Random thought: what if Theta Sigma isn't just an Academy nickname, but a designation given by the Time Lords to denote which iteration of the Doctor they're dealing with?
The Doctor doesn't know that, they think it's just a silly Academy thing. They don't know that each time the Time Lords have wiped their memory they've been given a marker: Alpha Alpha, Alpha Beta, Alpha Gamma... all the way until Theta Sigma.
Even though the Master said he destroyed Gallifrey out of rage because of his jealousy for the Doctor's past as the Timeless Child, I can't take my mind off the fact that he's obviously done it because he hated the Time Lords for having treated the Doctor with such cruelty.
lines that are awesome when divorced from context. as in, yes, this is technically true, but not because of the fucking timeless child. all he is is because of her — and all she is is because of him. to say i’m pissed off at this retcon would be an understatement. in one fell swoop it negates all of the history between them, the way their childhood shaped them and their rivalry, only to say “yeah the doctor is special and more important than the master because they’re the Chosen One” cheapens everything. makes it generic. defeats the point. how do you miss the point this horribly as a SHOWRUNNER
Richard Siken, "Birds Hover the Trampled Field" // Doctor Who
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just a small psa: I know that these aren't well balanced, for example an excess of Twelve and not nearly enough Nine or Eleven. I just picked the lines that stood out to me and chose the images that came to mind.
reading longest day from the edas and came to this bit of eight and could only think of thirteen and how the doctor really is the same dork across incarnations
I hope one day the Doctor Who fandom as a majority can move past this intense hatred for Thirteen the same way the Star Wars fandom is beginning to steer more in the direction of accepting Rey because it’s unbelievably tiring to hear the same excuses of “oh it’s just the bad writing I hated” or “I’m not misogynistic it’s just that I hate this female character for doing the same thing the male character did”
Resistance to change can be the death to longstanding media, Rey is a Skywalker and The Timeless Children is canon, get OVER it