Shocking Change to the Doctor's Family Resolves Many Questions in Doctor Who Season 14
Doctor Who's Disney era has already cleaned some of the harsher elements of the show's history, and "The Legend of Ruby Sunday" follows that trend in a way that generates many fascinating future possibilities. Although none from the Doctor's ancestry are specifically included to the Doctor Who Season 14 cast in the penultimate episode, their presence cannot be overlooked.
Though William Hartnell's First Doctor was his biological granddaughter, fans have been able to bank on the hint that the Doctor had children at some time for the past sixty years. The main events of Doctor Who have never revolved on the Doctor's children, and the protagonist of the show has never even addressed them. After decades since Susan's first appearance in the Doctor Who pilot episode, Russell T Davies has now clarified why her mother or father has been so underused in public view.
The Doctor Met Susan Prior to Starting Families
The Doctor has a past with Susan regardless of his lack of direct paternity. Although he may quickly dismiss the scenario as a perplexing need of being a time traveler, it must have some logical component to ensure Davies's canonical change doesn't collapse. Luckily, there is a logical explanation and Doctor Who already features a quite comparable scenario.
If River Song's chronology with the Doctor is used as a loose model, David Tennant's Tenth Doctor met River before he had married her, but River had a clear memory of their union - even if it was to Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor instead. The Doctor's interactions with his loved ones thus hardly follow a straight path through time and space. Having said that, the Doctor's relations to Susan are far more straight-forward than those to his late wife.
Season 14's Episode 7 Verifies the Doctor's Children Aren't Born Yet
The Doctor tells Ruby in Doctor Who Season 14, episode 2, "The Devil's Chord," he thinks his granddaughter Susan is dead. Ruby reminds out during this conversation that the Doctor must also have children if he is to have a grandchild as two and two together mean. "I did possess. I would have. Time Lords become a bit convoluted," the doctor responds. He says something similar when speaking with Kate Lethbridge-Stewart about "The Legend of Ruby Sunday." Simply attributing it to the "Life of a Time Lord," he clarifies the phenomena of being a grandfather before being a father.
Confirmed by both of these moments, the Doctor is still not yet a father from his temporal perspective even if he interacts extensively with Susan in the initial stages of Doctor Who's classic era. Though it seems like a high-concept turn-around to understand, it makes lot more sense if the Doctor's children are conspicuously absent from all references.
Susan's mother and the doctor's children can still show up in Doctor Who.
Susan is already a part of the Doctor Who world, hence in some corner of space and time her parents will be too—one of them a child of the Doctor. This implies that whoever Susan's mother reveals to be, the Doctor either hasn't met her yet or just hasn't procreated with her. Therefore, even if the reveal cause an enormous wait, this will be a highly important character to debut in Doctor Who season 15 or later.
His offspring and grandchildren would share at least half of his DNA, hence the Doctor's descendants would no longer be alone in the universe belonging to an unidentified race.
Season 14 of Doctor Whiter Adjusting the Doctor's Timeline Makes Perfect Sense.
In the six decades of Doctor Who, it has always been odd that the doctor has hardly discussed being a father. One of the most well-known references, the reveal in "The Legend of Ruby Sunday" with Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor's "Dad-to- Dad" gambit might be considered to be foreshadowed by the doctor's paternity in Doctor Who season 14, episode 3, "Boom." Though a feature of the character that has been neatly overlooked—despite the appearance of a biological descendent in the first episode—there have been the occasional stray remarks.
Russell T Davies has explained the absence of the Doctor's children mentioned in the penultimate episode of Doctor Who season 14 using this little incident. From the Doctor's perspective, his change means that he has never seen his children since they are not born yet. On the other hand, his ability to travel across time let him see his bloodline's future and establish a relationship with his granddaughter. Whether Susan still interacts with her parents during her Doctor Who stay or if they have passed away is still unknown.
Though Doctor Who Media has given several updates on her situation since then, the First Doctor Left His Granddaughter, Susan Foreman, on Earth.
Whereas River's history with the Doctor meant they first met as strangers with presumably no two-sided affiliation, Susan has always been the Doctor's biological granddaughter. The Doctor's time with his granddaughter is therefore far less difficult since all it implies is that he missed seeing his offspring (for now) and jumped straight to see Susan. Between River and the Doctor, there does not seem to be the perplexing back-and-forth across Timelines.
It's difficult to explain it otherwise, but "Rogue" presents a fleeting view of an other Doctor and although it's not proved to be connected to bi-generation.
Doctor Who: A Classic Examined
Originally originally televised in 1963, Doctor Who is a sci-fi series about the Doctor—a powerful entity known as a Time Lord. Traveling time and space with different companions, the Doctor solves several problems and helps prevent catastrophe as much as he almost causes using an interdimensional time-traveling ship called the TARDIS. Though the Doctor is always the same character, they regenerate to be recast every few seasons as a different immortal being with fresh personality traits.
Given Davies's comeback and change of the Doctor's Family, the show might explore the Doctor's lineage. The Doctor's offspring could be among the fresh characters showing up in next seasons given the extensive history of the program and the several different themes the franchise can exploit. For the performance, this presents a somewhat interesting opportunity.
Episode: Disney+ Release Date
"The Devil's Chord" and "Space Babies" | May 10
Boom | May 17
" 73 Yards" | May 24
"Dot & Bubble" | May 31.
June 7: "Rogue"
June 14 | The Legend of Ruby Sunday
June 21 | "Empire of Death"
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