Doctor Who
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Doctor Who ’s Timeless Child retcon reveals the substantial grounds the Doctor jazz Earth so much . Nobody can blame currentDoctor Whoshowrunner Chris Chibnall for lack of ambition ; his geological era has upended decades of continuity and lore , discover the Doctor is not a Time Lord at all . Rather , she is in factthe Timeless Child , a being who potentially predates the universe itself and who became the base genetic codification for the intact Time Lord wash . The retcon off the Doctor ’s regeneration roof , revealing there have potentially been limitless previous incarnations of the Doctor . Jo Martin ’s so - called " Fugitive physician " is one of these forgotten Doctors .
Surprisingly , theFugitive Doctor ’s storyis not being told by the TV serial itself . or else , it ’s being tell in a four - issue miniseries by Jody Houser , with artwork by Roberta Ingranata and Warina Sahadewa . Titan Comics released aDoctor Who : Free Comic Book Dayspecial ahead of theDoctor Who Originsminiseries , with a short floor by the same creative squad . Surprisingly , it explains the real ground the Doctor fell in sexual love with Earth .
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The floor is a delightful one , in which Jo Martin ’s Doctor - still play for a disgraceful ops group called the Division at the time - visits the backwater satellite called Earth in 1962 while hunting down an alien call Monstario the Devourer . She is assisted by a mathematical group of local fry , who yarn-dye her with their bravery and their willingness to accept her . Presumably these children left a lasting imprint on the medico , cause her to enshroud on Earth when she wenton the run from the Division .
TheDoctor Who : Free Comic Book Dayone - shot admit a abbreviated vista set during the William Hartnell epoch , showing the conjecture First Doctor and his granddaughter Susan arriving on Earth in 1963 . By this clock time the Division had erased the Doctor ’s Timeless Child memories - but the dialogue suggests a trace of them remained late in the Doctor ’s subconscious . This fits utterly with the previously - launch traditional knowledge beleaguer theTime Lord Chameleon Arch . It ’s reasonable to seize these memory maintain an even cracking influence on the MD exactly because they are subconscious - explaining exactly why the Doctor save being draw to Earth .
It ’s perhaps a good job the Doctor has decide not to regain her Timeless Child memory . Should she do so , that subconscious memory would potentially lose its influence on her , meaning she discontinue coming back to Earth . The Timeless Child retcon has been outstandingly factious and controversial , but it would be even more so if it cave in the Doctor ’s connection to Earth . That really would stand for the oddment ofDoctor Who .
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