Doctor Who's Memory TARDIS: Season 14 Finale Explained.
What Doctor Who's Memory TARDIS IsWhat is the Memory TARDIS and how does it function? The Memory TARDIS was a key component in the Doctor Who season 14 finale. After Sutekh's dying gift destroyed the past, present, and future, the Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa), Melanie Bush (Bonnie Langford), and Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) fled on a Memory TARDIS, freed from UNIT's Time Window.The Doctor tells Ruby and Mel about the history between the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) and the ancient Osiran, as well as the villain Sutekh from season 14. The explanation comes from inside the Memory TARDIS.
How The Memory TARDIS Was Used in Tales of the TARDISAs evidenced by the fact that the Seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy), Ace (Sophie Aldred), Sixth Doctor (Colin Baker), and Peri (Nicola Bryant) all used the Memory TARDIS to take off on new adventures at the conclusion of their episodes, the 60th anniversary miniseries Tales of the TARDIS also appeared to be capable of flight.In a broader sense, though, the Fifth Doctor (Peter Davison) said that the Memory TARDIS was looking for stories to fill it. "The Time Meddler" to "The Curse of Fenric" were the classic adventures that each of the first seven Doctors encountered in these stories.
Why Doctor Who Season 14 Has A Memory TARDISIn the Doctor Who season 14 finale, Sutekh took possession of the TARDIS, thus the Doctor, Ruby, and Mel required a different mode of transportation to get out of the dust of death.The time window system that UNIT had set up at their new headquarters was essential to building the Memory TARDIS in "Empire of Death". Equipped to relive the night Ruby was abandoned as a newborn, the time portal was intrinsically connected to Ruby's recollections and the picture of a TARDIS from the Doctor's debut on Christmas Eve 2004.
After the Doctor Who Season 14 Finale, What Happens To The Memory TARDIS?Russell T. Davies discloses in the In-Vision Commentary edition of "Empire of Death" that the Memory TARDIS was intended to disintegrate upon arriving at 2046.However, this was never shown on screen in order to save money on the effects budget. Thus, according to Davies, the Memory TARDIS that Ruby constructed in the Doctor Who season 14 finale is the identical one that can be found in Tales of the TARDIS. After completing its mission, the Memory TARDIS enters the time vortex and wanders through it, bestowing "treats" and "rewards" upon former Doctor Who companions.