Talk:Bad Wolf meme

Table for References
I started to make a table for all the references here. It's not completed, but just looking for opinions as to whether it could be slotted into the article or not. -- 10:30, 1 April 2007 (UTC)


 * It's very good, but the problem is, it's out-of-universe and I doubt that it could be not.


 * And is there any way I can fix that? -- 11:47, 1 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Probably not. Perhaps you could turn it into a list about BW occurances in the Doctor's lifetime, e.g:


 * etc. 12:09, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Bad Wolf and The Invasion
Is the message on Isobel Watkins' wall canon? And if so, was it meant for the Doctor's eyes or did Rose send it to the wrong place and time? - Tawaki 19:14, 14 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I like to think of it as the Bad Wolf literally re-writing time, which is what resulted in the reconstruction of the episode. The message was almost certainly meant for the Doctor, one of a few early hints to embed it in his mind and help ensnare and guide him.  Don't forget, the Bad Wolf references continued into Series 3 and returned at the end of Series 4.--TheOmnius 17:47, 20 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Why has it been moved to behind the scenes? It's part of an official release and therefore canon.  It should be moved back to be part of the timeline.--TheOmnius 20:41, 20 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I don't think it counts as canon because that element did not appear in the original broadcast. otherwise you have two perfectly canon versions of two episodes of the The Invasion. I think the original version with Patrick Troughton counts more than a recreation done nearly forty years later, by different people. --Stardizzy2 21:31, 20 January 2009 (UTC)


 * It's Doctor Who. Time re-writes itself.  This is a minor difference in canon, where we see the mechanism for the change in the show itself - meaning the Bad Wolf Entity re-wrote time itself using the full power of the time vortex.


 * The Time War and the Bad Wolf entity re-wrote multiple aspects of reality and time - we've seen the Earth destroyed at least twice. Gallifrey was also destroyed on multiple occasions, nearly a dozen of them if we include the nine copies.


 * In continuity, first the Bad Wolf graffiti was not there, then when the Bad Wolf Entity re-wrote time, it was placed there. The events were literally re-created, in and out of continuity.  We've seen similar things in other places, such as Sam being written out of history.


 * MAY-BE you could put this on the Myths or Continuity sections. But Behind the Scenes?  It's on the screen.  It's part of the scene itself!  We're not talking about a writer, actor or member of the production team telling us their view of what happened on screen, like Julie informing us that the Doctor did, indeed, tell Rose he loved her on Bad Wolf Bay at the end, and had intended to the first time he spoke to her there after she was stranded.  While that is quite arguably continuity and canon, it's also clearly behind the scenes.  This doesn't even meet that standard.--TheOmnius 02:41, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Adherents of the Repeated Meme
Oh come on. Shouldn't this be mentioned? Because what is the message "Bad Wolf"? A repeated meme. ZeldaTheSwordsman 17:43, 20 January 2009 (UTC)