Just Me Thinking #4

Basically, I daydream a lot. And in this case it led to day dreaming up a theory that makes it so that the doctor could really seriously be real… In THIS reality. Well my theory consists of quite a few open ended ideas.

First I think that in order for him to be real, The TV program has to be just that, a program. But it’s not without importance. I think that The Doctor is flying around outer space and time, turning up here and there, visiting earth, saving planets. You know Doctor-y stuff. But He’s not how we know him to be. Maybe he is the lonely Doctor who needs companions, and help saving the universe. But he can’t just ask just ANYBODY. So he inspired some humans back in 1963 to write about this Mad Man with a machine that travels through time and space… etc… and over the years, telepathically, or maybe he just becomes friends with the writers and drops ideas on them, or he could even leave anonymous notes for them. (Who knows.) and gets them to write this show. But the point is, even though it is a fictional show, PARTS OF IT ARE TRUE. You know, key details that make it so believable, like having a TARDIS, and regeneration, etc… maybe it’s not really a police box, and maybe it doesn’t make the TARDIS noise we so love, and he won’t have the face of any of the actors… but he is REAL, and certain things about him, and his life will always be the same.

And I’m sure The Doctor has a reason for doing it this way. Maybe (most likely) the human race as a whole would have trouble accepting aliens, (and I think most of the population does struggle with that possibility) and time and space travel, but I still have hope for the human race. And I think The Doctor does too. That could be why he’s in a sense ‘warming us up’ to the truth behind the myth. To get us thinking bigger than we do now. Because sometimes when you open your mind to the IMPOSSIBLE, it enables us to see the TRUTH. Though I’m also sure that the majority of the human race will still be skeptical no matter how much proof they have, so that’s why The Doctor is discrete about it. Like using a TV program and all that… it’s an easy way to sugar coat the truth, and not raise red flags. He doesn’t need the governments of the world shutting down the BBC or Doctor Who. That would be counterproductive.

But that still brings us back to the WHY. Why is The Doctor doing this? Why is he telling us these things so secretively? Well I predict that it’s so he can find allies, and TRUE BELIEVERS of ‘The Doctor’. Not on a religious scale or anything, just people that don’t need to SEE proof to believe in him.

Because maybe to The Doctor, the difference between a ‘true believer’ and ‘just a fan’ could be something like this---

Example Situation: If someone met a ‘John Smith’…

-A normal person would think it just a common name.

-A Whovian would joke about how that’s the alias that The Doctor uses, but dismiss any possibility of truth to it because he doesn’t “look like” The Doctor, or because they don’t see a Police Public Call Box.

- A true believer would be curious, possibly ask questions, and look for more signs that point to the possibility that a ‘Time Lord’ is standing in front of them, regardless of how ‘normal’ they seem.

And so the TV program works as a type of ‘filing system’. It helps him sort the passionate fans from the optimistic dreamers. The ‘Wilfred’s’ of our kind. So basically, RUN with the hope that The Doctor could be real. Because as soon as we put a stopper on our imagination because we think it’s crazy, or because believe that the world will think us crazy… we destroy what makes us so Unique. So HUMAN. And so Wonderful!