History Creator / RobertHolmes

* ArmedWithCanon: He spent a lot of time kicking at things from the Pertwee era that he disliked (like the Third Doctor's InvincibleHero problems) and providing explanations for AcceptableBreaksFromReality tropes in the show that had been previously ignored (AliensSpeakingEnglish, WalkingDisasterArea, HeroBall). He also retconned Time Lord society into a DecadentCourt of elderly bureaucrats because he disliked the {{Utopia}} concept that the previous era used, something that is still fairly controversial. He was also the first writer to confirm that regeneration can happen across gender, [[note]] Holmes rather established the limitation of incarnations to thirteen [[/note]] though he envisioned Time Lord society as a One-Gender Race of men unlike later writers.

** He made the Time Lords a DecadentCourt of [[NotSoOmniscientCouncilOfBickering useless, self-involved old men]] because he needed to dramatically justify why the Doctor ran away. (His thinking ran that if the Time Lords really were omniscient Guardians of Time, then by definition their [[AlienNonInterferenceClause policy of non-interference]] must be right and the Doctor choosing to get involved in the universe must be wrong, [[VillainProtagonist which destroys the moral foundation of the whole show]].

** He made the Time Lords a DecadentCourt of [[NotSoOmniscientCouncilOfBickering useless, self-involved old men]] because he needed to dramatically justify why the Doctor ran away. (His thinking ran that if the Time Lords really were omniscient Guardians of Time, then by definition the Doctor running away and getting stuck in was a ''[[VillainProtagonist bad]]'' [[VillainProtagonist thing]].)

* {{Retcon}}: Holmes was never afraid to rewrite ''Doctor Who'''s history to fit the story he needed to tell, and in doing so created the iconic version of those elements.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E3PyramidsOfMars "Pyramids of Mars"]]