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I retired the blog, and honestly might double retire it soon, but I'm whotheory456 and I'm here to say that Reality War was the worst piece of shit I've seen on TV in ages.

I'm tired, boss. And we don't even know who the Boss is.

You know what, its Bruce Springsteen. I'm just assuming Springsteen has been fucking with the Doctor since Star Beast or whatever.

Anyway go read Obverse, Arcbeatle, and Cutaway.

Rose Coloured Crosshairs is fun and if you haven't you should check out Faction Paradox.

Shutter Speed is a great introduction to the Cwej series and has big fuck ICE energy.

And I haven't read it but Cutaway is doing Omega Comics. Which is clearly the only recent appearance of Omega no I am not taking questions.

If the Doctor shows up pretty sure I don't want my life rewritten to be a single mom, so you know, fuck that. I'll wait for Cwej or put on a skull mask now. I'm tired, boss. Play me out, Springsteen.

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Trying to come up with some sort of Lux from Lux and Light from Ghost Light mashup headcanon and not getting anything interesting.

Lux was great though.

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“Heaven? Heaven is out of reach for someone like me. But if I can’t climb to Heaven I’ll claw at the sky till you crawl on the ground just like me." -Petra, 'Cwej: Shutter Speed'

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Honestly, I thought I’d have more to say here, but I’ll likely head back to my main blog soon. It’d be awesome if more people shared their theories about the Chibnall Era of Doctor Who or its quirky, obscure third-party publishers. Hopefully, someone more skilled than me can take up the torch in the future.

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I think Power of the Doctor is great, and I believe the Chibnall era will be more appreciated over time due to it ending on a high note—and let's be honest, people will probably forget about the Sea Devils episode anyway. I mean, I want to.

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This blog was originally meant just for posting theories, but I hope you're all enjoying the other random junk I've thrown in. Oh, and hi Aristide Twain! Thanks for reading my blog—apologies for the whole BBV thing.

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Sometimes I still think about the time that Doctor Who put the Brigadier's grandad on screen, and contradicted the Candy Jar novels about the name of his grandad, and so they made it so his grandmother had an affair.

Doctor Who EU can be wild stuff.

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I decided to check out Academy 27 because of its Doctor Who connections, and I was pleasantly surprised—it's fantastic. Being the obsessive type, I also read the 10,000 Dawns short story that Academy 27 is based on. Turns out, Wylder managed to take a actually-very-bad short story with a great premise and transform it into an amazing series.

Every writer has to start somewhere, but it’s fascinating—and a bit strange—to witness such a public journey of growth. Seeing the same story beats revisited, but vastly improved, is pretty interesting.

Would not recommend reading "Shooting Stars Over Sunrise" though, honestly. Clunky, awkward, melodramatic, and just poorly done. Academy 27 though, yes. Good.

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In Power of the Doctor UNIT just gets absolutely wrecked. Just obliterated. Just utterly desolated. So, I don't think it's a co-incidence that when UNIT returns it's all entirely new people outside of Kate Stewart. But I also have to ask: where did the new UNIT HQ come from? Because it had to be new.

The building had to already exist, is what I'm getting at. UNIT couldn't have built a new skyscraper between episodes, and it doesn't seem likely to me that they were just... already building one.

But inside the new UNIT HQ is the Vlinx, and I think that might be the key to the whole thing.

What if the new UNIT HQ was built by some alien power in an offscreen adventure, and the Vlinx was already there? UNIT defeated them, maybe by turning the Vlinx to their side in the first place, and acquiring a new, and much needed, headquarters.

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I have this conspiracy theory that the entire reason that Arcbeatle Press put out "Cwej: Requiem" was so that the first Cwej story in their series wasn't "A Bright White Crack".

No offense to the writer of ABWC honestly. Not like I could have done better reintroducing a character with as much fucking baggage as Cwej does while setting the series up. And they've gotten way better with every story after that.

Now you can say "start with Requiem" though, which is like, better.

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Remember that time the Cyberon Novelization was ridiculously good and everyone loved it, and people were talking about nutso it was that the Cyberon Novelization was stellar, and the short stories in the back of the book were fire too, and then nothing good with the Cyberon was ever released again?

Pepperidge farm remembers. Sigh.

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I like to imagine that that time that "The Nari" showed up in that Dionus audio that it wasn't even a rip off of the Rani or a clone or an amnesiac Rani or whatever, it was just a lady named like Kylene or something who was pulling an elaborate prank that went too far, and then ran off after it got too serious.

Just like "sweet going to absolutely prank this Dionus guy"

Then sleeps with him and is like

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I want to know: Who do you think the Enemy is in the War in Heaven in the EDAs / Faction Paradox?

What is your favorite theory?

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The Grand Serpent Caused Most of the UNIT Alternatives

Obviously Torchwood is its own thing, but there are a lot of alternatives to UNIT hanging out in the Whoniverse.

"But 456, don't most of those just exist because people couldn't get the rights to UNIT?"

and to that I'd say: shut up I'm having fun

So all these acronym organizations like P.R.O.B.E appear. But why? If Unit AND Torchwood exist and are handling problems, then why would there NEED to be alternatives? Well, a lot of these organizations seem to have some sort of specialty (like the seemingly supernatural with P.R.O.B.E). The Grand Serpent infiltrated UNIT at its founding and tried to push its development. So if there were areas that he didn't want UNIT looking into, perhaps these organizations existed to fill the holes that UNIT wasn't filling--by design.

The Grand Serpent's plots were numerous, so trying to cut out people looking into certain areas, and focusing the world's largest alien taskforce into looking at things he wasn't involved in, would help him immensely. Especially when the Doctor got involved. Smaller under-funded groups would be easier to give the run around, after all.

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Cwej is the Deer in Apple Tree Yard

Spoilers for Cwej the Series and Academy 27. In Arcbeatle Press's anniversary novel And Today, You Christopher Cwej takes the form of a Deer when he has his form stripped from him by the Letharchy, and Sang Mi is able to bring him back to his usual blonde himbo form by reminding him of his past.

But in Sang Mi's universe, in the story Apple Tree Yard, when she and her frenemy Saki have been playing with time travel drugs and have fucked up reality on accident, Sang Mi sees a deer that leads her and Saki out of the messed up reality back into their real one. Sang Mi seems to know instinctually that the deer is something she can trust and will follow.

We learn in And Today, You that she saw Cwej when she was younger outside of her hospital window she saw Cwej standing by a deer statue in the hospital courtyard, and he acknowledged her which gave her hope. And there was no way later that Sang Mi could have just instinctively known the way out of that broken reality--so it makes sense it was Cwej. After all, he said he'd come back for her again. Maybe it was just before she realized he would.

If so, maybe some other deer in dreams were him too.

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The Enemy is the Doctor's Forgotten Past

For a long time now, folks have debated about the answer to who the Enemy in the War in Heaven is. And I'm not here to give you an answer, but I am here to give you an interesting possibility.

What if the Enemy is the Timeless Child?

No, not because I'm upset about it and what it does to canon or whatever, but that the concept of the Timeless Child--the way it changes the Doctor's history and recontextualizes it--is the Enemy.

Think about it--while Gallifrey has never had a solid history, and neither has the Doctor, the Timeless Child puts a whole new history into play--one similar but different to those that came before. It also explicitly makes the Doctor not born on Gallifrey, rewriting the entire history of the show so that the person who has saved Gallifrey over and over again is now no longer as tied to it as they once were. They are othered from it. And only then does Gallifrey get wiped out again by the Master, only once the Master learns this secret history.

We even learn about the Timeless Child on a planet where weapons are developed and tested--so what if it is itself a weapon? Not just lore, but a narrative bomb that allows for the Time Lords to be defeated, even after they won the Time War?