it takes 7 years to become a doctor in the philippines.
how many years does it take to become a doctor in the philippines?
7
the big finish productions' "doctor who unbound" audio drama "he jests at scars..." documents an alternative timeline in which the valeyard, once again voiced by michael jayston, has defeated the doctor (in the aftermath of the trial) and gone on to ransack time and space. he has forged an empire by carefully eliminating time sensitives and altering his own (i.e. the doctor's) past to his advantage, monopolising time travel and claiming the various doomsday weapons the doctor left buried and concealed for his own use. the doctor's companion mel, hardened by many years of dark experience, eventually tracks him down with a view to assassinating the valeyard after confirming that there is nothing of the doctor left in him, but finds that he has become the victim of his own time meddling, the valeyard himself acknowledging that he lacked the doctor's compassion and ability to acknowledge when "not" to do something, so eager to act that he never truly stopped to consider the consequences of doing so in the belief that he could just go back and restore events later. eventually, the valeyard's actions begin to twist his own personal history, such as accidentally killing the fourth doctor, or planning to kill the first doctor's companion dodo chaplet to stop the doctor visiting a planet for a holiday at the same time as the valeyard destroyed it, with the result that most of his 'empire' was actually an illusion; in reality, the valeyard had trapped himself inside the tardis, terrified even to move in case he makes things worse. when the tardis runs out of power, the illusions it has created break down, leaving the valeyard and mel trapped in the console room floating in the heart of the time vortex, the stasis fields only able to allow them to talk but running out of the power necessary to permit even that. mel and a seemingly repentant, broken valeyard suffer the penalty for breaking the time lords' first law, and become trapped in the tardis, perhaps forever enmeshed in the centre of the web of time until the necessary millennia have elapsed for reality to recover from the damage the valeyard had done to it.
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in the 50th anniversary special "the day of the doctor", having fought in the time war for many years, the greatly aged war doctor steals the superweapon known as "the moment" with the intent of wiping out all combatants in the war along with his home world of gallifrey. however, the moment is sentient, possessing a conscience that requires the user to morally justify his use of it, and interacts with him in the shape of his future companion rose tyler (billie piper). although acknowledging that she can do what the doctor asks of her, she then sends the war doctor into his future to meet the tenth and eleventh doctors (david tennant and matt smith respectively) to understand the sadness and regret they endured while continuing the good he failed to accomplish. having witnessed his future selves prevent a zygon conquest of earth and the destruction of london, the war doctor concludes that he must destroy gallifrey, reflecting that he is lighting the fire so that better doctors can be forged, only for the tenth and eleventh doctors to travel back to activate the moment with him, the later doctors declaring that they now recognise the war doctor as having been "the doctor on the day it wasn't possible to get it right". however, aided by the moment's interface which shows them a vision of the horror and destruction wrought in the fall of arcadia, the last battle in which the war doctor fought, and clara's plea to remember the vow they made in taking their name, the doctors ultimately conclude that the loss of life that would be caused by using the moment is something they cannot accept. they instead pool their resources, and with the help of the doctor's various incarnations, attempt to save gallifrey by freezing it in a moment in time, creating the illusion of the planet's own destruction. the daleks are effectively tricked into firing on each other, annihilating themselves. the war doctor accepts that upon returning to his own timeframe, he will forget his own heroic actions and must live with the false belief that he killed his own people. before leaving, he takes a moment to thank his future selves for helping him "become the doctor" again. once inside his tardis, he begins to regenerate, realising that his body is "wearing a bit thin", echoing the first doctor's utterances in "the tenth planet".
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