The Long Courtship of Doctor Who

John Ege
8 min readJan 15, 2021

If you had all of space/time at your disposal, who would you spend your life with? If you could live 900 years, or more, with the average health and vigor of a thirty year old, would the answer to the first question change? If in that thousand or so years, your looks and preferences changed rather frequently, even your personality quirks and subtle attributes- how would that affect the first two questions?

One of the difficulties writing aliens is the fact, by definition, they’re not human. Doctor Who is not human. He is an alien. From this literal perspective, it’s…

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John Ege

LPC-S, Assistent State Director for MUFON, TX, and father of 1... Discovering the Unseen through Art, Word, Thought, and Mystery.