I once had someone comment about Ten's TARDIS "humping" being displaced sexual frustration over Martha, or something like that. They were joking. I think.
Honestly, my theory is that the Doctor hasn't been able to get real TARDIS parts since Gallifrey's destruction -- hence all the weird additions to the console like the bicycle pump thingy, the bell, and having to hit things with a mallet -- and it's been getting more and more juryrigged to the point where he has to do these gymnastics to keep it going. (IOW, I know it's hard to believe for some people, but *gasp* not everything is about sex!)
Re telepathy: off the top of my head, Two used telepathy to call the Time Lords in The War Games, Two and Three used it with each other once (much like Ten and the Master in EOT1, but saying "contact" when they touched each other's heads), and Four did a sort of freaky mindmeld thingy with Sarah Jane once. I haven't counted all the times Ten did it, but I'm pretty sure it was more than three (though even he didn't do it lightly). I'm also thinking that the fact he was able to wipe/block Donna's memory without erasing her entire mind says a lot for his skill.
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Date: 2010-02-13 10:21 pm (UTC)Honestly, my theory is that the Doctor hasn't been able to get real TARDIS parts since Gallifrey's destruction -- hence all the weird additions to the console like the bicycle pump thingy, the bell, and having to hit things with a mallet -- and it's been getting more and more juryrigged to the point where he has to do these gymnastics to keep it going. (IOW, I know it's hard to believe for some people, but *gasp* not everything is about sex!)
Re telepathy: off the top of my head, Two used telepathy to call the Time Lords in The War Games, Two and Three used it with each other once (much like Ten and the Master in EOT1, but saying "contact" when they touched each other's heads), and Four did a sort of freaky mindmeld thingy with Sarah Jane once. I haven't counted all the times Ten did it, but I'm pretty sure it was more than three (though even he didn't do it lightly). I'm also thinking that the fact he was able to wipe/block Donna's memory without erasing her entire mind says a lot for his skill.