To be fair everything about what people remember in and about The Five Doctors is all ■■■■■■ up, and there are memory wipes involved with the Black Archive, so both of those are somewhat explainable.
And I mean there’s also plenty of potential ways to explain the timeline on the Doctor being a parent, it just didn’t feel like it needed much explanation before now
I do think ‘the Doctor being Ruby’s dad’ is a step RTD wouldn’t take and I do see the line about ‘not being a parent yet’ as being a throwaway line like half-human in the TV Movie that is just there to avoid having to address the idea that the Doctor did the horizontal tango at some point.
But that said, I could be very wrong especially as a lot of what has seemed like throwaway stuff so far this series is suddenly taking on new meaning.
Yeah but… wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey. 
My take is that a lot of this stuff is simply thrown in to confuse and make the Doctor mysterious once again. We simply can’t quite get a handle on his origins, his timeline etc. I think RTD knows how important that is to the Doctor’s character, hence his jettisoning most of the Gallifrey baggage when he brought the show back in 2005. Similarly, though he created the concept of the Time War, he also fleshed this out the least. I think RTD likes the Doctor to be surrounded by mystery (which is why he saw the potential in Chibnall’s Timeless Child arc).
I hope I’m right about that, because I think the Doctor is always more interesting as an enigma.
Doing a cheeky rewatch before the big one tonight and honestly I was too wrapped up in it the first time but the first 10mins are sooo painfully expositiony… you basically don’t need to have watched any other episode it’s all recapped right here right now 
at least that means Empire’s going to have less fluff right? Right???
One can hope.
Watching the Legend of Ruby Sunday as well.
Started with The Church on Ruby Road, then Pyramids of Mars and this will finish just about 1-2 min before it drops 
So excited
Just finished Legend. No matter how Part 2 turns out, that last ten minutes will probably go down in the annals of fandom as one of the best cliffhangers in the history of the show.
I agree, and in retrospect I’m also able to say that whilst not in quite the same league as The Legend of Ruby Sunday, Empire of Death does largely deliver - not a single CyberBrig style moment, which was a wonderful relief.
