Doctor Who
Summary
The finalDoctor Who60th anniversary special has retconned the Timeless Child storyline with no more than a few words from the Toymaker ( Neil Patrick Harris).The Timeless Childwas a controversial addition to theDoctor Whocanon that do in 2020 , during Chris Chibnall ’s prison term as showrunner , and it made huge changes to the Doctor of the Church ’s backstory . Jodie Whitaker ’s Thirteenth Doctor was inform by the Master ( Sacha Dhawan ) that the Doctor is not in reality from Gallifrey , but is of an unknown alien slipstream from whom the power to rejuvenate was reap , and this was just one of the new revelations .
Such a major modification to theDoctor Whotimeline open up up many plotholes and inaccuracy , such as the Doctor ’s lineage and the theory that they ’re half human , as cite in Paul McGann’sDoctor Whomovie in 1996 . The presentation of the Timeless Child undo decades of storytelling and leave many rooter demand that the story be scrubbed from the show ’s existence . Returning showrunner Russell T Davies may have just granted the compliments of many , making it so the Timeless Child , while still technically canon , is no longer as rife in its grandness . This meansDoctor Whoseason 14can move ahead without the shackles of this flawed secret plan twisting .
The concluding Doctor Who day of remembrance particular , " The Giggle , " is a positive feedback account like no other - and its termination sets up some tremendous adventures .
The Master’s Deal With The Toymaker Explained
The Doctor’s fellow Time Lord was close to death.
In theDoctor Who60th anniversary special title " The Giggle,“the Toymaker states that he trifle a secret plan with the Master , the Doctor ’s scourge . The last on - screen door looping of the Master was play Sacha Dhawan , and he was leave behind near end at the end of his most recent instalment , the 2022 special " The Power of the Doctor . " Although the nature ofDoctor Whoallows for other options when it comes to which version of the Master came into middleman with the Toymaker , Dhawan ’s Master seems the most probable , yield the timeline .
In " The Giggle " , the Toymaker secern the Fourteenth Doctor that , as part of their game , the Master wager on being pin down inside the Toymaker ’s amber tooth if the Master were to lose the secret plan that caused the Doctor ’s chronicle to be altered so severely . Revealing his gold tooth , the Toymaker confirms that the Master lost their game , and is therefore ensnare within due to his deprivation of the Toymaker . finally , the Toymaker is defeated in " The Giggle , " but his Au tooth stay entire .
A theory from Doctor Who ’s 60th day of remembrance not only discover the Toymaker ’s origin , but also link up them to other villains from the show ’s past .
The Toymaker ’s tooth surviving the episode leaves the door heart-to-heart for another return of the Master , who is responsible for putting the events of the Timeless Child story in motion . If the Master were to render , he would no longer have the resources of the Toymaker to further torture the doc . Still , the damage has already been done , with the addition made to the Doctor ’s chronicle being seemingly irreversible .
" The Master was dying , and begged for his life with one final plot . "
Dhawan ’s Master is the one who divulge the Timeless Child write up to the Thirteenth Doctor ( Jodie Whittaker ) inDoctor Whoseason 12 , instalment 10 , " The Timeless Children , " so it makes good sense that he would be the one responsible for the Doctor ’s account being castrate and would therefore desire to crow about it . The Master is many things , but subtlety is not in his arsenal .
The Master ravel out the Doctor ’s history also contributed to the Tenth medico ’s face returning as the Fourteenth . Their discovery of being the Timeless Child pushes the Doctor over the bound , causing them to unconsciously rectify into a familiar body and seek out their best protagonist , Donna Noble ( Catherine Tate ) , to finally help them in healing from the centuries of worked up trauma .
The Toymaker Rewrote Doctor Who History To Include The Timeless Child
He was the one responsible.
The meeting between the Toymaker and the Master included a secret plan , as it did between the Doctor and the Toymaker . The Master ’s game included rewriting the Doctor ’s account , a feat of which the Master was not capable on his own , and so he used the Toymaker ’s rules and power to accomplish his finish . This retrospectively alteredDoctor Whocanon to include a myriad of regenerations before the First Doctor ( William Hartnell ) that they do not remember . It also hit the fact that Gallifrey is the Doctor ’s homeworld , instead keeping their on-key line a mystery .
When the Timeless Child plot line was introduced , it was presented in such a fashion that it seemed the Doctor ’s chronicle had already been so and that it was but unknown to both the Doctor and to fans . However , it has now been confirmed that it was the immense power of the Toymaker inDoctor Whothat allowed the Master to rewrite the Dr. ’s entire existence .
The Toymaker admits his part in the feat during the events of " The Giggle . " The Doctor ’s expression when the Toymaker claims responsibility for change his history is one of aghast ira , demonstrate he is just as surprised as he is savage about his timeline being toy with , rather than his unknown regenerations being the solution of a memory wipe .
Each version of The Doctor has faced a server of deadly enemy in Doctor Who , but the villain they encounter first is rarely a top - grade baddie .
RTD Has Made The Doctor’s Original Backstory Canon Again (Sort Of)
Chris Chibnall’s contributions have been diminished.
By have the Toymaker responsible for for the Doctor ’s backstory being altered , it ’s implied thatthe Doctor ’s original history was at one point untouched . This means the First Doctor is still technically the starting point of the Doctor ’s life , and that the Toymaker made plus to the Doctor ’s timeline before William Hartnell ’s variant of the Time Lord .
Although the Doctor has no memory of their time before the First Doctor , they are still sway to discover the acts they committed in the clock time before Hartnell ’s debut , being used by a Gallifreyan organization have a go at it as Division to carry out atrocities such as execution . ForDavid Tennant ’s Fourteenth Doctorto get word that the Toymaker ’s meddling is the reason for his more recent injury must give him a sensory faculty of not only substitute but also a diminished amount of closure .
This soft retcon of Chris Chibnall ’s story is in preserve with Russel T Humphrey Davy ’s resolution that he was not design to " unwrite " his predecessor ’s piece of work . However , the regenerations previous to the First Doctor have now been confirmed to have been added by the Toymaker as a part of his game with the Master , think of thatDavies has efficaciously mend the original adaptation of the Doctor ’s origin .
So, Is The Timeless Child Still A Thing In Doctor Who?
The Timeless Child is both canon and not canon.
" The Giggle " has lead in Chris Chibnall ’s Timeless Child story existing in a state of story principle of superposition . The changes made to the account of the Doctor are still canyon , but they ’ve also been acknowledged within the world ofDoctor Whoto have been alterations made after the fact . So , although it to begin with seemed as if Chibnall ’s change were intend to reveal an unknown twist that had always been true , it turn out that the details about the Timeless Child , at least within the canyon of the show , are the result of the Toymaker ’s manipulation .
Russel T Davies has restored the physician to what they wereas much as he can without totally discrediting the work of his predecessor . The Timeless Child was an ambitious story to introduce in such a storied franchise and one that come with its reasonable part of roadblock , literary criticism , and tale inaccuracy . While it will seemingly remain as part of the continuity ofDoctor Who , it has been explain away in a few lines of dialogue from the Toymaker , which perhaps goes to show the frangibility of the concept in the first place .
