Moffat's era is never going to be my favourite era of Doctor Who because there's something about his style of storytelling that just doesn't work for me, but that's a subjective thing - can't love 'em all, and for all its flaws this was a hugely entertaining piece of television that sets up exciting dramatic possibilities for the future, which I'm all for.
Wasn't the point of this, and the prequel bit that you posted, that an ordinary incarnation of the Doctor couldn't actually have ended the Time War as the Warrior Doctor was going to do? McGann's Doctor was allowed to choose the aspects of personality/humanity that he needed to put an end to the Time War, because McGann himself couldn't find another way to do it - or that was how I read it... Yeah, that's absolutely how it was intended, and that's fine and in character for the 8th Doctor and works at a character level. It does make for real world confusion, though, and I have absolutely no doubt that it could have been written in a way that would work for the 8th Doctor as well, if Moffat hadn't been so set on the idea of a 'mayfly' Doctor that no one knew about.
Still, not going to niggle too much because I loved Night of the Doctor, loved the War Doctor, and the numerical complication doesn't bother me the way it seems to bother some people, because it's not as if he introduces himself by number anyway, so we'll just run with it!
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Date: 2013-11-26 09:01 am (UTC)Wasn't the point of this, and the prequel bit that you posted, that an ordinary incarnation of the Doctor couldn't actually have ended the Time War as the Warrior Doctor was going to do? McGann's Doctor was allowed to choose the aspects of personality/humanity that he needed to put an end to the Time War, because McGann himself couldn't find another way to do it - or that was how I read it...
Yeah, that's absolutely how it was intended, and that's fine and in character for the 8th Doctor and works at a character level. It does make for real world confusion, though, and I have absolutely no doubt that it could have been written in a way that would work for the 8th Doctor as well, if Moffat hadn't been so set on the idea of a 'mayfly' Doctor that no one knew about.
Still, not going to niggle too much because I loved Night of the Doctor, loved the War Doctor, and the numerical complication doesn't bother me the way it seems to bother some people, because it's not as if he introduces himself by number anyway, so we'll just run with it!