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- The Doctor explains to Leela how the TARDIS fits inside itself through transdimensional engineering!
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Leela is an example of how companions who aren't from modern day Earth can be so interesting. In New Who the only companions who aren't from modern day Earth are part timers like River and Nardole and it's caused recent companions to get really samey sometimes. Leela's different takes on yo yos and weapons and technology are what make her so interesting.
Also, it's great how they didn't used to all have a crush on the Doctor.
This is why I wanted Victorian Clara Oswald to be the Eleventh Doctor's companion more than the present day Clara.
@@llt8101 you clearly never noticed those longing looks K-9 would give the Doctor when he thought he wasn’t looking!
@@DissociatedWomenIncorporated 😆 Nope, I must have missed those. I'll have to watch for it next time.
I wish the Doctor had conpanions from other times and other worlds. When you have the potential for an entire universe of interesting characters and they go the route they've gone with Ruby Sunday" A generic blonde
This is one of my favorite clips from Doctor Who because it provides an explanation that is, by human reasoning, “silly” and preposterous, but which makes perfect sense to the Doctor. He seems to be provoding the best explanation he can, but Leela’s brain (and, by extension, ours) cannot bridge the gap between how to get the big box to fit inside the small box and rules it out as absurd, but it’s a fundamental truth of a science that the Doctor learned long ago.
In a way, it’s like trying to explain wifi to someone who’s never seen electricity. There are too many steps missing for it to make much sense.
I love seeing scenes like this in the age we're currently living in, where humanity's perception of reality is beginning to expand in ways which would have been completely incomprehensible just a few generations ago, challenging even our most basic observations. For example, technically, I'm not really here sitting in my chair; there's just a 99.99999...% chance that I am. Even our perceptions of time are changing, realising that entropy is not unidirectional, that the "arrow of time" is merely a general trend, that something happening right now can affect the past. It's a wonder to see this species growing out of its infancy by leaps and bounds. Perhaps someday the Doctor's explanation will make perfect sense to people, or they'll laugh because they've figured out that isn't the right way to do it. Plato's prisoners are coming out of the cave, and learning to see the shadows for what they are.
"No, but it's a marvellous way to relax!" - Ford Prefect - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams. He's explaining it in 3 dimensions using a 2 dimension situation. A picture has no depth and any inhabitant would not understand the concept of depth (in his explanation, the change in distance relative between the surfaces (the "inside" and "outside") into and out of depth or the Z axis for modellers). I'm not sure but I think you have to work in 12 dimensions to create something similar (or that 12 is the most stable and thus likely set of dimensions to exist, fuzzy on that one).
No, I'm not a physicist
@@ReiverBlue1971 I follow your logic, though lately I've been wondering if the solution doesn't lie somewhere less obvious - in the opposite direction. Specifically, I've been looking for answers in nondimensional (or zero dimensional) phenomena.
Take a moment to think about why division by zero is impossible, and how silly tricks of algebra which do it indirectly can produce results such as 2=1. Yet it occurs no matter how impossible we call it. The singularity in the heart of a black hole is a mathematical point, possessing neither height nor width nor depth. No volume at all. But it's elementary physics that density is equal to mass divided by volume, and that's a problem - because we can know its mass, but its volume is zero. The only way that works, and the only way its ability to completely stop light is explicable, is that its density is infinite.
A lot of things start to work if we treat infinity more like a conventional number... maybe even making two equal one, or making the exterior of a police box equal the interior of an immense timeship.
Only how can that make sense? How can the answer ever correctly be that two equals one when that simply isn't true? Well, I believe it's because nondimensional operations cannot be understood solely in terms of spacial and temporal values, but also the values of what is true.
Let's go back to the singularity for a moment. It possesses none of the traditional three spacial dimensions. With its density and the gravitational force at its core infinite, time would stand completely still. It's definitely there, and its physical properties and interactions are measurable, yet it has no presence in space or time. How then can it even exist, unless we've missed something? A third fundamental aspect of the universe and everything in it. Reality.
If one attempted to measure the reality of things, it would surely be concluded that the reality of such things as virtual particles or probability waves is non-zero, but certainly less than absolute.
Similarly, what separates our universe, our timeline, from others if there is no barrier between us in space or time, unless it is a barrier of reality? This I believe to be the key; that if we wish to fit a larger box inside a smaller one without altering the spacial or temporal dimensions of them, we must find a way to alter their ontological dimensions.
@@tailuigi WOW! That was awesome to go through :D One point you've made that I think bears more thinking on, to summarise: The properties of a blackhole are 0 width, depth, height, so effectively doesn't exist. Yet it has infinite density so it definitely does, especially as it effects any other objects nearby. I'm going to have a think on your points and see if anything turns up :D. Thanks for that
The Doctor grew up in a ten-million-year-old education system, and he's trying to explain what for him is everyday science, to a woman who'd never been more than a day away from her hunter-gatherer village before she met him
This is my oldest memory of Doctor Who. I also remembering it making perfect sense to me as a three year old.
Same
Jinx!
It does make perfect sense. We just need to figure out the engineering that will allow it to work.
@@Ghauster that's the part most people get stuck on
Not to alarm you... But why do you carry that broken pocket watch if you know for a fact that it's broken?
First 4th doctor scene I’ve seen. That’s all it took to understand why he’s the best.
"If people see you mean them no harm, they never hurt you. ...Nine times out of ten." Tom is THE Doctor.
This clip is a good example of explaining the lores of science in this franchise as it provides a visual explanation as well as a vocal one.
It's amazing how many concepts in Doctor Who seem at first like complete science fiction, but the more you think about them, the more they start to make sense.
@@tailuigi Well it's as the doctor says, there's no unexplainable, just unexplained.
Probably why I like 4th.He even shows Sarah the alternative timeline caused by Sutekh to explain the problem.
"That's silly." This is still one of my favourite scenes in the history of the show! 👍
"That's transdminesional engineering."
I love Leela, one of my favorite companions. She's very intelligent, just not well-educated. There is a very definite student-teacher relationship between the two. She doesn't whine or complain, she asks the right questions, and can take care of herself, well, nine times out of ten. To me, those are the qualities of the best of the companions.
Oh and I also love that TARDIS interior! I love it when they go all Victorian/Steampunk like with this and with Paul McGann's TARDIS!
She had one of the most insightful lines about the Doctor from any companion.
Doctor holds up an item, "Do you know what this is?"
Leela thinks for a moment, "Your just asking me so you can tell me."
@@RandomAmerican3000 Well said! This of course is the entire reason for the presence of the companions to begin with. In explaining to them, the doctor is explaining to the audience.
I liked Ace for similar reasons
I hope we get to see a variation of this wooden console room when RTD starts again. I think it's brilliant.
The answer is the same as Gene Rodenberry gave when someone would ask him about how some tech in Star Trek worked - “Very well thank you”.
The U.S. Air Force loved the automatic sliding doors. They called and asked if they could send some people out to look at the technology being used. Long pause. Then "It's 2 guys sitting on the floor outside the set with ropes and pulleys."
The guys who made The Expanse, a more "realistic" take on routine space travel, said much the same thing.
If they knew how to do this stuff for real, they'd do it for real, not write stories!
So in other words the inside of Tardis is a place which is lightyears away from the outside of the tardis so in compartion it is smaller but they are connected through the entrance of the Tardis and therefore has its original size. That´s something about Doctor Who I just find fascinating because someone had to come up with this concept for the show.
Not "light years" away; in another dimension entirely. The outer shell of the TARDIS is just a conduit to that dimension. Imagine a drawing of a staircase on a sheet of paper (in 2D) that led up to a 3D room sitting on top of the paper. That's how the TARDIS really works. Stepping in or out of the TARDIS is like going through a wormhole, which is why it's literally infinite; it's a self-contained universe. It never really 'moves' itself; only the outer shell does.
Time And Relative Dimention In Space.
If you land the TARDIS inside the TARDIS, you will not exist anywhere in this universe.
its an diversion; the TARDIS works just like our computers.
Step inside the doorway = uploaded.
Step out thru the doorway get downloaded.
@@rlawnqls159 Correct; the outside shell of the TARDIS is the only thing that exists in our universe. if you land it inside, you've effectively created a loop inside the TARDIS's internal dimension and removed the shell from the external universe.
@@mcarp555 the inside is a harddrive where one is living (saved) in a huge "cyberworld" like if you would be in World of Warcraft or No mans sky. That was what the whole Library thing was about.
How our entire mankind one day will be downloaded into RIVERS (whom RIver Songs mind always was supposed to end up in) as the Daleks take over our Earth (New Skaro) and we become the Trenzalorians; And rule over time there (inside this new WHoniverse our Earth was taken over to after it was stolen in "stolen Earth" and "returned" to the "wrong" whoniverse (In end of Journey End) (read the new Whoniverse to where Gallifrey also was taken over into)
There is a second save made of all of mankind from 100.000BC to 100.000AD that becomes our regenerations (the first save becomes "base stations" for the 2nd save) as we die, told about in Twice upon a time and the Punjabsode as we are about to die thruout history.
(Episode Utopia told us about the 2 saves)
One of my favorite moments between The Fourth Doctor and Leela! This expands on The First Doctor's _(in "An Unearthly Child")_ relating an enormous building fitting inside a smaller TV set being a reasonable explanation of how something larger can be contained in something smaller! One thing about this, though, is that I wish he'd left the larger box on the cabinet (or whatever it was) where he first held them up to Leela. That would've made it seem microscopic in perspective!
P.S. 0:32 I read somewhere that The Doctor's line, *_"To the rational mind, nothing is inexplicable, only unexplained..."_* was actually an adlibbed contribution from Tom Baker. 🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨
It's been 2 years since we had our last Season 14 clip.
Season 14 is not releasef yet what do you mean by « 2 years » ? Explain yourself
@@FlagadossSupreme lol your funny
Thank goodness we have superfans such as yourself keeping track of these things.
@@FlagadossSupreme Around the time of Season 14's Blu-Ray release, clips were released from The Masque of Mandragora - The Face of Evil. Now 2 years later they're finally doing The Robots of Death and maybe The Talons of Weng-Chiang.
@@FlagadossSupreme silly little nuvian...
Always liked that brown TARDIS secondary (old) console room, which was used entirely for that Tom Baker season. Every TARDIS set from the McGann movie to Nu Who seemed partly inspired from it
I love the 4th Doctor's explanation of how the inside of the TARDIS is bigger than the outside. Also, nice Doctor Who RUclips channel reminder from Tom Baker.
RIP Chris Boucher Great writing from 1977.
agreed, he also wrote for blakes 7
@@brucewayne7838 Another classic series. I used to wish they would do a remake, but seeing as how they manage to butcher everything these days, we'd best just stick with the original.
Love the doctor’s explanation on why The Tardis is bigger on the inside.
I do like this Console Room! I wish that it had been used in more serials.
The panels warped in storage between seasons and became unusable.
@@zacmumblethunder7466 What do you mean?
@@gavindinsmoor8196 the wood either got too wet or too dry, and bent out of shape so they wouldn't fit together properly.
@@WillCrawford0 Ah, ok. That's unfortunate.
My Life not criticism is that the central control panel was too Small and didn't move up and down.
"Well you see, while events on the outside world move in a straight line, time in the Tardis moves in... a Jeremy Bearimy."
"That's silly" yeap that's doctor who and That's why we love it
“If people see you mean them no harm, they never hurt you” said by a man who is constantly threatened
1:15 that explaination just blew my mind, brilliant writing!
When I have friends of mine that have never watched _Doctor Who_ ask me about this very thing, I always show them this clip. Leela’s response “That’s silly,” to the Doctor’s dumbed-down explanation in regards to transdimensional engineering shows that she understood it.
This is why we need more alien companions. Leela was such a great character, and provided a new point of view you can't get from everyone being from current era Britain.
Yeah, the current companions are a bit samey and bland always being from modern day London where the idea of having a companion from Yorkshire is "exotic". I got bored of the show half way through Capaldi-era because everything that made original Who fun (like seeing the various rooms inside the TARDIS) was gone in Rebooted Who.
Leela is human
@@SamuelBlack84 Biologically perhaps, but she was so far removed culturally that she is essentially an alien.
1:00 There's something very satisfying about the sound that box makes when the Doctor sets it down.
Best Doctor ever! Not just nostalgia... here's some proof ^^^. You've all been great, but Tom: you still the boss!
Whenever I see these clips, it's easy to see how he became the most iconic Doctor--he makes every scene he's in captivating
Tom Baker and David Tennant are widely considered the best doctors of their respective era is because they’re not acting. This is them and they understand the parts more than anyone.
I raise you Pat Troughton, and Pertwee was terrific as well. Colin also excelled when given good scripts, especially on audio.
@@minicle426 got to agreed that PT was an extremely worthy choice to continue from Hartnell. I somehow feel Eccleston watched a lot of Troughton before his run in the Tardis.
I fear I have problems with the characterisation under Pertwee and Colin, both fine actors, but I feel the scripts and production design not for me.
@@rtm135 yes they both knew exactly what to deliver to the fans
So basically the doorway is a portal to the interior however it's said the Tardis is infinite so if it actually does exist somewhere it cannot be infinite without being it's own dimension also I guess that's later shown in season 9 in the paradox episode where the outside of the Tardis is disconnected from the inside and becomes just a normal police box although empty
"That's Silly" I still remember watching this episode when it first came out.......showing my age, lol.
Those are two handy "explain the Tardis" boxes to have lying around.
the 4th doctor... still the best doctor
The First Doctor gave a similar explanation to Ian & Barbara using the perspective of Television. 📺
This is my absolute favourite scene from Classic Who!
Leela was one of my favorite companions. I guess every male my age then loved her.
The way Leela looks fed up at The Doctor at 2:05 😂😂
The Robots of Death I think was the first or one of the first classic Dr. Who stories I watched
This whole scene is full of great dialogue
A MUCH-better explanation than the one Peter Cushing foisted on Bernard Cribbens in the 2nd movie. (I think the Doctor was pulling the guy's leg.)
This is why I liked the Tom Baker era.
The best Doctor together with the best companion. It doesn't get better than this!
I love the B.S. explanations they give in Classic far more than NuWho just saying "because Time Lord science"...
Timey wimey
Okay Dougall, this Box is small, this box is far away
I've always loved this explanation, it's so simple yet elegant.
Tom Baker was my first doctor and I'll always love him because he is like my dad
Fabulous Tom Baker!
Does this mean Father Ted was a Time Lord?
Such genius dialogue and, along with the First Doctor’s television analogy, a brilliant way to explain such a fantastic concept. Perhaps one day we will harness the technology of dimensional transcendentalism and all of this will be viewed as a great prediction.
This sounds as if you are stretching space itself.
2:18 Such a great Doctor. And yet also reminds me so much of 10 in this moment. Which says why 10 was a great Doctor too.
Yes, and 10 certainly absorbed 4's way of saying "...well..."
9 times out of 10..
This is the fantastic episode that includes my all time FAVORITE insult..."You are a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and size of the brain".
0:30
"there's no such thing as magic"
Sisterhood of Karn: >: (
Ah the days when this was a great series
I always think of this scene when Father Ted tries to explain to Dougal the difference between small and far away, using a little plastic cow!
Yes, Tardis Is at least a Tesseract. Could have 8 Rooms Inside One Room 😉👍
Best. Scene. Ever.
A very good scene, that was reworked in one of the McCoy New Adventure stories.
"These cows are small. Those cows are far away."
Yes! I love Father Ted!
Pretty neat sets🥰
When I saw this in the '70's, I said, "No, THAT'S not how it works!"
Hope Stef Coburn isn't gonna have some issue with this too now he's had "An Unearthly Child" removed. Especially as he's had issues with the TARDIS in the past.
He's convinced his dad came up with Doctor Who. If it goes to court, he will be proven wrong. Don't worry - everything past the first story is safe from Stef's angry little hands (and even then, only the very first episode is technically his, the rest of the story was written by someone else and not his father)
“Of course I can control it. 9/10. 7/10. 5/10… never mind, let’s see where we are.” 😂😂 wish I had the energy to dive into the classic era
Tom baker is so fantastic 9 time out of 10
I love it. Favorite Doctor.
Either Susan, the Doctor's 1st companion in the TARDIS, did or didn't see this control room before that ship landed in a deserted junkyard in London, England, during the 1960's and got stuck in the shape of a British Police Call Box after the chameleon circuit broke down there.
I see a lot of Dr Who in the British writer Warren Ellis' work in comic books, like the former Wildstorm-Image title's like 'Planetary', 'StormWatch' and 'the Authority'
Couldn’t we get more of teeth and curls with Louise Jameson? Please?
Forget all of that. I want to see more of that hot body. 😛Woooo!
L'explication du concept "plus grand a l'intérieur" de tout doctor who (new who et classique jusqu'à cette épisode en tout cas) c'est si simple a comprendre expliqué comme ça
Agreed! / Convenu!
still love this bit
Best way to describe the tardis lol
"That's silly." But we all still love Doctor Who. 😀
I wonder what happened to the second control room as we never see it again.
I really liked the incidental music from this Doctor Who time period. These are such fun and I might say, comfortable episodes that I always enjoy re-watching.
These stories and writing are so much better than the crap they are coming out with in season 14. What a shame.
Wonder how many takes it took for Tom to hold that box in the correct position alongside the other one.
Almost forgot... Later on, after being found inside the "hopper", The Doctor and Leela are escorted by a robot to a room and told to wait...
The Doctor uses the Sonic Screwdriver to open the door so they can search for the TARDIS.
In the VHS special *_"Doctor Who: The Tom Baker Years"_* (©1992) Baker (watching clips from all of his stories as The 4th Doctor) had been talking about how when Louise Jameson's character Leela was introduced she was very savage and would just instinctively kill without much hesitation... In fact, in the scene where she and The Doctor are locked in the room, once The Doctor opens the door, Leela takes out her kinfe...
TOM BAKER: (as the scene ends) _"There, you saw. Louise produced the kinfe, there. That was her answer to everything. I just had to giggle at the notion of opening that door with the Sonic Screwdriver. Which, of course, _*_it could open any door in the universe,_*_ unless, of course, it couldn't open any door in the universe... It depended on the script. _*_And it used to absolutely slay me!_*_ It was very difficult keeping my face straight when someone would say, "Use the Sonic Screwdriver, Doctor..." and then I'd take the thing and go (he imitates a buzzing sound) and then look frantic and say, "Even the Sonic Screwdriver won't open this door!"..."_
I miss the days where companions could be from other time periods or planets why don't they bring that back have a new companion from the future or the past or an alien it's more interesting
Awesome 🤩👍⭐️💙👏😆😎🔷❤️❤️🟦💙💙⭐️🤩
I'd love to see a change in the title sequences, adding the TARDIS, new music, the doctor's enemy's, the doctor's sonic screwdriver, and more effects to spark the scene like the show is explaining what happens in doctor who. I really didn't like the thirteenth doctors title sequence because the I couldn't see the TARDIS, the music was basically the exact same music from five title sequences back with less detail, and the title sequence wasn't moving forward as much. I really liked the eleventh doctors title sequence because at the start lightning struck the TARDIS. I think you can work on adding more effects because in the eleventh doctors title sequence you had the theme of lava and ice, (my own opinion) add snowflakes or something to make the scene really spark.
there are more mysteries also about this era of doctor who, other than how does the tardis work, like how on earth does leela not fall out of her dress, why do we not see leela`s pants, and how can the doctor travel around in time and space with such a gorgeous creature like leela, and he at least seems to be able to keep his hands to his self, and in this moment we truly realise that the doctor is indeed an alien from another planet, because if the doctor was human like the red blooded males watching any scene that contained extremely pretty companions like leela, not only would there have to be a break in the adventure for all the kissing, but it`s even possible that some scenes may well have to be only shown late night on television, and when it was the 70s, and leela was in the tardis, and little boys were enjoying one of the greatest eras of doctor who, just how many dads were also perhaps watching as well, but possibly for less innocent reasons than there sons were, funny that, not that i would blame them.
or you just have a dirty mind and no sense of manners
Seeing this when I was 10 years old was wonderful, and made total sense. Perfect dialog for kids and families.
I’ve wanted them to upload this in HQ for FOREVER!!!!! Thank you!!!
Ok, I got that concept easily after that explanation, if people are still stumped…think the reversal of an Russian nesting doll ( where an small one hides an bigger one inside as opposed to an normal nesting doll- ie with an regular Russian nesting doll inside each of them is an smaller nesting doll, however apparently in this series with the ancient concept of trans dimensional engineering, that race figured out how to use the idea of an Russian nesting doll only in reverse ie. inside the smallest one is an bigger one and so forth in the explained concept if some people still don’t understand this concept, which now I’ve given an opposite answer to explain this science in the simplest way possible…
Leela, my favorite companion 😍
That is probably the real Tom Baker's understanding of it. This does stand as fiction at this point though.
This is a top 5 story.
The end of this clip makes even more sense once you've seen The Doctor's Wife 😉
ooo Rocks!
Is it just me or does the “which box is larger” thing actually make a little bit of sense? Like, in reality, things can’t be in two places at once, so until we can actually make things be in two places at once, anything can happen.
It at least makes sense in my brain…
Too bad that Leela didn't get to use the gun that she brought with her after she slipped into the TARDIS to join the Doctor in exploring the Universe.
It would be easier to understand if the TARDIS simply was just a portal. The doorway to the police box, simply enters into another dimension or location entirely, meaning that the "inside" of the TARDIS simply wasn't "inside" the police box at all, but the doorway instantaneously transports you to somewhere else...........
but that's sadly not how it works since they've demonstrated that what happens to the police box exterior, affects the interior which wouldn't happen with a portal.
This demonstrates the kind of whimsy that Tom Baker exhibited that makes him a Doctor Who legend 😊
The whole universe fits inside a box that lecture the meaning, of course that is the origin of the inner workings of the tardis, as the doctor tells it in a unpredictably way?
The other way is the tardis is made of empty space and people who try to workout how it works are seeing that as the doctor tells them, and they believe what they are told, probably because the doctor holds their immigration into seeing what's not there, or if he was to really show the inside of the tardis well they would probably lose they minds? We see what we often believe but sometimes things aren't what there appear as, I'm the very beginning of doctor who it was after the companions left they felt they were missing something it was time lag the doctor or tardis removed they memories of travelling inside the tardis, though some cases it occurred briefly for odd reasons? Tardis disappears so how comes it never leaves a square mark on the ground or leaves a hole in space between realities?
Ok but...how can the larger box be in 2 places at once? "Over there and over here"?!?
Timey Wimey
best companion, next to donna
I thought the TARDIS was a hypercube, so it can petty much be anywhere anywhen
Hey BBC, release 'Torchwood: Absent Friends'
0:47
And I thought Dr Who was the World Health Organisation.
He had windows?!?
waiting for the clip where Leela swims in the Tardis' swimming pool..
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