Spoilers, as we get a clearer thought of Russell T Davies’ strategy to 2 story threads from the Chris Chibnall period of Doctor Who.
There’d been a good bit of hypothesis over the previous few months that the brand new period of Doctor Who was going to have valuable little to do with the one which instantly preceded it. Outside of David Tennant’s 14th Doctor acknowledging the 13th, the opening episode of the brand new Who – The Star Beast – rapidly received on with doing its personal factor.
It’s little secret that Chibnall’s period of Doctor Who was fairly divisive. As a lot as Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor rightly earned a legion of followers, the tales she was a part of didn’t at all times really feel absolutely fuelled.
But there have been some sturdy moments in there, and Chibnall was additionally keener to discover Time Lord lore than some earlier than him.
In explicit, he frolicked on The Timeless Child, an arc that threatened to successfully rewrite the foundations of Doctor Who. There’s loads of element to the concept of The Timeless Child and the secrets and techniques of Time Lord regeneration, and I’m going to cede that to the TARDIS wiki web page right here.
Short model: it considerably adjustments the origins of the Doctor, and throws into query the Time Lords themselves. Here’s the important thing clip.
Arguably Chris Chibnall’s most profitable collection of Doctor Who was the Flux storyline, which I loved personally for big components. It additionally resulted in half the universe being worn out, and once more, there was hypothesis that Russell T Davies would just about ignore that in his new period of Doctor Who.
However, he’d promised in press main as much as the debut of the brand new Doctor Who collection that he wouldn’t be turning a blind eye to what’d occurred over the previous couple of years. Specifically, he instructed SFX journal that he had no intention of unwriting any of the work accomplished by “my good good friend” Chris Chibnall.
With the second of his returning episodes, Wild Blue Yonder, he’s principally confirmed – as promised – that what Chibnall added to the world of Doctor Who is now canon.
Firstly, that the Doctor immediately addresses the truth that the Flux destroyed half the universe, and says that “we stand right here now on the sting of creation, a creation which I devasted”.
Of the Flux, Tennant’s (newest) Doctor says “it destroyed half the universe due to me”.
Then there’s the second when Donna questions the Doctor, saying “you don’t know the place you’re from”, taking part in into the aforementioned thriller of The Timeless Child.
Our spoiler-filled evaluation of Wild Blue Yonder is right here.
All of which doesn’t imply that Russell T Davies goes to spend plenty of screentime inspecting these threads, to be clear. He could, he could not. But by immediately acknowledging them very early in his newest run, he’s rapidly established that his continuation of Doctor Who is constructing on the period earlier than, and never avoiding it.
That’s not going to be to the liking of each fan, however on this planet of Doctor Who, when is it ever thus?
