After let out that the Doctor ’s history was even more complicated than we already knew , in the recent “ Day of the Doctor , ” showrunner Steven Moffat has finally clarify just which telephone number of Doctor Matt Smith is . But a new hearsay betoken thing are crazier than you ever understand .
Possible spoilers below …
So Doctor Who first excuse that the Doctor had a 12 positive feedback limit in the classic Tom Baker serial “ The Deadly Assassin . ” While Matt Smith was the Eleventh Doctor , he was only on his tenth re-formation .
But now that John Hurt has been introduce tino the premix , the Eleventh Doctor is now technically on his twelfth incarnation — which would make his transformation into Peter Capaldi ’s Doctor the thirteenth and concluding one ( so to speak ) .
Here ’s what Moffat had to say about the subject at the medico Who 50th Celebration , let in why Matt Smith is still “ The Eleventh medico ” regardless of John Hurt :
He has no more ever called himself the 11th Doctor than he would call himself Matt Smith . The Doctor does n’t know off the top of his head [ what routine he is ] .
If you interest about such things , and I do , then I specifically aver John Hurt ’s Doctor does n’t habituate the deed . [ Matt Smith ’s Doctor ] is in his twelfth consistence but he ’s the 11th Doctor , however there is no such character as the eleventh Dr. – he ’s just The Doctor , that ’s what he calls himself .
The numbering does n’t count , except for those lists that you and I have been making for many years . So I ’ve fall in you the option of not weigh John Hurt numerically – he ’s the War Doctor .
That makes a tidy sum of sensation , and sustain people from receive to renumber the Doctors in their heads . However , The Mirror has state a new hearsay — take it with as large a food grain of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks as you ’d like — that in the coming Christmas special , Matt Smith will disclose he ’s really the thirteenth and technically net personification of the Doctor .
Now , there ’s not operate to be another hidden personification of the Doctor that appear ( well , credibly ) , but or else this is because of the David Tennant episode “ The Journey ’s ending , ” where the Time Lord used one of his re-formation to save himself . That , including John Hurt , would indeed make the switch from Tennant to Smith the 12th and terminal positive feedback . Here ’s everything The Mirror has to say about the Christmas special and the reveal ( again , cereal of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ):
physician Who will confront the conclusion of a 50 year story in the Christmas special – when Time Lord Matt Smith disclose he is in reality the thirteenth and ‘ final ’ Doctor .
Actor Matt , 31 , has long mean to have been the Eleventh Doctor on the hit BBC sci - fi show , which can only rectify 12 times according to the show ’s folklore . Fans have worried for years that the show will have to terminate once the 13th Doctor dies .
But on December 25 , current theories among million of buff will be root out once and for all when Matt says in a dramatic speech he is the 13th Doctor and tote up : “ I ’m drop dead and there is nothing I can do about it . ”
On Saturday night at the remainder of the show ’s 50th day of remembrance special , all the doc delineate up , including John Hurt who was antecedently not thought to number . David Tennant ’s Time Lord also used up an excess regeneration to save himself in an episode promise Journey ’s remainder .
A show generator explained : “ There have been two David Tennant Doctor Who s technically and with John Hurt playing another Dr. in the film , it basically means he ca n’t rectify again .
“ The riddle of the positive feedback problem , something lover have talked about for decades , will be faced head on at Christmas . There is go to be another huge cliffhanger and somehow Peter Capaldi has to join and the serial has to cover .
“ The show ’s bountiful lover , known as Whovians , wo n’t believe their eyes at Christmas . ”
I do n’t know if this is on-key or not , but this sounds to me like something Moffat would do . He ’s been asked about the regeneration a lot , and more importantly he ’s utter about them a lot , so I think he ’s intelligibly had a floor to tell about them — and the more he talks about them recently , the more I consider we should require something like this during the Christmas special . I do n’t have any problem with it , and I do appreciate Moffat ’s propensity to vex as close to the mythology of the show as the show itself will tolerate . What do you guy think ?
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