10 Classic Doctor Who Absurdities New Fans Won’t Believe
3. The Hand Of Omega
Looking back to the caveman incident, its easy to see a Doctor who hasnt yet been softened by his interactions with humans; if todays Doctor would have given his life to save Za, thats only because of the moral compass Ian, Barbara and the rest of his companions provide him with. By the time Sylvester McCoy took the role, the producers were concerned that the Doctors past and people had been so fully explored, there was little mystery left to the character. They decided to retroactively alter the Doctors history, from his origins to the true relationship with his grand-daughter, Susan. And so in Remembrance of the Daleks, the Doctor returned to Totters Lane to collect The Hand of Omega. The episode made out that the Doctor had taken the Hand, a powerful superweapon, prior to leaving Gallifrey and had come to Earth deliberately to keep it hidden away. While the Doctor claimed the time had come to relocate the device, he was actually setting the device as a booby-trap for when it fell into the clutches of Davros. Thanks to the Doctor, Skaros sun goes supernova, wiping out the planet and another Dalek army. Whats odd about this story is how poorly it reconciles with past and future episodes. The new series has shown us how the Doctor treats wiping out the Daleks as unforgivable genocide; here, hes practically the aggressor he even refers to himself as President Elect while winding up Davros. Perhaps it was no coincidence that the TARDISs next stop after Totters Lane was Skaro itself, but its hard to stomach the notion that the Doctor already had a superweapon stashed away when he started weighing up that rock.
