3. The Doctor's Inexplicable New Ability To See Everyone's Future
"Gareth, answer the second question on your mid-term exam, not the third. The third may look easier, but you'll mess it up..." The Doctor, in his new state, is confused and lost and having trouble keeping a handle on who he is, never mind keeping track of anything else. And yet he seems to be able to look at people and know things about their future. The way it appears in the script is more that he has a formidable foreknowledge than that they are going to become terribly important people in the future. Take his last words to Lee, a person he doesnt appear to recognise until he tells him to stay away from SF next Christmas. The specificity of the way he talks to people about their future is unnerving. Were fans to meet Einstein, they couldnt tell him how he felt when working out the theory of relativity or know that he was thinking another formula might have been easier. The Doctors never been this specific before or since, and it seems like a kind of low level telepathy or sensitivity to the time vortex more than anything. Or perhaps, just perhaps, it is simply poor scriptwriting.