This does feel like the closest to an explanation for the not-obviously-following-on-from-anything Doctor we got in series 11, thank you.
I think the one moment onscreen that might support it is the conversation from The Witchfinders –
JAMES: I'm not a fool, Doctor. I am King James, Satan's greatest foe. DOCTOR: Yeah, yeah, I know. It must be comforting playing that role, hiding behind a title. JAMES: Just as you hide behind Doctor, perhaps.
– and I wish that got more play in the conversation, or it came up again afterwards. Though if she's running from her shadow, not letting on to anyone close to her (here's where “more of a volume than a chapter”, but only after her companions had been shooed out of the room, might also fit in, though there could be other explanations for that), it might make sense within the story, but as someone watching the screen, I want more inwardness than that. And I worry that if Chibnall is reacting against Moffat's inwardness and arc lines, we'll only ever get hints of this part of the story.
More cheerfully, though,
FOUR (wide grin, you know the one)
is quite delightfully brilliant. Thank you for that, as well.
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I think the one moment onscreen that might support it is the conversation from The Witchfinders –
– and I wish that got more play in the conversation, or it came up again afterwards. Though if she's running from her shadow, not letting on to anyone close to her (here's where “more of a volume than a chapter”, but only after her companions had been shooed out of the room, might also fit in, though there could be other explanations for that), it might make sense within the story, but as someone watching the screen, I want more inwardness than that. And I worry that if Chibnall is reacting against Moffat's inwardness and arc lines, we'll only ever get hints of this part of the story.
More cheerfully, though,
is quite delightfully brilliant. Thank you for that, as well.