500 Years of Christmas [Spoilers for...]
Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2013 19:06
Spoilers for The Time of the Doctor.
I was half-expecting something like this to happen with the Ponds' departure. The Doctor, realizing that New Jersey was just too lame, would himself follow Amy and Rory into the angel's arms, live out their life with them, and show up in the graveyard a few moments later.
I'm rather glad the events in "The Name of the Doctor" weren't really the prophesied events; that would've been pretty lame. That they allowed the audience to think so could've cost them some serious viewership points. They actually now ended up with a decent account for how the Doctor would've allowed himself to get caught up in all this, or "a minor skirmish" finally finish the "old man" off, not so bad.
I guess the Daleks' "Doctor Who?" period didn't last so long.
So, what actually happened to Gallifrey after the Daleks were presumably defeated? Presumably they still would've wanted to come through. Sorta looking forward to the revival, even if the Curator's suggested search didn't last so long.
The big inconsistency/retcon is, of course, the new regeneration schedule. All previous references to eleven's regeneration were effectively retconned to be false or misleading (Lake Silencio, after the poisoning in Berlin, "no regeneration" in The Girl Who Waited, "I can regenerate now...burn out any little Cyber widgets in my brain"), and eleven would've known this entire time that he had no fallback, which doesn't really seem to fit well with his gung ho characteristics. I mean, unless he truly forgot about Hurt.
Where's the Valeyard! If we're to keep faithfully to the new regeneration cycle, between the twelfth and final regeneration would be Tennant's stint between "Journey's End" and "The End of Time", making the most likely candidate the Meta-Crisis Doctor.
I was half-expecting something like this to happen with the Ponds' departure. The Doctor, realizing that New Jersey was just too lame, would himself follow Amy and Rory into the angel's arms, live out their life with them, and show up in the graveyard a few moments later.
I'm rather glad the events in "The Name of the Doctor" weren't really the prophesied events; that would've been pretty lame. That they allowed the audience to think so could've cost them some serious viewership points. They actually now ended up with a decent account for how the Doctor would've allowed himself to get caught up in all this, or "a minor skirmish" finally finish the "old man" off, not so bad.
I guess the Daleks' "Doctor Who?" period didn't last so long.
So, what actually happened to Gallifrey after the Daleks were presumably defeated? Presumably they still would've wanted to come through. Sorta looking forward to the revival, even if the Curator's suggested search didn't last so long.
The big inconsistency/retcon is, of course, the new regeneration schedule. All previous references to eleven's regeneration were effectively retconned to be false or misleading (Lake Silencio, after the poisoning in Berlin, "no regeneration" in The Girl Who Waited, "I can regenerate now...burn out any little Cyber widgets in my brain"), and eleven would've known this entire time that he had no fallback, which doesn't really seem to fit well with his gung ho characteristics. I mean, unless he truly forgot about Hurt.
Where's the Valeyard! If we're to keep faithfully to the new regeneration cycle, between the twelfth and final regeneration would be Tennant's stint between "Journey's End" and "The End of Time", making the most likely candidate the Meta-Crisis Doctor.