I do appreciate that the Lemmy Doctor Who communities are less prone to wild fan speculation and continuity semantics rabbit holes, I really do. Sometimes, though, I dip back onto the main subreddits, and boy, do they get into massive circle jerks over little things that only jar others slightly.

Having exposed myself to the fandom mind virus, but refusing to join the fray on Reddit, I'll just infodump my own head canon explanations to (apparently controversial) occurrences in the latest season of the show here:

Is the Shalka Doctor now unredacted from continuity?

In the episode "Rogue", holograms of the Doctor's past selves loop around 15 like an old iTunes cover gallery. One of them is clearly Richard E Grant, who played the a ninth Doctor in "Scream of the Shalka". The animated series was short-lived and written out of the show's canon when the 2005 revival show introduced Eccleston as the "authoritative" ninth Doctor.

IRL explanation: Russell T Davies thought it w

Good to see there are physicists working to align their field of research with Doctor Who jargon.

Altered the title to avoid spoilers - hopefully that's okay! But for those who don't want to click - Miriam Margolyes is voicing Beep The Meep.

On joining Doctor Who, Miriam Margolyes says: “I’m relieved I got to work on Doctor Who before I died."

lol

I'm currently on Season 4, almost done with it as I'm on "The Evil of the Daleks". Who's watched the older stuff before? How much?

I find it somewhat hard to follow (especially the reconstructions with stills) but I always have tvtropes + tardis.fandom to refer to as well.