Doctor Who Series 12: Ten Huge Questions After Praxeus
4. Why Were The Revelations In Fugitive Of The Judoon Ignored?
One other explanation for the Doctor referring to brains in the plural could be that she is consulting with her other selves, figuratively. Her thoughts process could well be ‘what would this version of me have to say about this?’ Graham logs the Doctor’s brains reference, but files it away as a question for another day. But this brings us on to the end of the previous week’s episode in which the Doctor explained to Graham, Yaz and Ryan that Ruth was another version of her.
The idea that the Doctor can regenerate is a discussion the TARDIS team have already had with the Doctor, following the Master’s revelations in Spyfall. It might have been too ‘out there’ to warrant more probing, but now they have met a different Doctor, surely they have more questions. How odd then that not one single reference is made to the Doctor’s extraordinary revelation in Fugitive of the Judoon. And it doesn’t stop there either, after Captain Jack’s message about the Lone Cybermen, these companions will have even more questions.
Like Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror, Praxeus starts in the middle of an adventure. The TARDIS team have already separated as part of their investigation. They are continents apart. Ryan is in Peru, Yaz and Graham in Hong Kong, and the Doctor in Madagascar, so perhaps those conversations about the Ruth Doctor have already occurred and now they are more than a little preoccupied by the next adventure. Either that, or there has already been some memory wiping shenanigans going on, something that is still likely to be used as a way of overcoming some of the continuity issues thrown up by Jo Martin’s Doctor.