#it really is becoming an Ultimate Foe for Chibnall

[grassangel]

Doctor Who thoughts: love the heightened emotion of the finale and all the interplay between the Doctor and the Master - but utterly hate & revoke the content of it.

Much preferred some of the theories floating around before (like clones) and now accept them as personal canon.

Though I DO think there's still wiggle room for a future showrunner to go play with the things Chibnall's introduced and change them. In some cases quite drastically.

Because Doctor Who could, and should, question the reliability of the Matrix's data and indeed question anything the Master says.

"Everything you know is a lie."

Who's to say that isn't a lie as well?

The Master wanted to destabilise the Doctor so she would do something she wouldn't usually do - like accept Missy's birthday present or blow Gallifrey up to hurt him.

Questioning the veracity of the Matrix data, whether it's actual history or just fiction, is something Doctor Who has done before. Hell, the Master has done that before - edited bits of the Matrix to suit their purposes and call the nobility of the Time Lords into question.

Which is a metaphor for the permeable canon of the show. Or something.

So I welcome the day a showrunner, whose storytelling ability is ideally closer to Moffat's than Chibnall's, decides to have fun calling this canon into question and opens Doctor Who canon back up again.

In the meantime - I reject Chibnall's canon and substitute my own