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I'm thimking this whole thing was meant to be 2 seasons long but then got screwed up when the actress who plays Ruby left, so they shoehorned in an explanation.
2nd season would have explored Ruby more with a climatic ending, instead she gets a happy ever after dont call us we'll call you ending.
What bothered me about the call back to 73 was the doctor saying he helped overthrow the bad guy (cant remember his name). But in Rubys alternative time line he gave up power before actually being sworn in so the dna database and revolt ever actually happened.
Again fells like a cock up somewhere.
Pretty sure ruby is back next season, right? And that the new companion is an addition not a replacement.
Ruby stopped Gwilliam because the doctor was gone. When she saved the doctor by stopping him from stepping on the fairy circle, that timeline was wiped out and ruby had a different life where we now see she meets her parents and doesn't keep travelling with the doctor. But Gwilliam still happens, so the doctor stops him instead.
"Russell T Davies has now additionally explained that this marks a “pause” for the character. Varadu Sethu (previously seen in Doctor Who as Mundy in “Boom”) will join the TARDIS next year as the 15th Doctor’s newest companion."
Your right and I hadn't considered the absence of the doctor in the timeline.