Doctor Who's Timeless Child Retcon Explains the Doctor's Love for Earth
This article contains spoilers for Doctor Who: Free Comic Book Day 2022.
Doctor Who's Timeless Child retcon reveals the real reason the Doctor loves Earth so much. Nobody can fault current Doctor Who showrunner Chris Chibnall for lack of ambition; his era has upended decades of continuity and lore, revealing the Doctor is not a Time Lord at all. Rather, she is in fact the Timeless Child, a being who potentially predates the universe itself and who became the base genetic code for the entire Time Lord race. The retcon removes the Doctor's regeneration cap, revealing there have potentially been unlimited previous incarnations of the Doctor. Jo Martin's so-called «Fugitive Doctor» is one of these forgotten Doctors.
Surprisingly, the Fugitive Doctor's story is not being told by the TV series itself. Instead, it's being told in a four-issue miniseries by Jody Houser, with art by Roberta Ingranata and Warina Sahadewa. Titan Comics released a Doctor Who: Free Comic Book Day special ahead of the Doctor Who Origins miniseries, with a short story by the same creative team. Surprisingly, it explains the real reason the Doctor fell in love with Earth.
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The story is a delightful one, in which Jo Martin's Doctor — still working for a black ops group called the Division at the time — visits the backwater planet called Earth in 1962 while hunting down an alien called Monstario the Devourer. She is assisted by a group of local children, who impress her with their courage and their willingness to accept her. Presumably these children left a lasting impression on the Doctor, causing her to hide on Earth when she went on the run from the Division.
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