Doctor Who: Series 13 Trailer Breakdown - 20 Things You Must See

2. The Timeless Child's Portal

Doctor Who Series 13 (Flux) decayed Master theory
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Some people hope that Chibnall retcons the Timeless Child twist in Series 13. Some hope that he ignores it. Some want him to explore it further. And countless others are probably sick of talking about it at this point. Raises hand.

Regardless of which camp you're in, you can't deny that the portal we see in the above shot looks very similar to the portal through which the Timeless Child originally fell.

Doctor Who Series 12 The Timeless Children portal
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If the Doctor is feeling a little burned by the whole Timeless Child thing, it only makes sense that she'd seek out some answers for herself - and her best shot at finding those answers would be to head through that original portal.

If this isn't the Timeless Child's portal, then it could be the Gallifreyan boundary seen in the Series 12 finale. Maybe Series 13 will take us back to the Time Lords' ravaged planet - which, again, would make sense if the Doctor is desperate for answers.

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Danny has been with WhatCulture for almost nine years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. He has been writing and video editing for 10+ years, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers and uploading them to YouTube (they're admittedly a bit rusty by today's standards). If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order or to tell you about the making of 1988's Remembrance of the Daleks, Danny is the person to ask.