A number of images released today for The Timeless Children, plus the people at CultBox.co.uk have taken the time to freeze-frame the BBC America trailer, which throws up what might well be a spoiler. A lot of the images relate to Gallifrey and the Doctor / Master, with Ashad present. Other images show Ryan and Ko Sharmus back on the Boundary planet with the Cybermen arriving.
We get a glimpse of a Time Lord in the traditional robes, collar and skullcap. Commentator Runcible described them, way back in The Deadly Assassin where they were first introduced, as "seldom worn", but they've come to define what Gallifrey-based Time Lords wear all the time.
The Master is seen with Ashad and operating his Tissue Compression Eliminator...
But a very significant 'blink and you'll miss it' scene is this one:
A woman dressed in the same uniform as Gat, who featured in Fugitive of the Judoon, sitting with two other figures - one in red, the other in yellow. The latter might even be the Time Lord seen above. What is significant about this image is the one immediately before it - a dissolve from another scene...
A scene set in the Garda office dissolves into the scene on Gallifrey. The Gat-like lady is sitting where the senior police officer was sitting, whilst Brendan is where the person in red is, and his dad where the person in yellow is. Now this might just be a directorial flourish, juxtaposing similar looking scenes, but another explanation is apparent. We know that the Irish sequence has to have some bearing on this episode, and we know that something very odd is going on which makes that sequence look like it can't be real. If it's all an illusion, was Brendan really the person in red, sitting in an office on Gallifrey the whole time? Someone appears to be standing to the left as the two scenes dissolve together - the hint of grey suggesting that it might be the Doctor. If it is, then this might just be images the Master is showing her - stuff he found about about the Time Lords' great deceit.
In the Doctor / Master images, Gallifrey is clearly in ruins, yet in this office image there is no sign of that damage, suggesting it's a glimpse of the past - possibly the very distant past. Of course this throws up all sorts of other questions - like how could Gat, originating on ancient Gallifrey, have been around in 21st Century Gloucester? What does this have to do with Dr Ruth? If the person in red really is the Brendan character, why the whole unreal existence in rural Ireland?
This series might have a had a few clunkers, but it's indicative of the general improvement this season that we are speculating at all. I don't think anyone had any real interest in what the Series 11 finale might have contained.
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