Former 'Doctor Who' Showrunner Confirms the 13th Doctor Has Been Cast

[Emperor-Tiberius]

My guess is that since David Bradley has been seen up in Cardiff, when Capaldi first regenerates, he reverts back to the First Doctor (who has been played by Bradley in recent Who). Then he rengens into whoever the new Doctor is.

Sound incredibly... er... Moffat-y to me. Like, a cheap way to "skip" the 13th, jinxed Doctor and get straight to 14 or something.

Still, I hope that's not the case.

 

[Captaindemotion]

Does anyone else wish Davies had written a Capaldi episode? I lament that we didn't get to see his take on the character, like we did with Death of the Doctor in the SJA.

Didn't Moffat once say that he's invited RTD to write an episode every single season since he left but that Davies turned him down every time?

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Yup. It's all Moffat's fault

1-8 incarnations: One to one.
Hurt: Regeneration #9
Eccleston: Regeneration #10
Tennant: Regeneration #11
Metacrisis: Regeneration #12
Smith: Regeneration #13

Time Lords then gives The Doctor a new cycle of regenerations.

The sticky point is the numbering itself. The Warrior or War Doctor didn't want to be called The Doctor and The Moment erased The Doctor's memories of what really happened to Gallifrey, so that incarnation was foresaken from the numbering.

The Metacrisis was The Tenth Doctor having ego issues (as per The Eleventh Doctor) and kept the same face and personality.

So technically Capaldi is The Fourteenth Doctor, but Moffat didn't want to change the numbering while at the same time creating a new mysterious incarnation and deal with the regeneration limit at the same time. Basically, having his cake and eating it, too.

lol

 

[The Wormhole]

I'm not going to be surprised if the next Doctor is labelled the Fourteenth anyway, like how office buildings label the next floor after 12 floor 14.

Though the irony on this matter is that prior to Moffat taking over we rarely got any references to which incarnation the Doctor was on, and when it was mentioned, it was usually a multi-Doctor story. Then Moffat takes over and liters the show with references to Matt Smith being the Eleventh, only to reveal at the end of Smith's run he's really the Twelfth, only to instantly correct that and call him the Thirteenth.