Was she? Or did the Doctor’s tweak to reality retcon Poppy’s existence and backstory?
Yes, that. So she wasn’t mentioning it until it became reality.
To me it was clear that the past reality changed. But the fact that there are so many who are understanding it differently is not a tribute to this having been written anywhere in the universe as “well.”
Weirdly there were three characterizations for Belinda at play - very eager to get back home to her mom, very eager to travel everywhere with The Doctor and Poppy, snd happy at home with Poppy and her parents - why didn’t she worry sbout her parents in the middle stage (I mean, it’s not completely unreasonable, but it’s a bit whiplashy to have the parent-concern go away briefly)
Normally I’d explain it by having her accept that the Doctor can get her back at precisely the right time, but the whole point of this was that he couldn’t.
It’s also a poor reason for her to walk away from being the companion, for the same reason: if he can get her back thirty seconds after she left, why on earth would that affect childcare for her daughter?
Traveling with the Doctor is risky - she has seen enough to know she might not come back at all
Historically, the Doctor’s ability to actually get people back to the right place “thirty seconds after they left” has been…iffy at best. That may be what the Doctor promises, but fulfillment of that promise has been less than stellar.
Am I being too literal, pedantic, “that-guy-ish” to hate the whole “mavity” thing largely because it makes no sense? Newton did not invent the word “gravity” out of thin air, so it’s not something that could be changed by a mis-hearing. “Gravity” comes from gravitas, the Latin word for “weight.” Indeed, the Principia, where Newton introduced his theory of universal gravitation, was in fact written in Latin. How could “mavity” possibly have snuck in?
I know, it’s foolish to take Doctor Who too seriously about these things, but it bugs me. Not just because it’s annoying, but because it doesn’t stand up to logical scrutiny.
That alone wouldn’t bother me. Very little in the show ever has! It was an attempt at a stupid gag that whiffed. It happens. But then they kept leaning in to it, as if it was actually at all funny, or significant. And every time they said it again it was instead something that pulled us as viewers out of the story of the moment with an “oh this stupid thing”.
I think many of us as longtime viewers tried really hard to give this show the benefit of the doubt this run: all these annoying bits would come together by the end. There would be a punchline worth the set ups. Nope. No punchline. They weren’t setting stuff up. Ah well.
Like Mrs. Flood constantly breaking the 4th wall. Her being revealed to be a Time Person is not an explanation for that.
Disney has cut ties with Doctor Who. Seems like they felt it was quite the disaster, culminating with Gatwa quitting.