Today’s podcast examines The Valeyard. You can also follow the series with its own RSS or iTunes feeds, or with the blanket Bureau 42 Master Audio Feed RSS or iTunes feeds.
The schedule:
- Introduction and Regeneration
- William Hartnell
- Patrick Troughton
- Jon Pertwee
- Tom Baker
- Peter Davison
- Colin Baker
- Sylvester McCoy
- Paul McGann
- The TARDIS
- Jamie McCrimmon
- Zoe Heriot
- Brigadier Alastair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
- Sarah Jane Smith
- Leela
- Romana I
- Romana II
- K9
- Adric
- Nyssa
- Ace
- Daleks
- Davros
- The Master
- The Cybermen
- The Autons
- The Great Intelligence
- The Ice Warriors
- The Silurians and the Sea Devils
- The Sontarans
- The Valeyard
- Black Guardian
- ???
- ???
- ???
- ???
- ???
- ???
- ???
- ???
- ???
- ???
- ???
- ???
- ???
- ???
- ???
- ???
- ???
- ???
The multi-doctor stories have the same issue with remembering how things are going to happen and changing them. I don’t recall if there was ever any explanation of it, but I always assumed there was some sort of a memory thing going on, either imposed by the Time Lords or otherwise by, say, that Doctor’s psyche. (We know the Time Lords can affect memory based on the exile at the start of Pertwee.)
Of course, that still doesn’t explain the Valeyard’s plan. But when you consider the Master could easily have been lying when he explained the Valeyard and even if he wasn’t, it’s not actually explicitly stated that the Valeyard actually is *our* Doctor’s future incarnation. He could as easily be a clone of some kind, for instance. (Or to borrow from the relaunch, maybe the result of a “metacrisis” or something.)