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I finally got the first season of the new series..

A retired Doctor is only radical if we ignore all the times the Doctor tried to go fishing, or visit the Eye of Orion, or fucked around in ancient Rome. Or became the Curator.
I'm sure there's a debate to be had on when there were the most Doctors on Earth at once (outside of actual multi-Doctor stories) ignoring each other. Like, depending on the exact date the Beatles episode took place, that could've had the First, Seventh, Twelfth, and Fifteenth Doctors all within a hundred or so miles of each other. Probably the Curator, too. And at least two Captain Jacks.
 
I'm literally fine with a retired Doctor living off in London and potentially having travels around the world while the Fifteenth Doctor enjoys travels across the universe. Its not the kind of insult to the mainbrain the way that the Timeless Children concept is at its core.
 
The Timeless Child can be ignored in 99.99% of Doctor Who stories. But there's a retired Doctor living in 21st century London now. Doing nothing. Any story in the present that requires 15 or a later Doctor to save the day is going to have at least some viewers thinking, is 14 really just hanging out with Donna in Blackpool or Brighton for the weekend while the Warriors of the Profanation of the Tantalized Rhombus are attacking the fancy UNIT tower in London?
He probably just thinks that 15 and co. can handle any of the average alien attacks that come along at least once or twice a year, and if something really huge comes along I'm sure him and Donna will be willing to help.
As for him retiring to modern day London, that was only because that's where Donna and her family are, and he just didn't want to force them to leave their home.
 
I think so, unless they pull something like the Watcher storyline where 14 somehow reunites with 15 or another Doctor down the line.
I’ve assumed — and I thought it was supported in dialogue, but I could be wrong — that the bigeneration isn’t the Doctor becoming two different people, it’s the next regeneration — the one after 14 — showing up early, while still being the one after 14. So 14 has his years or centuries of peaceful retirement, which cures him of his PTSD, and finally dies in a flash of artron radiation… whereupon his next incarnation, instead of appearing then, appears back at the moment of the bigeneration, and that’s 15.

(For continuity’s sake, we can postulate that the same thing happens to the TARDIS — 15’s TARDIS disappears upon 14’s death, reappearing back when 15 used the “hammer” and popped it out.)
 
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