Still jumping up and down this morning!

@Wolfweed – “…some will have watched it 180 times...” Whatever do you mean?!!  (Nice to see the trailer notching up the numbers on YouTube – 400k and 320k on the 2 official YouTubes)

@Bluesqueakpip Thanks for copying out the text – really helpful, and I agree on your pick-up of “impossible”

The point @Bl…[Read more]

@Hudsey agree too and with @blenkinsopthebrave. It does seem to me that the trailor implies that TNotD will take us back to the beginning and deal with the time war as well as per @HTPBDET‘s theory. (in the 50th anniversary thread) Apologies @blenkinsopthebrave for my tardy response being one of the few awake at this time but we didn’t watch the…[Read more]

@Hudsey. Glad you agree that the words in the mini trailer are really very important. Totally with you on the notion that it may all be hinting at a restart of the entire timeline. Moffat likes to hide stuff in plain sight. I suspect that he has revealed quite a lot with the spoken word in this mini trailer.

Am sort of surprised that no one else…[Read more]

@Hudsey

Another good post.

Options for Hurt Doc are:

1. Pre Doc 1

2. Between Docs 2 & 3

3. Between Docs 8 & 9

The clothing that Hurt wears would suggest 3. but I still think it will be 1. I think you are right that Moffat will not dwell on the Time War but go elsewhere, which effectively eliminates 3 I suggest. Actually I would really li…[Read more]

@hudsey

I am liking your theory more and more. Particularly the fact that it provides a coherent alternative to the Time War focus of the 50th that most people have accepted. But…when you say that the “smith doc cannot remember the experiences of the tennant doc in the anniversary episode”,  I am not sure where you are getting that from. After…[Read more]

Just got time to dash off a note before this hotel room’s WiFi expires*: @hudsey, welcome to the forum, and congrats for a superbly bonkers theory — but also a very plausible one — to start us off with!

*Venice. It’s a hard life…

@scaryB Thanks for that link, exactly what I have been looking for! Even though I am back in Germany now I am honestly thinking about flying to the UK for the 23. to see the whole thing in a cinema, must be amazing. Turns out my best mate found his way to Doctor Who as well when I was in the UK so we might just book a flight and do it… (Funny…[Read more]

@Hudsey – yes, welcome. Making your first post a completely bonkers theory is definitely a good move.

What I like about it is that placing the Hurt ‘Doctor’ as the very first regeneration of The Time Lord Currently Known As The Doctor fits in with the ‘Prisoner Zero has escaped’ motif of The Eleventh Hour. The Hurt Doctor isn’t Doctor Zero…[Read more]

@JanetteB

If we were to combine all the bonkers theories about the anniversary special, and ironed out all the contradictions, we would have enough material for the next series at least. Maybe the next 50 years even, with a few filler episodes.

Haha, loved that. Very true

And welcome to @Hudsey Great first post. Agree, and it’s been suggested a…[Read more]

@Hudsey. You certainly know how to get a welcome to this forum. Come up with a bonkers theory. Well done. I do like the idea that the J.H. Doctor might be pre Hartnell. You pointed to some good reasons for The Day of the Doctor not to feature the time war. I think it is now generally assumed that it will but we all know that Moffat likes to…[Read more]

@Hudsey

I like your theory as well as @pedant. (don’t ask me why we have to refer to him that way…it just is.)

The the only thing about your theory that I wonder about is that when the Hartnell Doctor first encounters the Daleks it really does seem like the first time. But…it would be entirely possible for the Hurt Doctor to also encounter…[Read more]

@Hudsey

So my theory may be quickly dismissed by most

You really are new around here, aren’t you?

(Actually, I rather like your theory)