Talk:Human Nature (TV story)

I thought Family of blood was part 2 of the Human nature story!

Plot summary copied from English Wikipedia under GFDL
As English Wikipedia shares the same site license with TARDIS, I've copied a rather detailed account of the plot from there to here. Please edit to site standard or remove as appropriate.

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A much briefer and more compact version was substituted in the Wikipedia article by me, and this can be used here instead of the detailed version if desired. --Tony Sidaway 14:34, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

The Journal in Rose
This one sounds a bit unlikely and probably should have a source added to it. Can anyone confirm that the Journal of Impossible Things actually appears in Clive's possession in "Rose"? I doubt it since they probably had no idea they'd be adapting the novel at that early stage; perhaps it was just a notebook. Are there any sources - interviews, DW Confidential, magazine articles, DVD commentaries - to support this? If not, it probably should be removed as baseless speculation. 68.146.41.232 18:07, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

The novel
Does this episode make the Human Nature novel continuity? The evil dudeArnie 18:27, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Definitely not. There are a lot of differences, not the least of which is the fact that the novel involves the Seventh Doctor and Bernice Summerfield. - DrGaellon (talk | contribs) 10:33, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
 * One could argue that because they're significantly different in a number of regards, they could be separate adventures. It's a massively thorny issue though, and would require a very careful reading of the novel to establish them as wholly distinct adventures. Paul Cornell, for his part, wrote a bit of a tome on canon following the televised adventure, essentially to avoid having to directly answer which one was the more canonical.  Czech Out  ☎ | ✍ 17:23, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
 * If it was, then the Doctor coincidentally encountered two Joan Redferns under similar circumstances. -- Noneofyourbusiness 00:11, December 23, 2009 (UTC)
 * For The Doctor this could be a case of life repeating itself. I haven't found an explicitly defined reason why The Seventh Doctor 'changed' into John Smith (novel) in the NA novel {any help??}. When The Tenth Doctor used the Chameleon Arch to hide himself from his pursuers The Tardis might have chosen an identitiy and a space time setting based upon The Doctor's previous experiences as a human; same alias, same location on Earth and one year previous to his having been there before. The Tardis might even be drawing from The Doctor's subconscious desire to return to Farringham.


 * Can the two stories co-exist as separate adventures for The Doctor? A brief comparisons of The Tardis Index File entries for Human Nature (TV story) and Human Nature (novel) finds only three characters with the same name; Joan Redford, Hutchinson and Mr. Rocastle. The adversaries are different, their mode of travel is different and the schools have different names. If the town has two boys schools then a student named Hutchinson at each one is not that unusual and Mr. Rocastle of the one could be the borther or cousin of Mr. Rocastle of the other. The true thorn is in the rose: Joan Redford presents the most difficult obstacle for fans who want to have their cake and eat it too.


 * The best arguments I can think of that both accept the differences and incorporate the similarities involve The Doctor's life between the two adventures; Namely, a) He fought in the Last Great Time War and this somehow allows for the differences to exist within the same town in two different years; and b) The Eighth Doctor's life is full of paradoxes and this could be one of them stretching out to his other incarnations in both directions - anchored together through his ability to embrace love. --Stillnotginger 19:48, February 16, 2010 (UTC)