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What Did You Think of The Name of The Doctor?
What Did You Think of The Name of The Doctor?
Clara receives a letter summoning her to a mysterious meeting, where she is given a message for the Doctor.
The meaning is uncertain, but when an enemy strikes the Time Lord is left with no choice but to travel to the one place in time and space he should never go – into a deadly trap that threatens to unravel his past, present and future.
Now that the final episode of series 7b has aired in the UK what did you think? Was it the best episode ever or just average.
LEWIS
May 18th, 2013 - 8:06pmWhat’s the doctors name and I hope john Hurt is not the next doctor oa and also I wouldn’t get my hopes up about John Hurt being the doctor because everyone thought David Morrisy was gonna be the next doctor but he wasn’t.
And Steven Moffat said he had no plans of changing Matt Smith.
also what was the doctors name. 🙂
Anonymous
May 18th, 2013 - 8:06pmAs Jo Grant says in Death of the Doctor: “Which Doctor? The Doctor? My Doctor?”
Doctor WTH?!?!?!?
May 18th, 2013 - 8:05pmThat was not a particularly good episode of doctor who. Steven Moffat said we would find out who Clara is. She’s a bleeding LEAF!!!! And to put John Hurt as the Doctor?!?! Matt has signed up for series 8, as has Coleman. That story made absolutely NO SENSE!!!!
Run You Clever Boy And Remember Me
May 18th, 2013 - 9:12pmIsn’t that the point of Doctor Who? To keep your head spinning? To make you want to watch on? The John Hurt thing is going to be almost like a side story, I’m sure. Don’t worry, Doctor Who will always confuse all of us!
drjakeyoung
May 18th, 2013 - 8:03pmbest episode ever!!!
Jacob Adams
May 18th, 2013 - 8:02pmMoffat, how could you? I feel like that cliffhanger has mucked up the whole of the history of Doctor Who. That’s another wasted regeneration. He’ll be used once and then he’ll never be used again, like the eighth Doctor. Why has he done this? How many regenerations are we going to waste?
leebebbs
May 18th, 2013 - 8:04pmNobody should be concerned with the number of regeneration. Get on with loving the possibilities. You’re missing the whole point of what Dr. Who is and what it stands for. 🙂
Jacob Adams
May 19th, 2013 - 9:50amI jut re watched the episode and have found that the end is in fact brilliant. However, the initial thought of the ending was horrific due to the shock of it all. I had to re watch the episode to actually like and enjoy that ending.
JOHN HURT
May 18th, 2013 - 8:01pmWhat I’m guessing is that that John Hurt plays the Doctor before he was called the Doctor. Thus he may have been far darker as his clothes represents.
OR
Due the fact that the 50th involves the 10th Doctor and Rose, it could be a missed or partial tear in time that has allowed this ‘dark’ incarnation of the Doctor to occur.
Imaginethatnodoor
May 18th, 2013 - 8:00pmBest new series episode yet. I knew John Hirt was going to be an evil doctor for ages though
the astronaut of death
May 18th, 2013 - 8:00pmhi guys im in hospital now just had a heart a tack after watching this episode
matt982
May 18th, 2013 - 8:04pmAre you serious or joking?!
the astronaut of death
May 18th, 2013 - 10:11pmjoking but I almost did
bob
May 18th, 2013 - 7:59pmSecond best modern who story after blink!
Liked the colourised footage of the first doctor.
run you clever boy and remember
May 18th, 2013 - 8:31pmsame – that was good
Fez Master
May 18th, 2013 - 7:57pmTHIS EPISODE WAS AMAZING!!!
whofan4ever
May 18th, 2013 - 7:56pmJohn hurt will be one of the following
The first doctor
The real doctor who ended the time war and the doctor as we know him is a hoax who has acted to be him and pretended to be him
olletsoc
May 18th, 2013 - 8:02pmJohn Hurt is The Doctor, He was the one who fought in the time war, but ended it by doing something terrible (we don’t know what yet, but he probably killed all the timelords), so he chose not to call himself ‘the doctor’ as he went against his own rules.
derfdghjknm
May 18th, 2013 - 8:18pmor the vallyard
Madeline
May 19th, 2013 - 9:15amWe know what happened to end the Time War. The Doctor killed almost all the Timelords and almost all the Daleks. It’s old news. It’s been done. There has got to be something more interesting, something different, something new.
Midnight52
May 18th, 2013 - 7:56pmWoW! Totally blown away – makes up for quite a bit of mot-too-good episodes this season. John Hurt is The Doctor? First thouights were “That was a pre-Hartnell incarnation” but now thinking “Is he a post-Smith Doctor?”
Midnight52
May 18th, 2013 - 7:58pmErr – ‘Not-too-good’ not ‘Mot-to-good’… Wilf gets everywhere
NigelM
May 18th, 2013 - 8:08pmHe can’t be a post-Smith Doctor because Smith recognised him and knew about the things he had done. The Doctor cannot know his own future so I’m guessing he’s pre-Hartnell in some way.
Luke
May 19th, 2013 - 1:54amCant be post Smith causw Smith wouldn’t have knew who he was I think a time war doctor or the very first doctor or the valeyard
Madeline
May 19th, 2013 - 9:16amThe Valeyard is a post-Smith Doctor incarnation.
KORSAIR
May 18th, 2013 - 7:55pmThey saved the best for last,I really enjoyed that.
the eternal doctor
May 18th, 2013 - 7:54pmthat was the best episode ever I had cybermen in my tummy omg I can not get over that how can any episode beet that 🙂
Dan
May 18th, 2013 - 7:52pmJohn hurt “The Doctor” he’s the one who killed the time lords and the dales at the end of the time war. That’s what I think 🙂
Dan
May 18th, 2013 - 7:53pmHa ha dales I meant daleks
Mystery
May 18th, 2013 - 7:52pmThe episode was great, but the cliff hanger was awful. It ruins doctor who. The secret of the time war, the mystery that kept you thinking what happend, how many monsters did the doctor face how brave he was. And to introduce a new actor to play him it’s rubbish, the doctor with eleven faces, the oncoming storm, the one who put a stop to the time war but on ones noes how’s. rubbish. True critic opionon
olletsoc
May 18th, 2013 - 7:54pmI think the John Hurt incarnation of the Doctor is not called ‘The Doctor’, as the 11th Doc mentioned, he chose to be called the Doctor, the word for healer. I think the John Hurt doctor fought in the time war, and killed all the timelords, and as a result, decided that that incarnation should not be called ‘the doctor’.
Mystery
May 18th, 2013 - 9:21pmMaybe we will have to wait and see
Madeline
May 19th, 2013 - 9:31amThere is no mystery to the Time War thing! It was hell. The Timelords were going to destroy the Universe. The Doctor had to stop them. He did what he had to do. We’ve heard about it since 2005. Eccleston was guilty and angry. In “The End of Time” we got plenty of details. And then Ten(nant) sent them back, so essentially he killed them all again. And Matt Smith said, “Fear me. I killed them all.” I know it still weighs on his conscience, but he did it to SAVE THE UNIVERSE, not because he likes killing people. But there’s no secret, no mystery. What more could there be to it? Frankly, I can’t see there being any more I’d want to hear about it, so I hope it’s something new and different.
run you clever boy and remember
May 18th, 2013 - 7:51pmthat was the best ep ever!!!!!
whispermen were fab, the ending – brilliant. glad the name werent reaveled and confused about the ending.john hurt as the doctor. which doctor…..
leebebbs
May 18th, 2013 - 7:49pmAmazing – so many questions… a bad doctor? Is anyone speculating about the link between the Doctor and the Master, like me?
nigel matthews
May 18th, 2013 - 8:05pmthats the first thing that went through my head, also born to save the doctor?, spoilers? (Old Woman,s A Rascal) work that one out
Obsie
May 18th, 2013 - 9:50pmVery much so, since they were always meant to opposite sides, a bit like Sherlock and Moriarty. So it is possible that John Hurt could be the darker side of The Doctor, going back to the Valyard, an intermediate stage of regeneration (incarnation?) Good question leebebbs. Can you speculate more, it,s all very
intriguing.
Still Not Ginger
May 18th, 2013 - 7:49pmAMAZING!! ok can someone tell me who clara is, it went to quick for me!!
Anonymous
May 18th, 2013 - 7:56pmwhen she whent into the wierd light thing(doctors timeline)she got scated into the doctors timeline as diffrent pepole E.G owswin oswald and clara oswin oswald.
there!
Still Not Ginger
May 18th, 2013 - 7:59pmok thanks but why does she say run you clever boy and remember? why doesnt she remember the doctor?
cyberman2
May 18th, 2013 - 8:06pmeach time she said that it was an echo of her saying remember me. also she cant remember the doctor sometimes because it has to be that way that time or things things might change
DoctorClara
May 18th, 2013 - 8:14pmShe doesn’t remember The Doctor because the Clara’s in the Doctor’s past are copies of Clara not the real one. That’s why she doesn’t remember saying run you clever boy and remember when she was Oswin and the victorian Clara.
Hope that helps!
nigel m
May 19th, 2013 - 12:30amclara is the doctors and river songs daughter (born to save the doctor? spoilers/ why was she still there? she was pregnant)
Still Not Ginger
May 19th, 2013 - 10:10amthanks DoctorClara it helped!! thank you!
Anonymous
May 18th, 2013 - 7:49pmwhat is the doctors name
DOCTOR WHO ONE
May 18th, 2013 - 8:13pmIt was never revealed – Thankfully 😀
Mandrelcheese
May 19th, 2013 - 1:32pmKevin. Yep, that was the Doctor’s name. No, seriously.
Johnnyg
May 18th, 2013 - 7:48pmAmazing but really didn’t understand the end? Can somebody explain?!
Anonymous
May 18th, 2013 - 7:50pmJohn hurt will probably play a version of the doctor using a different name or his real name.
Fortean Joe
May 19th, 2013 - 6:35pmThe clue to the end of this episode is the title “(In) The Name of The Doctor” and the Dcotor’s line that he chose his name as a promise [to the universe]. He states that John Hurt is him but is an incarnation that broke that promise, meaning he [John Hurt] was not the Doctor (despite the titles that flash up).
The reasonably big intelligence
May 18th, 2013 - 7:48pmOMG THAT WAS BLOODY AMAZING I SERIOUSLY MIGHT EXPLODE!!!!!!!
Too late…
timey wimey things
May 18th, 2013 - 7:47pmjohn hurt ??????????
TnTKid
May 18th, 2013 - 7:47pmWOW! JOHN HURT AS THE DOCTOR! DOCTOR WHO!
doctor4131
May 18th, 2013 - 7:47pmwow that was really good. but no teaser of matt and david at the end like steven said there would be 🙁
The Doctor
May 18th, 2013 - 7:49pmYeah, because people revealed the end online … Unfortunately
crazy guy
May 18th, 2013 - 8:06pmno its online now
cyberman2
May 18th, 2013 - 8:07pmDAMN U INTERNET!!!!!!!
cyberman2
May 18th, 2013 - 8:07pmoh never mind
Anonymous
May 18th, 2013 - 8:08pmno they didn’t!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01972h5
cyberman2
May 18th, 2013 - 8:11pmlink please
doctor4131
May 18th, 2013 - 8:25pmOh. i thought it was going to be a teaser from actual anniversery not an interveiw. oh well i guess we will just have to wait until september/october/early november for a trailer.
paul
May 18th, 2013 - 7:46pmJohn Hurt as THE DOCTOR
The Silent Silent
May 18th, 2013 - 7:46pmReally cool # amazing
What did it mean as john hurt as the doctor??
the eternal doctor
May 18th, 2013 - 7:50pmjohn hurt is the doctor
matt982
May 18th, 2013 - 7:46pmThat was Brilliant!!! 🙂
crazy guy
May 18th, 2013 - 7:44pmthat was just awesome XD
Doctor Stu
May 18th, 2013 - 7:35pmOMG