When Russell T Davies goes to bat for something, everybody had better duck because that man does not mess about.
Ever since RTD returned to the show’s top job, he’s stood shoulder-to-shoulder with his predecessor Chris Chibnall and waved away calls from fans to either ignore or rewrite Chibnall’s biggest change to Doctor Who lore: the Timeless Child revelation. Now, Davies is saying that not only will the new series work with the Timeless Child concept, it’s the backbone of the new story.
Davies is summarised in Entertainment Weekly as saying that much of companion Ruby Sunday’s arc was inspired by the Timeless Child plot point. In series 14, both Ruby and the Doctor will be curious about their origins and their similar histories as foundlings will loom large. “That story’s going to be the spine of the whole show,” Davies told EW.
As a refresher, the Timeless Child plot involved the Doctor discovering that she wasn’t a native of Gallifrey, but an adoptee brought to the planet by an explorer and scientist named Tecteun, who discovered the Doctor’s regenerative powers. After a series of experiments, Tecteun extracted the regeneration ability, did some DNA splicing and created the Time Lords as we know them. The Doctor was forced to act as a Time Lord agent for several lifetimes, before their memories were repressed and they escaped, only for the Master to uncover the info and use it to torment them in series 12 finale “The Timeless Children”.
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