S 12 E 10 On Sunday, March 1, 2020 at 11:21:27 PM UTC-8, Mike M wrote:
> <pbo...@conservation.org> wrote:

> > For the rest, the story introduces a host of issues with much more recent
> > continuity - Ruth's TARDIS is the obvious one since it makes no sense for
> > the TARDIS to have been stuck as a police box tied to the era in which
> > the Hartnell pilot was set.
> Two obvious possibilities -
>
> 1) maybe the Doctor’s TARDIS recognised Jodie approaching and used its
> telepathic link to her to disguise itself as a Police Box, while
> underground, as a means of communicating its precise nature to her?

Then the Fugitive Doctor should have wondered why her TARDIS was now shaped like an old fashioned police box!
>
> 2) Jo Martin’s Doctor still lies in the future, a future where the Time
> Lords have been restored and The Doctor has chosen (or been forced) to
> forget the Timeless Child origin again, and in this has somehow led to the
> whole Jodie incarnation (and maybe some others) being mind wiped.
> > The Master earlier this season claimed his killing spree was motivated by
> > a lie told 'about' the Timeless Child, as though this were part of Time
> > Lord mythology already - which isn't the case according to this episode..
> Not quite - the dialogue was
>
> “I had to make them pay for what I discovered. They lied to us, the
> founding fathers of Gallifrey. Everything we were told was a lie. We are
> not who we think, you or I. The whole existence of our species built on the
> lie of the Timeless Child.”
>
> The Master then went on to say that the truth was “buried deep” in all the
> Time Lords. And that’s all consistent with what was eventually revealed,
> pretty much.

What lies did the Founding Fathers tell?