Question: Is the Doctor re-learning / remembering English, or does this happen because the TARDIS has found him and started translating for him? I assumed the former at first, but it just occured to me it's not stated how long the TARDIS has been asleep in that cave (or "nearby", in whatever sense applies).
Interesting question. I'm afraid I'm not that clever — my intent was that he was relearning English, since he didn't actually realise that the TARDIS was already nearby until he saw the older Damien's body and made the connection with the legends of the blue god of the woods. If the TARDIS had translated for him, I'm sure he would have noticed it right off the bat rather than wait around for the weeks he spent in the monastery. And yeah, the idea was that the TARDIS had been waiting for him for centuries... as she often does.
Lawrence Miles is the one who gave me the idea that the Doctor's regenerations can be explained to a certain extent by imprinting. Davies also hooks on to that explanation for the Tenth Doctor's Estuary accent, although the line that he was imprinting on Rose never made it into the final cut of "The Christmas Invasion".
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Interesting question. I'm afraid I'm not that clever — my intent was that he was relearning English, since he didn't actually realise that the TARDIS was already nearby until he saw the older Damien's body and made the connection with the legends of the blue god of the woods. If the TARDIS had translated for him, I'm sure he would have noticed it right off the bat rather than wait around for the weeks he spent in the monastery. And yeah, the idea was that the TARDIS had been waiting for him for centuries... as she often does.
Lawrence Miles is the one who gave me the idea that the Doctor's regenerations can be explained to a certain extent by imprinting. Davies also hooks on to that explanation for the Tenth Doctor's Estuary accent, although the line that he was imprinting on Rose never made it into the final cut of "The Christmas Invasion".