We shall see, i don’t think she’s gonna come back and this is just RTD dangling a carrot but that’s just a theory
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I reckon she’ll be back, you all know how I feel about it too… 
I don’t look forward to it under RTD.
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Lazy writing.
Money saving.
Probably explained by the end of the season.
Money saving.
Money saving.
You call yourself a fan of Two and you don’t even know the setting of one of his best TV stories? 
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Well it says 17 years later not 17 years and 2 months and a day later.
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I figure they’d’ve mentioned it if it were though, they don’t need that kind of specificity
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I’m just guessing, it’s all about the coincidence theory.
It was mostly the fact that she had the same coat as Ruby.
Maybe Ruby took it to a charity shop and Belinda bought it from there.
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I’m pretty sure she would have mentioned that the Robots were ruining her birthday or some such if it actually was her birthday…
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I guess. I need to rewatch it!
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You do!
The whole scene with Alan at the beginning is more interesting second watch.
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I didn’t get the impression that it was necessarily her birthday in the later time either.
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The offhand remark about women and maths and the really awkward kiss read differently, that’s for sure.
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Also how old is Belinda?
The actress is 32 so If that was 17 years ago then she was 15 when he proposed to her.
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Well she said they split 16 years ago, so I’d imagine that was roughly a year later. But I think mid-30s. I could believe she was 17 at the beginning, 18 at the proposal, and 34 now?
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This makes sense. But to me the fact that Belinda is house sharing seemingly with strangers that can’t even get her name right made me confused because that’s an arrangement I’d associate with early 20s. Guess that’s just the current housing market
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You know what I’d really like just as a throwaway line or something during this season is for the Doctor to go “I once had a father-in-law who was a nurse” 
That’d make me happy
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I have this theory about season 2:
The Doctor is in the land of fiction.
I just thought if it a few minutes ago, and it is mainly to explain the problems I have with the current season and last season, so it’s not fully thought out.
One of the things that confused me about the robot revolution is that the spaceship looked exactly like a cartoon rocket, and that is basically the whole reason I came up with this theory. It’s also because I read Conundrum the other day. (The only land of fiction story I’ve read/watched, so this theory may not even match canon)
If the Doctor is in the land of fiction, that explain the how the spaceship looks, as well as why the new companion is similar to past companions. If the master of the land of fiction knows the type of person who the Doctor likes to travel with, that explain why Belinda is similar to past companions (not wanting to travel in the TARDIS, being a young woman from earth, being a mystery)
The master of the land of fiction created her to draw the Doctor in, using the face of someone he had encountered already.
Also explains why the story felt kind of rushed and underdeveloped (to me). In conundrum, the master of the land of fiction was a teenager from 20th century earth, so they may be rushing stories or not thinking them through, and will use what they know, hence the cartoon ish robots and spaceship.
I guess mrs flood could aware that she is in the land of fiction, which explains all her fourth wall breaking, or she could be the master of the land of fiction, as he did fourth wall breaks in conundrum.
I don’t really know what other theories people have been coming up with, so I may just be repeating stuff that’s been said already 
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A return of the Land of Fiction would be pretty cool, but I know I and probably a lot of people would be extremely frustrated if they did it in a way that essentially says the last two seasons of the show weren’t real.
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In the original serial “The Mind Robber”, the Master of the Land of Fiction was this gentleman here:
A writer who wrote a serial in a Boys Magazine named “The Adventures of Captain Jack Harkaway”. However, he was old, and the Great Intelligence was looking for a replacement (and, naturally, what better replacement then the Doctor?).
(Of course, with that serial name, I’ve speculated before that Captain Jack Harkness might be fiction…)
I’d have to imagine that Conundrum is set at some point where he’s been replaced…
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Good theory, and definitely one that has been floating around a bit. However:
I believe this has more to do with the fact that RTD wanted to go for a 50s sci-fi aesthetic for the episode (as also seen from the sets, the robots and their ray guns). That kind of rocket looks very classic.
I mean, this is hardly anything unusual. We’ve had similar companions before. Ian/Steven/Ben were meant to be the action-hero; Mickey/Rory is the bumbling boyfriend; Five and Thirteen had three companions; Rose/Amy/Clara were all very special and important; Ian/Barbara/Tegan/Belinda just wanted to get back home and so on…
Again, isn’t this kinda the case with most Revival episodes? They are 45-50 minutes in length and often more rushed than the Classic serials. I didn’t find TRR any more rushed than most other season openers, but that’s just me.
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