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 Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 7:25 pm
Richard_Swift Lullabee In the EDAs, Eight used to get so busy brooding he forgot to eat, so he lost weight and his companions sometimes got concerned, and there was one time he got imprisoned and ended up an utter bag of bones... so I guess the Doctor does need to eat once in a while.
Isn't that after Henrietta Street though? If so, his metabolism is going to be working differently to usual anyway.
But, indeed, after Henrietta Street, I swear, by the sound of it he's generally not ten stone soaking wet.
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:39 pm
I dunno, i guess I just try to draw as many similarites between him and me as possible, but i think he eats like me, in that he doesn't really usually eat much, like hunger's not something that will change what he feels like doing, ( like me, i FEEL hungery, but that doesnt inspire me to eat or stop doing whatever im doing [like saving the universe-again-duh] so i just tell my stomach to 'shut up and stop whining! Gosh! i fed you yesterday!') and then when he/I do eat, its not with health on our minds, but we never gain any weight. but ya, thats just me thinking wishfully probably...
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:46 pm
Lullabee Richard_Swift Lullabee In the EDAs, Eight used to get so busy brooding he forgot to eat, so he lost weight and his companions sometimes got concerned, and there was one time he got imprisoned and ended up an utter bag of bones... so I guess the Doctor does need to eat once in a while.
Isn't that after Henrietta Street though? If so, his metabolism is going to be working differently to usual anyway.
But, indeed, after Henrietta Street, I swear, by the sound of it he's generally not ten stone soaking wet.
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 12:54 am
Eirwyn Richard_Swift The Sixth Doctor's diet is worth thinking about actually, as he's one of the few people to have put on lots of weight after becoming a vegetarian. A lot of cheese, do you think?
Who mentioned veganism? Neither I nor the Sixth Doctor. wink Maybe had Shockeye also been a brutal dairy farmer then Six might have gone that step further in response. Eirwyn Was that the one by Kate Orman where he couldn't escape from this prison no matter what & it was driving him crazy? Thats the lovely Seeing I. Great bit in that where Sam can't get why it was such a big deal to someone as long-lived as the Doctor to lose three years of his life. Until he explained it was "three years of nothing." If it drove the Eighth Doctor a bit cuckoo, I can imagine it would have had Ten scratching at the walls until his fingers were filed away. The Adventuress of Henrietta Street is the one (written in the style of a history book rather a novel) that shows the Doctor being 'bonded' to Earth during one of those awkward moments where he'd destroyed Gallifrey for a while. There were a few physiological changes involved in all this...one of his hearts started dying off, he grew a (possibly rubbish, certainly precognitive) beard, etc.
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Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:19 pm
hmm..i have a bad memory so i don't know if anyone has mentioned this or not, but in Winner Takes All (9th Doctor and Rose) he eats..um, let's see: two cups of tea, three sandwiches, two cakes and a cream biscuit.
lol! Rose said that when the Doctor asked her to get some food for him...and he said "Don't tell me England's got a tea-restriction law these days. If it has, I'll probably have to take down the government. Again."
xd xd
ah, yeah, i did have the book in front of me which is why i remembered redface
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Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 4:44 pm
its wt would appear that he eats more in books than in tv. Here's a question for EVERYONE: DOes the doctor's eating habit change with each new regeneration?
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Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 5:53 pm
I think so. He's been partial to carrying candy around in at least three of his incarnations, but I think #3 was more highbrow in his eating habits.
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Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 6:07 pm
i wouldn't know, i've only seen partal episoids of the old doctor who series..Tom Baker...and i didnt see much eating
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Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:06 am
i think that to keep up all his energy the doctor must eat like a pig... but with his 2 hearts he metabalizes faster than us mortals
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Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 2:34 pm
Parkent i think that to keep up all his energy the doctor must eat like a pig... but with his 2 hearts he metabalizes faster than us mortals wow, good point about the hearts..buty thats only if that means he has double the normal heartrate, but when Martha listens to his hearts, they sound normal
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Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 8:29 pm
I was always under the impression that Time Lords had a slow heart rate & low metabolism. I'm sure that's been mentioned in the Classic series....
Oh, Richard...?
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Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 8:29 am
You remember right. smile
Spearhead from Space tells us that a Time Lord's pulse rate is 10 BPM while at rest.
For comparison a human's at rest is between 60 and 100, and even only drops down to around 40 when asleep. So yes, a Time Lord's heart rate is one quarter that of a sleeping human. No wonder the Fourth Doctor can go around berating people that "Sleep is for tortoises" - he never really has to wake up!
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Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 9:19 am
More book eating, this time from Wishing Well...
He has a dandelion and burdock when finding out more about the well, and munches his way through an entire jar of marmalade later in the book. With his fingers, of course!
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Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:19 am
In the comic in DWM issue 391, they started a story (with very surprising & rather cool art & color) where they land in a forest & the Doctor licks the trees to determine their species--he concludes the world has been terraformed...and that they needed to put more vanilla & spruce in the trees. biggrin
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Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 12:19 pm
tennantsbutterfly Ceribri tennantsbutterfly Ceribri tennantsbutterfly Well, we see the Third Doctor munching his way through sandwiches in "The Sea Devils" (I think), the Fourth chomping loads of jelly babies throughout his tenure, and the Tenth feasts on Christmas dinner in "The Christmas Invasion", with Queen Victoria (possibly on ham, although we don't see it) in "Tooth And Claw", those little cheesy biscuits (not sure on their exact name) in "School Reunion", cake in "The Idiot's Lantern", a fingerful of marmalade and a cake with silver balls on top in "Fear Her", vol-au-vents in "The Lazarus Experiment", and a pear in "Human Nature". He also has cups of tea! I think it depends on the regeneration to be honest with you. The Tenth seems to eat a lot more than his previous incarnations... Don't forget the 'smart' fries from School Reunion! ^^ And if you count it, Nine was going to dinner with Margaret Slitheen although he didn't eat 'cause she was too busy poisoning everything. xD I had forgotten those, actually! Mind you, they wouldn't have had much of an effect on the Doctor... I wasn't counting the Ninth Doctor's abortive meal with Blon for exactly that reason. Same as I didn't invite the invitation to dinner which Jackie offers him in "World War Three". xDD True, true. OOOOHHH!!! In 'The Empy Child' (or the other half), Nine sits down to have a dinner with the orphaned kids at that house. ^^ Does that count? And if you think about it, both Blon and Nine had drinks, and that should at least say he was going to drink it. rolleyes No, because Blon poisoned his drink when he was looking out at where she used to live. He didn't get to eat anything in "The Empty Child" either because he got too busy chatting then Nancy took his dinner off him because he took two pieces of meat... Episode 1 (or possibly 2 I don't remember): William Hartnell ate a Mars bar
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