Howling:The Doctor's room in the Tardis

At the end of The Doctor's Wife. Rory, Amy and the Doctor are talking about accomodation in the Tardis and Rory asks, "Doctor, do you have a room?" The Doctor doesn't answer. It's a bizarre piece of dialogue that seems to serve no plot or character development point, unless it's foreshadowing some day soon when we get to see the Doctor's in pyjamas sleeping in a sensory deprivation chamber. 111.69.245.12 10:20, May 15, 2011 (UTC)

It's an intriguing idea, but given the number of references to classic Who in this season, it may be meaningless. Certainly, on watching the show, m thought was that the contorl room was the doctor's room.

Also, wasn't there one scene in the olden days when Romana and the Doctor are in his room and she complains that it's filthy?Boblipton 12:36, May 15, 2011 (UTC)

The First Doctor seemed to sleep on one of those couch-bed things in the corner of the main console room, and more than once talking about the sleeping accommodations in places they visited. Meanwhile, 7 and 8 told Ace and Sam that they sleep sometimes, but not very often. I have a vague recollection of 7 saying he could sleep anywhere, and Benny catching him taking a brief minute nap under the console. I could easily picture the same being true of 11. (Amy's Choice implies pretty strongly that he does at least sleep sometimes.)

I'm pretty sure other Time Lords on Gallifrey had private suites with bedrooms in them. Professor Chronotis clearly had a bed in his TARDIS in Shada. So probably this is a peculiarity of just certain incarnations of the Doctor--maybe Time Lords don't have to sleep, but they enjoy it, only the Doctor is, in some incarnations, too restless or too busy to waste the time.

Anyway, I think the new series has left it as somewhat of a mystery whether, how, and how often the Doctor sleeps, or Time Lords in general, and this line was just to point out the mystery. --99.33.25.110 14:04, May 15, 2011 (UTC)

It didn't seem like a line meant to point out a mystery, or to foreshadowing anything to me, I mean the scene of him puttering around the contol room seemed to suggest that was the answer. It was just a sort of throw away line to highlight the Doctor's relationship with the TARDIS.

Thwhtguardian 17:39, May 16, 2011 (UTC)

Agreed, pretty much. I just meant that the line was a throwaway reference to the fact that they've avoided telling us about the 11th Doctor's sleeping habits, and probably never will tell us. It's a mystery, but not a significant or meaningful one that's likely to be key to the coming plot arc. He's weird, even for a Time Lord, maybe even for an incarnation of the Doctor, and there's all kinds of trivial stuff we're just never going to find out. And yet Rory, like the rabid fans, just had to ask anyway. --99.170.145.26 02:47, May 18, 2011 (UTC)