Anyone know if this is true? The Doctor has been an animal?

[senko]

screenrant.com/doctor-who-animated-show-regeneration-retcon-timeless-child/ say's apparently there has been a new animated short where Novice Hannes refers to many animals who have taken the name of the doctor now made by Russel T Davis. However I can't find the animated short in my searches and I treat things I haven't personally verified as suspicious.

[misterharry]

This is a reference to The Secret of Novice Hame, one of the recent Lockdown stories available on YouTube:

The Secret of Novice Hame

In it, Hame mentions hearing stories of the Doctor's "hundreds of faces and forms, the hundreds of men and women and animals who have taken that name". So you can believe it or not as you wish - Hame is only referring to stories which may or may not be true.

[senko]

I see thank you, this still disturbs me.

[Stormcrow]

The slippery slope steepens.

[senko]

True, very true.

EDIT

I'm now picturing a future retcon where the Doctor is the giant space whale from the beast below.

[olegrand]

Doctor Who is turning into Doctor WTF...

[grinch]

Jun 16, 2020 16:51:26 GMT olegrand said:

Doctor Who is turning into Doctor WTF...

Wouldn’t surprise me if they revealed that everyone is in fact the Doctor. Or Davros is actually an alternate version of The Doctor or something.

Oh well, you have to laugh don’t you?

[korith]

OH NO THE VALEYARD IS THE DOCTOR

[olegrand]

Dec 22, 2020 20:00:47 GMT korith said:

OH NO THE VALEYARD IS THE DOCTOR

You mean, of course, that the Valeyard is the Doctor.

And the Master (who was also none other than the War Chief and the Meddling Monk *)

* Incidentally, the whole 'the Master is the War Chief is the Meddling Monk' theory was presented as a 'fact' (!) in an old FASA supplement - back then, "official continuity" was still a thing of the future... (and now it seems that is has been replaced by "official discontinuity".

[Catsmate]

Dec 23, 2020 8:16:28 GMT olegrand said:

Dec 22, 2020 20:00:47 GMT korith said:

OH NO THE VALEYARD IS THE DOCTOR

You mean, of course, that the Valeyard is the Doctor.

And the Master (who was also none other than the War Chief and the Meddling Monk *)

* Incidentally, the whole 'the Master is the War Chief is the Meddling Monk' theory was presented as a 'fact' (!) in an old FASA supplement - back then, "official continuity" was still a thing of the future... (and now it seems that is has been replaced by "official discontinuity".

To be fair they did give GMs the option to alter this. Otherwise the Master supplement is surprisingly good.

[Stormcrow]

Dec 23, 2020 8:16:28 GMT olegrand said:

Incidentally, the whole 'the Master is the War Chief is the Meddling Monk' theory was presented as a 'fact' (!) in an old FASA supplement

I first read this idea in an issue of Dragon Magazine. The show kind of asked for it by starting out the Master as an old enemy of the Doctor's that we'd never heard of before. I could see the War Chief being the Master — his MO is similar — but never the Monk. The Doctor and the War Chief recognize each other and discuss their reasons for leaving their world. If the Monk had been the same character, that conversation would have happened earlier.