Do you look after the Dr Who threads? Are we going to have a new Peter Capaldi / Doctor XII thread on Saturday with a new poll? It would be fun to have that I think.
It will be totally amazing to see Peter and Jenna working in the new one, it's horribly exciting.
Mod for the this section of forum can change the poll. Last series it was changed each week for each episode. Could happen again.
Does John Hurt not get included then? Was he non-canonical for some reason, despite being very much an 'actor'?
He is included in the regenerations, and is definitely part of the canon, but did not call himself 'The Doctor'. It's all a bit convoluted and they might start using a different numbering system now but that will become clear when the new series starts I assume.
John Hurt's Doctor does not go by the name 'Doctor', therefore he doesn't count as a official Doctor, just a official incarnation of the character.
Didn't he get described as the 'War Doctor' at some point? TBH, I think his Doctorhood was fairly established during the show. Is this about not breaking the 'only 12 regenerations' rule, or is there something else going on? I worry that John Hurt was just too big a name to bestow 'Doctor' on, after all, he would have to spend the rest of his life going to conventions.
Didn't he get described as the 'War Doctor' at some point? TBH, I think his Doctorhood was fairly established during the show. Is this about not breaking the 'only 12 regenerations' rule, or is there something else going on? I worry that John Hurt was just too big a name to bestow 'Doctor' on, after all, he would have to spend the rest of his life going to conventions.
He was called the war doctor and acknowledged as the doctor during the 50th anniversary special, but the doctor still doesn't admit to being hurts doctor, so capaldi is the 12th actor to take the name doctor, the 13th face he admits to having but the 14th incarnation
Besides, they've already dealt with the 12 regenerations bit in the Christmas special
He was called the war doctor and acknowledged as the doctor during the 50th anniversary special, but the doctor still doesn't admit to being hurts doctor, so capaldi is the 12th actor to take the name doctor, the 13th face he admits to having but the 14th incarnation
Besides, they've already dealt with the 12 regenerations bit in the Christmas special
To be fair, since we haven't really seen what the "young" war doctor looks like, Moffat has kept that string untied. Possible revisit in the future? Potential "time war" spin off? He certainly hasn't fixed anything in stone!
To be fair, since we haven't really seen what the "young" war doctor looks like, Moffat has kept that string untied. Possible revisit in the future? Potential "time war" spin off? He certainly hasn't fixed anything in stone!
We can put you in charge of the poll, and hope you don't rig it to your liking - you seem trustworthy
Aww, thanks. I am, I am!
Actually it might be fun to have two new polls - one to rate tomorrow's episode and then a longer 'tracking poll' on how Peter C is doing as Doctor Twelve. << (I am officially informed by experts on here that he is indeed number XII and not perhaps XIII or even XIV as suggested in various media discussions. )
Didn't he get described as the 'War Doctor' at some point? TBH, I think his Doctorhood was fairly established during the show. Is this about not breaking the 'only 12 regenerations' rule, or is there something else going on? I worry that John Hurt was just too big a name to bestow 'Doctor' on, after all, he would have to spend the rest of his life going to conventions.
No, that was just us Whovians and later, the promotional stuff all describing him as that. He doesn't actually describe himself as the War Doctor on-screen. He doesn't go by any name at all.
Actually it might be fun to have two new polls - one to rate tomorrow's episode and then a longer 'tracking poll' on how Peter C is doing as Doctor Twelve. << (I am officially informed by experts on here that he is indeed number XII and not perhaps XIII or even XIV as suggested in various media discussions. )
Woo do it
I agree, he is twelve. War doctor and a doctor years ago in a film (apparenty another one years before the 1996 one), do not count
I agree, he is twelve. War doctor and a doctor years ago in a film (apparenty another one years before the 1996 one), do not count
Personally I feel sceptical about the canonicity of the Paul McGann Doctor - really that was such a one off - other than I suppose Sylvester McCoy's appearance in it lends it an aura of credibility. I mean, Peter Cushing's movie for example is never regarded as an authentic Doctor and isn't the McGann thing a bit similar to that?
Personally I feel sceptical about the canonicity of the Paul McGann Doctor - really that was such a one off - other than I suppose Sylvester McCoy's appearance in it lends it an aura of credibility. I mean, Peter Cushing's movie for example is never regarded as an authentic Doctor and isn't the McGann thing a bit similar to that?
I think the fact McGann's doctor has been talked about and included in things (such as when the faces are recalled e.g in the Eleventh Hour) so he's seen as one of them. I agree it was a short lived appearance so I personally wouldn't count him, but I always see Tennant as 10 etc.