Doctor Who - Series 8

I had tears of joy in the last ~20 minutes of the special.

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I honestly didn't expect all the Doctors to appear, even if they weren't physically present. It's the meaning and purpose of all 13 Doctors working together to save their home planet that made it so touching and awesome. It was also a grand way to introduce the 13th Doctor. The whole special was amazing as a whole. The interactions between the 3 Doctors was hilarious and cool; the fact the younger War Doctor acts more like an old man to his older selves than the other way around is ironically funny. Also really great acting from the War Doctor to make you feel for him in the course of a single special. I feel portraying the War Doctor as so worn down and tired most likely helped. While it was unfortunate the 9th Doctor didn't make a true return, just seeing him appear was good enough for me.

Well, Stephen Moffat is being an awkward bastard and calling John Hurt's doctor the War Doctor, rather than the 9th.

I don't see why though, this just makes things needlessly complicated.

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especially since they explicitly called Hurt's Doctor the Doctor towards the end. What was the point of all that if he is still the "reject" doctor? AND he was counted as one of the 13 doctors when they were saving Gallifrey. AND he showed up alongside all the others at the end.

Perhaps

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It's not a true regeneration in the 13 regeneration limit per se. We may be able to get one final Regeneration past Peter Capaldi. But it's Moffat, so he probably has a Magnificent Bastard story to explain. He did after all managed to explain the Time War, explain what happened in between the 8th Doctor and 9th Doctor, and make it so saving Gallifrey doesn't cause a Time Paradox concerning the War Doctor and the 10th Doctor (since they'll forget whatever happened and thus the War Doctor will continue to think he destroyed Gallifrey rather than save it, preserving the time line).

tl;dr Don't question Moffat, he's probably got a very planned reason for what he said.