From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho.moderated
From Address: whodunit{at}invalid.invalid
Subject: Re: Is the TARDIS alive?

On 1/1/2011 11:05 PM, T987654321 wrote:
>   When did the Doctor first indicate that the TARDIS is alive?
>
>    I just watched the episode Edge of Destruction with the first
> Doctor; the whole episode is about a perceived fault in the ship.  The
> Doctor talks about the power source and we see him repair a spring in
> a switch on the control panel.  But he never refers to the problem as
> the ship dieing nor indicates that it's alive.  He does admit that it
> might be able to think, but only in terms of being a machine.
>
> I think there was a forth Doctor episode where the Doctor indicates
> that the ship is in some sense alvie but I'm not sure.
>
As someone who has only been watching the current series full fledged 
(had watched the 4th Doctor years ago once in awhile when it was on 
public television here) since 2005, my impression so far has been not 
only is the TARDIS a living, sentient being, but she is also the one 
directing the Doctor here and there, wherever he is needed--there is 
some innate connection  between the two, so deep I don't think even he 
has any idea of the depth.

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