When The Ninth Doctor gave way to The Tenth way back at the end of the 2005 season, it was a bumpy ride (And not just because, no matter how great Tennant was as The Doctor - and he truly was - most viewers could’ve used at least one more season of Eccleston, right?) Anyway, Ten sleeps through most of his first full-length adventure, “The Christmas Invasion,” as Earth is invaded by killer Santa Clause, deadly spinning Christmas Trees, and an alien race called the Sycorax. 14 The Doctor is psychic.kind of.sometimes
Whether or not his animal language knowledge is limited to some creatures, not all, remains to be seen. While the baby talk was mostly fun for Eleven, Twelve translated a much darker, sadder bit of baby talk with a scared little one in “The Girl Who Died.” There, where others hear crying, he knows exactly the fear and anguish the baby is expressing and can put them into heartbreaking words. Eleven talked with one in the second Corden adventure “Closing Time.” The most delightful revelation in that chat is that, while his parents named him Alfie, the baby refers to himself as “ Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All.” They have a more emotional chat at the end. Speaking of speaking to animals, The Doctor can also speak baby.
The Eleventh Doctor conversed with a male horse who told him his name was Susan in the Western episode “A Town Called Mercy.” Animal-chatty Eleven also memorably spoke to the cat of a kind gentleman named Craig (played by a pre- Late Late Show James Corden)’s cat in “The Lodger.” While Nine previously chatted with an alley cat in “The Empty Child,” it didn’t seem to be any special language or psychic-style conversation, instead just a guy petting a kitty. The Doctor can speak to some animals in their OWN animal languages, whatever that means. It’s not that The Doctor can speak to animals, like a horse whisperer or a lonely writer locked away in a one bedroom apartment with only two cats to keep him company day in and day out.