 Elaborating on this genesis in a 2014 interview in "Doctor Who Magazine", Sherwin said of "The War Games", "It was a case of what shall we do, how can we end this?Let's go back to the beginning and say [the Doctor] was a Time Lord, a renegade Time Lord, a pain in the arse for the other Time Lords who stole his TARDIS and buggered off around the universe.So if he's going to be called to book let's bring in the Time Lords.