Following the reveal of Mrs. Flood’s true identity in Doctor Who, which confirms the popular theory that she is the Rani, audiences are now stunned about another returning Time Lord. While Doctor Who’s bi-generation twist is unusual enough, it’s even stranger when you realize that the Fourteenth Doctor’s throwaway line in “The Giggle” may hold more weight than it initially seemed, and is perhaps a warning to his successor before regeneration.
Doctor Who Was Teasing Omega’s Return As Early As David Tennant’s Final Episode
“The Giggle” Focused So Much On The Patheon, Many Missed This Indirect Nod To Omega
Before Doctor Who sees the Toymaker’s gold tooth drop, the Doctor bi-generates, and the world is saved from the Pantheon God, the Fourteenth incarnation of the Time Lord makes a reference to Omega. As the recently reunited Doctor and Donna Noble attempt to find a way out of the eerie toy shop, the companion questions her best friend about who the Toymaker exactly is, naturally being unaware of the Pantheon Gods, their purpose, and their experiences with the Doctor.
The final episodes of The Sarah Jane Adventures never aired after the death of actress Elisabeth Sladen in 2011. However, the season 5 finale, “The Battle of Bannerman Road” would have established that Sarah Jane’s daughter, Sky, was in fact the child of the Trickster.
In “The Giggle,” David Tennant’s third version of the titular character mentions the “Under-universe” to Donna. He doesn’t go into much detail about the enigmatic location, but he states that the Toymaker is from “A hollow beneath” the under-universe. We know the Pantheon Gods can bend and change the rules of reality, and come from a place outside the known universe, but Doctor Who never specifies the particular location or appearance of the under-universe, either.
What Is The Underverse In Doctor Who?
Doctor Who Didn’t Specify, But There Are Past Lore Details That May Confirm It
Omega is the only being to live within the anti-matter universe, and he supposedly warped it to fit his judgments. The centuries of being by himself, isolated, sends Omega mad eventually. There’s a very good chance that the anti-matter universe and the under-universe, or under-verse, are the same place. Doctor Who leaves things vague on purpose quite often, but there’s usually a payoff, and so this would make a lot of sense. Like the Pantheon, Omega comes from a world on the edge of reality, which doesn’t use the same building blocks or follow the same rules as our own.
However, what if the underverse and our reality are merging into one, even before the Rani breaks it apart? Belinda and the Doctor’s old-fashioned Earth in Doctor Who season 15, episode 7 is, understandably, wished for by Conrad. Giant skeletons roam the Earth that are there but aren’t really, as Ruby and Shirley point out. Everyone has plain mugs for “slips” (even those without a home), too, and the Doctor and his companion have a child that not even Belinda herself can remember giving birth to.
