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[grimorie]

2020 is such a wild year. Sometimes I look at the calendar and think of everything that's happened and it's tiring.

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Since I've been away from Doctor Whow for quite a bit, the all-encompassing negativity and toxicity was just... too much I kind of want to write a little more about the reveal about the timeless child.

I am still honestly baffled at the fandom reaction that thinks Timeless Child reveal makes the Doctor a god, a chosen one, or an immortal.

The Doctor's already an immortal, and not just in the story but because of the function of the show works, the Doctor will never die.

As for being a god and a chosen one... that's the one that baffles me the most. It doesn't change anything about the Doctor, the Doctor is still a renegade, and the Doctor still chose to run away. But for me, as a new Classic Who viewer, I feel like it helps me give context to the Doctor more, and actually Hits Different now.

The post here. Some snippets:

The kids that Baby Dr regenerate into in that one montage look more and more wary and nervous as time goes on, there is literally nothing about their story that looks like Super Special Powerful Hero

from the perspective of coming from a not-great household where gaslighting was normal and from coming from a background of, like, my people were colonized and then spread out across other colonies as cheap or free labor–still are to this day in some respects–I honestly am starting to find it unnerving the number of people interpreting this as “chosen one” and “special” when it’s far more explicit that this was child abuse (with the strong subtext of racism, imperialism, etc in the way Tecteun views the child and literally exploits them to build an empire).

There's also, IMO, a subtle thread of Empire and Imperialism in series 12 and engaging more of it with Gallifrey. Actually, it's very interesting how much the series engaged Gallifrey (save for the fantastic s9 episodes) than it did when it was around.

(opinion: i feel the cartmel plan made the Doctor more of a god than the reveal did. -- the doctor is not a god, but a child who was strip-mined for what they have and then gaslighted six ways to sunday. also tecteun is the other, thank you for coming to my Ted Talk)

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[grimorie]

Also, I've been frustrated by how many people think this reveal invalidates the rest of the show. All that stuff still happened! The Doctor still made those choices, even if it turns out they had made them before and forgotten about them!

Right?? How does it, in anyway invalidate the rest of the show? It actually adds to the lore without disrupting that came before.

And I agree, so what if the Doctor is adopted by their Human mother, that doesn't make her any less than their mother. Actually, I'm going to make this part of my headcanon!