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** If Mire technology was good enough to make someone a threat to the Time Lords, would the Doctor have been so smug about humiliating them in Ashidr's first episode?
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** If Mire technology was good enough to make someone a threat to the Time Lords, would the Doctor have been so smug about humiliating them in Ashidr's Ashildr's first episode?
episode? Also, the closed captions for "Heaven Sent" don't capitalize "Me".
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** If Mire technology was good enough to make someone a threat to the Time Lords, would the Doctor have been so smug about humiliating them in Ashidr's first episode?
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* Moffat stated the return of Gallifrey was plotted out from the beginning. Possibly that line was a CallForward to the Truth Field from "The Time of the Doctor", but the events leading up to that story were changed and Moffat's original conception bears no relationship to what he eventually wrote, save a single cryptic line in a story five years prior.
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* Clara's character arc has been about how much like the (Time Lord) Doctor she's becoming, and last season she was in love with a (human) soldier strong-willed enough to save the world through his love for her. Hence, she's already a "hybrid" of two powerful warrior races, of sorts. Having her be THE hybrid is the natural culmination to her character and the last few series' worth of stories.
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* Clara's character arc has been about how much like the (Time Lord) Doctor she's becoming, and last season she was in love with a (human) soldier strong-willed enough to save the world through his love for her. Hence, she's already a "hybrid" of two powerful warrior races, of sorts. Having her be THE hybrid is the natural culmination to her character and the last few series' worth of stories. The stuff about Ashildr and the Hybrid being half-Dalek are just misdirection.
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* Clara's character arc has been about how much like the (Time Lord) Doctor she's becoming, and last season she was in love with a (human) soldier strong-willed enough to save the world through his love for her. Hence, she's already a "hybrid" of two powerful warrior races, of sorts. Having her be THE hybrid is the natural culmination to her character and the last few series' worth of stories.
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** The Time Lords have incredible technology; they just don't interfere with the universe unless they have to. They're able to remotely send a new set of regenerations through a crack in time in "The Time of the Doctor", but only after Clara coaxes them into it. The Doctor emulates that, to a degree, until "The Girl Who Died", wherein he decides to revive Ashildr, even though he knows it's a bad idea. Moffat has repeatedly demonstrated his penchant long-form storytelling; anything from his tenure could turn out to be a seeded plot point for "Hell Bent" that the audience can only recognize with hindsight, which fits in with the Doctor's plan -- and Missy's description of him -- from "The Witch's Familiar".
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[[WMG:The Time Lord President is Rassilon.]]
After ''The End of Time'' he regenerate into to heal his wounds that The Master caused.
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[[WMG: The Time Lord President in "Hell Bent" is the Master]]
Basically, after the events of "End of Time", the Master (in his John Simm incarnation) somehow manages to defeat an already weakened Rassilon, or at least escape from him. Later, he managed to regenerate (maybe with help from Ohilia?) and either worked his way up into a position of authority as an influential Time Lord leader (by contributing to the rebuilding of Gallifrey after the Time War) or maybe stole the body of or regenerated into the form of an influential Time Lord leader. Eventually he becomes President. He's the one who broadcasts the 'Doctor Who' message through the crack and grants the Doctor his new regeneration cycle. He then hatches the plan to use Ashildr to lure the Doctor into a trap because he wants to find out about the Hybrid and knows that the Doctor might have answers.
During the events of "Hell Bent", the Doctor will discover who the President really is and expose him. The Master, possibly injured by the end of the finale, will regenerate into a female form - Missy. Missy will then flee Gallifrey (or maybe the Doctor lets her go, to maintain the timeline) and, having seen the potential of an angry, vengeful, unrestrained Doctor, travels back earlier in his timeline and hatches the Cybermen plot. Plus, she also sets the Doctor up with Clara, knowing that Clara is important based on the events of "Hell Bent"...
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* The Timey-Wimey nature of Moffat's plotting fits right in with the idea of the myth of the Hybrid creating itself like an ouroboros, with the Time Lords trying to stop the Doctor from creating the Hybrid, which in turn starts the chain of events that create it.
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* The Timey-Wimey nature of Moffat's plotting fits right in with the idea of the myth of the Hybrid creating itself like an ouroboros, with the Time Lords trying to stop the Doctor from creating the Hybrid, which in turn starts the chain of events that create it.it.
* All well and good, but what does he regenerate her with? ''He doesn't have her body with him''; the DeletedScene from "Face the Raven" posits that it's back in London. And if he wanted to regenerate her that badly, he would have just used his own energy on her right after she died.
* All well and good, but what does he regenerate her with? ''He doesn't have her body with him''; the DeletedScene from "Face the Raven" posits that it's back in London. And if he wanted to regenerate her that badly, he would have just used his own energy on her right after she died.
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Of course, the problem with this is what happens to her at the end of the episode. Does she [[HeroicSacrifice die to save his life]]? Does she regenerate? (Is she a Time Lady or an ordinary Gallifreyan? Can all Gallifreyans regenerate or only Time Lords? Was that ever established beyond fanon?) Does she [[RefusedTheCall refuse the call]]? Something else I haven't thought of?
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Of course, the problem with this is what happens to her at the end of the episode. Does she [[HeroicSacrifice die to save his life]]? Does she regenerate? (Is she a Time Lady or an ordinary Gallifreyan? Can all Gallifreyans regenerate or only Time Lords? Was that ever established beyond fanon?) Does she [[RefusedTheCall refuse the call]]? Something else I haven't thought of?of?
[[WMG: The Doctor's Game Plan in "Heaven Sent" and "Hell Bent"]]
In "Heaven Sent", the Doctor endures two billion years of death and kills innumerable copies of himself by refusing to divulge information about the Hybrid to his Time Lord captors, because he knows the Hybrid ''will be'' Clara, once one of his transmat duplicates makes it back to Gallifrey and regenerates her into a Time Lord, in a mirror of his actions in "The Girl Who Died".
* Spoiler-philes already know [[spoiler: Clara is "alive" and working in an American diner at the start of the episode, so obviously she comes back somehow.]]
* The Timey-Wimey nature of Moffat's plotting fits right in with the idea of the myth of the Hybrid creating itself like an ouroboros, with the Time Lords trying to stop the Doctor from creating the Hybrid, which in turn starts the chain of events that create it.
[[WMG: The Doctor's Game Plan in "Heaven Sent" and "Hell Bent"]]
In "Heaven Sent", the Doctor endures two billion years of death and kills innumerable copies of himself by refusing to divulge information about the Hybrid to his Time Lord captors, because he knows the Hybrid ''will be'' Clara, once one of his transmat duplicates makes it back to Gallifrey and regenerates her into a Time Lord, in a mirror of his actions in "The Girl Who Died".
* Spoiler-philes already know [[spoiler: Clara is "alive" and working in an American diner at the start of the episode, so obviously she comes back somehow.]]
* The Timey-Wimey nature of Moffat's plotting fits right in with the idea of the myth of the Hybrid creating itself like an ouroboros, with the Time Lords trying to stop the Doctor from creating the Hybrid, which in turn starts the chain of events that create it.
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* Seemingly confirmed by the last line of "Heaven Sent", though thanks to AmbiguousSyntax, he could also have meant Ashildr.
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[[WMG: The Doctor will destroy Gallifrey...so it can be '''remade'''.]]]
Basically, the only way to fix everything is to hit the ResetButton...which is on Gallifrey. Gallifrey itself will end up being remade in a hopefully nicer image.
Basically, the only way to fix everything is to hit the ResetButton...which is on Gallifrey. Gallifrey itself will end up being remade in a hopefully nicer image.
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[[WMG: The Doctor will destroy Gallifrey...so it can be '''remade'''.]]]
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Basically, the only way to fix everything is to hit the ResetButton...which is on Gallifrey. Gallifrey itself will end up being remade in a hopefully nicerimage.image.
[[WMG: Gallifreyan Clara will "save" the Doctor one last time.]]
In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor "The Name of the Doctor"]], we see a Gallifreyan Clara echo who directs the First Doctor to the correct unlocked TARDIS (presumably because the Gallifreyan Great Intelligence echo opened up a sabotaged/ready-to-blow one). There's no reason to think she's ''not'' still on Gallifrey, necessarily, and as she says in that episode, she was "born to save the Doctor." So, she takes up Clara Prime's role in "Hell Bent", preventing him from going all Warrior on the Time Lords' asses (or, indeed, [[UsefulNotes/BritishEnglish arses]]), and helps him TakeAThirdOption. In so doing, the Impossible Girl gets to save the Doctor one last time, and perhaps give him some small amount of closure for Clara Prime's death.
Of course, the problem with this is what happens to her at the end of the episode. Does she [[HeroicSacrifice die to save his life]]? Does she regenerate? (Is she a Time Lady or an ordinary Gallifreyan? Can all Gallifreyans regenerate or only Time Lords? Was that ever established beyond fanon?) Does she [[RefusedTheCall refuse the call]]? Something else I haven't thought of?
Basically, the only way to fix everything is to hit the ResetButton...which is on Gallifrey. Gallifrey itself will end up being remade in a hopefully nicer
[[WMG: Gallifreyan Clara will "save" the Doctor one last time.]]
In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor "The Name of the Doctor"]], we see a Gallifreyan Clara echo who directs the First Doctor to the correct unlocked TARDIS (presumably because the Gallifreyan Great Intelligence echo opened up a sabotaged/ready-to-blow one). There's no reason to think she's ''not'' still on Gallifrey, necessarily, and as she says in that episode, she was "born to save the Doctor." So, she takes up Clara Prime's role in "Hell Bent", preventing him from going all Warrior on the Time Lords' asses (or, indeed, [[UsefulNotes/BritishEnglish arses]]), and helps him TakeAThirdOption. In so doing, the Impossible Girl gets to save the Doctor one last time, and perhaps give him some small amount of closure for Clara Prime's death.
Of course, the problem with this is what happens to her at the end of the episode. Does she [[HeroicSacrifice die to save his life]]? Does she regenerate? (Is she a Time Lady or an ordinary Gallifreyan? Can all Gallifreyans regenerate or only Time Lords? Was that ever established beyond fanon?) Does she [[RefusedTheCall refuse the call]]? Something else I haven't thought of?
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* Ashildr regenerating.]]
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* Ashildr regenerating.]]regenerating.
* Gallifrey itself.
[[WMG: The Doctor will destroy Gallifrey...so it can be '''remade'''.]]]
Basically, the only way to fix everything is to hit the ResetButton...which is on Gallifrey. Gallifrey itself will end up being remade in a hopefully nicer image.
* Gallifrey itself.
[[WMG: The Doctor will destroy Gallifrey...so it can be '''remade'''.]]]
Basically, the only way to fix everything is to hit the ResetButton...which is on Gallifrey. Gallifrey itself will end up being remade in a hopefully nicer image.
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* [[spoiler: After Clara's death, and being trapped in hell for billions of years, because of the Time Lords, the Doctor is in a very bad place, and as a result of Clara's attempt at being MoralityChain might not have taken]], the Doctor will finally assume the mantle of the Valeyard. It might not last the episode, but it's a mantle he will assume to deal with the Hybrid [[spoiler: which isn't him, but Ashildr/Me, as hinted by the final line of "Heaven Sent".]]
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* [[spoiler: After Clara's death, and being trapped in hell for billions of years, because of the Time Lords, the Doctor is in a very bad place, and as a result of Clara's attempt at being MoralityChain might not have taken]], the Doctor will finally assume the mantle of the Valeyard. It might not last the episode, but it's a mantle he will assume to deal with the Hybrid [[spoiler: which isn't him, but Ashildr/Me, as hinted by the final line of "Heaven Sent".]]
[[WMG: Regeneration in "Hell Bent"]]
* The Master regenerating into Missy.
* Clara somehow regenerating.
* The Doctor regenerating (but not changing faces...similar to Journey's End).
* The Doctor regenerating in a process that creates the Valeyard.
* Ashildr regenerating.]]
[[WMG: Regeneration in "Hell Bent"]]
* The Master regenerating into Missy.
* Clara somehow regenerating.
* The Doctor regenerating (but not changing faces...similar to Journey's End).
* The Doctor regenerating in a process that creates the Valeyard.
* Ashildr regenerating.]]
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[[spoiler: ...the Doctor's ''very first'' round of captivity was a lot longer than the others, possibly even requiring that copy of him to use up a number of regenerations before he cracked the Castle's secrets. After all, his ''first'' iteration wouldn't have had the clues of altered stars or "BIRD" to guide him; he had to figure it all out from scratch. It's only after he'd solved the mystery the hard way that he thought to leave a hint for his next teleportation-copy, and only after a few tens of thousands of additional iterations that the stars became another clue.]]
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[[spoiler: ...the Doctor's ''very first'' round of captivity was a lot longer than the others, possibly even requiring that copy of him to use up a number of regenerations before he cracked the Castle's secrets. After all, his ''first'' iteration wouldn't have had the clues of altered stars or "BIRD" to guide him; he had to figure it all out from scratch. It's only after he'd solved the mystery the hard way that he thought to leave a hint for his next teleportation-copy, and only after a few tens of thousands of additional iterations that the stars became had moved enough to provide another clue.]]
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[[spoiler: ...the Doctor's ''very first'' round of captivity was a lot longer than the others, possibly even requiring that copy of him to use up a number of regenerations before he cracked the Castle's secrets. After all, his ''first'' iteration wouldn't have had the clues of altered stars or "BIRD" to guide him; he had to figure it all out from scratch. It's only after he'd solved the mystery the hard way that he thought to leave a hint for his next teleportation-copy, and only after a few tens of thousands of additional iterations that the stars became another clue.]]
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[[spoiler: ...the Doctor's ''very first'' round of captivity was a lot longer than the others, possibly even requiring that copy of him to use up a number of regenerations before he cracked the Castle's secrets. After all, his ''first'' iteration wouldn't have had the clues of altered stars or "BIRD" to guide him; he had to figure it all out from scratch. It's only after he'd solved the mystery the hard way that he thought to leave a hint for his next teleportation-copy, and only after a few tens of thousands of additional iterations that the stars became another clue.]]
[[WMG: Twelve will become the Valeyard, at least temporarily, in "Hell Bent".]]
* [[spoiler: After Clara's death, and being trapped in hell for billions of years, because of the Time Lords, the Doctor is in a very bad place, and as a result of Clara's attempt at being MoralityChain might not have taken]], the Doctor will finally assume the mantle of the Valeyard. It might not last the episode, but it's a mantle he will assume to deal with the Hybrid [[spoiler: which isn't him, but Ashildr/Me, as hinted by the final line of "Heaven Sent".]]
[[WMG: Twelve will become the Valeyard, at least temporarily, in "Hell Bent".]]
* [[spoiler: After Clara's death, and being trapped in hell for billions of years, because of the Time Lords, the Doctor is in a very bad place, and as a result of Clara's attempt at being MoralityChain might not have taken]], the Doctor will finally assume the mantle of the Valeyard. It might not last the episode, but it's a mantle he will assume to deal with the Hybrid [[spoiler: which isn't him, but Ashildr/Me, as hinted by the final line of "Heaven Sent".]]
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[[spoiler: ...the Doctor's ''very first'' round of captivity was a lot longer than the others, possibly even requiring that copy of him to use up a number of regenerations before he cracked the Castle's secrets. After all, his ''first'' iteration wouldn't have had the clues of altered stars or "BIRD" to guide him; he had to figure it all out from scratch. It's only after he'd solved the mystery the hard way that he thought to leave a hint for himself, and only after a few tens of thousands of additional iterations that the stars became another clue.]]
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[[spoiler: ...the Doctor's ''very first'' round of captivity was a lot longer than the others, possibly even requiring that copy of him to use up a number of regenerations before he cracked the Castle's secrets. After all, his ''first'' iteration wouldn't have had the clues of altered stars or "BIRD" to guide him; he had to figure it all out from scratch. It's only after he'd solved the mystery the hard way that he thought to leave a hint for himself, his next teleportation-copy, and only after a few tens of thousands of additional iterations that the stars became another clue.]]
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* He escapes Gallifrey by someone else (Ohila, Clara's Gallifreyan echo, Ashildr ... [[HandWave somehow]]) regenerating to look like him (explaining that "Regeneration in progress" line in the Next Time trailer). The Time Lords, already planning on killing the Doctor, grab him mid-regeneration (a la Ten in "Journey's End"), and are duped into thinking that it's actually him.
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* He escapes Gallifrey by someone else (Ohila, Clara's Gallifreyan echo, Ashildr ... [[HandWave somehow]]) regenerating to look like him (explaining that "Regeneration in progress" line in the Next Time trailer). The Time Lords, already planning on killing the Doctor, grab him mid-regeneration (a la Ten in "Journey's End"), and are duped into thinking that it's actually him.him.
[[WMG: In "Heaven Sent"...]]
[[spoiler: ...the Doctor's ''very first'' round of captivity was a lot longer than the others, possibly even requiring that copy of him to use up a number of regenerations before he cracked the Castle's secrets. After all, his ''first'' iteration wouldn't have had the clues of altered stars or "BIRD" to guide him; he had to figure it all out from scratch. It's only after he'd solved the mystery the hard way that he thought to leave a hint for himself, and only after a few tens of thousands of additional iterations that the stars became another clue.]]
[[WMG: In "Heaven Sent"...]]
[[spoiler: ...the Doctor's ''very first'' round of captivity was a lot longer than the others, possibly even requiring that copy of him to use up a number of regenerations before he cracked the Castle's secrets. After all, his ''first'' iteration wouldn't have had the clues of altered stars or "BIRD" to guide him; he had to figure it all out from scratch. It's only after he'd solved the mystery the hard way that he thought to leave a hint for himself, and only after a few tens of thousands of additional iterations that the stars became another clue.]]
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** [[spoiler: All Jossed; the Veil is a construct that's part of the castle's workings.]]
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* [[spoiler: Inverted; the Confession Dial brings the ''Doctor'' back to ''Gallifrey'', albeit by a very, very, very, very, ''very'' long route.]]
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* ...Me. Human and Mire technology.
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* ...Me. Human and Mire technology.technology.
[[WMG: In "Hell Bent," The Doctor isn't the one killed by the firing squad.]]
* He escapes Gallifrey by someone else (Ohila, Clara's Gallifreyan echo, Ashildr ... [[HandWave somehow]]) regenerating to look like him (explaining that "Regeneration in progress" line in the Next Time trailer). The Time Lords, already planning on killing the Doctor, grab him mid-regeneration (a la Ten in "Journey's End"), and are duped into thinking that it's actually him.
[[WMG: In "Hell Bent," The Doctor isn't the one killed by the firing squad.]]
* He escapes Gallifrey by someone else (Ohila, Clara's Gallifreyan echo, Ashildr ... [[HandWave somehow]]) regenerating to look like him (explaining that "Regeneration in progress" line in the Next Time trailer). The Time Lords, already planning on killing the Doctor, grab him mid-regeneration (a la Ten in "Journey's End"), and are duped into thinking that it's actually him.
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[[WMG: The Hybrid i...]]
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[[WMG: The Hybrid i...is...]]
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* ...a Ghost of someone, considering the theme of revival this season.
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* ...a Ghost of someone, considering the theme of revival this season.season.
[[WMG: The Hybrid i...]]
* ...Me. Human and Mire technology.
[[WMG: The Hybrid i...]]
* ...Me. Human and Mire technology.
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[[WMG: The Veil will be revealed as...]]
* ...the Doctor.
* ...the Valeyard (Veil-Yard).
* ...Missy.
* ...Clara, or another companion.
* ...a Time Lord (Rassilon?).
* ...the Hybrid.
* ...Davros.
* ...something connected to "The God Complex".
* ...a Ghost of someone, considering the theme of revival this season.
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In the Doctor's Trial, the Master said that the Doctor's dark side manifests between the Doctor's "twelfth and final incarnation". But this doesn't happen in Heaven Sent...because it's already happened. According to The Time of the Doctor, with the War Doctor and the Meta-Crisis Doctor, the Eleventh Doctor was actually the thirteenth incarnation, which puts his life between the twelfth and final incarnations. And it was during his incarnation that the events of Amy's Choice happened - the manifestation of his dark side as the Dream Lord. The ending of that episode strongly implied that while the Doctor successfully defeated the Dream Lord, he did not destroy him, given that he saw the Dream Lord's face where his reflection should be for a moment. His dark side has remained within the Doctor, aware but trapped, waiting for an oppertunity to come for him to break free. The events of Face the Raven were what it had been waiting for - the Doctor is never as emotionally vulnerable as he is after those rare occasions when a Companion dies while in his company. So as the Doctor teleports away, grieving Clara and angrily threatening Ashildr and those in her care, his dark side makes its move, attacking the Doctor's sanity with his failures and fears. It may not be able to destroy the Doctor's mind and steal his lives like it hopes to, but if it can just break free, then the Veil may become the Valeyard at long last. With the Doctor so distracted, he may not even realize it is not longer contained within him.
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In the Doctor's Trial, the Master said that the Doctor's dark side manifests between the Doctor's "twelfth and final incarnation". But this doesn't happen in Heaven Sent...because it's already happened. According to The Time of the Doctor, with the War Doctor and the Meta-Crisis Doctor, the Eleventh Doctor was actually the thirteenth incarnation, which puts his life between the twelfth and final incarnations. And it was during his incarnation that the events of Amy's Choice happened - the manifestation of his dark side as the Dream Lord. The ending of that episode strongly implied that while the Doctor successfully defeated the Dream Lord, he did not destroy him, given that he saw the Dream Lord's face where his reflection should be for a moment. His dark side has remained within the Doctor, aware but trapped, waiting for an oppertunity to come for him to break free. The events of Face the Raven were what it had been waiting for - the Doctor is never as emotionally vulnerable as he is after those rare occasions when a Companion dies while in his company. So as the Doctor teleports away, grieving Clara and angrily threatening Ashildr and those in her care, his dark side makes its move, attacking the Doctor's sanity with his failures and fears. It may not be able to destroy the Doctor's mind and steal his lives like it hopes to, but if it can just break free, then the Veil may become the Valeyard at long last. With the Doctor so distracted, he may not even realize it is not longer contained within him.him.
** Veil-Yard.
** Veil-Yard.
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The whole will/hybrid thing is a trick (see: Rule #1). He's set up the dial to create a crack in time and send a signal to Gallifrey to return.
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The whole will/hybrid thing is a trick (see: Rule #1). He's set up the dial to create a crack in time and send a signal to Gallifrey to return.return.
[[WMG: The events of Heaven Sent will be entirely in the Doctor's mind.]]
The teleportation bracelet isn't sending the Doctor to some nightmare place designed to drive him insane. The actual destination will be wherever Hell Bent is set (maybe Gallifrey?). However, in his grieving and enraged state, as he teleports his mind is drawn into his subconscious where the Veil attacks him. The Veil is actually the Doctor's dark side.
In the Doctor's Trial, the Master said that the Doctor's dark side manifests between the Doctor's "twelfth and final incarnation". But this doesn't happen in Heaven Sent...because it's already happened. According to The Time of the Doctor, with the War Doctor and the Meta-Crisis Doctor, the Eleventh Doctor was actually the thirteenth incarnation, which puts his life between the twelfth and final incarnations. And it was during his incarnation that the events of Amy's Choice happened - the manifestation of his dark side as the Dream Lord. The ending of that episode strongly implied that while the Doctor successfully defeated the Dream Lord, he did not destroy him, given that he saw the Dream Lord's face where his reflection should be for a moment. His dark side has remained within the Doctor, aware but trapped, waiting for an oppertunity to come for him to break free. The events of Face the Raven were what it had been waiting for - the Doctor is never as emotionally vulnerable as he is after those rare occasions when a Companion dies while in his company. So as the Doctor teleports away, grieving Clara and angrily threatening Ashildr and those in her care, his dark side makes its move, attacking the Doctor's sanity with his failures and fears. It may not be able to destroy the Doctor's mind and steal his lives like it hopes to, but if it can just break free, then the Veil may become the Valeyard at long last. With the Doctor so distracted, he may not even realize it is not longer contained within him.
[[WMG: The events of Heaven Sent will be entirely in the Doctor's mind.]]
The teleportation bracelet isn't sending the Doctor to some nightmare place designed to drive him insane. The actual destination will be wherever Hell Bent is set (maybe Gallifrey?). However, in his grieving and enraged state, as he teleports his mind is drawn into his subconscious where the Veil attacks him. The Veil is actually the Doctor's dark side.
In the Doctor's Trial, the Master said that the Doctor's dark side manifests between the Doctor's "twelfth and final incarnation". But this doesn't happen in Heaven Sent...because it's already happened. According to The Time of the Doctor, with the War Doctor and the Meta-Crisis Doctor, the Eleventh Doctor was actually the thirteenth incarnation, which puts his life between the twelfth and final incarnations. And it was during his incarnation that the events of Amy's Choice happened - the manifestation of his dark side as the Dream Lord. The ending of that episode strongly implied that while the Doctor successfully defeated the Dream Lord, he did not destroy him, given that he saw the Dream Lord's face where his reflection should be for a moment. His dark side has remained within the Doctor, aware but trapped, waiting for an oppertunity to come for him to break free. The events of Face the Raven were what it had been waiting for - the Doctor is never as emotionally vulnerable as he is after those rare occasions when a Companion dies while in his company. So as the Doctor teleports away, grieving Clara and angrily threatening Ashildr and those in her care, his dark side makes its move, attacking the Doctor's sanity with his failures and fears. It may not be able to destroy the Doctor's mind and steal his lives like it hopes to, but if it can just break free, then the Veil may become the Valeyard at long last. With the Doctor so distracted, he may not even realize it is not longer contained within him.
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* Could it, perhaps, only happen during an especially intimate moment? We never did see the Doctor and River do more than kiss, it's about time they consummated things. River's dream-world after her ghost was uploaded showed her with three children, be nce if she could have one in real life! And maybe that leaves an opening for the Doctor to have more family out there even after River is gone.
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* Could it, perhaps, only happen during an especially intimate moment? We never did see the Doctor and River do more than kiss, it's about time they consummated things. River's dream-world after her ghost was uploaded showed her with three children, be nce if she could have one in real life! And maybe that leaves an opening for the Doctor to have more family out there even after River is gone.gone.
[[WMG: The Confession Dial brings Gallifrey back.]]
The whole will/hybrid thing is a trick (see: Rule #1). He's set up the dial to create a crack in time and send a signal to Gallifrey to return.
[[WMG: The Confession Dial brings Gallifrey back.]]
The whole will/hybrid thing is a trick (see: Rule #1). He's set up the dial to create a crack in time and send a signal to Gallifrey to return.
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[[WMG: In the Christmas Special, the Doctor will tell River his name.]]
We never did see it happen, yet we know River knows it. This River will be from a point in her timeline before the Library, and she will learn the Doctor's real name.
[[WMG: Moffat will finally explain that darn "could"!]]
The Doctor told River, "There's only one reason I would ever tell anyone my name. There's only one time I could!" Remember, Moffat, it's only a spoiler if there actually ''is'' an explanation eventually!
* Could it, perhaps, only happen during an especially intimate moment? We never did see the Doctor and River do more than kiss, it's about time they consummated things. River's dream-world after her ghost was uploaded showed her with three children, be nce if she could have one in real life! And maybe that leaves an opening for the Doctor to have more family out there even after River is gone.
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[[WMG: The Doctor is or will become THE hybrid.]]
The concept that "Everyone's a hybrid", friend and foe at once, has proven key to Series 9, portrayed in a variety of ways -- the Doctor coming to a new understanding of Davros, Missy helping rescue the Doctor on Skaro, Clara ending up in a Dalek shell supposedly so Missy could illustrate the concept, Ashildr/Me's plight as human-Mire, the surviving Osgood seeing herself as human-Zygon, evil Zygons masquerading as loved ones and colleagues and even going from foe to friend in Bonnie's case. But if '''everyone''' is a hybrid, then what does that say about the Doctor himself? '''''Now''''' we see how "Heaven Sent" can be a MinimalistCast episode, and how the Doctor can be up against "the greatest challenge of his lives" all alone in his quest for Gallifrey. Now we know how his confession involves his knowledge of what and where the Hybrid is. '''''He's the Hybrid, and always has been,''''' it's just that he's kept the Dalek part of his being concealed by choice. "Heaven Sent" / "Hell Bent" will see him "awaken" this part of him in order to accomplish his goals, now that he's at the DespairEventHorizon.
The concept that "Everyone's a hybrid", friend and foe at once, has proven key to Series 9, portrayed in a variety of ways -- the Doctor coming to a new understanding of Davros, Missy helping rescue the Doctor on Skaro, Clara ending up in a Dalek shell supposedly so Missy could illustrate the concept, Ashildr/Me's plight as human-Mire, the surviving Osgood seeing herself as human-Zygon, evil Zygons masquerading as loved ones and colleagues and even going from foe to friend in Bonnie's case. But if '''everyone''' is a hybrid, then what does that say about the Doctor himself? '''''Now''''' we see how "Heaven Sent" can be a MinimalistCast episode, and how the Doctor can be up against "the greatest challenge of his lives" all alone in his quest for Gallifrey. Now we know how his confession involves his knowledge of what and where the Hybrid is. '''''He's the Hybrid, and always has been,''''' it's just that he's kept the Dalek part of his being concealed by choice. "Heaven Sent" / "Hell Bent" will see him "awaken" this part of him in order to accomplish his goals, now that he's at the DespairEventHorizon.
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[[WMG: The Doctor is or will become THE hybrid.Hybrid.]]
The concept that "Everyone's a hybrid", friend and foe at once, has proven key to Series 9, portrayed in a variety of ways -- the Doctor coming to a new understanding of Davros, Missy helping rescue the Doctor on Skaro, Clara ending up in a Dalek shell supposedly so Missy could illustrate the concept, Ashildr/Me's plight as human-Mire, the surviving Osgood seeing herself as human-Zygon, evil Zygons masquerading as loved ones and colleagues and even going from foe to friend in Bonnie's case. But if '''everyone''' is a hybrid, then what does that say about the Doctor himself? '''''Now''''' we see how "Heaven Sent" can be a MinimalistCast episode, and how the Doctor can be up against "the greatest challenge of his lives" all alone in his quest for Gallifrey. Now we know how his confession involves his knowledge of what and where the Hybrid is. '''''He's the Hybrid, and always has been,''''' it's just that he's kept the Dalek part of his being concealed bychoice. choice or -- more likely -- force, even during the Last Great Time War. Maybe he started running to keep it from waking up. "Heaven Sent" / "Hell Bent" will see him "awaken" awaken this part of him in order to accomplish his goals, now that he's goals at the DespairEventHorizon.
The concept that "Everyone's a hybrid", friend and foe at once, has proven key to Series 9, portrayed in a variety of ways -- the Doctor coming to a new understanding of Davros, Missy helping rescue the Doctor on Skaro, Clara ending up in a Dalek shell supposedly so Missy could illustrate the concept, Ashildr/Me's plight as human-Mire, the surviving Osgood seeing herself as human-Zygon, evil Zygons masquerading as loved ones and colleagues and even going from foe to friend in Bonnie's case. But if '''everyone''' is a hybrid, then what does that say about the Doctor himself? '''''Now''''' we see how "Heaven Sent" can be a MinimalistCast episode, and how the Doctor can be up against "the greatest challenge of his lives" all alone in his quest for Gallifrey. Now we know how his confession involves his knowledge of what and where the Hybrid is. '''''He's the Hybrid, and always has been,''''' it's just that he's kept the Dalek part of his being concealed by
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[[WMG: Missy was behind the events of Face the Raven]]
* Or it could be the Time Lords in general.
* Or it could be the Time Lords in general.
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[[WMG: Missy was behind the events of Face "Face the Raven]]
Raven"]]
* Or it could be the Time Lords ingeneral.general.
** '''Very''' likely, as the trap Ashildr sets for him involves both a lock that can only take his TARDIS key ''and'' his confession dial, and he will ''not'' be on the side of the Time Lords in "Hell Bent". (The only other characters who have any knowledge of the confession dial at all are Davros and the Daleks, and they probably don't know its actual significance.) Perhaps they hope to kill him off to find out what great secret he's been hiding for so long -- or hold the threat of death over him if he doesn't give up the secret willingly. That the secret apparently involves the Hybrid suggest they're itching to restart the Time War and finish it for good. All this, of course, would be absolutely dastardly and ungrateful given that their continued existence was the Doctor's doing, but that's Time Lords for you.
* Or it could be the Time Lords in
** '''Very''' likely, as the trap Ashildr sets for him involves both a lock that can only take his TARDIS key ''and'' his confession dial, and he will ''not'' be on the side of the Time Lords in "Hell Bent". (The only other characters who have any knowledge of the confession dial at all are Davros and the Daleks, and they probably don't know its actual significance.) Perhaps they hope to kill him off to find out what great secret he's been hiding for so long -- or hold the threat of death over him if he doesn't give up the secret willingly. That the secret apparently involves the Hybrid suggest they're itching to restart the Time War and finish it for good. All this, of course, would be absolutely dastardly and ungrateful given that their continued existence was the Doctor's doing, but that's Time Lords for you.
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* Although she's in all the stories through "Face the Raven", "Heaven Sent", the first half of the finale, looks to only have the Doctor as a character...could her demise trigger the events of "Hell Bent"?
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* Although she's in all the stories through "Face the Raven", "Heaven Sent", the first half of the finale, looks to only have the Doctor as a character...could her demise trigger the events of "Hell Bent"?
Bent"? ('''Confirmed! She dies in "Face the Raven".''')
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** The season finale has been announced to be, storywise, huge but a complete 180 from that of Series 8 tonally, and that had Cybermen; we've already had a Dalek story with the season premiere, so while this concept is workable, the scale and scope of it might have to be ''really'' amped up. And keep in mind that whomever the big villain(s) is/are, they won't have an onscreen role in the first half of this two-parter. The confirmation that the Doctor is on the opposite side of the Time Lords in "Hell Bent" suggests Daleks and Cybermen won't be on the menu this year.
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** The season finale has been announced to be, storywise, huge but a complete 180 from that of Series 8 tonally, and that had Cybermen; we've already had a Dalek story with the season premiere, so while this concept is workable, the scale and scope of it might have to be ''really'' amped up. And keep in mind that whomever the big villain(s) is/are, they won't have an onscreen role in the first half of this two-parter. The confirmation that the Doctor is on the opposite side of the Time Lords in "Hell Bent" suggests Daleks and ''and'' Cybermen won't be on the menu this year.year, but Daleks may turn up anyway.
** '''Jossed''': She died in "Face the Raven", though she will have at least one scene in "Hell Bent" to cap things off.
** Probably jossed, as both have been KilledOffForReal as of "Face the Raven".
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** '''Jossed'''; you'll have to wait for Series 10.
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** '''Jossed'''; you'll have to wait for Series 10.
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* The Rani!.
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* The Rani!.Rani!
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* Clara died on her travels with the Doctor sometime between "Last Christmas" and the start of Series 9. An in-depth summary of this theory is [[http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/11/08/will-the-doctor-be-the-judge-of-time-spoilers/ here]]; in brief: He's mourning her demise as much as regretting what happened with young Davros. But news of the Doctor having TheLastDance reaches Clara ''before'' the events that result in her death take place -- this might be Missy's idea/plot, or she might be unawares -- and she is reunited with him, unaware that he knows how she dies. Grateful for more time with her, the Doctor keeps his knowledge secret and they travel together once more. But his willingness to defy the fates may be manifesting itself in the unusually timey-wimey nature of his encounter with the Fisher King, his tragic dilemma with Ashildr/Me...And consider this quote from an interview with Creator/PeterCapaldi:
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* Clara died on her travels with the Doctor sometime between "Last Christmas" and the start of Series 9. An in-depth summary of this theory is [[http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/11/08/will-the-doctor-be-the-judge-of-time-spoilers/ here]]; in brief: He's mourning her demise as much as regretting what happened with young Davros. But news of the Doctor having TheLastDance reaches Clara ''before'' the events that result in her death take place -- this might be Missy's idea/plot, or she might be unawares -- and she is reunited with him, unaware that he knows how she dies. Grateful for more time with her, the Doctor keeps his knowledge secret and they travel together once more. But his willingness to defy the fates may be manifesting itself in the unusually timey-wimey nature of his encounter with the Fisher King, his tragic dilemma with Ashildr/Me...Ashildr...And consider this quote from an interview with Creator/PeterCapaldi:
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* '''Confirmed.''' She dies in "Face the Raven" and "Heaven Sent"/"Hell Bent" deals with the fallout of this event on the Doctor's actions.
