While she is in the time storm she gets a glimpse of the past that is closed off to her, and in the end she is desperate to stay to find out something more, even if it means taking a deadly risk with her life. What has happened to the Doctor works well as a representation of the frustrations of amnesia. This is always going to be a polarising opinion, but I stand by my first thoughts on pre-Hartnell that it is a brilliant idea, with the potential to heal more past inconsistencies than it creates, and much more importantly it opens up some great story possibilities, as we are starting to see already.
This of course ties in beautifully with Chibnall’s pre-Hartnell timeline, which I suspected was the game he was going to play this season, especially when it became clear that the Doctor was facing an enemy who remembered her, but whom she had forgotten.
This is the playground that Chris Chibnall is choosing to play in, and it’s surprising that no writer has really tried to go there before, except possibly for the same reason that the Time War was better left as a concept than something we actually get to see it’s hard to do justice to such a big idea. The Dark Times: so far little more than a cool sounding idea, a vague notion of a scary, distant past.
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