Might the Curator Be... ("Day of the Doctor" Spoilers)

[Emperor-Tiberius]

See, I think Capaldi's Doctor didn't need to be there... but he was there for something else. What that is? We won't know for some time, I think.

Although I could be wrong, but really, why would the Doctor after the Doctor that basically thought of the whole thing be present?

 

[Captaindemotion]

Putting Capaldi in DOTD was just for the sake of completeness and so as to give fans a sneak preview of the next Doctor (or at least his eyes and eyebrows) in action. I'd be surprised if we actually revisited it or found out when in his timeline he joined the others.

I do think the rediscovery of Gallifrey will come into play however - I'm surprised it's barely been touched on this season so far.

 

[USS KG5]

I do think the rediscovery of Gallifrey will come into play however - I'm surprised it's barely been touched on this season so far.

If I was a gambling man Id say the Moff made it pretty clear he will not be bringing Gallifrey back in TOTD.

Were the time Lords to make a re appearance every nasty in the universe would join forces to stop it; it took the Doctor about 600 years to protect Trenzalore and nothing has actually changed.

Plus he needs to know they are reformed and that Rassilon isn't sitting there ready to end time again given half a chance.

 

[The Wormhole]

Another thing to consider is that like RTD, Moffat hates the Time Lords. In fact, I'm surprised he even undid the destruction of Gallifrey, although logically, the Daleks have had their extinction negated, so why not the Time Lords.

So, no, Gallifrey probably won't be found while Moffat is at the reigns.

 

[Captaindemotion]

It's just that at the time of DOTD, Moffat was promising a new mission statement' for the doctor and talking about him finding home.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/danmartin/s...-this-big-the-day-of-the-doctor-twist#3em77nb

The end of the episode seemed to hint that instead of running away, he was now trying to find home and the following episode centred on locating/protecting Gallifrey. So I thought that it would be something of an arc in this season.

But I suppose I should've known by now that Moffat 'says more than his prayers' as my parents might've put it.

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

Well, he was running away for 50 years, but hardly every story was about Gallifrey and how he was running away from it. Rather, it was about the Doctor having adventures. That part hasn't changed. And it won't, for as long as the show will go on.

 

[Redfern]

And in the earliest episodes, the Doctor claimed he and his granddaughter were "exiled" from their own time and world.

I can't recall how long the show used that angle, but by the time Troughton debuted, the "exile" had become "running" from his people, the concept cemented in "The WarGames" when we finally encountered the TimeLords.

Sincerely,

Bill

 

[Allyn Gibson]

See, I think Capaldi's Doctor didn't need to be there... but he was there for something else. What that is? We won't know for some time, I think.

In all honesty, I assumed last November that Capaldi's Doctor were there not to help put Gallifrey into the statis cube but to figure out how to get it out. He had been so busy in twelve previous versions at figuring out how to put Gallifrey in that he now needed to take sensor readings or somesuch to figure out how to find it and release it.

 

[diankra]

And in the earliest episodes, the Doctor claimed he and his granddaughter were "exiled" from their own time and world.

I can't recall how long the show used that angle, but by the time Troughton debuted, the "exile" had become "running" from his people, the concept cemented in "The WarGames" when we finally encountered the TimeLords.

Sincerely,

Bill

It's not really referenced again during the 60s (except in The Massacre when the Doctor wonders if he should go home but "I can't, I can't..."), but early ideas for Power of the Daleks had the Doctor experiencing nightmare flashbacks to the galactic war which had forced him to flee during his change.

 

[Stevil2001]

In the Q&A column Moffat does in DWM (#477), someone asked why the Doctors at the climax of "Day" only went up to the twelfth; Moffat answers, "It was about how long they needed to keep the calculation going. They only needed 13 life-spans, so only the first, erm, 12, erm, 13, erm, whatever-it-is-now-sorry, showed up." So Capaldi's Doctor would seem to be there because the calculation doesn't finish until sometime during his life.

 

[Ithekro]

So basically one day, one of the many devices 10 made that goes "ping" will ping to tell the Doctor that the way to seal Gallifrey is ready and he needs to finish the job. Drops everything and rushes to the end of the Time War with his attack eyebrows to finish the job, and while he's there, find out how to get the place out again, since it has been a very, very long time since the 11th Doctor changed his mind over the Moment.

 

[The Wormhole]

^^Sounds about right.