![]() We’re not suggesting that this is the case, but strict applications of time travel theory would suggest that for each Doctor involved, their future now unravels differently as a result of moving along a different timeline. The War Doctor (“I won’t remember, this will I?”) regenerates, knowing only that he’s alone in a cold, uncaring universe and that he’s responsible for the loss of Gallifrey. When they go their separate ways at the end of ‘The Day Of The Doctor’, it all gets a bit fuzzy. The Doctor may be outside time to a certain extent and able to remember things like, say, Rory falling into a Crack, but time heals from paradoxes like this, otherwise crossovers would be very short indeed, as every successive Doctor hurtles toward the end point, having seen it all before. Matt Smith, David Tennant and John Hurt in The Day Of The Doctorĥ. With the Time Lords frozen in time, all the things that happened (or didn’t) in the show since 2005 because of their absence continued to happen (or not happen). In this new timeline the Daleks were wiped out (mostly) and Gallifrey was believed destroyed. In the original timeline, the Daleks were wiped out (mostly) and Gallifrey was destroyed. The Doctor’s dialogue in The End Of Time seemed to suggest that he had been removed from play well before then: “You weren’t there, in the final days of the war.” It’s a nice idea, and leaves the Time War ripe for constant revisitation.ģ. In fact, as the nature of the Time War caused “millions die every second… With Time itself resurrecting them to find new ways of dying, over and over again” perhaps the 13 Doctors are constantly at battle out there, sometimes dying and failing, sometimes totally victorious. Maybe Gallifrey did briefly blink out of its rightful place in time and into Earth during the invasion – either earlier than the Fall of Arcadia, or during – leaving Rassilon free to be a large, scenery-chewing ham off screen. However, we only see Arcadia – Gallifrey’s second city – so maybe the High Council and the loyalist Time Lords set their plan in motion before the Doctor resolved things. Surely if Gallifrey never fell then the Time Lords wouldn’t have driven the Master insane, unleashed their doomsday weapons and set in motion Ten’s regeneration in The End Of Time. ![]() Timothy Dalton as Rassilon in Doctor Who: The End Of Time Maybe she didn’t, maybe the Doctor imagined that bit of the conversation too, or maybe her gallivanting up and down the Doctor’s personal time stream in The Name Of The Doctor makes her sensitive to such things. The way it was shot – the Curator walking off into a bright light – looked exactly like Dumbledore’s conversation with Harry Potter in The Deathly Hallows Part 2. Since when has the literal interpretation of what’s said in Steven Moffat-era Doctor Who ever been the case? When is it every as simple as all that? Everything he says is directly prompted by 11, so the idea that he could retire and become ‘the Great Curator’ is met by an image of that very thing – it doesn’t necessarily mean that’s what’s going to happen. ![]() TARDIS roundels on the walls and the fact that the Curator doesn’t actually tell 11 anything he doesn’t already know – he merely reframes it and ushers him along to comprehension – definitely suggests that he’s merely a figment of the Doctor’s unconscious. Obviously, mystery is good for this show – despite the fact people spend most of the time complaining that Doctor Who has too much of it, they used to complain there was far too little – and all theories are equally valid. Given that Tom Baker sets up the arc for Series Eight – the hunt for Gallifrey – it seems far too significant to be a mere tip of the hat to Doctor Who’s history. But sacrifices must be made, and the deadly prophecy warns: “He will knock four times.Tom Baker as The Curator in Doctor Who ‘The Day Of The Doctor’ With the sound of drums growing louder, and an ancient trap closing around the Earth, the Doctor and Wilf must fight alone. The Doctor faces the end of his life as the Master’s plans hurtle out of control. With both determined to cheat death, the battle ranges from the wastelands of London to the mysterious Immortality Gate, while the alien Ood warn of an even greater danger approaching, as a terrible shadow falls across the entire Universe. It’s the Tenth Doctor’s final journey – but his psychotic nemesis the Master has been reborn, on Christmas Eve. Availability: DVD: Waters of Mars/The End of Time.Broadcast: 25 December 2009/1 January 2010.
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