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My guess on who The Doctor has been running away from [SPOILERS] (self.doctorwho)

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I have been running, faster and harder than I have ever before. Doctor has been running away from his wife!

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[–]ThatReallyTallGuy 8 points9 points ago

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And here I was convinced that he was running away because he stole the tardis from another timelord after being kicked out of the academy.

[–]xljj42 2 points3 points ago

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Well, if all the Timelords (that he knows of) are dead wouldn't he stop running?

[–]ThatReallyTallGuy 1 point2 points ago

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What would he do then? Settle down? What about all the enemies he has made since then?

The Daleks have been haunting him since the second episode of Dr. Who ever! Its only recently that they have been reduced to a running gag.

[–]xljj42 3 points4 points ago

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I know he has plenty of reasons to run, I just do not think that Grand Theft Tardis is one of them.

[–]ThatReallyTallGuy 2 points3 points ago

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Well I would posit that it was the original reason. Subsiquent reasons would have presented themselves.

[–]xljj42 1 point2 points ago

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Now that I've thought about it, technically he could still be running from that original Timelord. After all moments after realizing that his personal TARDIS had been stolen, he could have acquired (through whichever means) another TARDIS and shot off after the Doctor.

Since time travel is involved, he could confront the Doctor at any point in time.

[–]ThatReallyTallGuy 3 points4 points ago

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Now your thinking with TARDISes. Also i'm fairly sure that the timelords are not dead. Just locked in a time loop somewhere untill the plot calls for them again.

[–]xljj42 1 point2 points ago

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Lurking in an infinite loop until it's the perfect moment to strike. I hope you are correct. I enjoyed seeing Timothy Dalton as Lord President Rassilon.

[–]ThatReallyTallGuy 1 point2 points ago

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The thing with timespace, specifically threaded timespace (think multiple worlds) is that no one really dies. They are just absent from the particular worldtrack you are on.

[–]xljj42 1 point2 points ago

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If the theories are correct and there are in fact two worlds/time lines overlapping now who knows what the future holds. It seems a lot of what is going on in the new series is completely resetting what happened in the past or giving the past ways to become relevant again.

[–]ignoramus012Davison 5 points6 points ago

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He's running from the untempered schism. It's been said in "The Sound of Drums":

The Doctor: [The master] stood in front of the Untempered Schism. It's a gap in the fabric of reality through which could be seen the whole of the vortex. We stand there, eight years old, staring at the raw power of Time and Space, just a child. Some would be inspired. Some would run away. And some would go mad. Oh, I dunno.

Martha: What about you?

The Doctor: Oh, the ones that ran away! I never stopped.

[–]OchoboboTennant 1 point2 points ago

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I think that was just one of the many things he's running away from.

[–]OchoboboTennant 3 points4 points ago

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I'm pretty sure he was referring to his own impending death.

[–]amaurer 2 points3 points ago

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Here's something to think about - the Doctor doesn't say he's running FROM anything. Perhaps he's chasing something.

[–]katiefrazer92Smith 0 points1 point ago

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Maybe he just watched 'Forrest Gump'?

[–]Fredquimby 0 points1 point ago

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I think you're spot on, here. The key phrase is he says he's been running his whole life. Not just for a while. That makes it less about the storyline, and more about the Doctor himself.

[–]palehorse864 -1 points0 points ago

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You're all wrong! He's running away from creditors; weapons to blow up two entire civilizations don't come cheap.

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