History Fridge / DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor

* Elizabeth doesn't react to the relevation that the Tenth Doctor can change his face - leading him to mistakenly suspect she's a Zygon imposter. She uses this apparent willingness to go along with things when she poses as the Zygon Commander. In real life, Elizabeth took part in so many plots and was subject to so many assassination attempts that she probably learned to keep a level head and never rule out any possibility, however daft.

** And with a bit of Fridge Heartwarming to cap it all off; each incarnation of the Doctor is on death's door in some way shape or form during this time. War's body is within hours of giving out (even setting aside his DeathSeeker tendencies), Ten is painfully aware he hasn't got long left thanks to the Ood, and Eleven knows (or at least believes) he's had his final regeneration. And as the plan to save Gallifrey begins to form, it's not the ethereal and mysterious "Doctor's Theme" or "I Am The Doctor" that plays in the background, but "The Shepherd's Boy", which is the leitmotif for ''Twelve''. As they ensure their homeworld has a future, Murray Gold gently reminds us that the Doctor will as well.

** It also has the old-style walls with the "round 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.")
** Its suggested that it's 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.

* The final scene with 'The Curator'. There's a lot of LeaningOnTheFourthWall mixed with a heady dose of AngelUnaware, but if one accepts that [[spoiler: The Curator is a long long distant regeneration of the Doctor]], then there's '''a lot''' more significance to the "Round Things" along the gallery walls next to the painting.
* The Tenth Doctor's final line:
** "[[spoiler:I don't wanna go]]" makes sense even outside of a call back. In "The Day of the Doctor", it was in response to [[spoiler:being told they'd go to Trenzalore, the location of their grave/death]]. In [[spoiler:"The End of Time"]], it was in after [[spoiler:comparing Regeneration to death]]. Why was that his final line in the special? So that "[[spoiler: I don't wanna go]]" is still the [[spoiler:last line we've heard him say in the show.]] There's no argument about what his [[spoiler:last words]] are.
** Also, unlike most incarnations, Ten equated regeneration to death, and he said that line in response to [[spoiler: hearing of his (final) death on Trenzalore]]. Ten knows he has one regeneration left, and considering that this adventure takes place during the 2009 specials (from Ten's point of view), it is entirely possible he thinks the 'He will knock four times' prophecy is referring to [[spoiler: his fate on Trenzalore.]]
* The letter from Queen Elizabeth says that the Doctor pledged to defend "the safety of my kingdom". This explains why the Doctor keeps turning up in Britain in particular. He's not a very good husband, but he does keep his promise. Although at first glance it appears that he wouldn't remember any of this (including the marriage), he does remember marrying her, as he brings it up in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]]. He regenerates shortly thereafter, so going back wouldn't have been an option regardless.
* 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 possible 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.

* At the climax, Ten, Eleven, and the War Doctor summon [[spoiler: all the previous incarnations of the Doctor to battle to help save Gallifrey]]. But how does [[spoiler: The Twelfth Doctor know where to go, given he doesn't exist yet?]] Because he remembers these events from Eleven's perspective, and knew that he would be needed. And he's the ''only'' [[spoiler: future Doctor to show up, because it just happened to have needed that many versions of him to complete the calculations, not a fourteenth or later one.]]
* The big red button that can destroy Gallifrey and the Daleks mirrors the exact the same dilemma faced by the 9th Doctor with using the Delta Wave to destroy the Dalek Emperor and burn the Earth during the events of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E12BadWolf "Bad Wolf"]]. It also looks like a rose. Remind us of anyone?
** It could also potentially foreshadow the Doctors' (yes, multiple) decision to ''not'' burn Gallifrey. Despite all that happened in the Time War and the fact that he did not consider himself the Doctor, he ''was'' [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre the Doctor]], "more than anybody else... on the day it wasn't possible to get it right". And the Doctor would always find a way to save everyone if he can. And he did.
* 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 God's 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 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.

* Eleven being the one who realize how to [[spoiler: save Gallifrey by [[TrickedOutTime tricking out time]]]] makes a lot of sense, since it's not the first time he does [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong something similar]].

* Elizabeth doesn't react to the relevation that the Tenth Doctor can change his face - leading him to mistakingly suspect she's a Zygon imposter. She uses this apparent willingness to go along with things when she poses as the Zygon Commander. In real life, Elizabeth took part in so many plots and was subject to so many assassination attempts that she probably learned to keep a level head and never rule out any possibility, however daft.
* People have been speculating about how Peter Capaldi can fill the position of a ''[[SeriesContinuityError fourteenth Doctor]]'', yet, going back to TheGallifreyChronicles, Marnal claims the Doctor to have [[BeyondTheImpossible three ninth incarnations]]; one is the Eccleston Doctor, one is the Hurt Doctor, and one remains unknown. When the War-Doctor regenerated, [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments he got his wish]]. As for how the War-Doctor can regenerate into nine-proper; TimeyWimeyBall. Although, at the time, this was meant to refer to [[Creator/ChristopherEccleston the Ninth Doctor]], [[WebAnimation/ScreamOfTheShalka the Other Ninth Doctor]] and the [[Recap/DoctorWhoTheCurseOfFatalDeath Other Other Ninth Doctor]].
* All Time Lords are Gallifreyans, but not all Gallifreyans get to become Time Lords. It could easily be that [[spoiler:Rassilon]] sees non-Time Lord Gallifreyans as second-class, and therefore disposable, citizens. He could very well be using them as meatshields during [[spoiler:the Dalek invasion of Gallifrey]] to buy himself enough space to hold the [[spoiler:final meeting of the Time Lords to ratify his use of The Final Sanction]].
* The last thing the War Doctor ever does before regenerating is gleefully laugh. Now, we know that this is because [[spoiler: he just saved Gallifrey from the Time War]]. But he doesn't remember that. At all. Now picture that from the perspective of the Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Doctors, who also don't remember why he was laughing. They all thought that the last thing the War Doctor ever did was laugh ecstatically after committing genocide against their own race... No wonder they were so scared of him.
* It's interesting that Tom Baker would be the one to send the Eleventh Doctor on the quest to find and free Gallifrey, as the Fourth Doctor's hunt for the Key to Time fragments was probably the closest thing Doctor Who has ever had to a traditional quest storyline.
* 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 possible he saw the War Doctor seemingly destroy Gallifrey and it drove him to run and change his name to the Doctor.

* Given the trauma the War Doctor experiences (or at least thinks he experiences), is it any wonder that in the Doctor Who franchise there are ''three'' Ninth Doctors? There's the Rowan Atkinson spoof version see in ''The Curse of Fatal Death'', the dark, clearly post-war Richard E. Grant version in ''Scream of the Shalka'', and finally Christopher Eccleston's TV version. Some expanded media have suggested that the three versions exist in alternate timelines.
* Nine's absence from the story (aside from the blizzard of stock-footage at the climax), as well as that of any of Ten's companions ''or'' of any later Doctors, is explained by one of the Moment's early lines: she wasn't showing War just ''any'' of his future selves, she was showing him the men he'd become as a consequence of Ten ''calculating how many children'' must have been on Gallifrey when he ended the Time War. Presumably Nine was still too shell-shocked to bring himself to perform that calculation, and Ten didn't become depressed and self-repulsed enough to run those numbers until the "one terrible night" which the Moment mentions ... probably the ''same'' "terrible night" when he'd just seen [[spoiler: Adelaide Brooks kill herself to preserve the timeline]]. At that point, Ten had gone without companions for quite a while. As for the ''later'' Doctors, they knew that War hadn't actually killed the children, so didn't pose a suitable example for the Moment's demonstration.
* The appearance of an apparent future Doctor near the end (the man played by Tom Baker) does not violate the continuity of the next episode, "Time of the Doctor" in which Eleven assumes he is the final Doctor. That's because a few moments earlier it's confirmed that a past Doctor cannot retain knowledge acquired from a future self. Meaning Eleven likely forgot his encounter with the Curator soon after.
** There's no indication that the Curator is a future Doctor, a past Doctor, or anything else that specific.
** It ''is'' pretty heavily implied, however.
* The Doctor's infatuation with Rose takes on a new light due to this episode: the Moment appeared as her Bad Wolf persona and even mentioned her by name, indicating to the War Doctor that "Rose Tyler" is someone who will come to mean a great deal to him one day. Even though his memories of exactly what happened were erased, he might have at least some recollection on ''some'' level of what the Moment had looked like, the name it had mentioned, and its rationale for taking that particular form, which could turn into a fixation on Rose on the Doctor's part due to her connection to the Moment. Running into Rose herself so soon after ending the Time War in his previous incarnation must have triggered something, even if just on a subconscious level, that prompted the Ninth Doctor to take her on as a companion. In this interpretation, Rose is at least another symbol of the Ninth and Tenth Doctors' inability to move beyond what they think they did in the Time War, and possibly even their subconscious memory (from their time as the War Doctor) of how they had actually ''saved'' Gallifrey and how "Rose"/the Moment had guided them in doing it, trying to resurface to alleviate their overwhelming feelings of grief and guilt over what they consciously believe they did.
* The War Doctor's regeneration is a whole lot of Fridge Brilliance. The Moment said his punishment for killing of all the Time Lords and Daleks was living. Since he ''didn't do it'', his reward was ''dying''. Basically, the War Doctor was punished for not killing the Daleks and it allowed him to regenerate into Nine; his reward for failure was dying... which, indirectly, saved him, with the Moment giving him a PetTheDog Moment.
* 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. Forty 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"!
** Except she specifically mentions the '70s and '80s by name.

* Want 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.

* When the Doctors were freezing Gallifrey it's noted by High command that he Daleks have increased their firepower, assuming they know what's going on. The novelization reveals that the Doctor was there thousands of times. To the Daleks they are suddenly faced with a legion of their greatest enemy arrived. [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere As the novel notes some Ships fled]], but not all of them, what is the classic response to danger ''Fight Or Flee''. The Daleks that couldn't flee went on the aggressive against their greatest enemy.
* The Moment chose to draw Ten and Eleven out of their timelines to meet War and TakeAThirdOption at the exact time(s) she did because both Ten and Eleven were already getting involved in the Zygons' plot with the stasis cubes - after the Doctors dealt with this threat first, they would be inspired to save Gallifrey using similar technology as a result. Had she pulled them out of their timelines at any other point, the same idea may not be in the back of their minds and they might not have succeeded as she wanted. Moment, you MagnificentBastard! InUniverse, this may also be the reason why she chose Ten and Eleven, and not, say, Nine (War's immediate successor, the most obviously traumatized by his past choices, and the one who chose to be [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays a coward over killer again]]) or Twelve (he of the ''incredible'' speech from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E8TheZygonInversion "The Zygon Inversion"]]) - while Nine and Twelve would certainly give War more reason to hesitate (and would've been fun additions for the audience), Ten and Eleven were the ones who'd be tied up in the Zygon stasis cube plot that turned out to be vital to saving Gallifrey, the only two the Moment ''needed'' to help War actually figure out the solution.
** Also, when Ten and Eleven come to the War Doctor to help him pressed the button, they do it not just because they know the grief that he's going through (as they believe they've destroyed Gallifrey before they come to the realization of TakeAThirdOption). It's a bit of heartwarming when you realize that Ten went though something similar recently with "The Fires of Pompeii", where he had to choose to set off Vesuvius in order to save the world. Donna put her hand on the lever to set it off, so that he wouldn't have to do it alone. That feeling of grief and the kindness that Donna shared with him at that moment would be remembered by Ten, which would be remembered by Eleven as well. So, believing that the War Doctor will be going through grief for activating The Moment, both Ten and Eleven choose to join him so he wouldn't feel solely responsible, much like how Donna did for him.

* The short clip of Peter Capaldi's 'attack eyebrows' means that his regeneration '''is''' going to happen; we can't have the Doctor ''not'' regenerate into him because we've seen him for ourselves. By watching "Day of the Doctor", we created a fixed point in time.
** Or more appropriately, the script made it all a fixed point in time by virtue of being written down ''and'' performed; it can't not happen now because they've already done it.
* On top of all the other alien tech in the Black Archive, UNIT now has a ''Time War era Dalek'' to cannibalize. On the flip side, though, the Doctors had plenty of time to go through and take away or deactivate any tech they don't want UNIT to have.
* The fact that the 7th Doctor's TARDIS alternates between the TV and Movie designs can be explained by the fact, taken from the Novelisation, that each incarnation returned to Galifrey that day many times, so the different shots were from different points in his life.

!!FridgeBrilliance

!!FridgeHorror

* The Omega Vault contains all the most dangerous and forbidden weapons of mass destruction that the Time Lords have come across in their history…[[spoiler: and except for The Moment, ''they have already used them all'']].

* Ten basically left Liz at the altar, or at least shortly thereafter. No wonder when he ran into her again a few decades later, she referred to him as her 'sworn enemy'. Heck, he's probably the reason she never married anybody else: she was waiting for him to return.
* The guard at the Black Archive has been working there ten years but because of the mind-wipe, thinks every day is his first in a new job. Just think about the implications of that... One can only hope the Doctor's actions will lead to a bit of reevaluating on that policy. That's is, unless he just demands they change it, or breaks their mind-wiping device himself.
* The survival of Gallifrey is FridgeHorror on the worst possible scale. How so? In The Ancestor Cell, he destroyed Gallifrey. In the Gallifrey Chronicles, he learned of the possibility of recreating it. Now, history repeats. ''[[ParanoiaFuel How many more times throughout his lives will he destroy his home-world?]]''
** RTD suggests that due to the Time War, Paradox Faction was wiped from existence and the Daleks were inserted into the gap.
* The Doctor has always hated the Time Lords, for being lazy and then corrupt. [[spoiler: He felt guilty about wiping them out, but who's to say the saved people on Gallifrey won't go back to their old ways? The Doctor never was looking for a home, he left because he wanted to see the universe. The Time Lords wanted to control it. And now they're back. Uh oh.]]
** [[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 first 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]]".]]
* 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. [[spoiler: He's back in ''Hell Bent''.]]
* The Tenth Doctor helps save Gallifrey from the Time War and forgets, only to leave "The Day of the Doctor" and go to "The End of Time" where he gets to see the horror of the Time Lord High Council's plan to destroy Gallifrey and the rest of the universe. All things considered, kind of a damper on his success.

** it could also be that he's been fighting long enough for him to age, which is a kind of horror in itself.
* The Time Lords were about to lose the Time War to the Daleks. ALL of the Time Lords in all of space & time were called back to Gallifrey to fight, and ALL the Daleks in the universe converged on Gallifrey. If the Doctor hadn't done what he did, we'd be living in a Dalek-controlled universe right now - if we'd be living at all (Doesn't say much for their "Lord"-ness of Time, does it? Though, admittedly, the fact that they were able to go toe-to-toe with the Daleks at the height of their power is pretty awesome).
* 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?]]

* Some fans have already begun to argue that the significance of Eleven's new mission [[spoiler: to find Gallifrey and return home]] is a bit of a hit-and-miss as most people interpret it as his finally being able to [[spoiler: go home]] after the Time War. But the reason why it's such a significant statement is that, after all those years ago when the Doctor stole a broken TARDIS and ran away from Gallifrey to go on adventures, he [[spoiler: finally gets to go back.]] Imagine, leaving home, with no fixed intention to ever go back, at least permanently. And then the Time War happens, and because of what you've done, you'll never be able to go back again. Imagine going on a journey, only to return home to find your house has been destroyed and your family dead. Suddenly the ending's Heartwarming is magnified UpToEleven. [[spoiler: Gallifrey stands. The Doctor gets to go home again.]]

* Every x0 Anniversary episode has been a multi-Doctor story [[note]]barring the 40th in 2003 for which there was no anniversary story, because the show was still on "hiatus" at the time[[/note]], and this one is no different.
** Oh, there was a multi-Doctor story for the 40th. [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho050Zagreus It just wasn't on the telly]].

* 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.

* The guard at the Black Archive has been working there ten years but because of the mind-wipe, thinks every day is his first in a new job. Just think about the implications of that... One can only hope The Doctor's actions will lead to a bit of reevaluating on that policy. That's is, unless he just demands they change it, or breaks their mind-wiping device himself.

* The Time Lords were about to lose the Time War to the Daleks. ALL of the Time Lords in all of space & time were called back to Gallifrey to fight, and ALL the Daleks in the universe converged on Gallifrey. If the Doctor hadn't done what he did, we'd be living in a Dalek-controlled universe right now - if we'd be living at all. (Doesn't say much for their "Lord"-ness of Time, does it?)

* It has been pointed out that the Time Lord's plan in ''The End of Time'' has major parallels with Davros' plan in ''Journey's End''. Now another parallel has emerged, a traitor to his race that see's the monstrous crimes their race has committed and decreed "No more." That description, down to the words, could describe the War Doctor, or Dalek Cann.

* Of course it would be Eleven who uses the analogy of Cup-a-Soups to describe the statis cube. He's a lover of processed foods since his favorites are fish fingers and custard.
* "'Waste '''no more''' time arguing about what a good man should be. '''Be one'''.' --Marcus Aurelius." This is the first thing said in the special, by Clara, and boy does it foreshadow the climax. The "good man = the Doctor" parallel is back, and since the Time War the Doctor's never considered himself to be a good man. But he's always been a good man, because Clara was there to teach him a lesson [[note]]Which makes hers and the Doctor's earlier conversation before UNIT picked them up fairly ironic[[/note]]. [[spoiler: She gets all of the Doctors to stop insisting that saving Gallifrey is impossible and to just save it.]]

* 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 possible he saw the War Doctor seemingly destroy Gallifrey and it drove him to run and change his name to the Doctor.

* Every x0 Anniversary episode has been a multi-doctor story [[note]]barring the 40th in 2003 for which there was no anniversary story, because the show was still on "hiatus" at the time[[/note]], and this one is no different.

* Given the trauma the War Doctor experiences (or, at least, thinks he experiences), is it any wonder that in the Doctor Who franchise there are ''three'' Ninth Doctors? There's the Rowan Atkinson spoof version see in ''The Curse of Fatal Death'', the dark, clearly post-war Richard E. Grant version in ''Scream of the Shalka'', and finally Christopher Eccleston's TV version. Some expanded media have suggested that the three versions exist in alternate timelines.

* 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 god's 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.

** It could also potentially foreshadow the Doctors'(yes, multiple) decision to ''not'' burn Gallifrey. Despite all that happened in the Time War and the fact that he did not consider himself the Doctor, he ''was'' [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre the Doctor]], "more than anybody else... on the day it wasn't possible to get it right". And the Doctor would always find a way to save everyone if he can. And he did.

** Its suggested 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.

* People have been speculating about how Peter Capaldi can fill the position of a ''[[SeriesContinuityError fourteenth Doctor]]'', yet, going back to TheGallifreyChronicles, Marnal claims the Doctor to have [[BeyondTheImpossible three ninth incarnations]]; one is the Eccleston Doctor, one is the Hurt Doctor, and one remains unknown. When the War-Doctor regenerated, [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming he got his wish]]. As for how the War-Doctor can regenerate into nine-proper; TimeyWimeyBall. Although, at the time, this was meant to refer to [[Creator/ChristopherEccleston the Ninth Doctor]], [[WebAnimation/ScreamOfTheShalka the Other Ninth Doctor]] and the [[Recap/DoctorWhoTheCurseOfFatalDeath Other Other Ninth Doctor]].

* The Moment chose to draw Ten and Eleven out of their timelines to meet War and TakeAThirdOption at the exact time(s) she did because both Ten and Eleven were already getting involved in the Zygons' plot with the stasis cubes - after the Doctors dealt with this threat first, they would be inspired to save Gallifrey using similar technology as a result. Had she pulled them out of their timelines at any other point, the same idea may not be in the back of their minds and they might not have succeeded as she wanted. Moment, you MagnificentBastard! InUniverse, this may be the reason why she chose Ten and Eleven, and not, say, Nine (War's immediate successor and the most obviously traumatized by his past choices) or Twelve (he of the ''incredible'' speech from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E8TheZygonInversion "The Zygon Inversion"]]) - they weren't already tied up in the Zygon stasis cube plot that turned out to be vital to saving Gallifrey.

* When the Doctors were freezing Gallifrey it's noted by High command that he Daleks have increased their firepower, assuming they know what's going on. The novelization reveals that the Doctor was there thousands of times. To the Daleks they are suddenly faced with a legion of their greatest enemy arrived. [[As the novel notes some Ships fled ScrewThisImOuttaHere]], but not all of them, what is the classic response to danger ''Fight Or Flee''. The Daleks that couldn't flee went on the aggressive against their greatest enemy.