History Fridge / DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor

* [=McGillop=] seems to be a fairly intelligent and reasonable member of UNIT's science department, and he seems to be GenreSavvy enough to know when Osgood breaks out her inhaler that something's wrong, so his statement that he finds it hard to believe that creatures can break out of paintings seems a little odd. Then comes the scene where [[spoiler: the Doctor phones him and tells him to move the "Gallifrey Falls" painting to the Black Archive so he and his other selves can break into the TARDIS-proof base. It could very well be that he was in on the plot the whole time and knew the Doctors would save the day, so his line in the Under Gallery could simply be him ObfuscatingStupidity]].

* The War Doctor is basically a classic series Doctor / viewer transplanted into the new series and offering a commentary on it. A lot of the things that exasperate or annoy him about his new series incarnations are things that tend to arise when criticisms of the new series when compared to the classic series appear; the tendency to wave the sonic screwdriver around like a magic wand or a gun instead of the scientific tool it used to be, the younger (in appearance and attitude) Doctors of the new series compared to the (generally) older classic series Doctors, the increased reliance on catchphrases ("Geronimo!" "Allonsy!" "Oh, for goodness sake..."), the Doctor kissing people, and so on. Even better; he's a crotchety old man at a point in his life where he's in many ways far removed from the what the contemporary viewer understands the Doctor to be and who has to gradually learn to become this character. He's basically ''William Hartnell's'' Doctor brought forward in time to comment on how he ended up.

** [[spoiler: This happens later in the three-part Series 9 finale. In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E10FaceTheRaven Face the Raven]]", they have allied with Ashildr/Me to capture the Doctor, which leads to the unintentional death of Clara. Then in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E11HeavenSent Heaven Sent]]", they imprison him in his confession dial and torture him for ''4.5 billion years'' for information on a Gallifreyan Prophecy about the Hybrid. So when the Doctor finally returns in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent Hell Bent]]", the very firt thing he does is depose Rassilon and become Lord President. Then he tries to save Clara's life, and when trying to do so, becomes not unlike the Time Lord Victorious persona his Tenth incarnation briefly became in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E16TheWatersOfMars The Waters of Mars]]".]]

* Yet another early clue that the Moment is actively manipulating events to give the War Doctor an alternative to burning Gallifrey? It's her that nudges him towards the idea of loading the door-opening algorithm into the sonic screwdriver. Given how perceptive and future-aware the Moment seems to be, it's very likely that ''she knew the door was unlocked'' all along: she just wanted to drop a hint about how the various Doctors could collectively pull off their Cup-A-Gallifrey stunt.

** [[spoiler: This happens later in the three-part Series 9 finale. In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E10FaceTheRaven Face the Raven]]", they have allied with Ashildr/Me to capture the Doctor, which leads to the unintentional death of Clara. Then in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E11HeavenSent Heaven Sent]]", they imprison him in his confession dial and torture him for ''4.5 billion years'' for information on a Gallifreyan Prophecy about the Hybrid. So when the Doctor finally returns in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent Hell Bent]]", the very firt thing he does is depose Rassilon and become Lord President. Then he tries to save Clara's life, and when trying to do so, becomes not unlike the Time Lord Victorious persona his Tenth incarnation briefly became in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E16TheWatersOfMars]]".]]

* There never was a lock on the Time War. The incident with the door in the Tower of London showed the Doctor's never tried to open the door, just assuming it was locked because it's supposed to be. Until they showed up at the climax, none of them ever tried to go back to the Time War. However, it's implied that the Moment let Ten, Eleven and Clara through the Time Lock.
** And Dalek Caan was driven mad by breaking the Time Lock. And Rassilon had to use the white point star and the Master to break the Time Lock. So it's definitely a thing.

* While Gallifrey's time freeze may mimic a time lock, it still implies that Rassilon is in the pocket dimension, too, just waiting to be freed.

* [=McGillop=] seems to be a fairly intelligent and reasonable member of UNIT's science department, and he seems to be GenreSavvy enough to know when Osgood breaks out her inhaler that something's wrong, so his statement that he finds it hard to believe that creatures can break out paintings seems a little odd. Then comes the scene where [[spoiler: the Doctor phones him and tells him to move the "Gallifrey Falls" painting to the Black Archive so he and his other selves can break into the TARDIS-proof base. It could very well be that he was in on the plot the whole time and knew the Doctors would save the day, so his line in the Under Gallery could simply be him ObfuscatingStupidity]].

* At first it doesn't really make sense why the Doctors are at the museum musing about if they saved Gallifrey or not, because it seems like they should know - the stasis cube was right there on the console and they seemed to know how to they worked when they hid in one earlier. But they obviously wouldn't remember anything Twelve was around for.
** More likely they ''do'' remember - after all, Clara's right there and knew their plan - but they just have no way of knowing if the calculations actually did successfully lock Gallifrey into stasis or not. It's not like they'd had a chance to test the process first, after all.

** She doesn't necessarily have any of those memories, though. The other Claras were splinters of her, not the actual her, and they didn't always interact with the Doctor. And it was previously established that she had no memories of her Victorian-era splinter meeting the Doctor.

* The Moment spent a considerable amount of effort to convince the War Doctor not to activate her, and is visibly disappointed when he briefly decided to still do it. While the Moment's consciousness may be upset about the devastating loss of life her activation would cause, there's also another motive: if the Moment is akin to a bomb, it would be destroyed along with the Time Lords and Daleks. It was guided by self-preservation.
** Except you probably need an ego to care if you live or die, and the Interface admits she doesn't currently have one when she offers War the job if she ever ''does'' develop one.

** Its actually suggested in-episode that its the ''same'' control room as Nine and Ten's, but a hundred years newer. The console looks very similar; the main difference is it's shinier. Also, the walls in Nine's/Ten's TARDIS could just be what's behind the Round Things, like with suspended ceiling tiles.

** It also has the old-style walls with the "circle things" BUT augmented with Nine's curved columns. Since the exterior of the Tardis shows some battle damage, it's implied that the War Doctor started out with the traditional control room, but the Tardis suffered enough damage in the Time War to need that kind of reinforcement (and only "healed" it when it got a full revamp in "The Eleventh Hour.")

* Osgood wears the Fourth Doctor's scarf because the Curator gave it to her.

* The Ninth Doctor believed all sides had perished in the Time War, yet the Emperor Dalek (and others) survived the final battle, which shouldn't have been possible. Now we know how: his ship was damaged but not destroyed in the friendly crossfire after Gallifrey vanished, and wasn't burned by the Doctor because ''he didn't do it,'' something Nine couldn't possibly have known. Suddenly the Daleks' apparent JokerImmunity makes far more sense. We also see a single Dalek pod being flung into space by the sheer force of the explosion after the Dalek fleet destroys itself. It's likely that this pod contained one of these Daleks mentioned above, and that the others were similarly scattered survivors flung far apart from each other -- hence how they kept showing up despite the fact that they should all have been dead. Moreover, the tactic of making a target vanish so that one's enemies catch each other in the crossfire, circular-firing-squad style, is exactly how the Weeping Angels were defeated in "Blink". Foreshadowing is ''everywhere'' for this one.

* In the Teaser the Doctor claims that the day where Gallifrey is destroyed (or so he thinks) is the "''The day I’ve been running from all my life.''" considering how his claim that looking into the Untempered Schism is the reason he ran from Gallifrey and considering how the Untempered Schism can open to any time and any place it's likely he saw the War Doctor seemingly destroy Gallifrey and it drove him to run and change his name to the Doctor.

* The Time War was dreaded not because of the Daleks(who are causing just as much trouble outside of the Time War as they did when apart of it) but the weapons from the Omega Vault used to fight back against them unsuccessfully were causing reality to tear apart at the seams. What would happen if a CardCarryingVillain EvilOverlord [[NightmareFuel got his hands on the weapons in Omega Vault while reproducing and perfecting the Moment as a weapon and used it and the other weapons to cause his own Time War?]]

* Kate's request for information from her father's old files about "The Three Doctors" is easily pegged as a MythologyGag about the UNIT dating controversy, but it also makes sense in-Verse: UNIT's archivists probably ''would'' have a lot of trouble deciding where to file that particular incident, because they wouldn't know for sure if it should be included among the Second Doctor's records, or the Third's. Thirty years from now, Kate's own successor may well have the same problem when they need to look up the events of "Day of the Doctor"!

* Kate's request for information from her father's old files about "The Three Doctors" is easily pegged as a MythologyGag about the UNIT dating controversy, but it also makes sense in-Verse: UNIT's archivists probably ''would'' have a lot of trouble deciding where to file that particular incident, because they wouldn't know for sure if it should be included among the Second Doctor's records, or the Third's.

** Oh, there was a multi-Doctor story for the 40th. [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho050Zagreus it just wasn't on the telly]].

** Oh, there was a multi-Doctor story for the 40th. [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho050Zagreus it just wasn't on the telly]].