History Fridge / DoctorWhoStevenMoffatEra

* At the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]], the Doctor refuses to regenerate because he's feeling the weight of being so many different people. Remember that the existence of the War Doctor bumps the modern Doctors' incarnation counts up a number. [[note]]As an unnumbered Doctor, the true ninth incarnation who underwent the ninth regeneration, his "count" shall we say is War/9/9, Nine is 9/10/10, Ten is 10/11/11 until ''Journey's End'' where he becomes 10/11/12, Eleven is 11/12/13 and Twelve is thus 12/13/14.[[/note]] ''Twelve is the Doctor's thirteenth incarnation;'' of ''course'' he'd rather die than change, he's at the point in a Time Lord's life cycle where they die! Double FridgeBrilliance occurs when you realize that ''this is probably why Time Lords are limited to twelve regenerations in the first place.''

* At the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls "The Doctor Falls"]], the Doctor refuses to regenerate because he's feeling the weight of being so many different people. Remember that the existence of the War Doctor bumps the modern Doctors' incarnation counts up a number: As an unnumbered Doctor, the true ninth incarnation who underwent the ninth regeneration, his "count" shall we say is War/9/9, meaning Nine is 9/10/10, Ten is 10/11/11 until ''Journey's End'' where he becomes 10/11/12, Eleven is 11/12/13 and Twelve is thus 12/13/14. ''Twelve is the Doctor's thirteenth incarnation;'' of ''course'' he'd rather die than change, he's at the point in a Time Lord's life cycle where they die! Double FridgeBrilliance occurs when you realize that ''this is probably why Time Lords are limited to twelve regenerations in the first place.''

** He also can't fix it using regeneration energy because the ''only'' times the Doctor has been seen using regeneration energy to heal ''himself'' was in the early stages of a regeneration. He ''can't'' use regeneration energy to heal himself if he's not actually regenerating. And, given out-of-universe UnfortunateImplications if he deliberately regenerates, or injures himself more to force himself to regenerate, just to deal with his current problem, he's not going to consider his current situation bad enough to regenerate.

** It also makes even more sense when you know why he hates himself, [[spoiler:because of what the War Doctor did,]] or at least what he thought he did.

** This may or may not cause a plot hole as [[spoiler:the Doctor is already at his last regeneration at this point]] but other species might not know so... [[spoiler: but then again the Daleks already knew somehow in [[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor "The Time of the Doctor"]].]]

* When River first meets the Doctor, ''she's'' in a body he's never seen her in before, and knows nothing about him. When the Doctor first meets River, ''he's'' in a body she's never seen him in before, and knows nothing about her.

** ''Or'' it's the number of people who have been eaten by the crack.

** Also (spoilers for Series 6), [[spoiler: the fact that it's River piloting the Tardis is significant. The Doctor had previously seen 26 June, 2010 as the date of the temporal event that destroys the universe. But the significance of this date isn't just about the Tardis exploding -- it's about River's existence. River is the only other person who can pilot the Tardis, because she was conceived in the Tardis on what date? 26 June, 2010: Her parents' wedding night.]]

* FridgeBrilliance: How did the Silence cause the TARDIS to explode in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens "The Pandorica Opens"]]? Because ''River'' was inside the TARDIS at the time of the explosion and since she was raised by them to be a ManchurianAgent, she was likely compelled to destroy the TARDIS against her will. Hence the reason she uttered the words:

* In regards to how "The Day of the Doctor" ended: [[spoiler:Anyone start to feel that Moffat has been foreshadowing the true fate of Gallifrey since [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E8SilenceInTheLibrary "Silence in the Library"]]? Not to mention a curt reminder of the same idea with the missed moment of awesome with the door dilemma. If the Doctor DID have all that time to think about it, why wouldn't he find the means to save Gallifrey.]]

* The insane amount of Daleks that escaped from the Time War makes a lot more sense when you know that they were just blasted by their own crossfire instead of [[DeaderThanDead sealed in a Time Lock]].

* It looks like the Twelfth (13th?) Doctor turning up to assist Gallifrey has put the Timelords into a situation where they have no choice but to help The Doctor if (as seems likely) he’s run out of regenerations. They can count and they know how many turned up in order to save them all.

** In addition, in "Let's Kill Hitler", the TARDIS voice interface says, "Regeneration disabled." It wasn't because of the poison, it was because despite the Doctor's (willful?) ignorance: the TARDIS knew he couldn't regenerate again. If he tried, he might have ended up like the Master did in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E3TheDeadlyAssassin "The Deadly Assassin"]]. Indeed, all the various things that would kill Eleven without regeneration all make sense in the context of Eleven being the last one of that cycle.

* When Eleven admits he'd shaved his head because he was bored, Clara asks if that's what happened to his eyebrows too, and Eleven defensively replies that they're just ''delicate''. [[Creator/PeterCapaldi That's not something he'll have to be touchy about for much longer.]]

* The Doctor doesn't see any purpose for an entire room for not being awake in, because (according to the Expanded Universe) Time Lords only sleep for about an hour or so. Meaning that whereas humans need 8 or so hours and need a room specifically to house them, Time Lord's can likely just find a chair to nod off in for an hour.

* The contempt shown to Danny Pink due to his former career as a soldier by both his class and by Clara (and his own resigned acceptance of it) may seem exceptionally dickish, until one remembers that in the Whoniverse, the events of ''[[Recap/TorchwoodS3MSChildrenOfEarth Torchwood: Children of Earth]]'' (in which the military publicly attempted to violently round up millions of children for a very obviously horrible fate) and their impotence in the face of a good dozen or so very public alien incursions over the past decade likely sapped their public image enormously. Considering that some of the children the army attempted to take to the 456 would have been around 9/10 at the time (''Children of Earth'' was set in 2009), and the current Whoniverse year is 2014 ''at the earliest'', as well as the fact that Shoreditch (where Coal Hill School is located) is an inner-city/working class area of London, so may have been selected for the government's KillThePoor solution. It is entirely possible that some of the teenagers in Coal Hill School may have been rounded up for the 456. This would explain their dislike for soldiers.

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* Oswin's name makes sense, since that was Modern Day Clara's username in The Bells of Saint John, as throughout the episode she talks to everyone via technology rather than face to face.

* One from Series Five here. It seemed a bit weird that the Daleks believe that the Doctor would cause the cracks in the fabric of reality by destroying the TARDIS. But in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks "Victory of the Daleks"]], he threatens to take them out with the self-destruct button. It makes a lot more sense now. Not to mention how he [[KillEmAll ended the Time War]]. They probably believe him capable of anything.

* In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E2IntoTheDalek "Into the Dalek"]], it looks like [[spoiler:the Dalek has merely changed its position from "destroy all living things" to "destroy all Daleks", not learning from its new ability to conceptualize and appreciate the beauty of life. However, note the Doctor's own words when he melded his mind with the Dalek's: he said he was now "a part of [the Dalek]" — not to explain that they are melding minds, but that the Dalek adopt the Doctor's own core beliefs into its moral compass. The Doctor believed it would adopt his ability to appreciate beauty in life, along with his desire to protect it. He thought the Dalek only saw his hatred and took from that instead. But it's not hard to see the parallels between this "good" Dalek and the Doctor: both turned against their own kind; both attempted to (initially for the Doctor) kill their whole kind. The Doctor turned against the Time Lords because they went against his beliefs — his doctrine concerning the universe, and that they became the very monsters that they opposed — the same, if not ''worse'', than a Dalek. Now the Dalek believes in this concept too: it doesn't seek out the Daleks to KillEmAll because it ''has'' to, it seeks them out because it believes the Doctor once turned against his people for disagreeing with him. The "good" Dalek has adopted the Doctor's doctrine now, too, and if the Doctor turned against his own people to protect it, so too must the Dalek. And recall, a part of that doctrine is how the Time Lords had become ''just'' like the Daleks. Suddenly it's less [[GoneHorriblyWrong "destroy all Daleks" because it can only destroy]]; the "good" Dalek ''has'' to [[GoneHorriblyRight destroy all Daleks because they]] ''[[GoneHorriblyRight must]]'' [[GoneHorriblyRight be destroyed]].]]

** Alternative-alternative explanation: the Doctor's letting himself go. He's at the pinnacle of self-loathing: here he is, in a point where his death is closing in upon him, and he knows that in the end when the plan comes through, he's going to make the people he cares about the most — his companions — feel sad, lonely, and hollow because they think he died. There's also a high chance he is piloting the ''Teselecta'' alone, as it manages to capture his very essence throughout the episode (think about it: it's a bit of a hassle for the Doctor to have to relay to the crew "okay, do this with the arms, and make it swivel like that" while running his MotorMouth and dealing with whatever it is he should be doing). There are a lot of things he'd have to manage on his own, being the self-loathing Doctor that he is, personal hygiene isn't really that high up on his list. After all, he's a dead man walking.
*** [[OverlyLongGag Alternative-alternative-alternative]] explanation: The Teselecta are running the robot, and studied him well enough that they can imitate his mannerisms while he stays in the cockpit and does the talking.