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The Doctor wrote on 12/6/24 11:50 pm:
> In article <v4c3o8$1l9fe$1@dont-email.me>, The Last Doctor
> <mike@xenocyte.com> wrote:
>> Hornplayer9599 <Hornplayer9599@aol.com> wrote:
>>> On 6/12/2024 01:27, Your Name wrote:
>>> 
>>>> The Doctor numbering continues mainly because that's a
>>>> fan-based thing ... has the numbering ever been mentioned
>>>> in-show??
>>> 
>>> I think Peter Davidson (in character) mentioned in "The Five
>>> Doctors" that he was the fourth regeneration of the Doctor.
>> 
>> He does, and the first Doctor responds with “oh, so there are
>> five of me now.”
>> 
>> And there have been one or two other mentions down the years.
>> 
>> But it’s a rarity and regardless of whether you accept that the
>> Timeless Children shows a “reset” forgetting an unknown number
>> of previous regenerations, the existence of the War Doctor, David
>> Tennant counting as three (two incarnations but three
>> regenerations) and now the insertion somehow of not only the
>> Fugitive Doctor but also the Shalka Doctor into the Doctor’s
>> pasts, indicates that any in-universe counting has become 
>> meaningless.
>> 
>> So these days the only place the number has meaning is in fannish 
>> conversation and used to refer to the precedence of an actor to
>> have had the lead role for a season or TV movie - and even there
>> we’re now counting Tennant twice.
> 
> And that all contradicts the Timeless child.

How, Gobble-de-gook?? How does 'all that' contradict The Timeless Child, 
Gobble-de-gook??
-- 
Daniel