- What's the big secret behind
Doctor Who's mysterious new doctor?
Last season of Doctor Who left some fans
with mixed feelings.
While most were on board for the new plucky version
of the doctor portrayed by Jodie Whittaker,
the refusal to have the season
turned to Dr. Who's big toy box of characters and enemies
left many Whovians wanting more.
But all of that has seemingly changed
when series 12 kicked off this year
and needless to say, fans are buzzing.
It has brand new mysteries, old foes like the master,
and a ton of Gallifrey and Lore out the wazoo.
However, it's the most recent episode
that not only had fans' jaws dropping
but it's also making waves for non fans as well.
And some are hailing this episode as a game changer already,
and rightfully so because it might change
everything that you thought you knew about the doctor.
Now of course, if the revelation that, spoiler alert.
There is another doctor out there somehow.
Now obviously this episode of nervous news
as I mentioned is gonna have heavy spoilers
for this latest outing of Doctor Who
specifically series 12 episode 5's Fugitive of the Judoon.
So if you don't want to be spoiled,
jump into your TARDIS and time travel to a point
where you have seen it.
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So what happened here?
Well, in Fugitive of the Judoon
we saw the long awaited return of Captain Jack Harkness.
But even bigger than that was the revealed
that the titular fugitive Ruth,
a modern day to us tour guide,
is a lot more than she originally seemed.
She's actually an incarnation of the doctor
that we haven't seen before.
Now obviously this is a huge revelation to Whovians
and a historic one at that
because Jo Martin is the first black actress
to play this role in its decades long history.
Now this wouldn't be the first time
that we've been surprised by the previously
unseen incarnation of the doctor.
If you remember the 50th anniversary special
that brought us the war doctor played by John Hurt
who retroactively bridged the eighth and ninth doctors.
And the season 4 episode, The Next Doctor,
had the person who thought he was the next doctor
but ultimately wasn't.
Ruth however seems to be the real deal.
And for a show that involves
a whole lot of time travel conundrums,
this definitely creates a massive one
that needs to be solved this season.
But just how is this possible?
Could Ruth really be the doctor?
Or is she not who we think she is.
Let's break it down right now.
Now the first and most obvious option
is that Ruth is from the future
or at least the future from the point of view
of the 13th doctor.
Now this seems unlikely because Ruth doesn't have memories
of being the 13th doctor.
But anything is possible.
Another rank on this theory
is that Gallifrey exists for Ruth as well,
even though for the 13th doctor
Gallifrey has been destroyed by the Master.
Wow.
Between getting caught in a time war trap
and getting sent to another dimension now being destroyed,
some planets just can't catch a break.
Now the second and third possibilities
are that Ruth is from the doctor's past
and she's come back to the future.
Wait no, that's different.
What are you talking about, who wrote this?
All right, one way this could work
is a long held fan theory called season 6B.
And that states since we never saw the second doctor
explicitly regenerate into the third doctor
there could could be other unseen versions of the doctor
floating around out there.
Now this is similar to the aforementioned war doctor
and his regeneration being shrouded in mystery.
Now this is possible but it throws off
the whole numbering of regenerations.
Now typically a time lord is limited to 12 regenerations
however with the Matt Smith's 11th doctor
at the end of the line due to some
numbering shenanigans with previous doctors,
the time lords gifted him another dozen
and that allowed him to turn into
Capaldi's version of the doctor.
Now if Ruth is a version of the doctor
between two and three,
this means the doctor's regeneration
should have run out earlier
somewhere around the David Tenant or Matt Smith era.
But that's a pretty big plot hole
that would need to be addressed.
Now another option creates a different set of plot holes
but fits into one of the mysteries of this season,
the timeless child.
Now there's possibility that the doctor somehow
has infinite regenerations and this could be
a version of the doctor from before the first doctor
as we knew him with his memories conveniently destroyed
so he wouldn't know he was eternal.
Now of course like any good fan theory worth itself,
this one is whole other raft of issues
that need to be addressed.
Now we've seen the doctor as a child
and to describe it in human terms,
he was a little white boy.
Plus Ruth recognized the TARDIS in phone box mode
and it was the first doctor who stole the TARDIS
and got it stuck like that,
so she must be from after that.
Now the final and fan favorite option
is that this is the doctor but from a different universe
or dimension or something like that.
And this would truly change the game for the doctor,
because while Gallifrey and the time lords
were hidden in another dimension for awhile,
bringing multiple universes into the equation
and meeting a true other version of the doctor
would massively shake things up.
But we expect to find out exactly what's going on
as season 12 continues.
But what do you folks thing?
Do you like that there's a secret doctor?
How do you think this all fits into the timeline?
And are you glad that Captain Jack Harkness
is finally back?
Let's discuss.
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