I think I mostly followed what was going on but the thing I’m most confused about is what the ‘Passengers’ are. Not quite sure whether we’re supposed to understand that yet.

And also, for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet (it doesn’t seem to have been posted on here), The…[Read more]

Ah sorry, I thought from your first question that you were saying River had been previously stated to be the Doctor’s mother.

I hadn’t really thought about the bassinet before but that’s a good question. I suppose it’s possible that River could be Tecteun, but that would be a huge bootstrap paradox. She was brought up by Madame…[Read more]

I think you’ve got your Doctor backstory a bit mixed up. River is the Doctor’s wife, not her mother.

As for your sixth question, I don’t think the story is a complete lie, but it’s certainly possible that the Master was partially lying or not telling the whole truth. One possible theory is that the Timeless Child is actually the…[Read more]

Also, this quote from @bluesqueakpip in this thread, four and half years ago, has aged remarkably well. 😉

At least thirteen.…

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Oh right, I must have forgotten the explanation of Barton. I wonder if he’ll be back at some point, seeing as he got away at the end of the episode.

That’s true about the Master but I still think there should have been at least an acknowledgement that he was trapped last time we saw him, instead of him just showing up and nobody…[Read more]

The Police Box TARDIS can be explained as the Hartnell Doctor ‘stealing’ his previous TARDIS – without knowing that she was the TARDIS he’d used before. It actually fits better with Sexy’s comment that ‘she stole him’ if she’d known the Doctor in his/her pre-mind-wipe incarnations.

Mm, that’s definitely possible, and would fit in qu…[Read more]

Hi! I’m glad you like the theory 🙂 I’m sure there’s a few holes in it but the same can be said about pretty much any theory at this point.

That said, Ruth was on the run from Division-looking Time Lords such as Gat, which would appear to pin her down to her time in the Division in her youth.

That’s true, but it’s possible that Ruth…[Read more]

I do feel though that it is hugely ironic that a scene that was intended to establish that the Doctor had limits to his regenerative ability is now used in a huge retcon to establish the Doctor is immortal with no limits.

Do we actually know that the Doctor is immortal though? For all we know, when the Doctor’s life was restarted, they could have…[Read more]

By the way, was it explained why the Doctor’s…[Read more]

What if Ruth is one of the Doctor’s children? Maybe something separated the two of them from each other when Ruth was young (probably on a previous regeneration) and she believed the Doctor had died. From then on, she took on the mantle of…[Read more]

Finally there is the concept of the multiverse, in which a potentially infinite number of superimposed but separate universes theoretically exist and have always existed, but I don’t recall that having been referenced in Doctor Who.

It’s been a while since I’ve watched it but isn’t that what happened in series 2? There was certainly the p…[Read more]

Thanks for the link to the blog post, that’s very interesting. So in this particular episode, do the two (or more) Earth timelines exist concurrently, and can the Doctor travel to whichever one she chooses to?

Now I may be wrong but I think Time Lords do remember meeting their past selves, just not their…[Read more]

I hope next episode they give some indication of whether this version of the Master comes after Missy (meaning she survived in The Doctor Falls), or if this is a previous…[Read more]