Fugitive of the Judoon (TV story)

The genius of this episode is you don't have to know or like the Timeless Child storyline. It's ambitious and audacious on a level which should only be applauded. Jo Martin is absolutely magnificent as not one but two characters. I've never been a huge fan of the Judoon, who first appeared 16 years ago now (Fo ko ho!), but they're decent value here, and their chief/leader is charmingly named after fan Paul Condon. Even aside from its fantastic revelation, this is a terrific episode. The church and the lighthouse add some true wonder to the visuals. But the opening scenes are where Chibnall's skills shine brightest—"All Ears" Allan's looking up of shifty Lee, and Ruth's valiant attempts at selling tour tickets. Little vignettes of people's lives are what Chibnall is best at. Great stuff.

I understand Davies isn't going to retcon the Timeless Child arc, but in a few years time, a future writer/showrunner could use my theory.

We know Ruth comes before the 13th Doctor, and 2 popular theories include her being pre-Hartnell, and the other being her being in between the second and third Doctor. However, both of these are flawed as Ruth's TARDIS is stuck as a police box, and the first Doctor was the one who first realised this, while Ruth being between 2 and 3 doesn't work as it would mean that David Tennant wouldn't be able to regenerate into Matt Smith since his aborted regeneration in The Stolen Earth was supposed to be the last one, rather than 11's regeneration in Time of The Doctor.

So, here is my idea. We never saw the old 11th Doctor deaging back to his younger self at the end of Time of The Doctor, so this could very well have been where the Fugitive Doctor appeared. She might have flew the TARDIS out of Trenzalore, lived her secret life then regenerated. The Time Lords never disclosed how many extra regenerations the Doctor got in Hell Bent, so who knows if Ruth had regenerated several times before regenerating back into Matt Smith's Doctor, returning to Clara where he would become Peter Capaldi's Doctor. This would also mean that the Curator's promise of revisiting old faces in the 50th anniversary special would be fulfilled a lot sooner!

Before you ask, Ruth could have changed the TARDIS interior to the one seen in Series 12 back to 11's before she returned to Clara. As for 13 not recognising Ruth, the Doctor could always have lost his/her memory after Ruth's incarnation died.

Any flaws you find in this idea are welcome to be shared so I can improve the idea.

Theory 1: Lee from Fugitive of the Judoon is Karvanista.

Think about it, in the most recent episode, the Doctor theorised that in her past life, Karvanista was her “companion”, and that’s what Lee presumably was too. He could’ve been using a perception filter when he was hiding on Earth with the Fugitive Doctor, making him look like a human, and yes, Lee was killed by Gat, but he could’ve survived somehow…

Theory 2 (kinda borrowed from Mr TARDIS on YT): Karvanista, Lee & Gat we’re all the Doctor’s companions once.

So in Once, Upon Time, we see the Fugitive Doctor breaking into the Temple of Atropos to stop Swarm & Azure, accompanied by three figures represented by Dan, Yaz and Vinder. We see one of those figures (Dan) is actually Karvanista, so could the other two perhaps be Lee and Gat? Gat did call Lee “faithful companion” in Fugitive of the Judoon, and Karvanista did say the Doctor once “left [him]” in her past life, so the same thing could’ve happened to Gat, but not Lee perhaps…

SPOILERS AHEAD

COULD BE THE NEW DOCTOR THE REAL THIRD DOCTOR? Hey, folks, I've been thinking about this new doctor, and I came up with a pretty crazy theory in my head and I want to share it. I thought she could be the real third doctor, since the second regenerates in "the war games" and the third doctor is seen only in "spearhead from space", that is, there would be a gap between these arches in which she could fit right in. I know that, in the series, this was done because of the limitations of the technology... but, hanging it makes some sense to me. I would also support the position that she was the timeless child.

So, I live in the U.S. and don’t have BBCA, so i have no way of watching the new season yet. BUT I AM subscribed to the Doctor Who Youtube channel. They uploaded 2 videos on the return of Jack!! So it was spoiled for me!! Also going on here spoiled even more, but not as big as the spoiler that JACK HAS RETURNED

What would the new (Jo Martin) doctor be called? Will she be 14th or will she have a word name like the War Doctor?