“Doctor Who” is a series that thrives on changeSo much so that even his two main characters – the doctor and their companion – cannot depend on staying for next season. Even the little things that fans could hold for granted, such as the basic shape of the doctor’s sound screwdriver or the general notion of the doctor who kept a coherent outfit, can be thrown out with casualness at any time.
Advertisement
The only real constant is the late, the faithful blue box of the doctor who moves in time and space and is somehow greater inside. Appropriately, the term “late” itself represents “time and the relative dimension in space”. It is a term that would have been invented by the doctor First companion Susan (Carole Ann Ford)But all the time that we would see later in the show would refer to their temporal machines of the same name. I guess Susan’s nickname has taken quickly! (The serious answer here is that it took a while for the “Doctor Who” Writers to understand the first seasons, so there are a lot of minor inconsistencies like this.)
Although the Tardis can easily travel in time and space, the only thing it cannot do is change its external appearance from a police booth. This conception, which the doctor had as a temporary feature to help the ship blend into Great Britain in the 1960s, found himself stuck like that. Even if the 60s police box no longer mixes in his environment at all, the doctor never took the trouble to solve the problem. Fortunately, the box has an invisibility feature that the doctor uses occasionally, as well as a continuous perception filter which helps it avoid the attention of most passers -by.
Advertisement
Another key information on the Tardis: the machine has an integrated translation function for all those who travel there. This is why almost all the new characters that the show introduce speak perfect English, even when they probably should not speak at all human language.
The exterior of the Tardis remained consistent, but it is inside
While the doctor changes outside with each reincarnation, the Tardis tends to reinvent his interior regularly. Sometimes the interior of the Tardis has a dark and cold lighting, and sometimes it is brilliantly lit as something of a fairy tale. There have been a lot of late interiors over the years, and most of them say to the public something important about the type of mood that the current doctor is.
Advertisement
If there is one thing that connects all the different late interiors (well, all the vouchers at least), it is because they are created with a ton of intentionality. In fact, since William Hartnell, the first actor to play the doctor, made sure to remain consistent on what each little button of the console really does (which itself, in a funny way, was not The “Doctor Who” Rule Ncuti Gatwa was in trouble to break), each new late interior has been designed to be faithful both to the ancients and to the general flavor of the current doctor.
During the development of the first Tardis for the revival of “Doctor Who” in 2005, the production designer Edward Thomas continued the tradition by putting a ton of reflection on what the ninth doctor of Christopher Eccleston (then, later, the 10th doctor of David Tennant) would like their late interiors. “I wanted to create a time travel machine which, being 700 years old, there was very little of the original structure because the doctor should have continuously updated it and explained it,” he explained in a Video of season 1 behind the scenes. “It is a kind of fusion of old and new.”
Advertisement
