@ScaryB And why would the GI need the Dr to open the doors if they were already inside?

To get into the console room, location of the timestream. Although a sealed door in a dead TARDIS… Perhaps just mostly dead?

About CAL River ‘sleeping’; the Second Doctor mentioned his family sleeping in his head, those memories of them, and waking sometimes. I know someone posted a clip of it, more than once I think. There’s also a […]

@JimTheFish @blenkinsopthebrave Hmm, I suppose that makes sense in a logical sort of way but for a person who can visit the site of their own death etc, it’s entirely possible to break a promise you’ve not yet […]

@blenkinsopthebrave Not at all! We may indeed be onto something, that old (and apparently reviled) Cartmel Masterplan? I didn’t see the BG series so I’m not disgusted by the idea. Do remember it being mentioned in […]

@blenkinsopthebrave John Hurt is the timelord before Hartnell–the reason that Hartnell ran away in the first place, and the reason that Hartnell called himself the Doctor.

That’s my theory as well; still […]

Ta @ScaryB!

@TheNightmareChild Is the great intelligence the Valeyard that somehow escaped or is the Valeyard  just the evil version of the doctor?  He said he’s been thwarted every time by the doctor, but […]

@janetteB Bananas?

Probably a minor thing but above clips – Two and Eight in the same era?

@Juniperfish We seem to have near consensus that Hurt Doctor (and isn’t that name wonderfully symbolic in itself) is Time War Doctor. I’m looking forward to finding out more in November.

I’m in two minds […]

@bluesqueakpip @thebadfairyprincess OK, I’ll accept that. Had thought maybe Hurt was the original Doctor, the past one the rest are running from (partly as they are all running in the timestream/memory thing while […]

@ScaryB Random thought – Was the dark Dr originally intended to be Eccleston but he wouldn’t play?

That’s very good. Could Tennant have done that?

About Gallifreyan Clara… she could have been the Corsair. […]

@ScaryB @Shazzbot Yes, time was rewritten twice but, really, it was mucked up then reset to how it was and should be. She’s a walking BFB, hidden in plain sight 🙂

@BadWulf Is there something even darker in the Hurt Doctor’s history?

That’s my thinking – that it is what made him run in the first place.

Was it his timestream or his memories? Shadow Doctor (it might stick!) did talk to him, whatever that could mean. It does seem that he may be running from that one’s actions before (and perhaps reason for) […]

I wonder if the 5oth partly involves a battle with that Doctor to take control of the body.

@Shazzbot She ignored that instruction 🙂

@Northumbria Just as the name of a scenic artist working on the show.

So, Clara gave herself the TARDIS phone number, she was his time (Theta Sigma’s friend and ruler), John Hurt’s Doctor was what he saw in the God Complex and he’s stuck in his own mind. Yeah?

@bluesqueakpip Clara knows the Doctor’s birth name. The TARDIS made sure she knows it. Why? She has no need to know it. But the TARDIS sees her as ‘an exception to this rule’.

I do like the theory, especially […]

Oh, and does that mean John Hurt was stuck in a twisted 8os hotel?

Perhaps that focus on 10 going to 11 was significant after all.

@Arkleseizure Yowza?