Tools

Alright, look at it this way - in

archetypical terms, what are the

characteristic SIGN and SIGNIFIERS

that allow you to RECOGNISE The

Doctor.

And it's clearly one of those.

So you can get rid of it if you like,

but it won't work (and it didn't) -

because Archetypes reassert

THEMSELVES.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Saint_symbolism

Yes and No -

As has been noted, in both of

Christopher Bailey's Mara

stories, The Chorister spends a

whole episode in Prison - Kinda

episode 2 and Snakedance

episode 3 - and has to be let

out of his box/cage by some

outside agency - the

enlightenment and revelation

inside of the Box of Jhanna in

the former and the faith, belief

and compassion of an ordinary

man in the latter.

"phase oscillator, quantum charge

emitter.

The end result would have been

the same, whatever tool based

task he was doing either worked

or didn't.

It shouldn't be a magic wand that

substitutes for a lacking on the

part of the doctor, it should make

the doctor more effective, not be

what makes him effective."

And it isn't, and it doesn't -

• Moses and Aaron and

Rassilon carry Rods because

they are the embodiment of

The Law,

• Thor carries a Hammer

because he smashes things

and builds stuff,

• The Doctor carries a

screwdriver because he fixes

things and makes people

better.