I’M THE SON OF ALL I’VE DONE

He wonders what age he’s finally reached. The Time War used years as ammunition; at the Battle of Rodan’s Wedding alone, he’d aged to five million and then regressed to a mewling babe, merely from shrapnel. Now, the ache in his bones feels… one thousand years old? Well. Call it nine hundred. Sounds better.

In the same way RTD's 'Doctor Who and the Time War,' where the above quote is from, is a page from a novel that doesn't exist, this is a splash page from a comic that doesn't exist. Time War PTSD, much like the war itself, is multidimensional.

With episodes like The Long Game, Gridlock, Planet of the Ood, etc. It's been like this since day one.

I specifically remember Planet of the Ood, and the Ood in general being one of the the show's biggest triumphs at the time. I wasn't even really aware of Doctor Who when that episode came out. I didn't get into the show until 4 yrs later. But I knew about the Ood. EVERYONE loved the Ood.

And that episode was waaay more preachy and pointed than anything we were shown in 2023.