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   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2025-10-22 09:53:26 +0000, Blueshirt said:   
   > 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...   
      
   Peter Cushing's character was not a Time Lord. He was simply a human   
   inventor. At best he was an "alternate universe Doctor Who".   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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