Doctor Who Club of Australia

KnottyEmily · Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 115 Location: Melbourne

I started reading Human Nature again, and picked up on something that I missed the first time through. One of the instructions the Doctor leaves Bernice is to not let him eat meat. So has the Doctor always been a vegetarian, or did it vary from incarnation to incarnation?

dave · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 11:35 pm Post subject:

If you watch the Two Doctors, at the end the Doctor tells Peri that from then on it's a strict vegetarian diet for the two of them. Maybe he stuck to that, or maybe that story just happened to have been written by a vegetarian.

KnottyEmily · Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 115 Location: Melbourne

Here's another question, that's off-topic I guess. How do the books stay in continuity with the TV show? Do they, or is it just the essentials that stay the same, and the rest is up for artistic interpretation?

Theta Sigma · Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 4429

Sulp Niar · Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:04 pm Post subject:

Don't know what the Tenth Doctor eats, but in terms of drinks, I reckon he's pumped up with red cordial. Does even odder things to people with two hearts, I reckon.

montypython · Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 7:01 pm Post subject:

Couldn't it have been in John Smith's backstory that he was vegetarian? That doesn't mean the Doctor is.

uhumanite · Joined: 17 Oct 2006 Posts: 89 Location: Sydney

It hardly matters Wink

Like most of us The Doctor has gone through different states of mind so it is possible his preference in food changes.

For instance Doc 6's promise is obvious long gone for as Doc 9 orders steak and considering Doc 10's love of chips which is often fried in animal fat rather than vegtable oil in Britain..

Personaly as I said it hardly matters as I'm sure The Doctor eats what he enjoys like most of us Cool

Sulp Niar · Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 8:50 pm Post subject:

Does the Doctor actually eat the steak though (I haven't seen it for a while)? I mean, maybe he's eating meat like that to prove to Margaret Slitheen that he's a hard individual who'll be perfectly willing to let her die.

...Why am I theorising about the Doctor's eating habits?

KnottyEmily · Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 115 Location: Melbourne

charlie · Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 11:24 pm Post subject:

There is that part of the Terror of the zvervoids where the Doctor genocides the plant people. That can't be vegetarian.

Greg · Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 7:19 am Post subject:

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Theta Sigma · Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 4429

Sulp Niar · Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 12:20 pm Post subject:

Hmm, well that depends on whether you believe hotdogs are truly made of meat or not Smile

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