The Timeless Child was found standing at the foot of a Boundary to another universe or dimension, and she was adopted by the Gallifreyan explorer Tecteun. Doctor Who season 12 revealed the Doctor is not a Time Lord at all, but rather she is the Timeless Child, a being who potentially predates the universe itself. In order to answer that question, it's necessary to look at how the Doctor's mere presence in the universe has changed everything. But why is this an appropriate response to the Doctor? Is it because of something she's done - or simply because of who she is? The Doctor's Presence Changed Life On Gallifrey Related: Doctor Who: Jodie Whittaker Just Repeated A Classic Third & Tenth Doctor Mistakeĭoctor Who: Flux episode 3 marked the season's halfway point, and it confirmed the stakes are higher than ever before, with the Flux and the " temporal poison" that is Swarm and Azure deliberately introduced to destroy the universe. " The Flux wasn't an accident, it wasn't a naturally occurring event," she insisted. " This universe is over, Doctor." Shockingly, the woman went even further, suggesting the destruction was caused by the Doctor herself. " Always the wrong questions," she observed. She claimed to be the orchestrator of the universe's destruction, responsible for introducing the Flux event and re-introducing the Ravagers Swarm and Azure as a " temporal poison or contagion." Even the Doctor was somewhat thrown by this encounter, attempting to figure out who this woman is and how she knew her, but the woman refused to answer. For her part, the Doctor experienced key moments of her past that had been erased by the Time Lords, before being dragged out of the time-space vortex to meet with a mysterious woman. The episode was a fascinating one, with each of the time travelers caught up in their own timeline. Doctor Who season 13, episode 3 went even further, with the story told out of timeline order because the Doctor and her allies were caught up in a time-storm. Doctor Who's current showrunner Chris Chibnall certainly can't be faulted for his ambition when production of season 13 was threatened by the coronavirus pandemic, he turned the problem into the opportunity to turn the abbreviated six-episode season into a single long-form story. Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Doctor Who: Flux episode 3.ĭoctor Who: Flux seems to be facing the Doctor with a terrifying possibility - that the Flux has been created to destroy the universe because of her being the Timeless Child.