The First Doctor was shown footage of the Eighth Doctor, as well as his ten other successors, by the Testimony when he expressed doubt over the Twelfth Doctor's identity. Shortly before his regeneration, the First Doctor was told of "a few false starts" before he became the Twelfth Doctor. When the First Doctor learned that he was diverted from the South Pole by " forces from the future" to stop him from becoming an incarnation that would play a key role in a future conflict, he was informed by the Player that he would have "lots of new faces" before he regenerated into the incarnation involved in the conflict. ( PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet, Lungbarrow) The First Doctor would occasionally have premonitions of his future incarnations, ( PROSE: A Big Hand for the Doctor) and there was a rumour that he was able to glimpse as far as his eighth incarnation during a game of Eighth Man Bound. 1.16 Final adventures with Fitz and Trix.
The Eighth Doctor was inherently a happy adventurer, falling in love with companions Grace Holloway and Charlotte Pollard, and was not averse to experiencing and appreciating very human emotions, from kissing Grace to providing psychological support for Izzy Sinclair.Īt his core an optimist and a romantic, the Eighth Doctor tried to remain a cheerful and pacifistic adventurer in spite of a universe that grew ever increasingly hostile around him, eventually culminating in the eruption of the Last Great Time War between the Time Lords and the Dalek Empire. Additional factors that made him unique included him being the only Doctor to travel with an Ice Warrior, and the first to have significant interaction with his granddaughter after his first incarnation left her behind on Earth. He was unique amongst incarnations of the Doctor in that he was technically dead both when he regenerated from the Seventh Doctor and when he regenerated into his successor incarnation. Complicating the matter even further were his frequent bouts of amnesia, as well as several phases of his life where he lived in one place for more than a hundred years, such as Earth and Orbis. Leading a life of great temporal complexity, the Eighth Doctor was so frequently involved in time paradoxes and parallel universes that it was impossible to know with certainty how the major epochs of his existence fitted together. More… Alternate counterparts of the Eighth Doctor The Doctor's universe.Timeless Child More ambiguous The Other.13 Others / unplaced incarnations "Morbius".Incarnations of the Doctor Widely accepted 1