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No, looms are a terrible idea. How can the Doctor be half-human on his mother's side if he was loomed, and therefore doesn't have a mother?
Comment by notwherebutwhen at 01/04/2016 at 05:03 UTC*
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Actually if the Doctor is a reincarnation of the Other then he could be both with no real conflict (except instead of being loomed as "adults" as in Lungbarrow, Gallifreyans/Time Lords are loomed as children). Very little is known about the Other and it is possible that any origins as a half human-half Gallifreyan could be the source of some of this mystery. As a product of a loom, the Doctor himself could be biologically 100% Gallifreyan/Time Lord, but still have knowledge or some kind of connection to the Other's half-human heritage.
As for the "back and forth" claims of being half-human or full Gallifreyan/Time Lord. The Doctor likely did not believe that he truly was or at least could be the Other until his Seventh incarnation (maybe even taking on some of the Other's personality and traits although there is not a mountain of evidence for this). From here two things probably happened: the nature and circumstances of Seven's death and Eight's regeneration probably scrambled enough of the Doctor's memories that he might have confused his own direct "birth/looming" with that of the Other and in the random lottery of regeneration some of the Other's human traits were "activated".
In fact this could also work with the recent hybrid stuff in Series 9. We know that while at the academy the First Doctor went to the Cloisters and possibly learned something there that affected him quite a bit. It is possible that the Wraiths not only knew him to be the Other (the hybrid) but also knew of his destiny related to the Time War/Second War in Heaven, among other things. It could be this incident in part along with the Hand of Omega that helped spurn the Doctor's interest in going back in Gallifreyan time to discover the truth. Although this would put into question whether Susan actually was his or the Other's granddaughter. But not everything is going to fit perfectly.
Do I believe that this is how everything falls into place? Not really sure to be honest. And although this is technically a humorous post and I am being a bit too serious, I want to add that I don't think that looms and the half-human stuff should be thrown out (or be considered mutually exclusive) just because people don't like the idea or the story they came from. And even if it is pointless to speculate, it can be fun to try and come up with a way that it does work beyond the simple "it's a time travel show, so things were rewritten/changed" or "it happened in a parallel universe".