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A "reality war" it is, indeed. Much of episodes 7 and 8 was a war against reality, including the Doctor being called "Doctor Who". ... Sorry, I digress. Personally, I have not considered Ncuti to be a good Doctor, it's all just the wrong personality for him. Maybe some of it was the script, but some if it probably wasn't. (Time Lords aren't human. I wish that the writers wouldn't make them act so human.) We shall see how the new one turns out. I think it can't be much worse anymore.
Although I like that Omega, despite having been described as "the first Time Lord" incorrectly (depending on the canon, that's either the Other or the Timeless Child), has been brought back and I think that the Rani is a more interesting villain than the Master, the whole series 2 had a lot of potentially interesting characters - and all of them were one-dimensional. Flat. Uninspired. (I hope we can agree that Maestro was a good example for that.) Last time we saw Omega, he was a force of nature, banished into the opposite of a universe, only to return as a plot device with no good explanation. Sigh.
I wonder why neither the Rani nor the Doctor seem to remember that Omega has no body to extract DNA from. Plot hole?
Technically Omega was the first time lord - he created the technology that enabled their time travel.
It depends on whether Time Lords are "Gallifreyans with a TARDIS" or something more complicated, I think.
Well, the ability to regenerate is one thing, but i'm pretty sure it was mastery of time travel that made them time lords!
Timeless child aside, i always loved the beta canon idea that the ability to regenerate came from the great vampires.....