Doctor Who returns at Christmas in The Time of the Doctor. Who's excited? One month to go...
— Doctor Who Magazine (@DWMtweets) November 26, 2013Doctor Who - Christmas Special - Title Announced
26 Nov 2013
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That's three titles in a row of The X of the Doctor, are they meant to be 3 parts of the same story? (like how Grimm has a season finale and the first two new episodes as a 3 parter)
ReplyDeleteConsidering so far they led from each other(despite the horrible disjointed retcon from season finale to the anniversary special) and considering they all lead to Matt Smith leaving the show, I'd say its quite likely.
ReplyDeleteWhat retcon? John Hurt existing? Not arguing, just curious what you mean
ReplyDeleteThe season ended with "OMG I JUST SAVED WHATSHERNAME, OMG EVIL VERSION OF ME FROM MY PAST JUST GOT FREE BECAUSE OF THAT, THIS IS BAD, WHAT DO WE DO???"
ReplyDeleteThe Anniversary Special started "Oh I am just chilling there, Whatshername is working usual stuff. Evil me? OH no, he is very likeable old charming old guy. Oh by the way Whatshername met him and Ten already, we just never have shown it."
It went from "omg what will be consequences" to "Oh I looked at my past. COOOOL". Way too jarring and makes me feel that somewhere in between they changed the direction to which the anniversary specials were supposed to go.
Now you mention it, I suppose you have a point.
ReplyDeletePersonally I think Clara sort of "broke" or damaged the time lock when she jumped in, and the Doctor had distanced himself so much from the War Doctor that he was appalled to be reminded of him again, though now he's seen he wasn't so bad, and was just in an impossible situation.
I think the problem is they hyped everything too much, including the "small stuff" like the end of The Name of The Doctor, like how you mentioned.
I see the whole time war as being a 'whatever happened, happened' situation, to draw on a Lostism, lol. It's just that until it happened to 11 he didn't remember any of it and assumed that Gallifrey had been time locked with the Moment rather than saved. Though I know there is a lot of differing opinions on it all XD
ReplyDeleteExciting times ahead
ReplyDeleteNo one got free, and he was not a "charming old guy". He was a bad memory. Clara met all the Doctors, all of them. No one said anything about consequences. In fact, that Clara entered the timestream of the Doctor prevented consequences from happening.
ReplyDeleteAnd about the war being time-locked. Well, theoretically the Moment time-locked the War, so the Moment could un-time-lock it. Yes, it's Moffat, so it doesn't make much sense, but it is what it is, and it makes enough sense to happen.
I have my own fair share of problems with that retcon on its own that I could write 36 page coursework about it. Let's not even start talking about that.
ReplyDeleteI always took it that he time locked the war after he ended it, and only just realised they tried saving it (and then found out later they actually did). I think as part of a coping mechanism, they put as much of the guilt as they could on the past regeneration, and hence grew to despise him.
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