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@purofilion – thank you for that excellently elegant post (22609)! i can’t agree more, and would just like to add one more thought…

how many inhabited planets has the doctor personally destroyed? in the entire history of the show, has it ever been revealed that he destroyed even one, other than gallifrey? he couldn’t even push the button that…[Read more]

@WhoHar – i’m guessing the memory loss will be wiped away by the regeneration, to let capaldi have his own problems to deal with. however, it may play a part in whatever mistake matt makes that gets him killed, maybe?

yes, there were a few other memory loss “clues,” most notably in ‘hide,’ i think? or ‘the crimson horror.’ (or both!) but there…[Read more]

@ everyone – as quite a few have debated the whole “did the doctor re-write a horrible past event (and three incarnations just can’t remember it’s fixed, now), OR did he never really make the decision to let gallifrey burn in the first place (because he could/would never do such a thing)” question…

well, i’ve had too much time to kill today,…[Read more]

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“Per my (completely ignored, sniff) post on the DotD thread, I wonder if the Doc’s memory loss will be linked in some way to the Silence and their memory wiping abilities? Or possibly the mind worm from Snowmen.”

@WhoHar – sorry, i forgot to post a reply when you postulated this on the other thread. not because i’m the doctor… just because i…[Read more]

“So Tardises seem almost common,  everone’s got one…”

@Scatamonky – but not everyone who gets one travels in it, constantly, for thousands of years, like the doctor! recall, his journeys through space and time were damaging enough to endanger all of time and space…

and, those other tardises probably didn’t develop sentience (again, over…[Read more]

@Scatamonky – i’ve been obsessing over the whole “we die at trenzalore” thing, too, as matt told david in ‘tDotD.’ the timey-wimey-ness of ‘the name of the doctor’ has really put a bend in my brain!

my only way of understanding it (until it’s made more explicit, hopefully in the upcoming xmas special), is that matt’s doctor was the final one, so…[Read more]

@ScaryB – i saw that a long time ago. i wouldn’t use it to glean insight into anything other than moffat’s sense of humour!

the gender thing, i agree, it would have to be story-driven. one possible reason for moffat to change his gender would be so that he could write another conception-in-the-tardis story! the doctor becomes a woman, falls in…[Read more]

“How did 11 change his opinion so radical in comparison to 10 in the end of time? Was it all Clara?”

@Timeloop – basically, yes, i think clara is the reason, specifically in ‘tDotD.’ but also, his travels with amy, whom he met as a child. it is clearly established, after amy and rory are gone, that he spent a long, long time by himself, grieving…[Read more]

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“Still. I think Moffat needs to find some opportunities to play with the Doctor’s gender and race in a story where he can back out of it if everyone hates it.”

@curvedspace – i agree. it would be so easy to do. there have been doctor-lite episodes, such as ‘blink.’ just come up with a similar idea, when capaldi is unavailable for regular f…[Read more]