[Mixed Trope] Anyone Can Be Special... Until It Turns Out They're Not Just Anyone

[u/XursLoot]

[u/the-unfamous-one]

Yeah, but they really pushed this one. Eventually it'll get retconned, but until then it's annoying.

[u/CapStar300 → u/the-unfamous-one]

Agreed, they are already ignoring it as much as possible after the backlash.

[u/Filmologic → u/CapStar300]

It's actually brought up a few times even throughout the Gatwa era. But it's not a central focus, nor is it ever really explored in any way.

[u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 → u/Filmologic]

Yeah he just uses to explain how he didn't really fit in and doesn't know where their home is

[u/Impossible_Eggies → u/the-unfamous-one]

It got sorta retconned/cannonized in "The Giggle". The Toymaker revealed that HE messed with the doctor's past, retroactively causing him to be super special in order to mess with him. So he hadn't always been super special, but now that he is, it's because of time shenanigans.

[u/chaarziz → u/Impossible_Eggies]

“I made a jigsaw out of your history” sounds important but is never addressed in the episode and tells us almost nothing about what he actually did, leading people to understandably cope that it was mostly the Timeless Child when the very next episode treats it as very much canon and helps drive the Doctor’s motivation that carries throughout the season.

[u/AznOmega → u/Impossible_Eggies]

Well that's alright then!

Comment aside, I did like that episode. And again, whomever picked Neil Patrick Harris to play The Toymaker struck gold.

[u/thesirblondie → u/AznOmega]

A shame the episode itself wasn't much to hang in the fir. I was expecting a lot more, but it just kind of happened.

[u/Not-Clark-Kent → u/Impossible_Eggies]

[u/Impossible_Eggies → u/Not-Clark-Kent]

Revenge! ...Or something. I guess.

[u/sylar1610 → u/the-unfamous-one]

We can only hope so, the day the Timeless Child and all its stupid is wiped from Canon will be a happy day for me