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Post by crazywhovian on Sept 29, 2011 20:56:12 GMT -5
The Inspector has no human social skills. He slaps an unconscious man awake again, with no bad feelings whatsoever.
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Post by georgiathekiwi on Sept 29, 2011 21:12:27 GMT -5
^I dunno, if someone like that guy was looking so out of it, I might resort to slapping him awake.
Remember, we cut directly to the slap, so who's to say the Inspector didn't try various other methods before this?
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Post by stkildafan on Sept 29, 2011 23:19:14 GMT -5
I imagine that when the inspector runs, (there is still after all, an awful lot of running to do) he holds his bowler hat to his head so it doesn't come off.
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Post by georgiathekiwi on Sept 29, 2011 23:20:49 GMT -5
Haha! That's such a beautiful, comical image.
And an awful lot of running, to doooOOOOOooooOOOoo
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Post by leitzankatan on Oct 2, 2011 8:45:47 GMT -5
He has a Universal Badge, its totally different from psychic paper, obviously. well, not entirely. It appears as whatever police force service is in place at the current where/when.
The Inspector tells his associates its just psychology and you can do it with any badge, but they call him out on that because most badges don't morph.
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Post by carty239 on Oct 2, 2011 9:05:30 GMT -5
If you speak confidently and with authority, and flash the badge quickly enough, most people don't argue!
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Post by fluffygonzalez on Oct 3, 2011 2:53:11 GMT -5
He has a Universal Badge, its totally different from psychic paper, obviously. well, not entirely. It appears as whatever police force service is in place at the current where/when. The Inspector tells his associates its just psychology and you can do it with any badge, but they call him out on that because most badges don't morph. And then we can have him end up in the middle of an anarchists' revolution and have it still work. |
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Post by leitzankatan on Oct 3, 2011 10:36:06 GMT -5
I know in the beginning we said that his personality doesn't change when he morphs but from the way older canon has developed i think we should scrap that. opinions?
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Post by L Lawliet on Oct 3, 2011 10:41:41 GMT -5
I know in the beginning we said that his personality doesn't change when he morphs but from the way older canon has developed i think we should scrap that. opinions? |
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Post by iaminspectorspacetime on Oct 3, 2011 11:21:26 GMT -5
I think we already scrapped that. His personality morphs but probably not as dramatically as the Doctor's.
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Post by fluffygonzalez on Oct 4, 2011 4:34:43 GMT -5
I think we already scrapped that. His personality morphs but probably not as dramatically as the Doctor's. The current discussion on Metamorphasis is holding that it's a device to prevent him from breaking Space Master laws, or to rewrite his personality when he does. |
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Post by carty239 on Oct 4, 2011 5:14:05 GMT -5
I think we already scrapped that. His personality morphs but probably not as dramatically as the Doctor's. The current discussion on Metamorphasis is holding that it's a device to prevent him from breaking Space Master laws, or to rewrite his personality when he does. I like this because of the logic. I can imagine a heartless race coming up with the idea. Whilst it may be immoral to kill someone for their actions, if you rewrite their personality, they are less likely to repeat them. |
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Post by iaminspectorspacetime on Oct 4, 2011 8:19:56 GMT -5
Well metamorphoses are also SUPPOSED to erase your memory but retain your skillset, essentially making you a clean slate again. They aren't reborn as children, just adults with no personal memory and a lot of memorized facts/skills. The dramatic personality changes are usually a result of this combined with altered DNA (since appearance changes too).
However! The Inspector found a way around the memory erasing effect. After years of neglecting the system they created in favour of indulgent manipulative lives, the Inspector's people didn't catch on right away that he wasn't being wiped clean, he was just rebooting.
So each time the Inspector's physical body changes, he keeps all of the memories of his past lives and incorporates them into his new self. His personality then does change along with his body but not as dramatically as is expected from his people. Essentially while most of the average working class on his planet are erased and replaced, the Inspector has remained different representations of the same person for hundreds of years.
(PS: The Sergeant and possibly others have figured out how to do this too.)
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Post by leitzankatan on Oct 4, 2011 9:45:01 GMT -5
Well metamorphoses are also SUPPOSED to erase your memory but retain your skillset, essentially making you a clean slate again. They aren't reborn as children, just adults with no personal memory and a lot of memorized facts/skills. The dramatic personality changes are usually a result of this combined with altered DNA (since appearance changes too). However! The Inspector found a way around the memory erasing effect. After years of neglecting the system they created in favour of indulgent manipulative lives, the Inspector's people didn't catch on right away that he wasn't being wiped clean, he was just rebooting. So each time the Inspector's physical body changes, he keeps all of the memories of his past lives and incorporates them into his new self. His personality then does change along with his body but not as dramatically as is expected from his people. Essentially while most of the average working class on his planet are erased and replaced, the Inspector has remained different representations of the same person for hundreds of years. (PS: The Sergeant and possibly others have figured out how to do this too.) I think that most of his planet aren't regulators, they can travel in time and space but aren't going about fixing things/punishing people. The Inspector, The Sergeant and others are part of an elite squadron that do the space/time law-enforcement. Because of the nature of their jobs they are allowed to retain their memories when morphing but to make sure they aren't reckless with the law they still change personality as a punishment. also because an accidental infraction of the law leads to morphing, which is even more like dying than regenerating, most civilians dont do it. |
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Post by iaminspectorspacetime on Oct 4, 2011 10:03:40 GMT -5
I'm fine with that. It isn't of too much consequence in New!Space so much as it will be referenced in Old!Space, when his planet is still there.
But I think it's important is that the Inspector, like the Doctor, is the same guy revamped each time he morphs. His personality can't be too varied or else you might as well just make a new main character. There have to be threads of consistency that aren't just his memories.
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