From: ph9991_manfr@rivers.acc.uwrf.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
Subject: Re: The Valeyard's TRUE goals
Date: 9 Jan 93 05:12:09 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin - River Falls

>>
>>  In Trial of a Timelord Part 13, The word is NOT regeneration, it is
>>INCARNATION!  The Valeyard IS INDEED The Watcher for the 12th Doctor in other
>>that the Doctor can regenerate to final incarnation!!
>>
>>Dave Shariff Yadallee
> 
> Dave, could you please explain yourself?
> 
> I'm sorry if I'm a little slow on the uptake - but, what *EXACTLY*
> do you mean by *incarnation* as opposed to *regeneration*?
> 
> And about the watcher???????
> 
> Elena

An incarnation means the body itself.  Thus William Hartnell was playing
the Doctor's first incarnation (in its late stages of life).  Patrick
Troughton played his second, etc....

Regeneration refers to the physical process of renewing the body cells and
rearranging them, creating a new form and differently emphasized personality
traits for the Doctor.
The first regeneration was between Hartnell and Troughton, so it can be
said that Troughton is the result of the first regeneration, or shorthand
like many people do, he is the first regeneration.
There is some canon to support this too.  Here's some lines from "The Five
Doctors" to prove the point:
First Doctor:  Uh, regeneration?
Fifth Doctor:  Fourth!
First Doctor:  Goodness me, so there are five of me now!

Extrapolate this to the Valeyard.  The Master says the Valeyard is, quoted
verbatim, "an amalgamation of the darker sides of your nature, somewhere
between your twelfth and final incarnation.  And may I say, you do not 
improve with age!"  Note the word is incarnation, rather than regeneration.

Thus the Valeyard is some sort of in-between phase between the Twelfth
and Thirteenth Doctors.  The Thirteenth Doctor will probably have the 
Valeyard's physical form (if he ever gets that far), but not necessarily
the personality.  This is based on other in-between phase regenerations
seen in the past of the show.

There have, to date, been three "phased" regenerations, not counting the
Valeyard. 
The first encountered was in "Planet of the Spiders" and involved the Doctor's
old teacher, K'Anpo Rimpoche and a projection the old man was creating in
the form of the younger monk named Cho-je.  When his moment of regeneration
comes (after an attack from the Queen Spider), Cho-je is present in the room.
He tells everyone not to worry and disappears, and then K'Anpo's form
fades away into that of Cho-je in K'Anpo's clothes.  
Previous to this, Cho-je operated quite independently of K'Anpo, although
they were still linked.  This seems to be somewhat the case when it comes
to the Valeyard.

The second encountered was a sort of "cheating" regeneration the Master
uses at the end of "The Keeper of Traken," using the fading powers of
the Keepership he still has lingering about him to steal the body of Tremas.
When the "regeneration" is complete, the body now looks like Tremas, only
younger.  

The third is the most mysterious to date and its source of generation is
unknown.  This is the Watcher in "Logopolis," who arrives before the fatal
events in the story to warn the Doctor, and more frequently, Adric, a little
of the ordeal to come.  He also brings Nyssa to Logopolis from Traken, and
pilots the TARDIS out of space and time to protect it, Nyssa, and Adric
for a while.  It may be worth noting that when he does this, he doesn't
fade away.   
There are three possible sources of the Watcher's weird existence.  The 
Doctor's own subconscious mind, the TARDIS, or the Time Lords via the Matrix.
I like to think it was a combination of the first two, since Borusa in
"Arc of Infinity," then the Lord President and linked to the Matrix, is
unaware of the Doctor's latest regeneration.  
Thus either or both the Doctor and the TARDIS foresaw the events in 
"Logopolis" in a shadowy way, and at the end, the moment had been prepared
for.  When the regeneration was needed, the Watcher stepped physically into
the Doctor's injured body and melded into it, forming the Fifth Doctor,
thus the Watcher was a projection from some source of the Doctor's next
incarnation, but still fuzzy around the edges.  

In "Timewyrn:Revelation" by Paul Cornell, there is a scene with Ace inside
the Doctor's mind where she stumbles into a large room with thirteen
compartments.  Six have been used, one is in service, and the other six are
occupied by whiteish grey forms similar to the Watcher.  Clearly Paul
thinks the Watcher came from the Doctor's mind.

The Valeyard is some deviant form of an in-between "phase," the one going
between the Twelfth and Thirteenth Doctors, if we go by what the Master
said in the story.  
Other things which I won't go into in detail here lead me to suspect that
the Valeyard is also not directly from the Doctor's future but rather some
composite or possibly a Matrix prediction of that final "phase."  
It's not quite canon, but I think I'm reading the late Robert Holmes'
intentions fairly well, based on part one of "Ultimate Foe."

Steven.K.Manfred
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