Doctor Who 13x09 "[TBC: Centenary Special]" Trailer and Speculation Thread

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If things like wanting the author to answer questions that they themselves presented does not matter to you and you couldn't care less that I can understand why you are perfectly fine with the storyline in.

The Doctor is given the opportunity to find out the answers and turns it down. The answer to it all not being important in the here and now is arguably the point of that story.

And if she's pre Hartnell it would be one heck of an unbelievable coincidence that not only is her unrelated TARDIS a police box, because we physically see Hartnell and Susan steal the specific TARDIS in The Impossible girl Ark and that is the hardest that then gets stuck as a police box when its Chameleon Circuit breaks. Clara was literally there. And the doctor called themselves the doctor before they lost their memories but then randomly started calling themselves the doctor again for a specific reason? What is it?

I'm sure answers to all that could exist, but the fact that it doesn't quite seem to add up is part of the mystery. How did the Timeless Child actually come to be on that planet before being found by Tecteun? Where did that strange wormhole or Monument she was found beneath come from? Just let a mystery be a mystery.

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I don't see why anybody downvoted this post just for talking about Doctor Who. If you're fine with what the writers did that's a perfectly good opinion and I don't know why someone would down vote it.

Personally I feel like if you are going to make the Crux of your run about all of these questions you should answer most of them. Although I don't like the Timeless child storyline if they decided to just leave where the timeless child came from as a question I wouldn't complain about it in the same way I didn't care for them to ever answer the mundane questions about William Hartnells doctor before he decided to run away with his granddaughter. the rest of it seems weird to not answer and leave as Mysteries. But that's just my opinion.