Howling:TARDIS Evolving?

I was confused when looking at the articles, I saw a couple of characters that said they were an "evolved form of a TARDIS". Just a question, and a theory... 1) Does it explain how this is possible? and 2) Do you think that Idris is the evolved form of the Doctor's TARDIS? TheTARDIScontroller 17:19, April 9, 2011 (UTC)

The short answers are Yes and No.

Type 103 and later models were bred as fully conscious humanoids with the powers and abilities of a TARDIS, and were generated treated as companions rather than vehicles by the Time Lords, while Type 101 and earlier models were grown as quasi-sentient organic machines.

The only Type 102 TARDIS was a fluke, involving block transfer computations between the Doctor's TARDIS and his (post-)human companion Compassion. All later TARDISes effectively came from her. You'll have to read the Eighth Doctor Adventures, especially The Shadows of Avalon, for the whole story. (Make sure you read Alien Bodies first--besides the fact that it's a great book, it gives us our first glimpse of a Type 103, the TARDIS and companion of a future Time Lord whose chameleon circuit is stuck in the form of a 1963 London policewoman.)

Anyway, it seems like the potential for something like Compassion may have existed in the earlier TARDISes, but that potential couldn't be awakened by something as simple as the brute-force migration of a TARDIS matrix into a wiped-clean human brain.

So, why was the Doctor so surprised and delighted by Idris, given what he'd seen as the 8th Doctor? Well, more than half of what happened in the EDAs was erased from history, and more than half of what's left was lost to amnesia. Ultimately, we learn that the Doctor partially remembers some of a wide range of possible pasts that are all equally true. But maybe there were echoes of Compassion and the Type 103-105s in his memory, together with a fervent subconscious wish that he could have talked to his old Type 40 the way he did with his Type 102, and that's part of what made him so excited. --99.35.132.17 22:55, May 20, 2011 (UTC)