'Doctor Who' Season 12: All the questions we want answered after the canon-changing finale
Spoiler alert for 'Doctor Who' Season 12 finale — 'The Timeless Children'
While the concept of the Timeless Child was finally explained in the Season 12 finale of 'Doctor Who', it ultimately raised many more questions. The Master's plan to destroy the Doctor by revealing to her what she actually is ended up giving viewers much more than they expected.
Of course, we have been pondering those questions and we hope Chris Chibnall continues to explore the concept of the Timeless Child during his remaining time as the showrunner, however long that may be.
We learned that the Doctor is not a Gallifreyan but a foundling discovered on a faraway land under a boundary portal by Tecteun, a Shabogan. The Doctor's DNA was spliced into Gallifreyan DNA, making them the Time Lords we know them to be.
The Master tried to do his own tinkering (throwback to Davros) and he created a Time Lord-Cyberman hybrid, a Cyberlord, rather. The Doctor then decides to use the death particle to end this new hybrid warrior race, but Ko Sharmus takes her place just in time.
However, the Doctor ends up being arrested by the Judoon in the final moments of the episode and is imprisoned for life. But we shall see her again in the Christmas/New Year's special called 'Revolution of the Daleks'.
First things first.
If the Doctor is not a Gallifreyan, then what is she? Where does she come from? Will Chibnall explore this or will it not be acknowledged? If Tecteun created Time Lords by splicing the Timeless Child's DNA, what does the Time Vortex do? Was it also created using the Timeless Child's DNA?
Which brings us to Rassilon. The accepted myth until now was that Rassilon was the founder of the Time Lord society along with the Omega and the Other. With that recognition now going to Tecteun, what is Rassilon's claim to fame?
Who redacted the memories in the Time Lord Matrix? What was redacted? If the history of the Timeless Child was not redacted, how much worse is the redacted portion?
If the Doctor had unlimited regenerations in her DNA (assuming so because the limit on the Time Lords was imposed by Tecteun), does that make Clara Oswald's role in 'The Time of the Doctor' irrelevant when she asks the Time Lords to grant the Doctor more regenerations?
We still haven't gotten an answer as to which version of the Master we have seen. Whether it's post-Missy or before her. An answer to that question might have made it easier to determine whether the Master is able to escape before the death particle explodes, but for now, we don't know. Moreover, is Gallifrey destroyed once and for all?
How did the Judoon materialize inside the TARDIS when it is supposed to be the safest place for the Doctor to be in?
Finally, what is Chibnall's endgame here? One of the reasons the Doctor was special was just that the character was not special among Gallifreyans, just a misbehaving one. With this god-like lore now canonized around the Doctor, does that take away from the 50+-year-old show, or does it add to it?
The 'Doctor Who' special, 'Revolution of the Daleks' will air either on Christmas 2020 or New Year's Day 2021.