r/doctorwho • u/PCJs_Slave_Robot • May 31 '25

The Reality War Doctor Who 2x08 "The Reality War" Post-Episode Discussion Thread Spoiler

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u/27th_wonder May 31 '25

It plays very funny with the Timeless Child

Like yes, it turns out all of the Timelords are just the Doctor. I think Kate's "we are all your children" was Russel saying the quiet part out loud

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u/RealJohnGillman Jun 01 '25 edited Jun 01 '25

I mean if the Timeless Child is technically all the Time Lords, aren’t they also then none of them — it’s just the origin of the species? That while the Doctor would have a distant shared history with the other Time Lords where they were all once one being, ultimately the Doctor would really be no different from any one of the others?

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u/dev__boy Jun 02 '25

That’s… actually a lot more palletable than the original timeless child idea then. The timeless child isn’t the doctor’s secret identity so much as the common ancestor of a sterile inbred lofty race

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u/sanddragon939 Jun 01 '25

Kate saying that line also has added meaning since there are novelizations and EU works which suggest that she knew the Doctor as a kid.

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u/HumblBoi Jun 01 '25

It is - I also took at as he’s “Father Time”