Aside from Time Lords, a few other groups seemed to have control over time and space, including the Sisterhood of Karn, the Reapers, and the governing body known as the Shadow Proclamation.Ī mysterious member of the Mouri. “Fixed points in time” were always a little murky in contemporary Who canon. This often led to the Doctor taking things too far, such as in “The Water of Mars,” when the 10th Doctor (David Tennant) attempted to rewrite a “fixed point in time,” resulting in a near-catastrophe. After the events of the Time War (post-2005), the Doctor frequently set themselves up as the sole defender and steward of the timeline. However, as Who went on, the Time Lords became more interventionist in terms of waging paradoxical time wars, most notably sending the 4th Doctor (Tom Baker) to destroy the Daleks before they were created in the episode “Genesis of the Daleks.”įrom that point on, Doctor Who has been a bit of a free-for-all when it comes to who or what keeps the “correct” timeline flowing. In the classic Doctor Who era (pre-2005) the Time Lords mostly didn’t interfere with the affairs of other planets, a viewpoint the Doctor often opposed. At the height of their powers, the Doctor’s own people - the Time Lords - were the most obvious and influential masters of time and space. Prior to this episode, most Who canon asserts that the “proper” flow of time is regulated by a few different groups. The Time Lord President Rassilon in “The End of Time” BBC America Who regulates Doctor Who’s timeline?
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