• blenkinsopthebrave replied to the topic Dr Who News (4)

    @badwolfalice

    Wonderfully sweet clip. Thanks so much for posting.

  • janetteB replied to the topic Dr Who News (4)

    @badwolfalice thank you for that link. It was lovely. Just lovely. Watched Eleventh Hour last night and made lots of notes. Was rather like being back at Uni in a Cinema Studies screening only I did not keep falling asleep.

    Cheers

    Janette

  • Bluesqueakpip replied to the topic The Timeless Children

    @badwolfalice

    Daniel Barton was explained both in Spyfall and in the finale – in Spyfall, from what I remember, it was explained that his computer geek persona was so strong, he’d used himself as a beta testa for splicing the alien DNA into humans – so that they could become hard drives, presumably.

    The Master/Missy always escapes and he/she…[Read more]

  • PhaseShift replied to the topic The Timeless Children

    @badwolfalice

    I hope the next series makes it clear that the reason the Doctor is so different, personality-wise, to most other Time Lords is not because she’s the Timeless Child, but because she’s the Doctor. I don’t think it would send a very good message to the audience if the only reason she decided to escape from being a puppet to the Time…

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  • Bluesqueakpip replied to the topic The Timeless Children

    @badwolfalice

    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. There are then a couple of possibilities:

    a) She…[Read more]

  • Nightingale replied to the topic The Timeless Children

    @BadWolfAlice

    Lots to think about!

    That’s true, but it’s possible that Ruth could be at a later point in her life, and Gat found her by travelling forward in time.

    Gat didn’t seem to know who the Whittaker incarnation was, and vice versa. Gat did know who the Martin incarnation was, and vice versa. But all that might mean is that this wasn’t the…[Read more]

  • Nightingale replied to the topic The Timeless Children

    @BadWolfAlice

    Hello! I enjoyed your post, very interesting theory. Ruth being a future Doctor would suggest a big misdirect given what we’ve seen, and I suspect a big misdirect is exactly what we’ve been given.

    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…[Read more]

  • JimTheFish replied to the topic The Timeless Children

    @missrori

    Yes, I think it’ll be well into s13 before we see any of this stuff returned to. I fully expect we’ll be seeing RuthDoc back in some form or another.

    @badwolfalice

    Yeah, there is already what amounts to a DWEU, I suppose. But I wonder if we are about to get something that keeps that extant but has another branch that can be explored…[Read more]

  • Davros replied to the topic The Timeless Children

     

     

    @badwolfalice

    “I haven’t seen much of pre-2005 Doctor Who yet so there’s a lot of those that I don’t recognise, but I know #11 is a Dreg from Orphan 55, #12 is clearly Gallifrey but I’m not sure what the shapes in the foreground are, and #19 is the Pting from The Tsuranga Conundrum. I recognise #15 but can’t think who she is. I’ve seen…[Read more]

  • MissRori replied to the topic The Timeless Children

    @badwolfalice I’m with you in that I’m less concerned with the canon being changed and more concerned with why it’s been changed, especially so drastically. The Doctor seems to accept all these revelations quickly enough and good for her for seeing it as a glass-half-full situation. But especially with the ending plunging her in what may or may…[Read more]

  • Whisht replied to the topic The Timeless Children

    So… must admit I agree with so much of what @jimthefish (and @badwolfalice ) said.
    I think it’ll be retconned soon enough, but that’s a writer’s preserve (maybe that the child was a TL child dropped back through time eg the Great Boundary; so a paradox, seeding the ability to regenerate upon themselves).
    They’re adding ‘mystery’ as they wanted t…[Read more]

  • Mirime replied to the topic The Timeless Children

    By the way, was it explained why the Doctor’s memory was wiped, or is that still a mystery?

    @badwolfalice two things I thought – to keep the work of the Division secret and to hide who the Doctor really was and that she’s not like other Time Lords.

     

    I rather enjoyed the whole thing, though it has meant I’ve had to explain the Morbius thing a…[Read more]

  • lisa replied to the topic The Timeless Children

    @badwolfalice

     

    LMAO !!!   Time to check my glasses !   How I got to that is alarming!

  • Miapatrick replied to the topic The Timeless Children

    @badwolfalice It seems like RuthDoc is from before the memory wipe and they noticed they had the ‘same brain’ so I’d say yes, still the same person on some level. And her memories were in there, just buried, she’d has flashes of herself (though confusingly, from the outside. Unless it was actually her mother’s memories being projected to her).

    I…[Read more]

  • JimTheFish replied to the topic Fugitive of the Judoon

    @badwolfalice

    Absolutely, anything is possible in this show. Let’s cross our fingers for more Gat.

    @davros

    While I wouldn’t want to be overly negative, I must admit I do still have quite a few reservations with s12. Here’s what I posted on Twitter after a rewatch of the ep:

    Just rewatched Fugitive. Brilliant, kinetic fun but I don’t think my…

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  • JimTheFish replied to the topic Fugitive of the Judoon

    @bluesqueakpip

    Done.

    @badwolfalice

    The Doc’s motivation for getting involved in Gloucester was that the Judoon were trigger-happy and dangerous, so I think those deaths were there to bear that out. And if what they were hunting was a renegade Time Lord then it would make sense that they would have guns that would have an anti-regeneration…[Read more]

  • Mudlark replied to the topic Fugitive of the Judoon

    @BadWolfAlice

    Of course! how could I have overlooked that instance 😳

    And assuming that we are dealing with an alternative universe, this scenario would seem to be the most likely, especially as Chibnall does seem to be mining the RTD era at the moment.  A parallel universe in an adjoining dimension in which everything is almost but not…[Read more]

  • With @badwolfalice & @bluesqueakpip on this. Usually when historical episodes have popped up in the past in episode trailers, they’ve been greeted with an eye-roll.

    However, even though this episode was still a little underwhelming (like most in the Chibnall era), I really don’t mind the historical ones in the Chibnall era.

    Cinematography and…[Read more]

  • @badwolfalice

    Yeah, I think one possibility is that we’ll look back on the Chibnall era as the new golden age for the historicals. Some of them really have been a masterclass in ‘how to do a Who historical’.

  • PhaseShift replied to the topic Orphan 55

    @badwolfalice

    I don’t know if the Doctor himself knows how to travel the timelines. Poßibly just the TARDIS operating in 11 dimensions can work it. The only time I can think that the Doctor did it (other than Pyramids of Mars, where it was inevitable) is the implied reunion between 11 and Amelia at the end of Angels take Manhattan. Amy and Rory…[Read more]

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