I always see this scene as him joking with Martha Could be. I don't think it is, though, because the Doctor usually doesn't need to pretend to be deaf to evade questions. He manages quite well without that. But that's a matter of interpretation, I guess.
Maybe they only change into timelords afterwards at school/academy I'm not sure. I always thought Time Lord was the name of the Doctor's people. Like 'humans' or 'Vulcans'. If that's the case, it'd be seriously weird if their kids were of a different species until a certain age. If Time Lord, however, is something like a title, then that would make sense.
The TARDIS wiki said some interesting stuff. Apparently there's a differentiation between oldblood and newblood Gallifreyans. Maybe that's got something to do with it?
Maybe the 'rewriting cells' only works if you rewrite all of them at the same time. That's a nice theory, but 42 pretty much kills it dead. The Doctor is overtaken by this sun particle thing, and that, as we learn early in the episode, changes the whole biological makeup of an individual. As soon as the sun particles were gone, however, the Doctor returned to full health within seconds. The sun particles probably didn't rewrite enough of his organism to kill him, but I'm sure they did something - consider the glowy eyes and the weird voice, for one thing. The Doctor must have some sort of cellular repair mechanism to reverse these changes.
Then there's the occasion where he drops so-and-so many feet and doesn't get killed. The fall should have resulted in massive cellular damage, but all it did was knock him out. If his body had a function to super-quickly repair damaged cells, that would be explained by that.
healing yourself and rewriting your biology are two different things, no I don't quite know what you mean by that. The Doctor states in - I think it was the post s1 CIN special - that regeneration is the process of changing every single cell in his body. That's rewriting your biology, right there. New body, new cells, new genes, new everything. Personality doesn't have a specified location, so we can only assume that its basic coding is located somewhere in the cells of a person's body - because there is nothing in a person's body except cells and fluid. ETA: Whoops, got side-tracked there. Healing yourself is fixing damamged cells. If your body has the capacity to change cells on a scale like complete regeneration, I don't think the step to assuming that this ability can be used on a smaller scale as well is a too big one.
no subject
Could be. I don't think it is, though, because the Doctor usually doesn't need to pretend to be deaf to evade questions. He manages quite well without that. But that's a matter of interpretation, I guess.
Maybe they only change into timelords afterwards at school/academy
I'm not sure. I always thought Time Lord was the name of the Doctor's people. Like 'humans' or 'Vulcans'. If that's the case, it'd be seriously weird if their kids were of a different species until a certain age. If Time Lord, however, is something like a title, then that would make sense.
The TARDIS wiki said some interesting stuff. Apparently there's a differentiation between oldblood and newblood Gallifreyans. Maybe that's got something to do with it?
Maybe the 'rewriting cells' only works if you rewrite all of them at the same time.
That's a nice theory, but 42 pretty much kills it dead. The Doctor is overtaken by this sun particle thing, and that, as we learn early in the episode, changes the whole biological makeup of an individual. As soon as the sun particles were gone, however, the Doctor returned to full health within seconds. The sun particles probably didn't rewrite enough of his organism to kill him, but I'm sure they did something - consider the glowy eyes and the weird voice, for one thing. The Doctor must have some sort of cellular repair mechanism to reverse these changes.
Then there's the occasion where he drops so-and-so many feet and doesn't get killed. The fall should have resulted in massive cellular damage, but all it did was knock him out. If his body had a function to super-quickly repair damaged cells, that would be explained by that.
healing yourself and rewriting your biology are two different things, no
I don't quite know what you mean by that. The Doctor states in - I think it was the post s1 CIN special - that regeneration is the process of changing every single cell in his body. That's rewriting your biology, right there. New body, new cells, new genes, new everything. Personality doesn't have a specified location, so we can only assume that its basic coding is located somewhere in the cells of a person's body - because there is nothing in a person's body except cells and fluid.
ETA: Whoops, got side-tracked there. Healing yourself is fixing damamged cells. If your body has the capacity to change cells on a scale like complete regeneration, I don't think the step to assuming that this ability can be used on a smaller scale as well is a too big one.