fire/disaster, a-la Tommy Gavin of Rescue Me, would have been altered into protecting his companion. The companion, in her turn, would have make sure the price of said protection won't be the life of a timelord, unless it's a season finale.

And ION, I think it's time to see a woman Doctor. I figured that Doctor couldn't regenerate himself into a woman - something in the genetics, or something - but I'd sure love to see a woman in that role, facing the universe, with all of its wonders and horrible parts.

I'd love to see what Judi Dench could do with the role.