@thommck –

what if series 8 had no Doctor! What if it was Clara and the TARDIS searching the universe for him

I was originally being slightly flippant when i suggested (over on the 50th Anni thread) that a […]

Given the name of the thread… David Morrissey?  Andrew Scott, already got ties with Moffat? We know he can do dark (although I fully expect the Valeyard thing to have been dealt with by the end of the […]

Mark Gatiss co-created Doctor Who?  He’s still looking spritely then considering the show is about to turn 50!  Well done Gruniad.

@Bluesqueakpip, @ScaryB – perhaps a variation on the ‘promoted companion’ concept could be used to pave the way for a female Doctor.  For example, rather than having a Doctor-lite episode, they do a Doctor-lite […]

@Whisht – thanks!  Agree completely, if SM is making previous canon non-limiting, then why leave in place his own (unless he has a plan to resolve it soon enough).

Was wondering following the discussions […]

@ScaryB – I think the not running is relevant too, as the Doctor has mentioned ‘all my life I’ve been running’.  When he’s running he’s fulfilling the promise of the Doctor, but when he stops?
Good call on ‘more […]

@ScaryB –

All good points, and in my scenario if all defeats turned into death then he wouldn’t have lasted long enough to reach his own grave and prompt the events that led to the GI getting access to the […]

Just a couple of thoughts on the HurtDoctor –

There’s been discussion of where he fits in the Doctors timeline, and what he did that wasn’t in the name of the Doctor, but has anyone considered it might be what […]

@blenkinsopthebrave – Doubt we’ve seen the last of the GI.  I suspect that the GI shards will be around to cause mischief, purely to avenge themselves on the Doctor for reasons they can’t remember.  As you’ve […]

@WhoHar, @ScaryB, @TimeLoop –

Likewise, I agree that being in his own timestream could allow him to see his own future (and possibly did, if we assume HurtDoctor as Twelve/Thirteen or somesuch), but I was […]

@phaseshift –

I’m sure at some point the Master is going to escape that timelock, and it does occur that a marvellous arc could be developed in which he carried a few hundred non-Timelord Gallifreyans with him, […]

@bluesqueakpip –

I think the symbolism of Matt Smith’s Doctor continually making self-referential jokes about ‘Eleven’ is that he’s wiped the Hurt Doctor out of the continuity. The Hurt Doctor doesn’t count as […]

@SatsumaJoe –

Capture one and have Edvard Munch use them for a painting. The Stetson/fez etc wasn’t really necessary.

🙂 Heehee.  Love the thought of the Doctor trying to persuade Munch the picture would look […]

@Bluesqueakpip –

Not sure I’ve mentioned this on here – it may have been T’Other Place – but John Hurt is the thirteenth actor to be officially credited as ‘The Doctor’ in the television continuity. Because the […]

@chickenelly @JanetteB @ScaryB –

I did wonder if we’ve been given a bit of a misdirect in terms of why the Silence wanted to kill the Doctor, and who Madam Kovarian’s ‘endless bitter war’ was actually between.  […]

Looking at @BadWulf ‘s list of HurtDoc possibilities above, I’m still inclined to (6) but thinking about what something elses could (8) be – I haven’t seen suggested yet, could he be all the doctors?  They’ve all […]

@davemorris316 –

Technically speaking, there are no changes to any of this. As with all time travel, you can’t actually go back and change time, because you already did. All time is happening at once. So […]

@shazzbot –

Well, you perhaps have defined the entire post-2005 series’s Doctors.  They are continually trying to remake that promise, leading to 10′s ‘I can change time to save people’ megalomania in the sincere […]

@brotherjohn –

…He could have “broken the promise” during his first generation.  This is equally as possible as him breaking the promise in any other generation after…

I’m just playing Devil’s advocate […]

@shazzbot – just got a vision of Clara rounding off the movie tributes of this season by referencing Avengers – shouting “Puny GI” followed by punching Dr Simeon in the side of the head 🙂