A Quick Guide to Rassilon

Rassilon has popped up a few times in new who but few know the full extent of how pivital this guy is to the doctor who universe and just how much of a bastard he is.
Here's a quick guide
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[@redjirachi1]

Rassilon is like every joke you could make about the British Empire played straight

[@CyberController-]

Rassilon is the kind of guy to do nothing on the group protect, then put his name first in the credits.

[@magnusgreel275]

WOAH settle down, he's not as bad as that

[@CyberController-]

@@magnusgreel275 That's literally what he did though. He even tried to rename Omega's Star to Rassilon's Star, even though he had sod all to do with it.

[@andylikesstuffchannel]

😂😂😂

[@readsomebooks666]

Isn’t that a New Who thing? I was under the impression that in classic Who, he was basically the Time Lord God.

[@CyberController-]

@@readsomebooks666 It really started in the Wilderness Years, but Rassilon's always meant to be a sh*t.

[@---maez---]

I'd like to see NuWho acknowledge the human-like-alien-explanation given in Zagreus. It's my favorite bit of Doctor Who lore!

[@ladyfoxwf1075]

Just because that Timelord believed Rassilon to once have been a good man, doesn't mean he was

[@rngwrldngnr]

I was always under the impression it was basically a gateway to the eye of harmony, and that every Tardis would have a link like that but there was only one eye of harmony.

[@daniel.t.h.]

In the War Doctor audio The Eye of Harmony they state that the Eye of Harmony is in a quantum state, being in every TARDIS and on Gallifrey at the same time

[@Cmor19]

Head canon that there is only one Eye of Harmony but it exists in every TARDIS and on Galifrey.

[@barryallen2569]

Utterly love your content and bless it for helping me as I listen through 8's Big Finish stories. Really needed it having done "Neverland", "Zagreus" and "Scherzo" this past week

[@WhovianOrWhatever]

10:33 To be fair, you could argue the 8th Doctor took the Eye to protect it and that's why its keyed to human features, bc there's usually a human he trusts on board (I think that was in a novel?). And you could argue the Doctor took the Eye either after Gallifrey died or just before he used the Moment which is why 11 had it.

[@rngwrldngnr]

I don't think Davies is necessary interested in more Time Lords but I similarly liked the narrative possibilities open by just having the various renegades and better warned evacuees scattered around the universe.

[@andylikesstuffchannel]

Davis Doctors 2005 and 10th Doctors seasons avoid alot of the history of the Doctor

[@gregf9160]

The Eye isn't _in_ the Tardis, it's a Symbolic Link, to the Eye on Gallifrey. For God's Sake -- UNIX! This has been _a thing_ for sixty years!

[@thatDamnAusWhoFan]

The eye of harmony only came up in the 10th anniversary the 3 doctors, so really it's only been 50 years

[@inkmaster5480]

My own headcanon is that the Time Lords transferred the Eye of Harmony into the Doctor's Tardis for safekeeping. Also, that idea for how Rassilon could be brought back into the series is golden.

[@CyberController-]

I like to think the Eye is in it's own pocket dimension, like a TARDIS interior, and every bit of Time Lord tech can access that dimension.

[@inkmaster5480]

@@CyberController- That's a cool idea, but we do actually see the room with the Eye of Harmony in it in Journey to the Center of the TARDIS.

[@CyberController-]

@@inkmaster5480 Ah, but what if the door to that room is actually the door to said dimension?

[@wafflingmean4477]

Good point about how the Doctor really was a bit careless when he removed Rassilon but left no power structure to replace him. When has the Doctor leaving the Time Lords to figure things out on their own gone well? And especially when we've heard the Doctor talk about how dangerous and morally compromised the Time Lords as a whole became in the Time War. He doesn't ever blame Rassilon specifically for that. He only really blames Rassilon for the attempt to destroy Time itself in an attempt to win the war by sacrificing the rest of the universe and transcending to beings of consciousness alone. But on multiple occasions he references the Time Lords as a whole during the war in a negative light. Even other races make similar statements. The Fisher King said the Time Lords were vain curators who suddenly realised they had teeth, and became the most warlike race in the galaxy (and if the Fisher King knew about Time Lords he almost definitely knew of the Daleks and STILL claimed the Time Lords were the most warlike). I think an interesting arc would actually be for the Doctor to realise that the only way he can stop Gallifrey from continuing down its destructive path now that he has saved it (at the moment I'm ignoring Timeless Child and the Master blowing Gallifrey up again) is to stay. Instead of running off and being the madman in a box who just wants to explore the universe, he would realise that despite wanting to leave he HAS to stay. If he ever in good conscience wants to travel again and leave the Time Lords to their own devices, then first he needs to use everything he's learned from the rest of the universe to leave some sort of new power structure or cultural shift on Gallifrey. And that's just going to take time. So at least for a while, the Doctor needs to become the Lord President of Gallifrey, or if he refuses the title, he at least needs to remain in charge for a while. They could use a bit of a time skip to skip the day to day tedium of the Doctor reforming Gallifrey and focus on some of the bigger moments. Maybe they time skip, and then in the first episode of this arc show that the Doctor is slowly but surely making progress but is exhausted, and worries how much he is compromising his own ideals to make that progress, all the while the episode slowly introduces some sort of new threat. Also, an easy idea to work in is one the show already introduced and then abandoned. When the Doctor saved Gallifrey, he put it in stasis, freezing it in a single moment in time in a pocket universe. But when we see Gallifrey again in Hell Bent, it is unfrozen, and the Doctor is able to travel away from Gallifrey with Clara with no difficulty whatsoever. He does make an offhanded comment about Gallifrey having a different timezone they had to break free of in that stolen Tardis, but that's all. If they'd altered this a little, making it so they had to break free not of a timezone, but break through the barrier of Gallifrey's pocket universe in order to return to the main one. This way there's no contradiction to the time stasis. And as for the time stasis, place it in the Doctor's control. If he decides that for a while, he's going to rule Gallifrey and try to turn it into something that will endure and take a positive direction even without him (as he would have no intention of holding on to that power forever, unlike Rassilon or the Master), then he could make it very clear that if he believes Gallifrey's soul is beyond saving, he'll just let it freeze again. He would have been the one to lift the stasis and so he has the power to return it. No one suffer. No child would cry. No one would even die. But they would stop. That's his trump card to maintain control for as long as necessary, as there would be many he would refuse to answer to him even without Rassilon in play.

[@lasseehrenreich5502]

If I write a story featuring Rassilon I would have him succeed in conquering all of time and space but then willingly giving it up because he realizes how boring it is and the follow his dream of being a baker.

[@ThePerradox]

By Vectron's kindly claw, what a Timelord.

[@ItsButterBean1020]

Also the accounts of Rassilon are perfect because he’s basically a mythical figure in the setting, and myths are stories that hardly ever stay stagnant

[@chrispy3369]

I would love to see Gallifrey return in the new era but under new leadership. I would have it be helmed by the survivors of The Master's wrath like Romana or hell a reformed Rani. Also I'd drop the large citadels and funny robes for a more Men In Black look, something akin to the TVA in Loki. This new Gallifrey would be hidden from the rest of the universe and can open up Time Lord threats like a vengeful Rassilon reuniting with Omega to take back his people.

[@ARedCoatHangerProductions]

I like the selective genetic breeding for Gallifrey. Reminds me of Kryptonians in Man of Steel after achieveing there self proclaimed perfection they isolated

[@lupusmalum6103]

My idea is that the Eye of Harmony WAS one single star that was in every TARDIS held together on Gallifrey AT ONE POINT. After its destruction in the Time War, The Doctor, being HIM, made his very own Eye of Harmony. This is why 10 had to occasionally "charge" the TARDIS in Cardiff and also why the 11th Doctor's Eye looks so different from the 8th Doctor's Eye. It's an entirely different Eye all together.

[@wafflingmean4477]

The idea of Rassilon being the only one able to save the Time Lords from the Master's wrath - as he sought revenge against the Time Lords and the Doctor (despite the fact that this spat on the Master's whole arc in Twelve's run) - would be an excellent way to reduce the character. In my opinion, the thing that actually makes the Doctor, the Master and Rassilon so effective at fighting each other when no one else can seem to compete is that they deep down are madmen consumed by darkness. The Doctor handles this condition best, helping others as a coping mechanism for the pain and sheer mental break he suffered in the Time War (imo he did snap during the Time War. He managed to become the Doctor again, to live up to the promise he made when he took the name Doctor, but he was never really the same). But ultimately he is very alike to the other two. It's also worth noting that Rassilon is by far the worst of the three morally, since the Doctor and the Master were driven insane by traumatic experiences (and both actually managed to largely recover even if they were deeply scarred). Rassilon just had a lust for power that he chose not to resist. We're all curious. And we all imagine what we could do with MORE. But in my opinion a large measure of a person's worth is what they choose to do when they have the means to indulge their worst impulses. Rassilon chose to indulge. He wasn't forced. He didn't transform into someone else in a desperate attempt at survival when his back was to the wall. He just decided he wanted power more than he cared about the consequences of wielding it. But ultimately, all three are not only extremely intelligent even by Time Lord standards, but they have incredible imaginations. And the darkness within them allows them to think of solutions others miss. The Doctor is so often a step behind the Master because he doesn't want to think like him. But at the same time, only the Doctor had enough darkness within to not only say "No more", but to burn all of Gallifrey to end the Time War. He couldn't have done it otherwise. The man who once was afraid to wipe out the Daleks in their infancy because he didn't know if he had the right would never have been capable of committing genocide against his own race. And you detail many of Rassilon's own horrific acts of imagination here. These three are the perfect candidates to foil each other in Doctor Who's Gallifreyan stories. So Rassilon regaining power is the perfect way to introduce survivors from the Master supposedly destroying Gallifrey again.

[@tableprinterdoor]

4:20 I like to think the war was started by Tecteun taking the Child-Who-Was-Taken (Timeless Child)

[@DarthAzabrush]

It will be interesting when you get round to Borusa as his youngest incarnation to date is the one played by Katy Manning in Gallifrey.

[@something1600]

I assumed that the doctor just stole the Eye of Harmony.

[@vampiresquid2635]

All I knew about rassilon was the modern show and then I listened to zagreus and OH BOY

[@vampiresquid2635]

However now that I think about it the master killing all the timelords and leaving them in such a state is very similar to the borg gaining identity and lore taking power due to their sudden instability in Star Trek tng

[@thatDamnAusWhoFan]

God that was a good episode. Honestly I think we can blame the doctor. 12 came in, toppled the government and then buggered off. That's a recipe for disaster. There'd be power struggles, civil war with all these factions vying for power and just begging for the master to come in and finish the job

[@kimwelch4652]

There's only one Eye of Harmony (A.K.A. The wormhole gun), it just exists in multiple times. See The Whiteboard webcomic by Doc N. Everything is connected--everything is entangled.

[@joebutts7448]

LOOOOMS!

[@calvinfranklyn5499]

I thought Series 2 stated that, despite the Eye no longer existing, the TARDIS could still be fueled at time rifts, because he'd converted the engine into a collector of energy, or something. I dunno. I thought it was a useful plot device.

[@r.a.j7725]

The Guide… of RASSILON

[@spluff5]

I heard somewhere the the eye of harmony inside the TARDISes are a copy of the one on Gallifrey. Maybe like a quantum entangled link that connects them to the main one on Gallifrey

[@DM-Oz]

Hahaha, you sneaking in a "mother of dragons" in the end of his titles got me. Had to go back to be sure i heard it right, ha.

[@madeinmeme9688]

Rassilon, the Sentinel Prime of Doctor Who

[@BlazingImp77151]

Maybe to the general rassilon seemed like a good man when they freed him to be their president in the time war. Like you said they forgot about his problems and brought back the best and brightest minds. So they thought he was a good bright man who helped them survive the war. But as time passed he did more and more atrocities and peor saw he was wrong and evil.

[@supercompooper]

Rasillon was a solar-boomer

[@thatDamnAusWhoFan]

A boomer with solar panels?

[@supercompooper]

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[@jn4126]

I see this in sane way people say Churchill was a good man. He never was, but he was an important figure during a dark time and it's the legend people remember, not the reality of a racist responsible for famines and even extending the war by terror bombing Berlin civilians ... We can have very skewed memories

[@thatDamnAusWhoFan]

Only he caused the dark times and and made the entire universe his sub, but yeah I get what you're saying. He very much is that

[@akshaytrayner1960]

Great vid looking forward to more

[@treysmith9925]

The Doctor's power vacuum is what I've been saying since I saw Gallifrey's most recent destruction. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the Master was lying about destroying Gallifrey. It's completely plausible that when he revealed the Timeless Child thing, the precarious political situation quickly devolved into a massive civil war and the Time Lords nuked themselves.

[@teenytv5194]

Love these videos!

[@lukesawboss]

Wait, I assumed there was just the one “eye of harmony” but existing beyond time and space it exists in all TARDISs and on galifry?

[@Miguel11190]

Omega was the biggest victim here. Rass and Tect were both evil and useless, and useless and evil.

[@calculator17]

Love your content mate! Keep it up! But I wonder if you would take a look at eyespider’s complete dr who timeline in a video one day? Ive been using it a lot and it’s been quite handy!

[@thatDamnAusWhoFan]

I'll give it a look

[@filmunion8194]

Omega the monk and Rani should return

[@HOTD108_]

I can't help but feel the Doctor Who universe becomes less and less interesting the more this stuff gets explored. I shouldn't know the origins of Time Lord society. I wish I could go back in time and stop myself from reading the Who wiki and just be left with the mystery.

[@thatDamnAusWhoFan]

You're not alone in thinking that. There's a lot of great stuff that explores the history of the time lords while leaving their mystique intact and even adding to it. The audio never land is a good example but at this point the damage has already been done. The time lords when from techno gods who could erase you with a thought, to bumbling beurocrats that become less competent the more you see of them

[@LordRaven222]

Mother of Dragons…… did I miss a epic episode or audiobook…..it was a joke ok 👍

[@andylikesstuffchannel]

Lol this is funny 💯 doctor who makes zero sense the audience has always created the law than what it actually is. 4 decades fan love Dr who

[@rogersstinson4019]

You know, for all those who don’t like the Loom idea, it is entirely possible that the Time Lords fixed their reproductive system problem eventually, and started using both methods of procreation.

[@andylikesstuffchannel]

Fred 12th doctor companion should have had more seasons. Clara unfortunately had to many

[@AugAug989]

Awesome video. Love the part where you needlessly shit on an episode that’s actually good.

[@thatDamnAusWhoFan]

If you're talking about hell bent, if you enjoyed it all power to you. I dont want to take that away from you and I shouldn't be able to. What I say in my videos is my opinion. You don't have to accept any of it. In fact I love hearing other perspectives on episodes its part of the reason why I do this.

[@Concreteowl]

Hell Bent is brilliant. It's not as good as Heaven Sent but most of television isn't.

[@thatDamnAusWhoFan]

I just don't like what it did to clara. If she's not put back the universe is at risk of breaking and knowing that she decides to risk everything by traveling around in a tardis she doesn't know how to fly, risking everything that ever was or will be for the sake of her own enjoyment

[@Concreteowl]

The eye of harmony is the same wherever you are. The interior dimensions of every TARDIS are in the same universe as the interior of the Capitol.

[@thatDamnAusWhoFan]

Not really. The interior dimensions of the tardis are affected by the conditions of wjere the outer shell happens to be. We see this constantly wjen it goes through turbulence or if something hits the ship

[@ItsButterBean1020]

So he’s based and did nothing wrong? Thanks for the heads up :)

[@thatDamnAusWhoFan]

Aside from asserting dominance over the entire universe and genocides

[@user-hs1zh1se4c]

I don't think the Dr has unlimited regeneration and here's my argument why. the timelords erased the drs memory and turned them back into a child and the division tried to bury the whole timeless child stuff from the rest of timelord society probably due to the potential backlash and it may even have been a serious criminal offence caused so they had every reason to erase the drs mind and re set their life. However simply re setting the drs life isn't enough as eventually hitting the 13th life had the Dr had a 14th 15th etc people would start questioning why they have exceeded the limit without reason and the Dr would question it also. So the only way to avoid this would be to cap the drs ability to regenerate to 12 like everyone else in the hope they would just live out those 13 lives and die like everyone else. Further evidence is that the 11th Dr was definite about being on his last life later before regenerating he tells Clara he could feel the rengeration starting so the fact 11 when actually dying of old age prior could not sense any form of regeneration ability that suggest there is none. Then the timelords give him a new set and only then can he regenerate.

[@thatDamnAusWhoFan]

You raise an interesiting point. I try not to question it to be honest. The canon surrounding the doctor and how many lives they have are tied in so many knots at this point its best not to try and make sense of the madness. Otherwise I'll start pulling at threads and questioning why there are 3 different Atlantic's that end in 3 different ways, why did the 1st doctor make illusions to being a human from the future who built the tardis? I have a very soft approach to canon in this show. Would be fun to make a video on this though

[@budboom7087]

Will you make a Twitter or instagram I want to talk doccy who 😂

[@thatDamnAusWhoFan]

I have a twitter

[@budboom7087]

@@thatDamnAusWhoFan oh what’s ya Twitter?

[@thatDamnAusWhoFan]

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