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Summary
Doctor Whoseason 14 , installment 6 , " Rogue , " includes an improbably abbreviated vamp that reinforces the damage the Toymaker has done to the Doctor ’s timeline . Neil Patrick Harris ' Toymakerdebuted in " The Giggle , " giving theending to theDoctor Who60th - anniversary specialsan enormous amount of gravitas . He accommodate to David Tennant ’s Fourteenth Doctor that he , " Made a scroll saw out of [ the Doctor ’s ] history , " in the end stool sense ofChris Chibnall ’s confusing Timeless Child storylinewhile also kind of retconning it at the same time . Now , with Ncuti Gatwa lead theDoctor Whoseason 14 dramatis personae , it ’s empty the twist is n’t over .
" Rogue " is a largely self - containedDoctor Whoadventure , but the writers still find a way to make coy nods to other ongoing mysteries . For instance , Susan Twist ’s cameo in " Rogue " is very easy to miss , and Jonathon Groff ’s bounty hunter part finally makesDoctor Who ’s first reference to " The Boss " since " The Star Beast . " On top of all that , there ’s an unnamed Doctor present in the holographical paradeof former interpretation of the Time Lord .
physician Who has been a mending on TV screens for 60 years , meaning there are plenty of stories to choose from when find fault out the Time Lord ’s best .
Doctor Who’s Unknown Regeneration Can Be Blamed On The Toymaker
The holographic face could be Richard E Grant’s “Shalka Doctor”
When the Doctor is essay to Rogue that he is n’t a Chuldur , he shows the bountifulness hunter all of his former faces . It does n’t exactly refuse Rogue ’s shapeshifter accusation , but it does base the Doctor as a Time Lord rather than a member of the same race as the installment ’s opponent . Among the holographic avatars of all the former Doctor thespian is a face that looks intimate , but it is n’t anyone who has played a canon version of the Doctor . It looks an awful caboodle like Richard E Grant , which could be delay and compelling evidence of the Toymaker ’s meddling .
Grant vocalize an recreate translation of an alternate Ninth Doctor in 2003 . TheDoctor Whoshow , Scream of the Shalka , followed the exploits of Grant ’s Doctor . At the prison term , the enfranchisement had been inactive since Paul McGann ’s 1996 failedDoctor Whomovie . Scream of the Shalkawas in the beginning intended to add to the show ’s principal persistence , with Richard E Grant voice the latest looping of the Doctor . Now known as " The Shalka Doctor , " the animated Doctor is n’t considered canon , as Christopher Eccleston snagged the true role of the Ninth Doctor when the main show was revive in 2005 .
Just as the Toymaker added extra regenerations that go before William Hartnell ’s First Doctor , Harris ' heavenly villain is probable the one responsible for reintegrate the Shalka Doctor into the timeline of the franchise ’s titular Time Lord . That is , if the holographical face shown in " Rogue " does work out to be Richard E Grant . If so , then one of the Doctor ’s alternate timeline could now be considered to be part ofDoctor Who ’s primary persistence . Fifteen is distracted by try out to carry through himself during this sequence with Rogue , so he probably missed the erroneous visage .
reestablish the Shalka Doctor asDoctor Whocanon would certainly fit the Toymaker ’s claims in " The Giggle " of having made a " Jigsaw " out of the medico ’s chronicle .
RTD Already Confirmed The Toymaker Loosened Doctor Who’s Canon
The Doctor Who showrunner has allowed certain stories to breathe
Doctor Whohas been in cosmos for six decades now , and countless person have contributed to the traditional knowledge of the franchise . As a result , canonic clangoring are inevitable , as even the small out - of - place detail can send the overall fib spiral off into an unconnected realm . During the commentary for " The Giggle,“Russell T Davies confirms that the Toymaker ’s jigsaw commentary , " Relaxes the rules,“and fundamentally allows all the conflicting storylines to be in harmony .
Neil Patrick Harris ' Doctor Who Villain anticipate his " Legions are come " in " The Giggle , " but it ’s undecipherable precisely who he is refer to .
A bright example of the Toymaker working wonders for the Doctor ’s nebulous backstory is allowing Paul McGann ’s Eighth Doctor to be half - human . The scuttlebutt from Eight in theDoctor Whomovie ca n’t just be a throwaway line , as his human DNA is a major part of the film ’s plot of ground . Whilethe Doctor being half - human never made any sense , it can now be easy attribute to the Toymaker . Harris ' fibre provides a similar solution to all the pre - William Hartnell Doctors , meaning all the other versions of the Doctor once never existed and are products of the Toymaker ’s interposition .
The latest Doctor Who series introduces the Fifteenth Doctor, joined by new companion Ruby Sunday.
Doctor Who’s New Doctor Means Other Non-TV Regenerations Can Become Canon
Rowan Atkin’s comedic take on the Doctor is arguably now in the running to become part of the official lore
The unknown Doctor that appears in the holograph in " Rogue " opens the room access for a tidy sum of other versions of the Doctor to make their live - action debuts . iteration of the Doctor fromDoctor Whocomics and novels could find their fashion to the little screen , not to cite the other non - canonical regenerations from the dealership ’s Brobdingnagian array of audio dramatic event . In light , the Doctor ’s timeline could be about to go even more haywire in the near future .
A rich nervure of possible alternate MD comes in the 1999 Comic Relief special , " The Curse of Fatal Death . "
A plenteous venous blood vessel of potential alternate doctor comes in the 1999 Comic Relief special , " The Curse of Fatal Death . " TheDoctor Whoparody boast stars like Rowan Atkinson , Joanna Lumley , and Hugh Grant all playing various regenerations of the Doctor . Richard E Grant even play a version of the Time Lord , four years prior toScream of the Shalkabeing released . “The Curse of Fatal Death " was write by Steven Moffat , spend a penny it his first script penned for anythingDoctor Who - adjacent . This creates an even strong hypothesis that it could be used as succeeding source material .
The Toymaker’s Influence On Doctor Who Continues To Be Huge
The Doctor’s timeline is probably still harboring pockets of change caused by the Toymaker
Although the Doctor and the Toymaker go back a very long way , the scoundrel was largely forgotten about until theDoctor Who60th - anniversary celebrations . The three - minute salt scene with David Tennant in " Wild Blue Yonder"is what allowed the Toymaker to cross into the medico ’s reality . As a answer , that moment is release out to be much more pivotal than it ab initio seemed . Even though the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Doctors managed to team up up and defeat the Toymaker , the villain ’s legacy is only just now becoming unclouded . In other words , banishing the Toymaker has n’t rectified the damage he caused .
The Pantheon in Doctor Who consists of being whose powerfulness is n’t to be underestimated , and their threat could transform the show ’s dynamic .
Jinkx Monsoon ’s Maestrois another example of a threat to the Doctor that would n’t have existed without the Toymaker . As the Toymaker ’s child , Maestro is the direct descendant of Neil Patrick Harris ' adversary , and boasts similarly godlike abilities that almost conduct to the end of the Doctor and Ruby inDoctor Whoseason 14 , installment 2 , " The Devil ’s Chord . " So , while sure sign of the Toymaker ’s actions have been easygoing to spot in the Disney earned run average ofDoctor Who , others have been either more subtle or hidden in plain sight , and his banishment did n’t quash his modification to reality .
Episode
Disney+ Release Date
" Space Babies " & " The Devil ’s Chord "
May 10
" Boom "
May 17
" 73 Yards "
May 24
" Dot & Bubble "
May 31
" Rogue "
June 7
" The Legend of Ruby Sunday "
June 14
" Empire of destruction "
June 21
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The tardy medico Who series introduces the Fifteenth Doctor , joined by novel fellow traveller Ruby Sunday .
