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I agree that the demonstration of civility and warmth is a definite part of the RTD project – and I’d say both Tennant and Eccleston showed some of the same, in ways that were more of their time just as Gatwa’s style belongs to Gen Z sensibilities. But I also think RTD obviously hasn’t lost his fascination with the moral dilemmas raised…[Read more]

@thane16 and I loved hat the mother whose raised Ruby wanted to tell her birth mother that she took her in, that her baby was cared for – not in a possessive way, but in a don’t be so sad, she was looked after and loved.

I wonder why is that that when, briefly, Ruby had not been her daughter, she was just so cold, and blank, and uncaring. A…[Read more]

@thane16 doesn’t Ruby’s mother (the known one) say it’s the beast?

This Doctor is very in touch with his emotions. Crying every episode, his horrified frustrated rage in Dot and Bubble. His instant flirty crush in Rouge. After all, if Fourteen is working through his stuff on earth, with his earth family. it’s probably going to lean into that. And…[Read more]

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The Boss; The Oldest One; The One Who Waits.

I think we would be wrong to assume they are all one and the same.

Or that any of them are the ‘extra’ Doctor. This is would seem to be REG. I doubt if his earlier non canon nuwho appearances are significant. My guess is The Great Int…[Read more]

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Thought I’d do a recap ahead of the two-part finale.

What needs clearing up:

1. Who is Ruby’s mother / mysterious woman wh…

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@thane16 on echoes of the past the Doctor recalling promising to keep Ruby safe reminded me of the promise he made to Jackie to keep Rose safe.

I also think this is an alternative universe, and there is a “mastermind” pulling the strings. I am reminded of the Mind Robber but maybe just because it is one of the few Troughton/doc episodes I have…[Read more]

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Re Church on Ruby Road… a bubble/AI generated universe mirroring (meta-ing and illustrating) the history of Who…

Carla. Clara.

Lulu(Bill)… lulubelle 3… Atom Heart MOTHER (ok maybe it’s just a stupid name) but… 3! 3 babbies. 3 cradles.

Chib’s Who moved to Sunday. Doctor 5 broadcast on  Mundays (and Tuesdays… have we had a Tuesday ye…[Read more]

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My theory is The (K)nightmare Child was an obscene Gallifreyan tech weapon named for The (very disillusioned) War Doctor by increasingly fascistic Time Lords because he was their Bismark. Also featuring Rassilon as The Could Have Been King. The rest of it was just maaad.

And brontosaurus’s were thin at one end, thick in the middle, a…[Read more]

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Apologies. Meant to add you to my previous post

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Well Ruby = Brendan… ish… that would make the foundling thing less of an imposed structure.

Brendan was the best thing Zchib did. I got quite excited. Then… meh.

8 eps? Who knows, maybe Parkinson’s Law may come into play and this will all turn out deliciously snappy and flavoursome. No more the labouring Utopia Trilogy or The Stolen…[Read more]

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the first one could equally be 10! The only definite sequential ones are PD and CB. I have previously wondered whether Ruth was really pre 1… we never actually SAW Troughton become Pertwee…

But, if the GI is all the Doctor’s timeline, can it really be tidied away?

I just speculate that GI managed to hijack one of The Doctor’s regener…[Read more]

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By Testimony I mean Lancashire Sass. Waiting to greet the corvid. She hangs out with another woman with attitude and a bad memory.

To tell the truth the 4th in the sequence looks more like ‘the other one’… not MJ.

Unless MJ = ‘the other’??? A distillation of dark??

Also… snowflakes??

What actually WAS the thing that apparently…[Read more]

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There I was going on about faces from Morbius and I missed it! Duh.

Could be an AI adjusted Phillip Hinchcliffe? Nothing like the others. And indeed were it he, where are the others?

You’re being coy… so 2 obvious thesp candidates

Obviously the er… tube map is all over the doctor’s time stream. Who knows where intelligence will ge…[Read more]