On the eighty-third edition of Reality Bomb, we’ve given over everything to a special episode exploring fan reaction to, and the impact of, the coming of the timeless child to Doctor Who through eight different variations
1) Doctor Who In 90 Seconds or Less – Kim Rogers runs us through all the changes to the Doctor over a 57 year period in one minute, thirty seconds.
2) This Ain’t Our First Rodeo – Jim Sangster explains the evolution of continuity in Doctor Who, and why it matters to fans so much.
3) Diagnosis: Fandom – There’s a medical mystery, and Series 12 is at the bottom of it. With Shannon Dohar, Andy Hicks and Drew Meyer
4) Sacrificing Drama – Ari Lipsey has an issue with The Timeless Children. It’s not what you think.
5) The Island of Misfit Continuity – Where do all the developments that happen to the Doctor on TV that no one talks about end up? Scot Clarke is on the case.
6) When Bad Retcons Happen to Good People – Petra Mayer talks about the worst day of being a fan… November 23, 2013.
7) Adoption Story – Joy Piedmont explores the timeless child and its connection to adoption.
8) Timeless Cracks – A poem by Sanjay Lago
Really poor taste to get someone on to mansplain at length about what he considers feminist for “the next generation of girls”. I was wincing all over the place at his awful sexist condescension, & how he thought he was bulletproof enough to blithely admit to being sexist. Need a palate cleanser after that.
Fortunately there are seven other variants in this episode that will hopefully provide you with that palate cleansing. We hope you enjoy them more. – G
Can we really say the Doctor committed genocide on Gallifrey when the Time Lords had already been killed to turn them into the Cyber-Lords? (The name I also like better than “Cyber-Masters”)
The Master was the one who committed genocide, the Doctor was essentially disposing of their remains.