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   From: blueshirt@indigo.news   
      
   Your Name wrote:   
      
   > On 2025-10-21 18:06:58 +0000, Tim Merrigan said:   
   >   
   > > On 10/21/2025 6:06 AM, The Doctor wrote:   
   > > >   
   > > > Sack RTD and get a brand new showrunners who will   
   > > > do what the fans want: RETCON THE TIMELESS CHILD   
   > > > TOTALLY OUT OF DOCTOR WHO!.   
   > >   
   > > More accurately:  "Sack RTD and do what the half dozen   
   > > fans who post here want."   
   > >   
   > > I don't believe you speak for all Whovians.   
   > >   
   > > If you retcon the Timeless Child what do you plan to do for   
   > > the 26th*  regeneration?   
   > >   
   > > *12 original + one from River Song + 12 more from the exiled   
   > > Time  Lords.   Note: this count would include the Fugitive   
   > > Doctor and the War  Doctor if the Timeless Child story line   
   > > is removed, making the upcoming  Billy Piper incarnation the   
   > > 19th Doctor.   
   > >   
   > > (1: Jo Martin, 2: William Hartnell, 3: Patrick Troughton, 4:   
   > > Jon  Pertwee, 5: Tom Baker, 6: Peter Davison, 7: Colin   
   > > Baker, 8: Sylvester  McCoy, 9: Paul McGann, 10: John Hurt,   
   > > 11: Christopher Eccleston, 12:  David Tennant, 13: Matt   
   > > Smith, 14: Matt Smith, 15: Peter Capaldi, 16:  Jodie   
   > > Whittaker, 17: David Tennant, 18: Ncuti Gatwa, and 19: Billy   
   > > Piper)   
   > >   
   > > By this calculation they have 6 regenerations left, unless   
   > > the writers  come up with another gimmick to give them more.   
   > > Oh!  Wait! They have,  with the Timeless Child they have   
   > > infinite regenerations!   
   >   
   > But that's a mis-calcualtion. If you take the show back to   
   > it's proper version, then Jo Martin, Jodie Whittaker, and   
   > Ncuti Gatwa don't count at all. There's also no evidence that   
   > Billie Piper is the new Doctor (semi-permanent or temporary).   
   > Paul McGann doesn't count either and possibly neither does   
   > John Hurt.   
      
   Well, if we're going down that road... nobody after Tom Baker   
   counted, so there!!!   
      
   > Then there's Peter Cushing, although he's a different "Doctor   
   > Who" entirely ... supposedly.   
      
   I'm happy to include him, somewhere... timey wimey and all   
   that...   
      
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