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The Doctor's Two Moms

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Let's face it Doctor Who is never going to have a super consistent singular canon. The only way it could all possibly make sense together is as a complicated mess of alternate universes and timelines with jokes thrown in. Still as a massive fan I will bend time and space to make it all make sense. This brings me to a few major issues. Firstly the Doctor is regularly written as being a human from space, in the very earliest stories. He's shown to have one heart. He seems to refer to himself as human in The Sensorites when there is no in story reason he would do so. Furthermore in the original (unaired) pilot episode it is actually stated that the Doctor and his granddaughter Susan are humans from the 49th century. As the series progressed the Doctor's alien identity became more consistently established and by 1989 there was no doubt in anyone's mind that the Doctor was a two hearted Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey. In the 1996 movie it is stated multiple tim