We’ve also got our current theory where if Umbreen = Yaz she might end up with a fobwatch. Sub-option: meta suggesting broken which means the Doctor did take the old memories.

And there’s the other irl meta that Jodie says she’s done her regeneration scene, but it wasn’t with the next Doctor she regenerates into - who hadn’t even been cast yet. (Which makes sense cus it’s pretty obvious that Chibnall wrote all this envisioning that this might be the last of Doctor Who for a while, even if now this has turned out not to be the case.)

What if you chose to have her regenerate going through the portal? Going gold, and stepping through into a brave new world.

Leaving RTD to pick up his Doctor like Nine if he’d so choose, a Doctor in-progress. Sub-option: And the fact that the Doctor’s got a whole bunch of new memories wouldn’t matter so much, because ‘Fourteen’ might not even be ‘Fourteen’ at all - there’s an obvious time gap in which any number of things could’ve happened. In fact it would leave him free to do a past Doctor if he wanted, and that not have to be apparent until he chose to reveal it. RTD in particular was never a big fan of the ‘numbering’ system - I don’t believe any of the three are - and I can imagine he’d enjoying messing with fandom like that in some regard if he thought he could get away with it.

NO google, this is a male