So this theory takes into account the title of the last episode of the current series and only focuses on the concept of the Timeless Children. I'm considering the Ruth Doctor a separate plot line since Chibnall apparently has a multi-series arc in mind, so Ruth Doctor could be part of that arc, or this arc, or it could all be wrong.

Anyway, according to the Doctor in The Sound of Drums, children of Gallifrey are taken at the age of 8 to enter the Academy. There, children are exposed to the time vortex via a gap in the fabric of reality. Some go mad, some are inspired and some run away.

Now, we know the Time Lords get up to some secret fuckery, so what's to say that those who "run away" have a rare ability to regenerate endlessly and the Time Lords gather these children who "run away" and harvest this natural ability, by keeping them in a suspended regeneration state? (We already know regeneration energy can be siphoned off into a handy bio-matching receptacle.)

What if Time Lords became what we know them as today due to the discovery of one child on particular with the ability to regenerate endlessly? And scientists of Gallifrey extracted and harvested this ability from this one child and created the Time Lords society around them?

This would explain how the Time Lords can seemingly bestow extra regenerations upon people and why only the High Council can do this.

You could extend this into why the Master destroyed Gallifrey over this secret, by the revelation that some of his friends from when both the Master and the Doctor were kids, are being held in suspended regeneration? We know from Missy that she misses being friends with the Doctor, that she "needs her friend back", and O referred to the Doctor as her "best enemy" during Spyfall (possibly a play on the slang "frenemies").

There, just something that's been rattling around in my head all day. But it doesn't make the Doctor any more special, and the Time Lords are already slight scumbags anyway (Rassilon tried to break reality and become beings of pure conciousness, a move that some would consider to be not very cash money).

So... that happened.

Let’s get this out of the way: Overall I didn’t think it was a truly bad episode.

I also didn’t think it was a good one. It has his moments. Sacha Dhawan was great, Tardis Team (I refuse to use “fam”, because it makes me physically ill) was -- well, there. Like they’d been just there for most of the series. Jodie... was decent. She was just as she’s always been. Bit shouty, bit bewildered, but never impactful. Every thing this episode threw at her had no use whatsoever.

Regenerating Cybermen? All dead & gone at the end of the episode. Doctor’s the first Time Lord? Didn’t matter at all. Maybe that is for the best, because it was a stupid, unnecessary choice. Who cares if the Doctor was the one who inadvertedly gave regeneration to the Time Lords? It doesn’t matter. Hell, Chibnall, after introducing this new thing, even openly states by use of his characters that NONE OF THAT MATTERS, because it doesn’t change who / what the Doctor is.

Now I have liked last season better than s11, but the Timeless Child bullcrap ended up being as important as anything that happened: not at all. So there are some secret regenerations now. Didn’t matter. Oh yeah, Ruth!Doctor showed up to say something wise, because Chibnall only seems to be able to make Whittaker react to stuff.

I love Whittaker as an actress, but she’s by far the worst Doctor ever. And it’s not that she’s a woman, far from it, it’s the writing. Chibnall’s run has one huge flaw in between all the tiny ones and it’s always been the writing. Thirteen has had nothing Doctor-y to do at all, and when she did do something smart & out of the box this season, it always has been because of others ‘helped her along’. Big example: Ruth!Doctor’s speech in the finale.

I have really wanted to give DW another chance after season 11. And for a while, it seemed to work. It was better, Team Tardis seemed to have a bit more to do -but it all went to shit so quick. Nothing seemed to matter. Graham’s fear of his cancer returning, which could have given some real gravity to the series were woven away by some weird jokey excuse. Ryan’s bomb throw would’ve been much more impactful if his dyspraxia had been a bigger issue after s11′s first episode.

That’s my biggest gripe about Chibnall’s run: nothing matters. It sometimes seemed there were hints of Russell T. Davies, but, again, didn’t matter.

So yeah, my thoughts on s12?

It. Doesn’t. Matter.

The character is called fakout and is played by an actor called Barack Stemis. A quick Google reveals that there is no actor called Barack Stemis. However, people have quickly noticed that the name is an anogram of "Master is back". The reason the character is called fakout is because its a fake out. It's really the BBC hiding the fact that sacha dhwan is returning as the master.

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I loved discussing these back when they weren't Patreon-locked. Anyone care to lend a helping hand?

Obviously, the "EPLDPCD" from the title decodes to >!"TEASERS"!<, but I don't know if that in itself is a clue for further letter replacements. The last clue seems to be the easiest one to solve, though.

Also, I guess that the first word of the first clue decodes to >!"Immortals"!<, although I could be wrong.

I love Doctor Who. I'm not a life long fan like some people but I love it all the same. Have since just before the 50th Anniversary. I'm open to change, and I'm open to new exciting things happening in the show, but this is not one of them, as this doesn't feel to me like it's coming from a place of having a cool idea and wanting to expand the Doctor Who Mythos. It seems to me to be from a place of Chibnall being more focused on "Making his mark" on the show. Let me explain what I mean.

Chibnall's Run: A Bunch OF Firsts.

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I remember when Chibnall was first announced to be the new showrunner. I was super excited, cause I like many people loved Broadchurch, and his episodes of Doctor Who he wrote wern't too bad to me. Jodies casting was also something where I was a little mixed on at first, but I grew to accept it. The First female doctor, cool. It was an exciting time, but there is one of my problems.

Jodie is a great actress, nobody is denying that, she's great in broadchurch and black mirror, and even in this show she emotes really well, but in terms of the writing, she's well...the first female Doctor, and kind of scatter brained, but that's all we really know about her. It appears in this sense that Chibnall was more focused on being the first to get the whole female doctor thing, but never really got much past that. It's one of Chibnalls weaknesses that he tells us a lot of things as opposed to showing it, not to mention not making 13 a consistent character at all (Need I mention the "conspiracy theory fiasco?)

I would just stop it there, but there are a lot of "hey let's do this first" aspects of these season that I feel really have been hurting the show, such as the first "diverse" companion team (at least in new who) the first time the show has had a writers room, Hell I think this may even be the first companions to have cancer or be a police officer, and so far nothing has been done with any of it. There's been brief mentions but nothing substantial for the stories. So it screams like Chibnall wanted to just be the first to add these elements to make his era "stand out" as opposed to feeling these would work for the stories.

Change For The Sake:

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Doctor Who is of course a story about change, so I don't mind it when change is brought into the story, but

Obi-Wan Kenobi doesn't show up to detonate the bomb, and The Doctor triggers it, killing both her and The Master, subsequently causing regenerations, with the energy destroying the Time Lord Cybermen for good. The next episode is about them trying to get to grips with their new bodies and getting out of the ruins on Gallifrey.

XXXXXXXXXX = homeplanet

I can't wait for us to maybe find this new dimension & possible home planet for the Doctor again.

THEN for Chibnall to also blow that bitch up too!

The butthurt is amazing this morning. Loved everything about it. Always been a Brains of Morbius & a further hidden past fan.

As a huge fan of Doctor Who for about 10 years, and someone open to the new ideas, characters, and even Doctors the BBC throws at us, I'm personally a big fan of Jodie Whittaker's performance and episodes. While I do feel her first season was a bit fast-paced, Season 12 ran a bit more naturally past me. Something this allowed me to connect in the finale tied into a small idea I had from Peter Capaldi's second season, which with the knowledge we have now, would have been right in front of us. Peter Capaldi has been my favorite Doctor throughout and after his time on the show. I understand that's not a very popular opinion, but I stand by it. His episodes are something that ispired me to practice my acting. Now there were two conversations in season 9 that intrigued me. The premier, The Magician's Apprentice, features Clara and Missy speaking about the latter's relationship, and when Clara asks since when she's cared, Missy responds, "Since always. Since the Cloister Wars. Since the night he stole the moon and the President's wife. Since he was a little girl. One of those was a lie. Can you guess which one?". At the time, we were obviously supposed to believe the Doctor being a little girl was the lie, having known nothing else. The season's finale, Hell Bent, completes the puzzle when the Doctor and Clara are speaking about a man who is immediately revealed to be the Doctor when he corrects Clara saying, "Ah, well, that was a lie put about by the Shabogans. It was the President's daughter. I didn't steal the moon, I lost it.". This confirms Missy's comment that Doctor was a little girl, and while that could have been a lie as well, we find in the Season 12 finale, The Timeless Children, to be true. The Doctor was in fact a little girl in the beginning of her life on Gallifrey. This is knowledge the Master has had since they were young, most likely a little after the two had become friends which I will assume would have been the first Doctor as a boy, as partially seen in Season 8 Episide 4's Listen. So O's big season finale twist didn't come without a warning. I don't know how many others have connected these points. I certainly know a lot of people have told me they hate Peter Capaldi and refuse to watch his episodes, but being able to accept these changes as they come helps me catch these little connections back to fill in the blanks, and I can't want to see Jodie's third, and likely final season with whatever, whoever, and whenever they create for us.

Okay so let's start with the positives: Whittaker and Dhawan's acting this episode was incredible and, as badly names as they were, the CyberMasters were an interesting spin on the traditional Cyberman, I mean Cybermen that are much more difficult to kill, they could genuinely have made that the sole plot of this episode and it would've worked, also despite the points I am about to make I like that Chibnall responded to the Morbius Doctors question, although you have to wonder why 4 never questioned who these other faces were.

And then there's the bad, why oh why has Chibnall done this? Did he ever think that this move would satisfy fans? The idea of the Timeless Child and the Time Lords having lied about their origins over the years is actually a nice canon friendly addition to the, well canon, however, it never needed to be the Doctor. Now that this cat is out the bag there are a hundred questions that have to be asked not the least among them being if the Doctor is as old as Time Lord civilisation itself then surely that means there must be hundreds if not thousands of iterations of him/her running around throughout time and space so it seems almost impossible that Ruth is the only one to ever have been encountered.

Also from this episode, we learn that the Doctor isn't necessarily Gallifreyan, or Shobogan as they've now been named, so the question exists why is he/she genetically and physically indistinguishable to a Time Lord? We learn the origin of Time Lord regeneration in that Tecteun found the genetic sequence within the child that allowed for regeneration and implanted that sequence into herself and every other Time Lord, but what about other genetic and physiological traits beyond regeneration? For example, did, whatever the Doctor is, happen to have two hearts and somehow regeneration caused the Shobogan to develop them? Or did they always two hearts and somehow the Doctor was altered to have them?

There are more questions left to ask and to be honest I can see this being something that is pretty much ignored except for the odd one or two episodes, or retconned Star Wars style when a new showrunner comes in. So I will leave you with both a theory to satisfy some and an alternate story that I was personally rooting for.

The theory is that the Doctor is still a Time Lord and always has been. My thinking is basically a bootstrap paradox, some point after the rise of Time Lord civilisation a child is born that Tetseun recognises to be the Timel

I think the reason Brendan had "aged" so fast and the policeman and father hadn't is that they are extracting Brendan's immortality through that machine and using it for themselves to extend their lives. This causes Brendan to "age." This may be related to the theories that humans are proto-time-lords. We'll see!

I've seen no end of people in the wake of the Timeless Children cite the Brain of Morbius in defence of it's massive retcon or at least cite it as a 'loose end' the episode tied up.

Look, however you might go about defending that episode, whatever 'pre-Hartnell Doctor'' story you wanna cite in talking about it the Brain of Morbius is one example that doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

This is the best version of the scene I could find.

As you can see the Fourth Doctor and Morbius engage in essentially a mental duel and between them flashes various faces, including those of the first 4 Doctors.

However there are lots of other faces too, really members of the production staff at the time.

People took this as at least an implication that these were OTHER faces of the Doctor and logically they must then be pre-Hartnell incarnations. That idea got repeated ad infinitum within the fandom and thus became mythologised as this time the show hinted that Hartnell wasn't actually the First Doctor.

Except...that's bullshit.

The show never implied that. Fans just MISinterpreted what the show was actually implying...even though it was incredibly obvious when apply any kind of common sense.

Those faces weren't the Doctor's they were Morbius'. You've probably heard that idea bandied about in your time as a fan, probably as a hypothetical explanation, a headcanon or No. Prize for the later 'inconsistencies' the show created whenever they confirmed Hartnell as the first Doctor. Except it eas never a 'fix'. It was just the actual original intention.

If you use the most obvious context clues from the scene it makes far more sense for these to be Morbius' faces because he is a fellow Time Lord so obviously he must be able to regenerate like the Doctor.

But if you go for the more subtle clues the idea the scene is conveying through the dialogue, facial acting and body language is that the doctor's face appears when the Doctor is WINNING the mental duel and the other faces appear when MORBIUS is winning the duel. It's a duel, the idea is to dominant your opponent and psychic nature of it means you essentially imposing your mind (i.e. your sense of self) upon your opponent. Therefore a visual shorthand for that is the face of whoever is winning. Hence why the other faces start popping up whenever Morbius starts claiming the Doctor's puny mind is powerless against his own.

Why visualise the action of something in the mind via p

So, like many of us here, I saw the movie in my childhood--probably as it was airing on TV around the holidays. I LOVED it, but when I grew up it never made its way into our DVD collection and fell by the wayside.

I'm old now, and have 2 kids who are finally old enough to appreciate these kinds of things. We put it on last night and I was blown away by its charm and sincerity that did not diminish through my cynical old age.

What was most remarkable to me was just how well the film has held up over 27 years. Like, I wouldn't know if it had been made in 1990 or in 2004 (except the age of Michael Caine! haha). The costumes didn't look dated--so many period dramas have artifacts of the eras in which they are made--the songs and scoring are just as moving, fun, beautiful, and delightful and don't hint at any 'topical' or pop culture elements that many such movies incorporate. It's basically timeless and I was so impressed.

Also can we honestly talk about the music? I straight up cried like 3 times. The scoring is also gorgeous, dramatic, and really pretty.

And can we talk about how they use the source material? Like GUSH.

I am so pleased that they relied on practical effects and "camera trickery" (any term for this?) rather than VFX because it is the final touch in making this movie so timeless and hold up just as well today as it did nearly 30 years ago.

Michael Caine is such a gem and the way they played this story is straight magic. A live actor playing Scrooge dead-straight, juxtaposed with the absurdity and absolute earnestness and sincerity of the muppets just creates a really fun dynamic that engages children in the source material without dumbing it down or dishonoring it. It's done with such heart and love for Dicken's story and that really struck me.

Finally, as an adult I was impressed with their timing and editing--they allow the spookier, heavier scenes enough room to breathe, but intercut with some levity with good judgment and good timing. It's never over-the-top, it's still funny to me as an adult, and it is sensitive to the rhythm of the story and the psyche of young children. Watching it through my childrens' eyes, I just really appreciated the care they gave both to the story and to the young audiences they knew would be watching. It can be heavy and spooky and scary, but without going over-the-top and overwhelming the young ones.

Thanks for listening to me gush. It's firmly in our family rotation now.

Spoilers for the Series 12 finale ahead. GALLIFREY BASE LEAK: >!Basically, a Gallifreyan named Tectian found the Ruth Doctor as a child on another planet, brought her to Gallifrey, and used her genetic abilities of regeneration to allow other Gallifreyans to regenerate and become Timelords. This leak states that Ruth is a pre-Hartnell incarnation, and isn’t actually Gallifreyan!<

I was seeing a lot of hate for Ranskoor Av Klingon resurface on Twitter due to the Series 12 finale fast approaching, and since I barely remembered what happened I decided to rewatch the episode just to be filled in. It was about as bad as I remembered, BUT rewatching the episode with the leaks from Gallifrey Base fresh in mind gave me a crazy theory.

The Ux, the duo-species featured in the series 11 finale, are where the Timelords got every single bit of their technology and fancy regenerative biology.

It’s crazy, I know, but it might make sense when you think about it. The Doctor states in the episode that the Ux are found on only three planets in the Universe, and since she didn’t know that Ranskoor Audio Visual was one of those planets, it stands to reason that she doesn’t know much about their species. However, of everything that she does know of the Ux, connections can be made to the Timelords.

The Ux have a lifespan of a millennia. They possess telepathic dimensional engineering powers, and their eyes glow yellow when they activate those powers. They appear young despite being thousands of years old (Delph not aging over the course of 4000 years). Only two of them exist at a time.

The lifespan is an easy connection, they live for thousands of years. A popular theory is that they use their reality manipulation powers to revert themselves to a younger age when they are dying, so that they can never die. Maybe, since there’s only ever two at a time, when they die they restore their bodies to a new state in order to live again?

When using their power, their eyes glow with a yellow color, which could possibly be them expelling energy. Regeneration, a restorative ability of the Timelords, expels yellow energy in order to change their bodies. Since the episode reveals little about the extent of their abilities, these connections can only be considered inferences.

Heck, the Timelords are credited with creating the only dimensional engineering tech in the universe, but the Ux possess the ability to do the same naturally. Everything that is special to the Timelords s

So after watching the newest season of Who so far, and wondering who or what the Timeless Child could be, it suddenly dawned on me...Clara. Clara Oswald aka The Impossible Girl. She was alive, technically neither dead or alive. Never aging, taken out of time by the Doctor. She was headed to Gallifrey looking for a cure. Perhaps she traveled back too far in Gallifrey’s past. She decided to stay and marry, have children. And therefore becoming the first “immortal” on Gallifrey, the Timeless Child. All timelords are from her, direct descendants of Clara. Only she’s not Gallifreyan or a true immortal, hence the lie everyone grew up believing.

I know it might be a stretch, but anything’s possible.

WHY TIMELESS CHILD MAKES NO SENSE

I would like to start by say I love doctor new and classic and have watch them all pretty much including most the classic. But I truly can not see any way this can be cannon and this is why.

Timelord and Gallifrey are one the oldest race in the universe. Gallifrey is very close the center of the universe.

So how old is the doctor? We know the timelord are an ancient race. If the doctor was around before that it would make him millions/ or billions before hartnell (This is cannon you hear many other races talking of the timelord and old they are)

If so how many regenerations has happened already. The doctor sure would have met them self previous before cannon 13.

Why does no one question why the doctor see more of himself in the brain of morbius. Not even the doctor doesn't questions why he see more incarnation of himself.

What of Karn and all their history the "the eternal flame and elixir of life". Their elevate science of regenerations. Hell what is there connection at all to Gallifrey now

Did they pretend to give him new regeneration or did he have 12 now and if so why does he have 12. The doctor had so many regenerations and never died to something that would kill him outright. eg statazier on highest setting or burn in fire or disintegration. (all thing that can't regenerate from)

Clara goes though the doctor timeline and doesn't find the others out. Why does Clara not help Ruth doctor or the children doctor in this story if she there to save him? The great intelligence doesn't see the other doctors as well as far as we know. So how on earth does the toilet roll monster in new series see though everything. Many times things have been in the doctor brain. Why did they not see this either? Things much more power then toilet roll monsters in new series like in Pyramids of Mars.

It only took 1 lifetime to workout how to regenerate. So why have others not worked this out like dareks or hell even the Krillitane that could easy find what part makes timelords regenerate?

Hell does that mean anything can regenerate now all they need is the doctor and time to work it out.

What about the valyard are we going to answers for this to?

Why would you even let the doctor off to wonder if you knew he had power like this? The doctor is easily now the deadliest weapon in the wrong hands.

The master was never insane but wanted to one up the doctor but never at any cost. He works with the doctor multiple times to save himself

No matter what you do I'm gonna get it without ya

Hello and welcome to r/kpop's Jukebox! The past two weeks we had artists like SHINee, H.O.T, Seotaiji and the Boys, SF9, IU, Zico, and more! The highest ranked song from the past two weeks has been AKMU's How can I love the heartbreak, you're the one I love with an overall score of 9.24, making it the 6th highest ranking Jukebox song of all time! Congrats to AKMU!

I know you ain't used to a female Alpha

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The idea for this week's songs picks were songs/artists that are "influential/big" in k-pop. Dua Lipa posits the following statement in her song, Future Nostalgia:

###"You want a timeless song, I wanna change the game"

The following artists are known for either a) having timeless k-pop songs, and/or b) changing the k-pop "game" or shifts/changes in the industry. From calling themselves neocultural technology, to declaring themselves "one in a million" in their Twitter bio, to being lauded for breaking records and into the West, to literally dubbing themselves the Revolution, these artists constantly challenge to live up to Dua Lipa's central thesis for Future Nostalgia. So, let's ask ourselves: are these timeless songs, and have they changed the game?

Here's the songs for this week (indeed, with many female Alphas):

1. BLACKPINK - Whistle (휘파람)
2. Stray Kids - Miroh
3. TWICE - Love Foolish
4. NCT 127 - Superhuman
5. Taeyeon - Gravity
6. Red Velvet - In & Out
7. BTS - Black Swan (Art Film)

BONUS:

1. Dua Lipa x BLACKPINK - Kiss and Make Up
2. Dua Lipa - Don't Start Now
3. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia

Quick recap of the rules/how this works:

• Each week on Jukebox you get the chance to review seven songs!
• Every review must come with a score between 1 - 10. 1 being this song is foolish to love, 10 being this song is a superhuman effort!
• Every review should provide some sort of insight into your thoughts and your score. Be creative (but substantive) and have fun with your review(s)! Leave your thoughts, opinions, and comments on the song(s) as a reply to the comment with the song in it below.
• Please remember to b

ANOTHER massive moveset "rebalancing"? Psy yai yai....

Well, that happened.

For the third time in the last five Silph Arena Cups, Niantic dropped a mid-month bombshell, adding new moves to the game, adding existing moves to new (and old!) Pokémon, tweaking the stats on several long-time moves, and just generally making a mess of the current meta... Timeless, in this case. While the teased Fusion Cup will be able to shrug off these changes, at least in part because everything will be more settled by the time we ramp up for it, this really turns Timeless on its head a bit, just as similar so-called rebalancing attempts rocked Sinister and especially Jungle Cups. (Never forget the Wiggocalypse!) Almost getting used to these sorts of mid-month grenades by now... here's my normal process afterwards:

1.) Cry a while. Preferably in the fetal position. Oh, the already-released article carnage!

2.) Pick myself up and bug PvPoke about when the sims will be updated. Tow the line between "persistent" and "annoying".

3.) Write. A lot. Sometimes still in the fetal position.

So here we go again. This is not a drill!

I am going to attempt to make it a little easier for you, though. This article is going to highlight the biggest changes and how they rock Timeless Cup specifically. First, a table with all the moves that were added or changed, and then we'll discuss what that really MEANS afterwards.

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I thought it was an amazing season as a whole. A huge improvement over series 11 and a rerailment of what made this show awesome in the first place. What do you think?

I ask because everywhere you go on YouTube, series 12 is bashed so ridiculously hard.