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(Oops, just realized I reblogged that to an old inactive account 😅)

I only watched the teaser, never the trailers because I wanted to be surprised. I've definitely seen people talking about clones regarding Chris, but never in relation to Alan. It seems too obvious and easy to me for Chris to be a clone, but if Alan turns out to be? 🤯

Could Alan’s recurring body pains be the clone body glitching out??? Is it a consequence of the built-in accelerated wear and tear of modern technology?? Does he need to go back to the factory and get his joints oiled like the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz?????

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Could Alan’s recurring body pains be the clone body glitching out??? Is it a consequence of the built-in accelerated wear and tear of modern technology?? Does he need to go back to the factory and get his joints oiled like the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz?????

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i really don’t like how family focused doctor who was recently. usually i’m too thick to pick up on things but this was so glaringly obvious, why suddenly was belinda so devoted to being a mother to a random child out of the blue, why did the wish world revolve around a baby and uphold traditional family values, why did we flip flop between whether that was good or bad. why did belinda cause a fuss over having her dna taken but fully get behind some random baby being forced upon her so soon after. why was everything so baby centric? ruby’s mother fostering, ruby finding her birth mother, goblin king eating babies, space babies wanting a home, conrad not being loved as a child, time lords being infertile, belinda’s entire arc concluding in her being a mother. also the ‘i think we’re all your children’ line was so jarring. whatever man. i don’t think it’s a coincidence, but i don’t know why it’s happening.

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My nomination for next doctor who show writer is all of tumblr and we goncharov it

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............................. OH MY GOD. It just hit me. He pulled a Steven Moffat.

really thinking about it again actually. belinda had a whole ass life and flatmates and friends and rtd was just like Ah! but Woman Must Have Baby :-) and had the doctor rewrite her entire existence to revolve around motherhood. bro her story ended in hell.

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my theory on the doctor who finale is that it’s a setup for an unreality type of christmas episode and then things will return back to normal-ish. reregeneration

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There were supposed to be 3 seasons of ncuti right? And the third would have been looking for rogue whos trapped in a parallel universe like rose, and that would have made a plot that made the doctor think of rose right? So then he'd regenerate into her and then at least it would make sense plot wise?? At the very least

(Also i wanted more ncuti)

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rogue is still in superhell.

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when I'm in a haunting the narrative competition but my opponent is rose tyler who haunted it so badly she became the narrative herself

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Belinda Chandra deserved better!!!

I mean, we all deserved better, but especially Belinda!

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see in theory i would even really love a single mother of a young child as a doctor who companion it WOULD be really cool but why force your existing character who never mentioned anything about wanting to be a mother into that role after the fact it feels a little ick to me

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Okay so my current theory is that with reality being altered and the whole thing with parallel worlds/timelines, Billie Piper isn't returning as the Doctor, but actually as the Bad Wolf

She wasn't credited as being the new Doctor when all the other Doctors were (here's a few for comparison):

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I'm so... unsure how to feel about this Doctor Who finale. Specifically in regard to how they handled the Poppy situation.

By the halfway point I was baffled and kind of annoyed at how Belinda was reacting to the situation.

For someone who got offended that the Doctor scanned her DNA without consent in the first episode, I felt like she accept a little too happily the idea that a magical wish baby was made using half her DNA...without her consent.

She easily fell into being fiercely maternal and protective, to the point I thought the Wish World still had control over her in some way. She seemed super happy about the whole situation. It just seemed really odd to me. It seemed jarringly out of character.

Then Poppy disappeared and Belinda went back to "normal", mostly how we've seen her act before, if not a bit more chummy with the Doctor and more keen on traveling.

Then the Doctor did his time energy release thing and suddenly we have this whole new retconned reality where Belind had ALWAYS had a daughter. We're shown memories of conversations with the Doctor that we had seen before, only now, she was talking about wanting to get home for her daughter. A detail that had never been given to the audience before. If this is to be believed as what really happened in the original timeline, then it's like they're telling us the Show itself is an unreliable narrator and things don't just happen offscreen, even the parts we see are selectively edited. However, it would definitely explain why Belinda so easily accepted Poppy as her daughter in the Wish World.

Except, we saw what Belinda's life was like prior to Earth exploding. We were shown she lived in a house with multiple roommates. No signs of any children living there that I can recall. Even if Poppy always spent nights at Belinda's parent's house, there'd be SOME sign of her at Belinda's place.

I want to like this twist, but I'm left wondering... Is it the genuine reality that was withheld from us for some reason, or did the universe warp reality to somehow "fit" Poppy into it? Was a whole Ritchie Akingbola created to be Poppy's dad? Was Belinda's whole life path changed to accommodate Poppy's existence? But then, Poppy was human on the Doctor's scan 🤔

(Also, BILLIE PIPER WTF?!?!?)

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I feel like the way the series is heading, the doctor is being set up to be revealed as part of the pantheon himself. The way the timeless child just appeared one day from a place outside of reality is very reminiscent of the rest of the gods we've seen, and much like the god of wishes, the timeless child was used more as a tool to others than a force of nature themselves.

But that just begs the question, what god will the doctor be? The god of time seems like the obvious choice but no, I don't think it'd be that. Time was always more to do with Gallifreyans and while he is the 'timeless child' his inherent powers really have nothing to do with time. I think the doctor will be something different, and I think I know what it could be.

I think the Doctor is the god of life.

Think about it, what is the timeless child's one power? The thing that the time lords siphoned and abused for themselves? It was the power of regeneration, the power of eternal life. Timelords may have had command over time and space but that extension of their lives and power to regenerate and cheat death over and over was never theirs, it was something that they stole from the timeless child.

Not convinced? that's fine, it's not exactly a flawless theory.

How about the fact that fairly recently the Doctor has figured out how to use his regeneration to heal others. At the start of space babies the doctor uses his power to bring a butterfly back to life. He literally breathes life into another creature. And this actually isn't a new thing either. It's just never been this powerful before.

Eleven heals River using his power and Twelve does the same to Davros.

There's also the fact that his power was fully compatible with Lux, another god of the pantheon. Mayhaps because they come from the same source?

Not to mention that the doctor is, for all intents and purposes, the primary protector of life in the universe. Whenever the doctor dies, it's shown to have horrific ramifications on the universe as a whole. Specifically in the name of the doctor and turn left, where it's shown that if the doctor were to be killed, entire galaxy's would be snuffed out and the sky would turn dark.

He also has a deep inherent respect for life and an even deeper aversion to death. He hates to kill, and will avoid doing it by any means necessary, even when it would be the preferable option (Like in Arachnids in the UK, where she refuses to kill a group of overgrown spiders despite the fact that they were suffering and could not sustain themselves due to their size.) Or when death would be by far the preferable option, like in Family of blood, The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos and rogue. Granted he does kill sometimes, but that's only really when all other alternatives are expended and he has no other choice. Even when it comes to his enemies, there's rarely a time when he's in his right mind that he'd let them die without trying to save them. He doesn't just hold back from killing, he wants so desperately to save as many people as possible.

It even comes down to his very name. The name that he chose. The Doctor. The man that makes people better. The man that saves peoples lives.

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They had five dollars and a dream

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the ranis needed a reality that would break. they needed it thin and weak, a reality that would not hold up to the slightest bit of scrutiny. so they chose a right-wing populist’s fantasy. amazing

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i had a lot of predictions for this episode, but rogue sending the doctor a video message from super hell in order to snap him out of heterosexuality was not one of them