History Fridge / DoctorWhoS38E10TheTimelessChildren

*** Then again, if the Child ''knew'' they'd just regenerate, and the regenerations were triggered with a painless death, it might not have been seen as much of a big deal. Kids are adaptable. And in that case, the Fridge Horror is that Tecteun didn't ''know'' the Child had unlimited regenerations, and she went on using them up anyway....
*** Per canon, regeneration is painful and disorienting every time, furthering the parental abuse angle.

* The way it's always worked is that when two Doctors (or Masters) meet, the earlier incarnation cannot retain any memories of the time they spent together. If this holds true, the Ruth Doctor will suddenly find herself in her TARDIS, alone, with no memories of how she got there, and the last thing she'd remember was being on Earth, with her devoted Companion as her husband. She'd have no idea he'd sacrificed himself so she could escape, and no memory of killing her former boss or why. All she'd know is that her hiding place and the one who helped hide her were gone, and possibly she'd discover all too quickly that a particular Judoon was taking the hunt for her very personally!
* The Fifth Doctor started to fade away when his previous selves were taken out of time. He said, "A man is the sum of his memories, a Time Lord doubly so." Imagine how many lifetimes of memories have been erased or suppressed, compared to just four in that episode!

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* The origin of The Doctor as The Timeless Child may be a clue as to why she/he chose that moniker. Tecteun constantly experiments on her/him, and how would Tecteun make this acceptable to the Child? By saying the Child is ill and 'needs the doctor'. His/her whole childhood revolves around the idea of the doctor making you better.
* The Timeless Child was a young girl picked up by a stranger and travelled the stars with them - much like how they would take companions with them to do the same in their later lives. The Doctor was the first Companion.
* Supposing [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Curator]] actually is the Doctor as is so heavily implied, this would mean he's fully aware of the Doctor's true nature and his comment about revisiting the old favourite faces would certainly imply he knew the Doctor had more regenerations to spare just going back and choosing old faces for the fun of it, even though as far as the Doctor knew at the time he was on his last life.
* Far from lowering the stakes of the show by giving the Doctor infinite regenerations, the episode actually ''raises'' the stakes. Since we’re never told that the Timeless Child has infinite regenerations, they could run out at any point. Even the second set of twelve from “[[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor The Time of the Doctor]]” isn’t guaranteed — the Time Lords could simply have lifted the limit they placed on the Doctor, rather than giving him extra lives. So, from now on, any of the Doctor’s regenerations could be her last, and she has no idea which one!
* Fridge Funny: The Doctor escapes from the Matrix by overloading its systems with a super-accelerated flood of her own accumulated memories. In effect, she forced it to ''binge-watch the entirety'' of ''Doctor Who'' in a couple of seconds!
* The fact that [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor Eleven would have permanently died on Trenzalore until the timeline changed]] seems to contradict this episode's reveal that he was an incarnation of the Timeless Child and thus was in no danger of permanent death. However, while a likely option is that the Time Lords limited the Child's regeneration cycle, we know [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords from the Master that Time Lords can refuse to regenerate and actually die]]. Maybe Eleven believing he had no more lives left acted as an unknowing refusal?

* Fridge Funny: The Doctor escapes from the Matrix by overloading its systems with a super-accelerated flood of her own accumulated memories. In effect, she forced it to ''binge-watch the entirety'' of ''Doctor Who'' in a couple of seconds!

* All the way back in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E7TheWarGames The War Games]]", the Second Doctor indicated that Time Lords had an unlimited number of regenerations unless their body were damaged too severely, in what seemed a throw-away bit of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness. Fast-forward to this story, and one can't help but wonder if the memory block they had placed on the Doctor was gradually starting to wear off -- and whether or not their exiling him to Earth was motivated in part by ensuring he'd be stuck somewhere he wouldn't be able to get revenge on the Time Lords in the event that the memory block failed completely.

* The Timeless Child was a young girl picked up by a stranger and traveled the stars with them - much like how they would take companions with them to do the same in their later lives. The Doctor was the first Companion.
* Supposing [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Curator]] actually is the Doctor as is so heavily implied, this would mean he's fully aware of the Doctor's true nature and his comment about revisiting the old favorite faces would certainly imply he knew the Doctor had more regenerations to spare just going back and choosing old faces for the fun of it, even though as far as the Doctor knew at the time he was on his last life.

* Fridge Funny: The Doctor escapes from the Matrix by overloading its systems with a super-accelerated flood of her own accumulated memories. In other words, she blew its circuits by forcing it to ''binge-watch the entirety'' of ''Doctor Who'' in a couple of seconds!

* Fridge Funny: The Doctor escapes from the Matrix by overloading its systems with a super-accelerated flood of her own accumulated memories. In other words, she blew its circuits by forcing it to ''binge-watch the entirety'' of ''Doctor Who'' in a matter of seconds!

* Far from lowering the stakes of the show by giving the Doctor infinite regenerations, the episode actually ''raises'' the stakes. Since we’re never told that the Timeless Child has infinite regenerations, they could run out at any point. Even the second set of twelve from “[[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor The Time of the Doctor]]” isn’t guaranteed — the Time Lords could simply have lifted the limit they placed on the Doctor, rather than giving him extra lives. So, from now on, any of the Doctor’s regenerations could be her last, and she has no idea which one!

* Supposing [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Curator]] actually is the Doctor as is so heavily implied, this would mean he's fully aware of the Doctor's true nature and his comment about revisiting the old favorite faces would certainly imply he knew the Doctor had more regenerations to spare just going back and choosing old faces for the fun of it, even though as far as the Doctor knew at the time he was on his last life.

* The Timeless Child was a young girl picked up by a stranger and traveled the stars with them - much like how they would take companions with them to do the same in their later lives. The Doctor was the first Companion.

* The origin of The Doctor as The Timeless Child may be a clue as to why she/he chose that moniker. Tecteun constantly experiments on her/him, and how would Tecteun make this acceptable to the Child? By saying the Child is ill and 'needs the doctor'. His/her whole childhood revolves around the idea of the doctor making you better.

** If the point of the experiments was to figure out how the Child regenerated, then it's almost certainly the latter. That's an incredibly traumatic, cruel thing for anyone -- let alone a parental figure -- to inflict on a child.

** The only question is: were they a consequence of said experiments, or did she intentionally cause them as part of said experiments?

* The Timeless Child undergoes many regenerations during Tecteun's investigations. We can only assume that the deaths are caused by Tecteun's experimentations.