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** Also the movie has a touch of BroadStrokes regarding it's place in canon. The plot point of the Doctor being half human on his mother's side has never been revisited and indeed is rather contradicted by a fair few things from before and after.
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** Also a point people seem to miss a lot with the Reapers; they are not an inevitable result of time paradoxes, they are a ''possible'' result of time paradoxes and not even a likely one, judging by the fact they only showed up once in decades of episodes. In ''Fathers Day'' despite the dozy of a paradox the Doctor isn't expecting the Reapers to show up until he finds the empty TARDIS. He knows what they are but their appearance was a surprise to him.
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** Important point; whatever the criteria to be king you aren't actually officially in the position until your coronation which the Doctor never had. So no, he was never actually king.
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*** Exactly. A planet half again as big as Earth with billions of inhabitants does have more than one city.
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**** There is a book that that takes place during that gap. There is still a gap between the Doctor leaving Rose during the episode and the start of the book though, so other stories could also occur during that gap.
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** He would've tried the door.
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** Plenty of cows on Earth. The Doctor's doing just fine with earthly milk for his tea, why would the Zygons be unable to get used to it?


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** Or he's lying and in denial.

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*** Presumably only his memories of the hours he spends at his job are wiped, not every single memory he has.



** There's a possible FridgeBrilliance / [=WMG=] here. The Tenth Doctor is notoriously vain, as is pointed out by the very same incarnation mocking him here. He's the type of person to put on affectations to make himself seem cooler -- for example, it's heavily implied at a few points that the spectacles he wears on occasion are "brainy specs" designed to make him look smart. So it's entirely possible that, just as David Tennant uses a fake south London accent in his performance as the Doctor, that the Tenth Doctor ''also'' puts on a fake accent for appearance's sake.

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** There's a possible FridgeBrilliance / [=WMG=] here. The Tenth Doctor is notoriously vain, as is pointed out by the very same incarnation mocking him here. He's the type of person to put on affectations to make himself seem cooler -- for example, it's heavily implied at a few points that the spectacles he wears on occasion are "brainy specs" designed to make him look smart.smart but which he doesn't actually need. So it's entirely possible that, just as David Tennant uses a fake south London accent in his performance as the Doctor, that the Tenth Doctor ''also'' puts on a fake accent for appearance's sake.


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** This is something there's no real way of answering with any degree of certainty or satisfaction, because there's no possible way of knowing any of this without some form of WordOfGod or Wild Mass Guessing. The best anyone can do is state that, as the Doctor has been known to change the TARDIS interior from time to time to suit his moods or preferences, presumably either the Eighth Doctor or the War Doctor did so again. Beyond that, it's entirely your own call to make.
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** If they do want to revisit an old Doctor after the original passed away, including [[spoiler:Tom Baker's Curator]] They'd likely do what they all ready did; cast an actor who looks enough like him that people will accept him as playing that character, it's how "Twice Upon a Time" includes the 1st Doctor with William Hartnell long dead.
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[[folder: War Doctor's TARDIS]]
We see the inside of the War Doctor's TARDIS and it looks like an amalgam of the classic TARDIS design and the 9-10 Doctor TARDIS, implying a gradual transition from the old design to the new one. The flaw here is that shouldn't it resemble the 8th Doctor's TARDIS, the large cathedral like space seen in the Movie? The Doyalist reasoning is obviously that they couldn't afford such a massive set for about 2 scenes when it could never be used again, but what was the Watsonian explaination? I'll admit I have little knowledge of EU stuff like the Big Finish audio stories, did the 8th Doctor restore the TARDIS to a more traditional look during his run, or is the idea that the War Doctor is the one who did it, and if so, why?
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*** In the expanded universe, at least, not '''all''' Doctors don't get along. Eight and Four get along swimmingly in [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialsTheLightAtTheEnd The Light at the End]], and Five and Ten have a pleasant time researching (This is not a euphemism, they're literally researching) in [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoOutOfTimeE2TheGatesOfHell The Gates of Hell]] because [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CiNSTimeCrash]] had already happened for Ten so he wasn't prattling on like an idiot with fifty cans of energy drink inside of his bloodstream.
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*** This is Ood erasure
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** There's a possible FridgeBrilliance / [=WMG=] here. The Tenth Doctor is notoriously vain, as is pointed out by the very same incarnation mocking him here. He's the type of person to put on affectations to make himself seem cooler -- for example, it's heavily implied at a few points that the spectacles he wears on occasion are "brainy specs" designed to make him look smart. So it's entirely possible that, just as David Tennant uses a fake south London accent in his performance as the Doctor, that the Tenth Doctor ''also'' puts on a fake accent for appearance's sake.
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*** Since ''Film/AnAdventureInSpaceAndTime'' isn’t taking place within the Doctor’s timeline/continuity, how does this follow?
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** If the 11th Doctor remembers [[spoiler: saving Gallifrey along with his past incarnations]] and succeeding, then why was [[spoiler: the 12th Doctor there? Just to lend a hand for old times' sake?]]?
***“Answer? I’m the Doctor, just accept it.”
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*** Which would have made Clara's realization that he ''hadn't done it yet'' all the more of a surprise, possibly to the audience too in that version!

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