Re: Toxic fandom

The Doctor wrote on 12/6/24 11:50 pm:

In article <v4c3o8$1l9fe$1@dont-email.me>, The Last Doctor
<mike@xenocyte.com> wrote:

Hornplayer9599 <Hornplayer9599@aol.com> wrote:

On 6/12/2024 01:27, Your Name wrote:
 

The Doctor numbering continues mainly because that's a
fan-based thing ... has the numbering ever been mentioned
in-show??

 I think Peter Davidson (in character) mentioned in "The Five
Doctors" that he was the fourth regeneration of the Doctor.

 He does, and the first Doctor responds with “oh, so there are
five of me now.”
 And there have been one or two other mentions down the years.
 But it’s a rarity and regardless of whether you accept that the
Timeless Children shows a “reset” forgetting an unknown number
of previous regenerations, the existence of the War Doctor, David
Tennant counting as three (two incarnations but three
regenerations) and now the insertion somehow of not only the
Fugitive Doctor but also the Shalka Doctor into the Doctor’s
pasts, indicates that any in-universe counting has become meaningless.
 So these days the only place the number has meaning is in fannish conversation and used to refer to the precedence of an actor to
have had the lead role for a season or TV movie - and even there
we’re now counting Tennant twice.

 And that all contradicts the Timeless child.

How, Gobble-de-gook?? How does 'all that' contradict The Timeless Child, Gobble-de-gook??
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Daniel