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* [=SorPepita=]: I'm retiring my previous pick because ''someone'' has to point out the true, one and only, absolutely indisputable almost to the point of scientific certainty Dethroning Moment of the show (it kind of boggles my mind that I had to be the first one to do so; I guess not enough people care any more), which of course would be TheReveal of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E10TheTimelessChildren The Timeless Children]]. They decided to wreck into pieces the show's canon (flexible as it was, and despite what people like Creator/PaulCornell might say, it ''had'' one) by doing what I think could be, without any exaggeration, one of the most PlotHole-inducing {{Retcon}}s ''in the history of professional fiction'' (Why does The Doctor have two hearts like the Time Lords if they belong to a different species altogether? Why did Eleventh seem to be in need of more regenerations if he already had an infinite number? Why didn't the previous regenerations show up inside the Doctor's timeline when Clara entered it? Why was River Song able to regenerate if the ability to do so comes from the Doctor's biology and not from the Time Vortex? If those Brain of Morbius faces were supposed to be the Doctor and not Morbius, why didn't Fourth question the meaning of those incarnations that he didn't remember? How can Doctor!Ruth call herself the Doctor and travel around in a police box-shaped TARDIS when those two traits are well-established as having started with the William Hartnell incarnation, which takes place in her future? I could go on and on ''and on'', you guys). Their reasons for doing this? As far as I can tell, mostly three: [[AssPull cheap shock value]], [[DeusAngstMachina adding another thing for the Doctor to be angsty about]] (because Lord Rassilon knows they didn't have enough of those already) and establishing a villain for the next season (and ''only'' for the next season, because she gets KilledOffForReal). Totally worth it. And the cherry on the shit sundae? The BBC and their friends in the media trying to gaslight the fans into thinking that this... ''thing'' is awesome storytelling that improves canon instead of breaking it, even bringing up the Cartmel Masterplan to imply that this kind of twist has been years into the making despite Creator/AndrewCartmel himself later saying that it wasn't like what he had in mind ''at all''. What an absolute trainwreck. Dear Creator/StevenMoffat, I'm very sorry for all I said about your work, but I didn't know. God help me, I didn't know.

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* [=SorPepita=]: I'm retiring my previous pick because ''someone'' has to point out the true, one and only, absolutely indisputable almost to the point of scientific certainty Dethroning Moment of the show (it kind of boggles my mind that I had to be the first one to do so; I guess not enough people care any more), which of course would be TheReveal of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E10TheTimelessChildren The Timeless Children]]. They decided to wreck into pieces the show's canon (flexible as it was, and despite what people like Creator/PaulCornell might say, it ''had'' one) by doing what I think could be, without any exaggeration, one of the most PlotHole-inducing {{Retcon}}s ''in the history of professional fiction'' (Why does The Doctor have two hearts like the Time Lords if they belong to a different species altogether? Why did Eleventh seem to be in need of more regenerations if he already had an infinite number? Why didn't the previous regenerations show up inside the Doctor's timeline when Clara entered it? Why was River Song able to regenerate if the ability to do so comes from the Doctor's biology and not from the Time Vortex? If those Brain of Morbius faces were supposed to be the Doctor and not Morbius, why didn't Fourth question the meaning of those incarnations that he didn't remember? How can is it that Doctor!Ruth call calls herself the Doctor and travel travels around in a police box-shaped TARDIS when those two traits are well-established as having started with the William Hartnell incarnation, which takes place in her future? I could go on and on ''and on'', you guys). Their reasons for doing this? As far as I can tell, mostly three: [[AssPull cheap shock value]], [[DeusAngstMachina adding another thing for the Doctor to be angsty about]] (because Lord Rassilon knows they didn't have enough of those already) and establishing a villain for the next season (and ''only'' for the next season, because she gets KilledOffForReal). Totally worth it. And the cherry on the shit sundae? The BBC and their friends in the media trying to gaslight the fans into thinking that this... ''thing'' is awesome storytelling that improves canon instead of breaking it, even bringing up the Cartmel Masterplan to imply that this kind of twist has been years into the making despite Creator/AndrewCartmel himself later saying that it wasn't like what he had in mind ''at all''. What an absolute trainwreck. Dear Creator/StevenMoffat, I'm very sorry for all I said about your work, but I didn't know. God help me, I didn't know.

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