Wordsmith wrote:
So I know that when the doctor dies or something he just gains a new form. What I dont get is...
1) What determines what his new form will look like?
2) If he cant die, but just become someone else, how was the rest of his species destroyed?
And a question unrelated to the other two:
How is his species extinct if they can time travel? They would exist in all times.
His new form is determined by the actor they hire.
The rest of his species met its end in the Time War, an event that is not shown but took place in the gap between the Doctor Who movie with #8, and the 2005 series revival with #9.
All Time Lords/Ladies were called back to the Doctor's planet, Gallifrey, to fight the Daleks in the Time War.
SPOILERS:
The Doctor's rival, the Master, hid from the war. The Doctor and everyone else (currently known) also went to Gallifrey to fight. The Doctor saw how corrupt the Time Lords had become (End of Time parts 1 and 2) and used something called "the Moment" to end the war by destroying both Time Lords and Daleks, and allowing himself to escape. He also used "the Moment" (some doomsday device) to time-lock the war.
"A Time-Lock was a mechanism whereby an event or series of events was rendered unreachable by time travel. The Time-Lock only prevented entry into the Time War through the time vortex itself, meaning that all the events were not erased from history, and thus could still be referenced to by those who knew of the destruction of the Daleks and the Time Lords. The Doctor, however, would only be able to reach the Time War through time travel, and any entry into the events of the Time War would be considered a change in the time line, thus made impossible due to the time-lock."
Everything is stuck on Gallifrey and can't get out except through linear progression of time, which ends with the planet and near-extinction of the Time Lords and Daleks, thereby preventing any of the horrors of the war from escaping.SPOILERS FOR SERIES 4 FINALE:
However, one Dalek, Dalek Caan, managed to get through the Time Lock and rescue Davros, the creator of the Daleks, from the war. However, this caused Dalek Caan's "casing" to be damaged and he lost his sanity, but he gained the ability to see the future.SPOILERS FOR END OF TIME/TENTH DOCTOR'S FINAL STORY:
The Time Lords in the last days of the war managed to get a small object out of the time-lock and to the Master, who used it to bring the Time Lords and all of Gallifrey and the war out of the time-lock. However, the power source for the machine keeping the breach in the time-lock stable was destroyed, and the Time Lords (and the Master) were taken back to the war.oh gaaawwd such a nerd
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