doubleofive said:
Hurt is definately playing the Eight and Half-th/Time War Doctor. I don't understand why 11 would be denying his existence when 9 pretty much said that he himself pushed the button and 10 had to deal with the consequences too. RETCON!
Sounds like we are thinking along the same lines. I feel like that is the only way it will work without being overly convoluted and silly or nonsensical, not that the show is afraid of convoluted or silly or nonsensical...
When 9 pretty much said that he himself pushed the button, it doesn't have to mean he did it in his 9th incarnation. It could be that both 9 and 10 were dealing with the consequences of the things done as 8, and that 11, being a bit more childlike and naive than 9 and 10 rejected this, rather than brooding about it, and denied his existence.
Not necessarily a huge retcon, since we are dealing with uncharted space as it were. I mean, obviously it is a retcon, but not really an offensive one. I am sure RTD meant for it to have been Eccleston that did those things, but he was very vague about the Doctor's new Time War back story for his entire run, before all of it was magically forgotten and never referred back to or dwelled upon after Moffatt took over (kind of like how RTD's constant barrage of alien invasions of Earth were also forgotten and written away in a half assed manner). However, in the first episode, or one of those first episodes, Eccleston's Doctor looks in the mirror, plays with his ears a bit, and makes a comment on the way he looks. Kind of gave the indication that he was "newly minted".
I'm interested to see the 50th (for Tennant) and maybe the Christmas special just to close the book on 11, but I'm not sure I'm going to watch past that, or at least I won't make an effort to watch it until its on Netflix.
I feel like I am done with it too.
I realize that I started watching Doctor Who because some pretty girl once told me to and it gave us something fun to talk about, I kept watching because of David Tennant, and couldn't stop watching because of Karen Gillan*...
That pretty girl, David Tennant's Doctor, and Amy Pond are all things of the past... I skipped a bunch of episodes last season, and the few I did watch (which included the finale) didn't hold my interest. Having invested my time in six seasons of the show, I'm kind of looking forward to seeing Tennant in the 50th, and curiosity will probably get the better of me come Christmas, but from there, I think I've already checked out and can't be bothered.
*Fine! Arthur Darvill deserves some credit too! While not as fun to look at as Karen Gillan, the characters of Rory and Amy are what made the show so fun to watch for the last two and a third seasons. Things fell entirely flat after their departure.