'If I'm right, and inevitably I am...'

One thing that makes me very sure about who my dad is, is how he always thinks he's right, and clever than everyone else. I've only ever known the Doctor to do it, and my dad's done it for as long as I can remember! A while back, after making a suggestion to my brother (which my brother didn't like), he said something like, 'Every time I say that, it shows how clever I am, and if you listen to me, you might learn to be just as clever.' And he meant it perfectly seriously! It really reminds me of The Ark in Space, when the Doctor says, 'You're improving, Harry! Your mind is beginning to work... Entirely due to my influence, of course. You mustn't take any credit.' And then another time when we disagreed on something, he said, 'I think it does, and that's the end of the matter.' and I couldn't count the times he's said things like, 'When have I ever guessed wrong about anything?' like he did in The Masque of Mandragora, which tends to leave me with Sarah's line, 'Lots of times.' It can be extremely hard to live with sometimes, but you get used to it after a while, and it gets to be funny a lot of the time.:)

By the way, I'm very sorry for not posting in so long. The time just went by so quickly, and I've been very busy and preoccupied with the show I'm doing with my drama group next week. I've got a lead role now, because I was the understudy for one, and it's taking a lot of work.:) I hope you understand.:)

"He Talks to Himself Sometimes..."

I had a most interesting conversation with the Doctor the day before yesterday. It started because he had been talking to himself in the kitchen, while I stood next to him, and he was saying a bunch of strange things, including asking himself if he understood. I said I didn't get what he meant, and he said, "I'm just talking to myself, that's all." leaving me thinking, That's what I didn't get. He went on mumbling for a while about how there's nothing wrong with talking to yourself, and then thoughtfully said, "Although, it is unusual to ask yourself if you understand, I suppose." He seemed to change his mind, though, since, when I laughed, he said, "If you're going to talk to yourself, it makes perfect sense to ask yourself if you understand." I didn't really know what to say, so he went off to my brother to ask him if it makes sense. All my brother said was something like "I guess so..." so the Doctor came back to me, saying, "It would be horrible to talk to yourself and then find you didn't understand." He still didn't get it when I laughed. It's very strange the way he talks to himself about things that don't make sense. I guess it falls under the old 'Ark in Space' quote: "He talks to himself sometimes because he's the only one who understands what he's saying." I certainly don't understand!

"Entirely Due to My Influence, of Course"

Years ago, my mom told me that the fourth Doctor was like my dad. I watched one episode, but it was a later one, when the show's producer wasn't very good, and also just not the best episode, and I didn't really see much resemblance, except for the crazy-looking face a messy curls. A month or two later, we got "The Ark in Space", and that was when I really began to see the similarity. The first line that ever made me wonder about my dad was "You're improving, Harry! Your mind is beginning to work... It's entirely due to my influence, of course. you mustn't take any credit." There was and still is only one person I know who could say and has said that, and that person is my dad. He's said it to me, and last night he said something similar to my mom. I had almost forgotten about this proof of him being the Doctor, but then last night we watched "The Masque of Mandragora", and I realized that the conversation the Doctor and Sarah have in the TARDIS was all-too familiar to me from my life and not just the show. Sarah had asked the Doctor something about how the TARDIS could be so big, and he gave her a weird, useless answer that didn't explain. When she didn't understand, he said something like, "You humans have such small brains. I don't know why I like you so much," and Sarah quickly replied, "Because you have such good taste!" Then he says, "Yes, that's true. I do have very good taste," or something similar. Now, I've had almost exactly that same conversation with the Doctor, except, of course, since he refuses to admit who he is to me, it was "some people" or something like that, instead of "you humans", but he was talking about me as one of those people. I often wonder how he can be so rude and hold such a high opinion of himself at the same time. It's very insulting sometimes when he does it to you, but after a while, you get used to it, and just laugh it off as one of his strange little things, and it's funny when he does it to someone else. They tend to get rather annoyed, and then he has no idea why they insult him back! :)

Does ANYONE understand what he's talking about?

Sometimes the Doctor does the strangest things while he's talking. Once, he explained to my brother (very slowly, with pauses between all the actions he named) how he was making his burger, and made the motions of making the burgers with his hands (such as putting them together and opening them out for cutting the bun, and flicking his fingers for putting on pepper). It was so strange it made me laugh, and I said, "I like the actions!" At first, he didn't know what I meant, but then he realized, and, meaning every word, said, "It helps me to understand what I'm saying." This reminds me a lot of "The Ark In Space", when the Doctor starts talking to himself, and Sarah explains to Vira, "He talks to himself sometimes because he's the only one who understand what he's talking about", which, by the way, the Doctor I know also does very frequently.
Sometimes, though, I'm not sure even the Doctor understands what he's talking about.For instance, we were driving in the car, and I said something like, "It sure is dark!" Then he said, "No, it's not dark, it's just less light." That really makes me think of "Pyramids Of Mars", when Sarah tries to show the Doctor the door, but it isn't there, and she says, "It's vanished!" to which he calmly replies, "Nonsense! It can't have vanished! It's just disappeared. That's all!" And according to my dad, he once answered a phone call at work, saying, "Good morning - I mean, good afternoon. What question do I have for you today?" Somehow, I don't think this is the normal way to answer work calls. He even said the same "Good morning - good afternoon" thing to me once when he came home! I'm not sure when, but I remember the Doctor of the '70s TV shows saying something that was similarly complete gobbledygook. It's things like this that really prove to me that he's the Doctor. I mean, who else could say things this ridiculous and still be perfectly normal-looking when he has to? (Well, half of the time he has to...)