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Doctor Who's Timeless Child Retcon Is Officially Pointless
Doctor Who's Timeless Child retcon is officially pointless. Chris Chibnall's tenure as Doctor Who showrunner was remarkably controversial. At the heart of the controversy was his unexpected decision to rewrite the franchise's lore by revealing the Doctor is not a Time Lord at all; rather, she is in fact the Timeless Child, a being who originated from beyond this universe and who became the base genetic code for the entire Time Lord race. Chibnall originally came up with the idea of the Timeless Child back in the '80s, when he was just a fan watching the classic series; it's loosely inspired by hints from the Sylvester McCoy era that the Doctor was "more than just a Time Lord," seeded into the narrative by script editor Andrew Cartmel.