Doctor Who
Summary
This article bear mollycoddler for theDoctor Whoanniversary limited , " Wild Blue Yonder"TheDoctor Whoanniversary exceptional " Wild Blue Yonder " has double over down on the controversialTimeless Childretcon . The last few years have been controversial among theDoctor Whofandom . Former showrunner Chris Chibnall rewrote the franchise ’s 60 - twelvemonth - old story , revealingthe Doctor is not a Time Lord at all ; rather , they are the Timeless Child , a being from another universe find by a Gallifreyan explorer a billion years ago . The Timeless Child - the first to own the ability of regeneration - became the mean genetic codification for the total Time Lord race .
The Timeless Child retcon divided the fandom . Although returning showrunner Russell T. Davies verbalise his support for the idea - and his admiration for his good friend Chibnall - there was intense speculationDoctor Whowould move on from so controversial a write up . TheDoctor Whoanniversary special " Wild Blue Yonder " reveals that is n’t going to encounter , though ; rather than abandon it , the episode reduplicate down on the Timeless Child .
Doctor Who time of year 14 is get after the sixtieth anniversary special , and with it Ncuti Gatwa ’s new Doctor . Here ’s everything we recognise so far .
“Wild Blue Yonder” Reveals The Doctor Is Still Haunted By The Timeless Child
In " Wild Blue Yonder , " the Doctor and Donna are confront by mysterious wight from beyond the edge of the cosmos - entities that are hungry for the world of matter , and long to deplete it . These creature take on their own forms , and step by step sync with their minds , drawing on their memories . At one spot , essay to get under the Doctor ’s peel , the animal that attend like Donna talking to him about the Timeless Child . She forces the Doctor to admit he has no theme where he comes from , and he ’s visibly shaken by the admission .
The Timeless Child retcon introduced massive inquiry about the Doctor ’s identity , questions that were far from resolve by theend ofDoctor Who : Flux- the six - episode season that fancy the Doctor suffer their adoptive female parent at last . The Doctor took will power of a watch pocket watch containing a billion years ' worth of memory that had been taken by the Time Lords , but chose not to enter the watch and learn the truth . Jodie Whittaker ’s Thirteenth Doctor told the TARDIS to bury it late within the systems , where she could never find it again , unless she should ask for it . Many watcher were baffle at this deficiency of closure , and distinctly it haunts the Doctor as well .
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The Villains Of “Wild Blue Yonder” Serve As A Metaphor For The Timeless Child
There ’s a sense in which the villains of " Wild Blue Yonder " serve as a metaphor for the Doctor ’s own experience . In this sequence , the Doctor must seek to terminate himself thinking - shape out a solution to an exploding spaceship - because doing so would allow his enemies to figure it out too . Needless to say , it does n’t work out ; the Doctor has never been capable to fend trying to solve a trouble . This parallel the Thirteenth Doctor ’s determination to set aside the watch chain scout , because their future self would never be able to live with so many unrequited questions . noesis and deductive reasoning are plainly too beguiling to resist .
Will Doctor Who Season 14 Explore The Timeless Child?
TheDoctor Who60th anniversary specials have double down on the Timeless Child retcon , and that naturally means it ’s possibleDoctor Whoseason 14 will do the same . It ’s interesting to note there are exculpated parallels between the Doctor and the next companion , Millie Gibson ’s Ruby Sunday . Davy recently confirmedRuby Sunday ’s backstoryin the Christmas special , " The Church on Ruby Road " :
" It ’s unashamedly the news report of Ruby , it ’s called ' The Church On Ruby Road ' because that ’s where the church is where Ruby was left as a babe in 2004 . So , she ’s named after that Christian church . She ’s a foundling , so no one know who her mother or Father of the Church is . She was named after the church on Ruby Road . "
Like the Doctor , Ruby Sunday has no theme who she really is . She is a foundling who was discover when she was a baby , and her name is not necessarily the one her parents gave her . The parallels strongly suggest Ncuti Gatwa ’s Fifteenth Doctor will be profoundly shape by the Timeless Child , going through the same kind of character journeying as his companion inDoctor Whoseason 14 .
