Howcome the 13th Doctor did not remember this?

[The Nth Doctor]

Next you're going to tell me Doctor Who isn't a documentary!

 

[Captaindemotion]

Next you're going to tell me Doctor Who isn't a documentary!

It’s a Doc Who Mentary

*shows self out*

 

[diankra]

Because most of the writers of her era probably don't even know that Doctor Who existed before 2005, and even if a few do they obviously don't care. They didn't even care about the version of the character they were writing at the time, much less an older version or the stories told in the older era.

Chibnall, who wrote that episode, definitely did. He was in the Merseyside Local Group and was on Open Air criticising season 23.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I've still never forgiven them for that first regeneration...or giving the Doctor two hearts, or inventing Timelords and creating the sonic screwdriver, or filming in colour...

I mean the audacity of it all how dare they?

 

[matthunter]

Chibnall, who wrote that episode, definitely did. He was in the Merseyside Local Group and was on Open Air criticising season 23.

I seem to have been enveloped by a perception filter.

 

[Qonundrum]

Was watching an episode with Jodie and she sees this group of shrunken planets in captivity and I'm wondering why the heck she didn't remember this because she has seen this all before when she was the 4th Doctor?

It jut bugged me because the moment we saw the planets I yelled at the TV "Pirate planet"

Combined with "time can be rewritten" (Modern Who), how classic Who's "The Time Meddler" also states that if history changed then (if they survive via the new/altered history) they wouldn't remember the old way, and so on, those are nice ways to get around how continuity will be forgotten between production teams. For the most part. The Daleks are too simple and even consistent for what they are and do, but exceptions are few...

If one looks at each era as its own encapsulated thing, then it's easier to deal with. After all, "Arc of Infinity" pretends "The Three Doctors" didn't exist regarding Omega, and "Remembrance of the Daleks" makes a goofy hint in how the Doctor and his pals Rassilon and Omega apparently worked on prototype superweapons, despite neither of his buds knowing the guy (of which "The Five Doctors" with Rassilion finally being shown is sufficiently ambiguous, but Omega clearly is not. Best of all, that story isn't as sledgehammery as what was done in "Silver Nemesis", but there nonetheless...)

 

[Qonundrum]

Right? it's like they were making it up as they went along.

In 1963, they had to. Even TOS made it up as they want along, remembering bits of old stories then expanding. Which was harder to do back then, since only typewriters existed... even a word processor circa 1979 can't beat today's script-assisting software where characters, motivations, plotting, et cetera, can be color-coded, searched, refined, and so on. Doubly so when Classic Who and TOS in 1966 had roughly double or more episodes each year to make.

 

[matthunter]

"Remembrance of the Daleks" makes a goofy hint in how the Doctor and his pals Rassilon and Omega apparently worked on prototype superweapons, despite neither of his buds knowing the guy (of which "The Five Doctors" with Rassilion finally being shown is sufficiently ambiguous, but Omega clearly is not.

Either case would have been explained when Cartmel dropped the other shoe, but the series was cancelled (well, put on hiatus in retrospect) before he could reveal the backstory he intended. Since the Doctor was referring to events from a "past life" (in the reincarnation and not regeneration sense), it's likely Rassilon and Omega would NOT recognise him.

Of course, NOW, the "Timeless Child" angle could also explain the Doctor existing as a contemporary of both, and both of them keeping schtum about it because they don't want the Doctor remembering any more of that than is strictly necessary and thus possibly undermining their big fib about the origins of regeneration.