Doctor Who | 60th Anniversary Celebrations | THIS IS GALLIFREY

Track 5 - This Is Gallifrey

[@mcurran6505]

"They used to call it the Shining World of the Seven Systems. And on the continent of Wild Endeavour, in the mountains of Solace and Solitude, there stood the Citadel of the Time Lords. The oldest and most mighty race in the universe. Looking down on the galaxies below, sworn never to interfere, only to watch. Children of Gallifrey were taken from their families at the age of eight to enter the Academy. Some say that's where it all began, when he was a child. That's when the Master saw eternity. As a novice, he was taken for initiation. He stood in front of the Untempered Schism. It's a gap in the fabric of reality through which could be seen the whole of the vortex. We stand there, eight years old, staring at the raw power of time and space, just a child. Some would be inspired. Some would run away. And some would go mad."

[@sheersternfeld1914]

"and what about you?" "oh, I ran away. And I never really stopped."

[@adamwalkervfx]

Really it should be called "This was Gallifrey".

[@The0thDoctor]

with any luck RTD can retcon Chibnalls complete dumbfounded decision of immediately destroying Gallifrey again

[@Philmaster07]

@@The0thDoctor not even "again" as gallifrey was never really destroyed... but yes that was a dumb decision

[@BeckTech18]

@@The0thDoctorFix “The Timeless Child” first.

[@mattbunky]

⁠​⁠@@The0thDoctorthey should just have some survivors of gallifrey to make the doctor not the only one

[@Kelleck]

@@The0thDoctorchibnall said he’s not going to retcon series 12 and in fact he might expand on the timeless child arc

[@davidrenwickjunior]

Gentle and powerful all in one ❤❤

[@Nomiplus123]

They havevto use these peices pf music in the future i mean its only fair the edge of Russell T davies was only there thanks to the music

[@maidetezcan2704]

Can someone explain timeless child plot? And the relation with Gallifrey? I skipped 13th because of Chibnall and now i’m lost in script 😢

[@dvader518]

Just watch the series. No reason to skip just cause of Chibnall. Short version: The Doctor is the Timeless Child and is not from Gallifrey. The Gallifreyans used the Timeless Child's regenerative powers in order to basically live forever and erased the memory of the Timeless Child. While people falsely claim that this tarnishes William Hartnell's legacy of being the First Doctor (for the reason being that he wasn't actually the first), it actually doesn't tarnish his legacy as the first Doctor the world was introduced to. Basically, imagine if The Cartmel Master Plan was actually carried out but in a different way. Also, the incarnations of the Doctor as seen in The Brain of Morbius are indeed incarnations of the Doctor and not of Morbius. All in all, the Timeless Child makes sense. Not to mention it's pointless to complain about it since the Timeless Child being the Doctor and the Doctor NOT being the Timeless Child are both canonically true in the Whoniverse.

[@maidetezcan2704]

@@dvader518 thank you for the summary 🙏 I know I have to watch it, I’m having mixed feelings on that. Anyway, I get the point of being Timeless child. What’s that all about half of the universe being destroyed? What happened, I heard it’s something about the Master but why Doctor blames himself?

[@dvader518]

@@maidetezcan2704 Half the universe was destroyed in the Flux but that was unrelated to the Master. Series 13 was dedicated to the Flux. There were Sontarans in the Crimean War, the Doctor turned into a Weeping Angel, there were other races showing up, a couple who may or may not be the parents of the Timeless Child showed up, etc.

[@thequietestengine]

@@dvader518 Toymaker card shuffling intensifies at that last sentence there, I like it.

[@williamhowe1]

I think Russell T Davies will attempt to make sense of it all. If anyone can it's him.