This is also an explanation you came up with. I don’t see how it’s different from what I did.
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I was just using logic and context given in the episode itself. It’s a bit of an interpretation, but to suggest that it needs a large amount of mental gymnastics to explain the shape of the TARDIS doesn’t really add up is all. And if I came across as arrogant, I hadn’t meant to.
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I didn’t say that you needed to do any mental gymnastics.
But your explanation is different from @ChrisStokes’. So clearly it’s not as logical as you think.
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Yeah, but I guess they kind of have to, because she uses it in the show.
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Never mind, I now see the edit
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“Having to scramble for an explanation” was what I was referring to, and I don’t agree one has to. And logic doesn’t mean there’s only one solution, more than one explanation can be logical, so the suggestion that because someone else came up with something else means I’m less logical is inaccurate. One can use whatever explanation they’d like, but I’ll just go with the simple one, where it just happened to be a police box because of its location. Now I do agree that the way the Fugitive Doctor and the Timeless Child is built up on a lot of convenient coincidences of the TARDIS happened to be a police box, happened to be the same one the Doctor has, and the first Doctor just happened to unknowingly take the same one when he left Gallifrey, makes it not the best executed or best written story, but that’s beside the point.
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Yeah, again this is very personal for the individual in how deep one wants to go.
I find this not satisfying, but it’s awesome if you do.
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Oh, no. I wouldn’t say I’m satisfied by it, and idk if Chibnall even had that deep of an idea of how it all lined up and worked in his overall story. The execution of just about all of that storyline is, well, in the words of Chris Chibnall, “it could have been slightly better written.”
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It’s not a big stretch that it’s the same TARDIS, given Clara specifically told the Doctor to take that one.
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That is true, though I’d imagine far from Chibnall’s mind when he wrote his stuff.
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Well, it was Vinay Patel and Chris Chibnall on this episode, so two different people that could have thought about it. (Not to mention the myriad of other people working on the show…)
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Also the TARDIS saying in “The Doctor’s Wife” that she stole the Doctor.
I’ve always thought it is the same Type 40 TARDI-BOX the Doctor travelled in when working for Division.
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I figured the arc stuff with the Fugitive Doctor and TTC was all Chibnall and Patel more responsible for the Judoon story of that one episode. I could be wrong. I still doubt either of them considered The Name of the Doctor in writing it.
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Plus the fact that the sign wasn’t there in The Church on Ruby Road suggests that it wasn’t planned out at the start. If he’d had a bigger ‘writers room’ they might have come up with something better!
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If you want to be unkind, you could choose to credit Chris Chibnall with bringing Mel back.
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Do I want to be unkind? 
Hmm…
It’s no secret that I preferred the Chibnall era to the current one, but fair’s fair - Mel only had a single line in the Power of the Doctor.
Huh look at me not being unkind towards RTD - I guess that’s what they call personal growth 
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We just seem to be agreeing today. I’m right there with you on Chibnall > RTD2 so far. It could change when we start getting a greater variety of writers though.
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God, The Macra Terror is peak. Evil giant space crabs running a 1984 space colony. Who thinks of this? Just such a good episode, honestly my joint-fav 2 story so far alongside Tomb, cannot get enough.
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