Post by Mako Crab on Mar 12, 2019 20:43:55 GMT -5
Dinosaur Train is one of my kids’ favorite shows, and I watch it a lot with him. Every episode the train takes the main characters to different points in time throughout prehistoric Earth & the Conductor, a Troodon, always announces, “Time tunnel! Time tunnel approaching!”
This got me and my wife joking that he’s clearly a Time Lord, but the more we thought about it, the more it fit. And apparently we’re not the only ones to make the same connection. Lots of people online claiming the Conductor is some kind of Time Lord. So I’m-a break it down!
- The Conductor has no name. Just “The Conductor,” which keeps in line with Time Lord naming conventions: The Doctor, The Master, The Curator, etc.
- He is never far from his train, and uses it to travel through the time tunnels much like the Doctor and his TARDIS.
- He is always depicted as the smartest guy in the room, and always has an answer for the young pteranodons, no matter what their questions are.
- There’s also an air of mystery about him. Despite being well-known by his passengers, friendly, and personable, there are very few details known about the Conductor himself.
- All his people die out. It’s very likely that he’s taken his train beyond the prehistoric era & seen the ice age, and a post-dinosaur Earth. But he never shows this to his passengers. The fact that he only takes people to various prehistoric eras implies that he knows about the extinction event coming & so won’t take his Dino passengers beyond that fixed point in time.
But it’s very much like modern Who, how he was thought to be the last Gallifrean for the longest time.
- Aside from rarely leaving his train, he also talks to it the way the Doctor talks to his TARDIS.
- The Conductor explains how the Earth rotates around the sun & how the rotation of the planet makes the sun rise and set. He explains all this as though he’s personally seen it from orbit & shows his passengers a diagram of the Earth & sun.
In my own head-canon, the Conductor is a real dinosaur that somehow became a Time Lord (maybe he was conceived or hatched in a time tunnel during “Dinosaurs on a Spaceship.” I don’t know. Fill in the blank).
But instead of traveling through time to sightsee or do whatever, he feels a natural attachment to his people & time, so he takes his TARDIS to Earth & uses it for the enjoyment of his passengers. And he wouldn’t be concerned with altering the timeline any by taking dinos to different time periods, because he knows an inescapable extinction is waiting for them at the end anyway.
What do you think?? Anyone else make the same connection? Are the writers Doctor Who fans?? Is this all reaching a bit too much?
This got me and my wife joking that he’s clearly a Time Lord, but the more we thought about it, the more it fit. And apparently we’re not the only ones to make the same connection. Lots of people online claiming the Conductor is some kind of Time Lord. So I’m-a break it down!
- The Conductor has no name. Just “The Conductor,” which keeps in line with Time Lord naming conventions: The Doctor, The Master, The Curator, etc.
- He is never far from his train, and uses it to travel through the time tunnels much like the Doctor and his TARDIS.
- He is always depicted as the smartest guy in the room, and always has an answer for the young pteranodons, no matter what their questions are.
- There’s also an air of mystery about him. Despite being well-known by his passengers, friendly, and personable, there are very few details known about the Conductor himself.
- All his people die out. It’s very likely that he’s taken his train beyond the prehistoric era & seen the ice age, and a post-dinosaur Earth. But he never shows this to his passengers. The fact that he only takes people to various prehistoric eras implies that he knows about the extinction event coming & so won’t take his Dino passengers beyond that fixed point in time.
But it’s very much like modern Who, how he was thought to be the last Gallifrean for the longest time.
- Aside from rarely leaving his train, he also talks to it the way the Doctor talks to his TARDIS.
- The Conductor explains how the Earth rotates around the sun & how the rotation of the planet makes the sun rise and set. He explains all this as though he’s personally seen it from orbit & shows his passengers a diagram of the Earth & sun.
In my own head-canon, the Conductor is a real dinosaur that somehow became a Time Lord (maybe he was conceived or hatched in a time tunnel during “Dinosaurs on a Spaceship.” I don’t know. Fill in the blank).
But instead of traveling through time to sightsee or do whatever, he feels a natural attachment to his people & time, so he takes his TARDIS to Earth & uses it for the enjoyment of his passengers. And he wouldn’t be concerned with altering the timeline any by taking dinos to different time periods, because he knows an inescapable extinction is waiting for them at the end anyway.
What do you think?? Anyone else make the same connection? Are the writers Doctor Who fans?? Is this all reaching a bit too much?