When Doctor Who's continuity is on point: Hints of The Timeless Children

Connections between The Timeless Children and past stories

[PenneySounds]

More of my videos are hitting the algorithm, which means more comments, which means more hate comments about the current run of the show, and I have no interest in letting that toxic echo chamber spread to these comments, so I've set the comments to require approval. If you've just come here to comment that the Timeless Children story doesn't fit the canon lore, even though I've demonstrated the contrary in this video, don't bother. As the Doctor said:

"If you're going to deny it, don't waste my time. Just shut up."

[purpseatpeeps]

I’ve always like the idea that the Doctor tried to live each life to his fullest, as is shown by the melt down 10 started to have, but the Master just threw them away like candy and was on 13 by the time the Doctor was on 4.

[DisasterEnby]

never realised how funny 11's regeneration is if you cut out the crack. Just looks like he regenerated out of spite for the Daleks talking about regeneration cycles

[jmfx]

The idea of The Timeless Child is not a bad one whatsoever. It would explain how The Time Lords came to be, and how they are able to grant The Master and The Doctor an extra cycle of 12 regenerations, because they decide what limits are put in place and can clearly change these at will. The ONLY problem I have is that the Doctor SHOULD NOT be the timeless child. It completely takes away so much of the weight of past iterations, past death experiences, past pains etc.

[LPTV]

In the end, I prefer the Doctor to be just a renegade Time Lord with secrets of history their society never wants the universe to learn or else it will unravel the very fabric of reality. So we don't know who they are or every reason why they ran, to the point their mind can't and won't remember it because they rather move forward and help the universe their way. Still, the show has always liked to dance around this topic a lot

[MichaelO]

I love the idea of Missy being post Spy Master and knowing about the doctor being timeless child, but only giving one little hint to Clara. It seems in character for her to just mess with them like that but in a way only she understands.

[TommyRayzer]

Don't get me wrong I know that none of this stuff is actually hints of the "Timeless Child", they were just hints at the mystery of "The Doctor" but it is an interesting and well thought out bit of research. Good spot on the fact that "Shobogan" was not first mentioned during the Masters speech in the Matrix. I did not catch that before.

[zinoxechill]

This kinda made me accept the timeless children SLIGHTLY more

The origin of gallfirey makes sense but I juts dislike how, the child is the Doctor and not the master..i mean it would make more sense
The Masters histroy is so wonky he literally comes back for no reason

[maxord]

While I do think the Timeless Children story works generally, I do think that William Hartnell not being the first "Doctor" is kinda meanspirited, even unintentionally. It is a big trend nowadays to delete what came before when people get their hands on the property.

[FrostyMac]

I adore the idea of the Doctor getting occasional flashes, just moments, where they say something that implies they are older or more important than even they know. Like the memories are just out of reach. Hell, Seven may have known outright, but lost the knowledge across the several bouts of amnesia he would experience in his Eighth incarnation.

[carrot]

"I'm much too old to be a Pioneer, although I was once, among my own people" - The Fist Doctor, The Daleks

[CrazyDW]

These aren’t subtle hints, it’s just re-contextualising good writing. “Such a lonely childhood” gives us so much about the Doctor’s background and how this can be later reflected upon by their choices and motivations

[ParadoxProblems]

What I want to know now is how powerful is the Doctor's Daughter, Jenny. She was never given a limited batch of regenerations. She's the same species that the Doctor is and has the capacity for infinite regenerations.

[MGB_]

The Timeless Child is two ideas in one - one I like, one I don't
The Doctor's Past life - I really like this. The Doctor having a past life they don't know about is particularly exciting, and it further adds to "Doctor Who?" We no longer know all their faces, where they're from, even their species. But their core identity, their development from Babby Hartnell to now, remains totally intact.

The Doctor is the first Time Lord - unnecessary, but easily ignored.

[Hedgehoginthetardis]

I do like the idea of The Timeless Child, it explains a lot and gives the time lords both a logical backstory and adds a darkness to them they that lied and exploited a child this entire time. I just feel like it would have worked better had it been the Master instead of the Doctor. If it was the master it would explain so much of their torment, would explain how they were able to defy the regeneration limits and keep on living as a corpse or ooze or a snake, and I think it would justify his anger towards gallifrey more and why he nuked it.

I still wouldn’t mind the Doctor having some higher gallifreyan importance in their backstory as perhaps one of the most important time lords in gallifreys past with some mysterious important role, but I think the timeless child itself would have been better being either the master or a new time lord we hadn’t yet met

[AndrewHsieh]

Despite the Timeless Child arc having a divisive outcome, this is one helpful compilation.

[WiloPolis]

Also wanted to add that as a huge lore nerd, I'm a really big fan of this channel as I can tell you are as well. Keep it up c:

[MarcelvanBulck]

I really like that Jodie Whitaker's "flashback blast" into the Matrix at the end included "The Brain of Morbius." I missed that. That's really cool. It's such a weird and oddly dark moment in "Morbius, " and it's fitting in that moment.

[genexican]

When watching classic Who as a kid, I always felt the Time Lords had this big secret they were keeping, and was always left disappointed that it would never get explored. Even though it gained a mixed reaction, I respect Chibnall for trying to give people like me that eventual payoff. As soon as I saw the faces from Brain of Morbius flash through The Doctor's mind, I knew he was going for a very specific kind of fanservice, and even if it wasn't for everyone, I enjoyed every second.

[ralphmozzi]

This is simply fantastic. Thank you for putting all together the old tie-ins!