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Vashta Nerada

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23. Steven Moffat cleared it up here:

Reply to pokerfan (Reply #22)

Sun Nov 24, 2013, 04:27 PM

Nov 2013

“I’ve been really, really quite careful about the numbering of the Doctors,” he said. “He’s very specific, the John Hurt Doctor, that he doesn’t take the name of the Doctor. He doesn’t call himself that. He’s the same Time Lord, the same being as the Doctors either side of him, but he’s the one who says, ‘I’m not the Doctor.’ So the Eleventh Doctor is still the Eleventh Doctor, the Tenth Doctor is still the Tenth…”

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-11-15/doctor-who-steven-moffat-clears-up-confusion-around-the-number-of-john-hurts-doctor

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Who watch the Doctor Who Check in to talk.... SPOILERS [View all] diabeticman Nov 2013 OP

The first 3 actors are all dead muriel_volestrangler Nov 2013 #1

Still he looked pretty good for 80. diabeticman Nov 2013 #2

I squealed when the "curator" spoke. blogslut Nov 2013 #3

for my wife and I Tenant is our doctor but we started watching it when it came back. My wife has diabeticman Nov 2013 #4

Oh, they're terribly dated blogslut Nov 2013 #5

Noooo! I disagree. The best Dr. Who episodes have tin foil as special effects! mucifer Nov 2013 #9

I did too WolverineDG Nov 2013 #6

Ha! blogslut Nov 2013 #7

I noticed that throw away line. dipsydoodle Nov 2013 #11

The whole canon of the show has changed. Vashta Nerada Nov 2013 #8

I might start watching Who again for Capaldi. blogslut Nov 2013 #10

Me too - I had pretty much given up during the Pond years. Still Blue in PDX Nov 2013 #21

Supposedly those were Eccleston's eyes in the last few frames of Hurt's regeneration bobduca Nov 2013 #25

Good. Thought they may have been, but ears would have made it obvious! Love the ears. nt Still Blue in PDX Nov 2013 #26

How NOT to do time travel, courtesy of the BBC satellite linkup at the after-show party muriel_volestrangler Nov 2013 #12

Timey wimey! bobduca Nov 2013 #17

Is Paul McGann and John Hurt both still counted as the 8th Doctor? Vashta Nerada Nov 2013 #13

My wife was looking at Wikipedia and it listed Hurt as the War Doctor between 8 and 9 diabeticman Nov 2013 #16

John Hurt has been added to the lineup pokerfan Nov 2013 #22

Steven Moffat cleared it up here: Vashta Nerada Nov 2013 #23

Clear as mud pokerfan Nov 2013 #24

Exactly right! nt Still Blue in PDX Nov 2013 #27

I started watching Dr.Who when I was a little girl.. HipChick Nov 2013 #14

Oh, me, too... KatyaR Nov 2013 #15

Notice there were only 13 Doctors helping save Gallifrey? Vashta Nerada Nov 2013 #18

Put the 6th doctor on trial. Paulie Nov 2013 #19

He did reveal that he was in it (bad boy!), but I still got chills and squeed out loud. nt Still Blue in PDX Nov 2013 #28

The Curator looked an awful lot like an older version of the Fourth Doctor. Dr. Strange Nov 2013 #20