DOCTOR WHO: Title And First Still Revealed For The Christimas Special Episode

So excited for Capaldi!!! Smith was never my cup of tea, but McGann has become my favorite solely from the minisode

Age of the Doctor

Moffat said in an interview today that Donna-Doctor counts as 12 and Smith is 13. Theories today are saying that smith is the last and Capaldi will be a miracle apparently. Everything is so weird now.

Can. Not. Wait.

I just got into the show through Netflix (I'm only on episode 12 of Eccleston era), but I can't wait to see what Capaldi brings to the show.

PS: I really, really hope Capaldi keeps his awesome mustache for the show.

i totally agreed with you about tabloids.

For me 8th forced himself into the Warrior (John Hurt) from this prequel to the special

http://youtu.be/-U3jrS-uhuo

@Blue well he didn't force himself, he was already dead, temporarily alive with the chance to choose; nothing was really forced
@Panther idek anymore haha but he said he wouldn't remember any of it, therefore in his, Eccelstons, and Tennant's mind still being the war doctor and the version of himself that he regretted the most. Only Smith knows what happened...I guess..

On the teaser pic, zoom in on the flame between Doc and Clara's wrists....:)

So, it seemed like the assumption was that Smith's 11th Doctor (and now 11th, penultimate regeneration) would regenerate one final time into Peter Capaldi, and the next series would be that final Doctor who would spend Series 8 going through whatever events that would lead to the beating of the regeneration limit.

Now, it looks very much like Moffat really is counting the aborted 10th Doctor regeneration from The Stolen Earth/Journey's End that was stopped before The Doctor actually had to change form as a complete burning off of one full life off the cycle. Now mind you I'm talking about 10's actual regeneration, not the Meta Crisis Doctor clone that happened as a result. He himself doesn't count.

You add that to the War Doctor having happened, and Matt Smith's Doctor actually is "the Last Doctor" and they'll be using Time of the Doctor to solve the regeneration limit in the span of that one episode. This would make Peter Capaldi the first of the new era of Doctor Who without the imposed limit. Merry Christmas to the Doctor indeed.

the fact of weather hurt was a warrior or a doctor is irelivant he is still a regeneration and the 11th in this timelords regeneration cycle making matt the 12th regeneration and doctor as that is the name we know him by.
thus making capaldi the 13th and last now looking for gallifrey to be granted another cycle by the time lords

SuperDude001 - you see the face in the fire? Looks kinda like the 8th Doctor but could be Capaldi or a different character all together.

and the War Doctor doesn't count as a Doctor as he was a warrior the Time Lords have a total of 13 lives at least they used to so Capaldi who I am really excited for as he will be like going back to the first few Doctors I'm guessing, will have the last regeneration.

I don't want him to go. My 2nd favourite (behind Tom Baker).

Loopholes and paradoxes exist. The need not have been introduced yet but they are out there.

12,13,14,24? only time will tell.

@TerminalVoyd

In the 35th anniversary novel The Infinity Doctors, we learned there were two other great Time Wars before the First Doctor left Gallifrey. During the final war, the Eighth Doctor decided he was the only one could stop it and took a regeneration potion that programmed his next incarnation to be a warrior. This, along with his refusal to call himself the Doctor, means Hurt’s incarnation isn’t counted as part of the basic numbering system for the various Doctors. Christopher Eccleston’s version is thus still the Ninth Doctor, even though he was the hero’s tenth incarnation.