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On 2024-06-28 23:41:41 +0000, The Last Doctor said:
> Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
>> On 2024-06-28 12:46:10 +0000, solar penguin said:
>>> The idiot insisted:
>>>> In article <v5kjn6$2tng1$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>> solar penguin  <solar.penguin@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> The idiot insisted:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The Timeless Child is an albatross on Doctor Who.
>>>>> 
>>>>> An albatross? You mean it’s bad luck to destroy it?
>>>>> 
>>>>> In that case, Doctor Who should keep the Timeless Child and
>>>>> not even try to retcon it!
>>>> 
>>>> IT is good luck to destry the timeless child from Doctor Who.
>>> 
>>> So now you’re claiming it’s the exact opposite of an albatross?
>>> 
>>> In ‘The Ancient Mariner’ the albatross brings the ship good luck
>>> until the mariner kills it, then the luck all turns bad.
>>> 
>>> Which is it? Make up your mind!
>> 
>> The village idiot is alluding to the saying about having "an albatross
>> around your neck" ...
>> 
>> "The phrase albatross around my neck refers to
>> a heavy burden or some sort of curse that's
>> causing distress or stopping you from doing
>> something."
> 
> Yeah. The saying itself comes from the epic poem “The Rime of the Ancient
> Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. After the Mariner kills the albatross
> that the crew believed was bringing them good luck, they hang it around his
> neck to remind him of the curse that they think he has brought upon them.

So apparently The Timeless Child is the albatross around the neck of 
Doctor Who ... a burden / curse that is stopping it from being the good 
show it was before that.

Realistically, the "albatross" is all the Politically Correct idiocy, 
but that infests most of the planet these days and is the albatross 
around the neck of all normal, sensible people.  :-(