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question for you old school Whovians. did the Time War happen before we saw any incarnations of the Doctor? or did it happen during someone's run, but was only alluded to?
The Time War is new -- it happened sometime between the last time we saw the Eighth Doctor, and the first time we saw The Ninth.
The Time War was never shown. It was made up by RTD, and presumably happened just before the 2005 series.
You can see it as a logical continuation of the events in Genesis of the Daleks in 1975, through to Remembrance of the Daleks in 1988.
aha! interesting. i always assumed it was a long-standing thing.
Help! Victor is having a Time War with the board!
::snerk::
Help! Victor is having a Time War with the board!
EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!
(Although James Nesbitt was on the Graham Norton Show once again denying that he's the next Doctor.
Oh man, after being so good about not getting spoiled for the eps past what they've shown on Sci-Fi I almost spoiled myself watching Graham Norton. At least I think I did.
Were there to be another regeneration in the foreseeable future, who do we think might make a good Eleven?
I like Adrian Lester.
Is [RTD] out of the picture totally, or did he just step back?
After the four specials, he's out.
aha! interesting. i always assumed it was a long-standing thing.
I know! I was so surprised to find out it wasn't a Thing before because it essentially defined Nine and, thus, the Doctor for me. I couldn't imagine a Doctor romping around pre-Time War.
Initially there was the implied possibility that the Time War had involved the Daleks and Time Lords making causality-defying strikes against each other's origins until some final effort of the Doctor's resulted in both species being erased from history and restructuring the whole universe absent the influence of either, with himself as the sole survivor. But it sort of became more and more pedestrian as they continued referring back to it, and it now seems that the Eighth Doctor just pulled the trigger on some big weapon that blew up Gallifrey and all the attacking Daleks with it.
I suppose I should be thankful since that means the Doctor's history with prior companions (like Sarah Jane) hasn't been erased, and he's still the Boogeyman that immediately sends the Daleks to Defcon One. But I liked the initial concept of a brave new world in which the Time Lords not only no longer exist but had never existed in the first place.