Does the Doctor think of his earlier incarnations as different people?

[TheAlmanac]

Re: Does the Doctor think of his earlier incarnations as different peo

If nothing else, I tend to err on the side of assuming additional time for any given Doctor to go on untelevised adventures...if only because sooner or later, some tie-in(s) will come along to depict adventures in those gaps anyway.

One day, I'm sure, the Ninth Doctor will get the same treatment as Doctors 1-8, so I might as well start assuming there are extra gaps to be filled in now...

 

[diankra]

Re: Does the Doctor think of his earlier incarnations as different peo

The Mk2 10th Doctor can't live long given the ages Tennant gives... but the original 10th Doctor might have had a bit of off-air time before he first states his age in Voyage of the Damned.
In semi-canon material, he spends decades looking for Martha in the Infinite Quest, ISTR.

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

Re: Does the Doctor think of his earlier incarnations as different peo

The "Farewell tour" that was mentioned was actually Eleven, mention to Craig that this is what he was doing just prior to his apparent death at Lake Silencio in the following / first episodes of season six. It had been some 200 years since he learned he was going to "die".

The Doctor's attitude towards his other selves is largely dependent on the writer at the time, as well. For example, RTD treated regeneration as the "death" of that incarnation, whereas Moffatt pretty clearly thinks of the Doctor as "literally" the same man, at different points in his life. That certainly bleeds through to how the incarnations see each other in a given story.

Mark