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This is not gonna be another "oh the show has aged so badly" post. We've all heard and we all know. I'm just me dissecting a storyline and explaining how it could have been better. Obviously, spoilers ahead so click away if you haven't seen season 6.

In season six, Gaby's ex lover/former victim John returns and hires her 17 year old niece Ana at his restaurant. Noticing Ana's moon eyes, Gaby is suspicious about John's intentions with her niece.

So Gaby basically accuses John of trying to do to Ana what she did to him at the start of the series. The irony of the situation is never acknowledged aside from a passing quip about Gaby helping John with his homework.

Gaby never has a moment of realization or self-awareness that she's very close to the position John's mother was in during season one. She doesn't look at Ana, a lovestruck 17 year old wanting to have sex with a man in his late 20s, and see John and relate her immaturity to the immaturity he had when they were together. In fact, she accuses John of trying to seduce Ana using the same charms he allegedly used on Gaby. The whole situation is presented as a "will she or won't she" drama to test whether Gaby is truly over John Rowland.

Eventually, John reveals that he has no interest in Ana and is merely using her to make Gaby jealous because he's still in love with her and wants to rescue her from her apparently boring, unglamorous life. Let's put this in perspective: John's first intimate relationship was with a grown woman starting from age 16 through to 18 and ten years and one failed marriage later (which was most likely partially caused by his unresolved feelings for his abuser) he still wants to be with her.

While it is wrong for him to play with a teenager's feelings in order to destroy a marriage and a family, John is still a victim of the long lasting impact Gaby's grooming had on him.

Yet again, this isn't about John. It's about Gaby putting the final nail in the coffin of her affair.

If the show is ever revived, I hope they revisit John's character again and actually respectfully portray him as a victim while having Gaby face full remorse for her actions, not as an adulterer but as a predator. The fact that she ended the series as the host of her own television show would make for an interesting scandal if her past relationship were made public.

The proportions are all wrong

#Respect the Doctor 🎵 ##"Courage isn't just a matter of not being frightened, you know... it's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway."

The Doctor's third incarnation found himself stranded on 20th century Earth after being exiled by the Time Lords as punishment for violating their policy of non-interference. Despite his TARDIS being disabled and his knowledge of time travel suppressed, the newly regenerated Doctor continued to thwart extraterrestrial menace as the chief scientific advisor to the Unified Intelligence Taskforce (UNIT for short). This was an uneven alliance due to the Doctor's pacifist philosophy coming into conflict with UNIT's bureaucracy and militaristic approach. In fact, the Doctor regularly found himself dealing with human adversaries in addition to alien invaders.

This incarnation was a dapper man with a fondness for Venusian culture, delta particles and reversing polarities of a neutron variety. He got up to many Bond-like shenanigans involving tons of fight scenes, car chases, intelligence operations and even had his own moustache-twirling archenemy in a Nehru jacket.

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#Source Key

Hover over a feat to view its source.

• Doctor Who (1963) season # episode # = S#E#
• The Day of the Doctor = 50th

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#Intelligence

Technological Aptitude

Understanding Technology

• Points out a flaw in the mechanics of a drilling project.
• Identifies a telepathic amplifier and how it contributed to a woman's hallucinations manifesting.
• Reasons that a power relay circuit was intentionally damaged by the man responsible for fixing it.
• Identifies the function and physical makeup of a small device.
• Spots several flaws with the Master's plans for a sonar device and corrects them.
• Recognizes that the technology in a laboratory is for the purposes of atmosphere control from a brief visual analysis.
• Identifies several forms of machinery on sight.
• Knows that destroying a refrigeration unit housing a Dalek army would be a bad idea because the cold is keeping them from awakening.
• Quickly identifies the machine responsible for killing miners and how it achieves this.

Using/Operating Technology

• Fills in for a scientist at the terminal of a nuclear reactor.
• Keeps a space shuttle fully operational.
• Reverses the polarity of a radio telescope in order to prevent the Nestene Consciousness from invading Earth.
• Uses a light accelerator to analyze a piece of alien mineral which reveals it as the dormant state of the species.
• Activates a time travel device from the 22nd century which he considers too simple for his liking.
• Uses a particle reverser to undo the damage done to a planet's atmosphere by rockets.
• Operates a 26th century police ship during stellar combat.
• Obtains the location of the Ogron's homeworld by storing the coordinates on the Master's computer so his allies can use it when they seized his ship.
• Uses the Sontaran's transmat device to send his victims back to their rightful times and places.
• Uses a matter projector and a heat ray to kill an Ice Warrior.
• Switches off the forcefield trapping the Fifth Doctor's TARDIS.

Building Technology

• Builds a device that kills Autons and the Nestene Consciousness.
• Creates a translation device that converts speech to radio waves and vice versa.
• Invented the "Door Handle" among other things.
• Attempts to repair his dematerialization circuit using a device he created through steady state engineering.
• Built a new dematerialization circuit.
• Instructs a human scientist on how to build a device capable of taking down the Master's heat barrier.
• Helps the Master build a special sonar device to bring the Sea Devils out of hibernation.
• Builds a minimum inertia superdrive for Bessie.
• Puts together a time flow analogue out of various household items to act as a jamming device for the Master's machine.
• Creates a sort of stun gun capable of knocking out a dinosaur.
• Builds a portable device that detects sources of power so he can track down the people responsible for summoning dinosaurs to London.

Repairing Technology

• Restores Bessie to working condition and regularly maintains it.
• Repairs a high-tech computer from a parallel world.
• Fixes the master switch to a nuclear reactor.
• Fixes a damaged server in mere seconds.
• Restores power to a human colony.
• Rewires an alien's failing life-support system.
• Repairs a spaceship in outer space.
• Repairs the TARDIS' worn-out space-time coordinate programmer.
• Fixes a high-tech alarm system he previously deactivated.

Modifying Technology

• Converts a broadcast radio receiver into a transmitter.
• Rewires a proton beam to turn a box inside-out.
• Reprograms a device that shrinks living beings so that it grows them to their original size.
• Adjusts the Master's hallucination-inducing machine so that it works on his minions.
• Reverses the polarity of the TARDIS log into a jamming device that incapacitates a Dalek by messing with its guidance system.

Disabling Technology

• Shuts down an overloaded nuclear reactor.
• Advises a way to stop a massive drill from drilling further.
• Tears out some wires to shut an automatic door.
• Neutralizes a powerful bomb by boiling out its contents.
• Temporarily incapacitates a living machine by attaching a dampening device.
• Advises a scientist to reverse the polarity in order to switch off the Master's machine.
• Stops a plummeting elevator by jamming a wretch into its flywheel.
• Prevents a machine from sending humanity back in time by reversing the polarity.
• Does enough damage to a living city's brain before he's interrupted.
• Disactivates a high-tech alarm system.

Sabotaging Technology

• Overloads a nuclear reactor to prevent the Silurians from using it to come out of hibernation.
• Intentionally wires a sonar device incorrectly so that it harms the aliens it's supposed to summon.
• Reverses the polarity of the neutron flow again to make a device intended to revive the Sea Devils to instead blow them up.
• Causes a power failure at a space station's by connecting its power supply to the machine he's testing and overloading it.
• Rewires a particle reverser so that it shorts out when activated.

Deduction

Tactical

• Reasons that an assassination attempt was designed to kill both him and the assassin because his bomb didn't give him enough time to flee the area.
• Discovers that the Master is Emil Keller from a telltale sign of his meddling.
• Breaks down the plot to prevent Peladon from joining the Galactic confederation.
• Correctly guesses that he and Sarah were cast into a pit instead of executed outright because that's where their would-be executioner lives.

Seeing through Deception

• Slowly unravels a conspiracy in spite of the conspirators' attempt to cover up or mislead him, conjecting the exact pattern of tactics they employed to stop him.
• Immediately clocks the Master as the one behind the strange goings-on due to his aliases being different translations of his name.
• Correctly deduces that a series of alleged monster attacks are a hoax accomplished with the use of a robot.
• Sees through the facade put on by the ruler of a dystopian future and realizes that he's merely a pawn of the Daleks.
• Quickly works out that Sarah is an imposter when her age doesn't match the person she's impersonating.
• Realizes that the Ice Warriors are plotting something because Sarah had seen them before they allegedly arrived to the planet.

Connecting the Dots

• Links the strange activity at a nuclear research facility to a cave system inhabited by Silurians, such as repeated power losses being caused by their hibernation chambers activating, psychological breakdowns occurring in the room closest to the caves being their ancestral fear of their reptilian counterparts and the site director's house having an unusually high temperature in order to accommodate cold-blooded creatures.
• Realizes that the Nestenes are activated by a shortwave radio.
• Deduces that a series of mysterious deaths linked to a telepathic machine was committed by a Chinese woman because its inventor's assistant is also a Chinese woman (this was the 70s).
• Realizes that the assassins who travelled back in time to prevent WWIII inadvertently caused it.
• Draws a link between a cosmic ray and the creature that attacked him.
• Deduces that the ship he's on isn't from Earth due to a number of details that don't add up.
• Deduces that he and Jo have arrived in the middle of a war between humans and an alien race based on a slur used by the former.
• Realizes that Clifford Jones discovered the cure to the disease he's suffering based on a single word he uttered in his delirium.

Observation

Life Forms

• Spots an Auton out of a wax figure collection from the presence of a correctly-winded wristwatch.
• Identifies a blood sample as belonging to prehistoric reptiles.
• Differentiates a set of reptilian footprints from ones he saw earlier as bipedal.
• Identifies the signal on an oscilloscope as a heartbeat.
• Observes that a monster detects its prey through scent.
• Understands how the biomechanics of Sontarans differ due to being born on a planet with a higher gravity.
• Identifies a stage psychic as a real psychic because he performed a number of feats that couldn't be explained otherwise.

Environment

• Determines that a tent was ripped from the outside instead of within.
• Spots a pool of acidic liquid in a cave.
• Points out that a room couldn't have possibly been attacked by a giant lizard because the door is too small.
• Identifies a small metallic object as a spaceship that was shrunk due to it having the same shape as the cave it's in. He also estimates its weight.
• Contradicts a man's denial about a home invasion from the presence of muddy footprints.
• Discovers a secret passage from an oddly-placed torch that serves as its lever.
• Discovers that a boat catching fire was not accidental but was attacked by a heat ray due to the nature of the scorch marks.
• Figures out the century based on the technological advancements of their location.
• Discovers that an elevator accident was an act of deliberate sabotage when he finds a misplaced bolt.
• Quickly identifies the activation mechanism for a hidden elevator.
• Spots a tripwire hidden in the dirt.
• Recognizes alien symbols as ones he saw earlier in Peru which the species previously visited.

Messages

• Recognizes an ear-piercing sound as a coded message.
• Discovers that a primitive race was once a highly advanced civilization from the technology present and the pictograms depicting their history.
• Interprets a set of stone tablets as a calendar.
• Opens a secret door by looking at a set of symbols and spotting the odd one out.

Other

• Measures the diameter of a sphere from a single broken fragment.

Medical

• Determines that a man died of heart failure brought on by intense fear.
• Creates a counteragent to the Silurian's bacterial plague.
• Diagnoses an unconscious man as suffering from acute shock.
• Makes an injectable liquid from the curative components of a fungus.

Manipulation

Trickery

• Routinely fools guards by acting coy or performing magic tricks to lull them into a false sense of security before dispatching them with Venusian Karate.
• Tricks a man into revealing that he's a soldier.
• Tricks the Master into aiding his defeat of the Axos.
• Scares away a superstitious gargoyle by holding out some iron and chanting a Venusian lullaby.
• Avoids being burned at the stake by playing along with the villagers' superstitions and faking a bunch of magical feats with the help of Benton and Bessie.
• Gets Jo to distract an Ogron guard so they can ambush him.
• Plays along when he's mistaken for the Earth Delegate at an interplanetary committee.
• Provokes a genocidal marshal into self-reporting at a hearing.
• Slips out of a jail cell unnoticed by engaging in a long, rambling conversation with Jo so that his jailer, the Master, grows bored and stops paying attention to them.
• Dissuades an invading force from attacking a castle by setting up dummies and throwing stink bombs to make it appear as if it's well-defended.
• Impersonates the voice of the Sontaran Linx.
• Distracts Irongron and his men by impersonating Linx's robot guard and sparring with them.
• Escapes military custody by staging a fight with a fellow captive so they can ambush the soldier guarding them.
• Gets the military off his tail by sneaking into one of their vehicles and using its walkie talkie to call off the search.

Persuasion

• Bullies a security guard into letting him see the Brigadier.
• Convinces a Silurian to free their human captives.
• Overrides the Master's hypnosis through his words alone, snapping Jo out of her post-hypnotic trance and giving a suicide bomber enough willpower to isolate himself so nobody else is hurt.
• Convinces the last alien of its kind to basically commit suicide in order to stop the Master's plan.
• Spares the Daleks' minion who in turn lets him go at the cost of his own life.
• Talks down his ally when he's mind-controlled to turn against him.
• Gets Sarah to teach an alien queen about women's lib so she can assert her authority over a sexist chancellor that's opposed to the Doctor.

Miscellaneous

• Tames the beast Aggedor through a form of hypnosis. Aggedor become so loyal he turned on his own master and fell under the Doctor's spell again 50 years later.

Resourcefulness

• Blasts a door lock with a small explosive.
• Uses a fire extinguisher to dispatch a mutant that thrives on heat.
• Cuts the rope binding his hands by rubbing it against a wine rack.
• Improvises a trap to electrocute a Sea Devil by connecting a metal door to a junction box.
• Uses his spacesuit's oxygen as a propellent when he's sent adrift.
• Escapes a room with no exit by ascending a ventilation shaft using a makeshift, reverse parachute.
• Exploits the Daleks' vulnerability to cold by throwing them in freezing lakes and flooding a room full of hibernating drones with liquid ice.
• Kills a giant dragonfly by throwing his cape into its path.
• Improvises a fire barrier mid-chase with some hay and a torch.
• Incapacitates a castle full of men by slipping a sleeping draft into their food made from naturally-available herbs.
• Increases the temperature in a mine to weaken the cold-blooded Ice Warriors guarding it, allowing the miners to revolt.
• Tracks a criminal through a complex tunnel system using a native creature as a sniffer dog.
• Counters the Eight Legs' electrical attacks using stones from Metebelis 3, surmising that its minerals should have unusual properties like the sapphires.
• Fashions a zipline from the Raston Warrior Robot's armaments.

Miscellaneous

• Claims to be every kind of scientist and a doctor of practically everything.
• Deciphers a code despite multiple attempts to impede him.
• Can calculate Epsilon coordinates mentally.
• Stumps a sentient super computer with a logical paradox.

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#Skill

Combat

The Third Doctor is a master of Venusian Karate (or Aikido); a non-lethal form of martial arts that allows him to paralyze foes with a touch.

Paralyzing

• Stops a man mid-attack by placing a finger on his collarbone, rendering him immobile indefinitely.
• Knocks down alt-Benton and causes him great pain.
• Incapacitates two soldiers at once by pinching the back of their necks (similar instance with non-humans)
• Freezes Yates in place by touching his arm.
• Renders a man briefly unconscious by pinching his collarbones.
• Stops a gunman in his tracks by touching his chest.
• Keeps a warrior suspended until he's persuaded to cooperate.
• Renders a soldier unconscious by pinching the back of his neck.
• A human under alien mind control is immune to being paralyzed.

Armed

• Defeats three primitive aliens with a spear.
• Bests the Champion of Peladon in a cage match initially using halberds with both opponents being disarmed throughout the fight.
• Beats the Master in a sword fight.
• Bests a baron in a sword fight that he has to employ dirty tricks to even the odds.
• Outdoes a Peladon miner in a sword fight, only losing in the end because he attempted to reason with him.

Unarmed

• Casually subdues a soldier from the future.
• Beats a young man in a boxing match, claiming he was taught by John L. Sullivan.
• Roughhouses two Sea Devils before one attacks him from behind when he lets his guard down.
• Shows three armed security guards what's what.
• Defeats two aliens armed with starves while his hands are shackled.
• Fends off three attackers using various throws.

Disarming

• Only not kicks the gun out of a man's hand but also the remote he's using to control a robot.
• Kicks the Master's weapon and remote out of his hands before he can press a button to execute Jo.
• Kicks a raygun out of an Ogron's hands, picks it up and shoots him with it.
• Disarms a wrench-wielding madman.
• Leaves the Master's line of sight at gunpoint then blindsides him.
• Surrenders then disarms a swordsman the moment he shifts his attention.

Miscellaneous

• Disorients a superhumanly strong mutant by putting a mattress on it.
• Defeats a minotaur via bullfighting using his cape as a muleta.

Stealth

• Poses as a man showering in order to steal a doctor's clothes and avoid detection as he escapes a hospital.
• Evades two soldiers by hiding inside a trash can.
• Wears a hazmat suit in order to infiltrate a drilling countdown.
• Sneak attacks a guard from behind.
• Infiltrates a mining corporation disguised as a guard and sneak attacks a real guard when his ally is discovered.
• Utilizes the fog to get the jump on a guard pursuing him.
• Sneaks up to the Master and whips the weapon out of his hand.
• Infiltrates a Dalek base disguised as one of their subordinate alien species while his ally pilots a Dalek casing to escort him in.
• Enters a highly secure refinery disguised as a Welsh milkman then changes into a cleaning lady when he's caught going out of bounds as the previous disguise.
• Disguises himself as a friar to gain access to a castle.
• Appears out of a corner to sneak attack a scientist.
• Has his ally lure two guards so he can Venusian Karate them from behind.
• Avoids detection from a Raston Warrior Robot that senses by sound.

Marksmanship

• Shoots a pistol out of a man's hand with the Master's sidearm.
• Kills an Ogron with an atomic disintegrator.
• Uses a crossbow to shoot a remote out of a man's hand.

Vehicular

• Drives directly towards a heat barrier then swerves at the last second so the helicopter pursuing him crashes into it.
• Dodges several laser blasts while driving a quadbike until his wheel gets stuck in a pothole.
• Catches up to the Master in a jet ski despite the other Time Lord having a notable head start.
• His heightened reflexes allow him to safely drive cars going at breakneck speed.
• Pilots a gyrocopter when pursuing the stolen Whomobile.
• Chases a man on a hovercraft across the sea and the land.

Linguistics

• Knows an alien language that communicates through eyebrow movements.
• Sends an SOS in Morse code.
• Speaks fluent Hokkien.
• Speaks some Cantonese, Spanish and Tibetan.
• Knows enough Latin and Greek to translate the Master's aliases.
• Transcribes an ancient Gallifreyan inscription.

Locksmithing

• Picks a cabinet with a letter opener.
• Cracks a safe by listening to its internal mechanisms.
• Unlocks a handcuff with a screwdriver.

Miscellaneous

• Putts a hole in one while blindfolded.
• Can make objects vanish into thin air and reappear again via transmigration, an ability he never elaborates on. Though, it probably explains how he performs his conjuring tricks.
• Endures a largely unseen amount of peril on Metebelis III to recover a crystal.
• Slips out of a web cocoon using a trick he learned from Harry Houdini.

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#Physical Attributes

Time Lord Biology

• Has two hearts and can continue living if only one is functioning, prompting the Master to threaten to shoot both of his hearts to keep him at bay.
• His blood type is not known to humans.
• Can enter a self-induced coma with no measurable brain activity.
• A pulse of 170 is normal for him.
• Has stated more than once that he's thousands of years old (which is contradicted by later Doctors but oh well).
• Can go without oxygen for long periods (aka his respiratory bypass system). He has resisted strangulation on two occasions and didn't need a mask when venturing a planet with an atmosphere that wasn't breathable for humans.
• States that he's especially resistant to G-force which is shown when he reaches orbit in a space shuttle.
• Enters a heavily irradiated cave without protection and past a point where a human in a hazmat suit could no longer cross to the source of the radiation. However, he wasn't completely immune to radiation as he fatally succumbed to the radiation from the Metebelis crystals.
• Resists being frozen in time and reverses the machine causing it.
• Can survive fatal injuries by regenerating his body into a new form. The Third Doctor's regeneration was somewhat delayed and needed a "push" from a fellow Time Lord to become the Fourth Doctor.
• His different metabolism means taking an aspirin might kill him.

Strength

• Shoves away a soldier while riding Bessie.
• Climbs up a cliff in the middle of strong winds.
• Kicks the Master over a table.
• Carries an unconscious man on his back.
• Grabs an Atlantean guard's spear and uses it to pin him and his superior against a wall.
• Throws two Draconicans at once.
• Resists being sucked out of space long enough to close the door.
• Pulls a grate out of its hole.

Speed & Agility

• Dodges melee swings from a primord.
• Dodges a rifle shot.
• Crosses a few 100 yards in a matter of seconds.
• Leaps fast enough to catch a grenade dropped by opening a door.
• Avoids being run over by a minivan.
• Catches a throwing spear.
• Dodges a sniper.
• Ducks and rolls in combat.
• Ducks under an energy blast.
• Claims that his reactions are 10 times faster than Jo's.
• Dodges a dalek blast.
• Too fast for a group of medieval warriors.
• Dodges multiple shotgun blasts from close range (from untrained hands albeit).
• Turns around to deflect an electric bolt after it was fired.
• Reacts to multiple electric arcs coming from different directions.

Durability & Endurance

• A bomb detonates in his presence, killing a man and damaging the room, and all he needs is a bandage on his cheek.
• Tanks a chair to the back from a super strong mutant.
• Survives being buried by tons of ice that froze a human man to death and recovers the next day when exposed to an intense heatwave.
• After being shot by the Master, the Doctor heals by entering a restorative coma for a few minutes.
• A Sontaran claims the Doctor resisted well when shot in the face with a non-lethal energy blast. The Doctor is later shot again with a blast that would've been lethal if Sarah didn't intervene.
• A machine explodes near him and he's unharmed.
• Ignores being jolted with a high-tech cattle prod.
• Survives being struck by an electric bolt capable of killing humans instantly, instead putting him in critical condition until he is healed.

Senses

• Identifies a flying bomb from the distant sound of its engine.
• Identifies a pungent smell as gaseous sulfide.

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#Mental Abilities

Communication

• Reveals the equation for time travel to the Axons under duress.
• Fills in his previous incarnation about their dilemma by connecting their minds.
• Has a telepathic conference with the First and Second Doctors to come up with a solution.

Manipulation

• Breaks the Nestene Consciousness' control over a man's mind.
• Combines his mental power with the Second Doctor's to will a door into existence in Omega's universe.
• Combines his telepathic power with his two previous incarnations to free the Fifth Doctor from Barusa's influence.

Sensing

• Experiences a somewhat prophetic dream of the Master plotting something involving Atlantis.
• Feels a premonition moments before it's revealed the Daleks are present.
• Time Lords can sense the presence of other Time Lords, allowing him to recognize the Master who's currently inhabiting Tremas' body.
• Senses something is wrong before the villain enters the room, a feeling shared by the First Doctor but strangely not the Second.

Resistance

• Resists continuous mental assault from the Axons and helps Jo do the same.
• Is not susceptible to a hallucination-inducing device that he advised his allies to look away from.
• BOSS' brainwashing has no effect on him whatsoever.
• Fights through a mental attack.
• Endures a long period of sensory overload while operating a machine before putting himself in a state of complete sensory withdrawal in order to survive.
• Sees past illusions of his acquaintances created by Rassilion to trick him.
• Is vulnerable to the Silurian's third eye.
• Almost dies when tormented by the Master's telepathic machine. However, he later musters enough willpower to resist the machine's influence long enough to place a dampening device on it.
• Loses a mental battle with Omega.

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#Sonic Screwdriver

A versatile handheld device the Doctor carries throughout most of his incarnations.

Scanning

• Reveals the position of an invisible alarm beam at the door of the Master's TARDIS.
• Detects landmines in an area so the Doctor and Jo can avoid them.
• Shows that an alien entity traveled down a sink.
• Reveals which parts of a patterned floor are harmful to step on.

Locks

• Opens the cell the Sea Devils trapped the Master and the Doctor in.
• Overloads a cupboard door from the 30th century.
• Overloads a door lock from the 26th century to keep the Daleks from entering.
• Opens an elevator door.
• Only works on electric locks.
• Cannot open a bolted cell door until the Doctor converted the sonic into an electromagnet.
• Merely triggers an alarm when attempting to open a 26th century cell door.
• Fails to open a cell door designed by the Daleks.

Offensive/Defensive

• Remote detonates landmines.
• Ignites sulfur emissions to generate explosions.
• Releases a high frequency noise to stun giant maggots.
• Appears to disrupt an energy weapon.

Miscellaneous

• Attaches a revolving mirror onto the sonic's head to perform hypnosis.
• Functions as a conventional screwdriver.

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#Bessie

Bessie is a vintage roadster the Doctor affixed with a number of modifications.

• The anti-thief feature glues any human making physical contract to itself for a period of time.
• Mentioned having a forcefield.
• Can be driven via remote control which the Doctor used to trick a group of superstitious villagers and prevent the Master from escaping when he stole the vehicle.
• Its speed can be enhanced considerably using the super drive feature with inertia-absorbing brakes so the Doctor doesn't fly through the windshield.

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#Metebelis Crystal

A sapphire with potent mental abilities that the Doctor stole from Metebelis III which consequently ended up being his undoing.

• Gazing into the crystal frees Mark Yates from BOSS' mental conditioning who then uses it to de-enthrall another man.
• The Doctor uses the crystal on the head of Global Chemicals who sacrifices himself to destroy BOSS.
• When the Doctor willingly looks into the crystal, he is reminded of his old mentor who he will reunite with later in the story.
• Releases Sarah from the influence of the Eight Legs and also kills the one attached to her back.
• Destroys the Great One by overloading her brain when she attempts to use it to enhance her mental powers.

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#Other items

Futuristic technology

• A wristwatch that homes in on the TARDIS' location.
• Keeps a lateral molecular rectifier which he claims can identify an alien meteorite that no Earth technology could.
• The "door handle" remotely opens the door to the Doctor's workshop at UNIT, but does not work on its alternate universe counterpart.
• A device that scans the molecular structure of objects. It revealed the instructions imprinted on a plastic daffodil used by the Master.
• A time sensor detects disturbances in a time field that the Doctor hoped would locate the Master's TARDIS. It sensed the temporal disturbances caused by the Master's TOMTIT device which the Doctor and Jo were able to locate using the sensor, It additionally allowed the Doctor to bypass the Time Lord's restrictions on the TARDIS to track the Master's TARDIS and follow him to Atlantis.
• Uses a separate device to pinpoint the Master's TARDIS in the room/
• Owns a magnetic core extractor he uses to slide open a metal plate that leads to the inner workings of the miniscope.
• Uses a small handheld device to track down the Master on the Ogron's planet.
• The TARDIS log is basically a recording device Jo uses to detail the Doctor's condition when he's ill.
• A rhondium sensor detects delta particles and alerted the Doctor to the osmic projector used by Linx to travel to the present.
• A device that reveals the presence of a Sontaran.
• Blocks Linx's energy blasts with a metallic fan.
• An electrocephalograph records the brain waves of a psychic human.
• Image Reproduction Integrating System (or IRIS) translates the thoughts of the aforementioned psychic onto a screen. It showed the Doctor's past ventures when his sonic screwdriver was psychometrically scanned. It also recorded the man's final thoughts when he was killed by a telepathic assault, revealing the Eight Legs as the culprits.
• Analyzes the Metebelis crystal with a high-tech scale.
• Replaces Bessie with a high-speed vehicle called the Whomobile that is capable of flying at speeds matching a gyrocopter.
• Uses a sort of healing device to recover from a critical injury. He uses that same device to measure the composition of minerals and to deflect an electric bolt.

Mundane items

• Loupe.
• Listening device.
• Magnifying glass.
• Telescope.
• Cable saw.
• Throws coins to test things.
• A flashlight and an old-fashioned lantern.
• A penlight which he used to de-hypnotize Linx's slaves.
• Rope.

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#Miscellaneous

• Is personal acquaintances with King Edward VII, Sir Walter Rayleigh, Napoleon Bonaparte, Horatio Nelson and Mao Zedong (who even gave the Doctor permission to use his personal name Tse-Tung).
• Woke.
• Was offered the power of a god and declined.
• Super woke.
• Got the Time Lords to ban a cruel piece of technology.
• Wokity woke woke.

##"Good grief."

big arm boi go brrr

wow

and do the Beatles count as historical figures despite one of them still being alive?

He better come back in Chucky 8 playing five different characters

This one scene in the pilot really sets in motion a lot of Georgie's development for the rest of the series. In this moment, Georgie expresses his frustration at having his younger, more intelligent, socially incompetent brother upgrade to the same school as him. And how does George react? He tells him to just get over it. He speaks firstly as his coach and second as his father.

When you think of the consequences of living with Sheldon, you'd often think of Missy and the neglect she suffered. However, I reckon it had a more subtle impact on Georgie.

Most of Georgie's storylines involve him growing up too early. Favoring working over playing football, developing his business skills selling snowglobes or test answers, moving into his own self-bought van, dropping out of high school, helping Meemaw run her illegal gambling enterprise and eventually having a child with a much older woman.

Georgie's pursuit of independence is the result of him not really having a normal childhood. While his parents were fixated on Sheldon's development, Georgie's needs remained unmet. Sure, he and his father were a "team" as Missy described, but it was more in the line of coach and player over father and son.

Instead of internalizing his feelings as resentment like Missy did, Georgie learned how to rely on himself and his own instincts. Of course, his instincts weren't always right. He was still an immature teenager stumbling into adulthood.

Anybody else kinda disappointed at how Sheldon and Dr. Sturgis' relationship disminished over the course of the show?

Dr. Sturgis was introduced as the one person who truly *got* Sheldon. Like Sheldon, he was a socially awkward genius but unlike him, was actually very amicable and kind-hearted. He was a good mentor figure. Then when Sheldon got into East Texas Texh, Dr. Strugis was sidelined which was (understandly) done to make Sheldon's transistion into college harder, leaving the hapless Dr. Linkletter to take Sturgis' place. While Sheldon and Linkletter's dynamic was undoubtably entertaining and necessary, they didn't have the same meaningful bond.

Towards the end of the show, Sturgis became less of an individual character as his role was merged with Linkletter's into double act of stuffy old professors compared the now-teenage Sheldon.

The very last interaction Sturgis has with Sheldon is him giving his condolences over George's death and Sheldon ignoring him. I get that Sheldon is closing himself off due to grief, but I wish the two had more of meaningful final interaction before Sheldon went off to Caltech since Sturgis was such an important part of his personal and academic development.

I vote Chucky

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