The BBC has revealed the title of the upcoming season finale for Doctor Who.
The episode, written by Steven Moffat, will lead into the 50th anniversary celebration later this year.
It may also answer one of the biggest questions in the show’s long history.
The title is….”The Name of the Doctor.”
Exactly what this means and what will be revealed remains to be seen.
So, are you excited? Do you think the true name of the Doctor will finally be revealed?
They best not reveal the Doctor’s true name. Mystery is one of the best things about the Doctor, and to be honest, I’d rather learn about who he was rather than his name.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The Doctor is a later reincarnation of Rassilon…
Doesn’t everyone know this?
And you came up with this theory based on….;)
Hmmm… Computer says “no.”
Actually I cannot support this theory. We’ve never seen Timelords experience reincarnation of any sort. Regeneration yes, reincarnation no. That’s important because the Rassilon we meet in The Five Doctors is in a regenerative state of perpetual immortality, so there’s not much more that he can do in terms of living a normal Timelord life.
Besides, if the Doctor were indeed a later reincarnation of Rassilon, shouldn’t he know? In The Five Doctors they all refer to Rassilon in the third person. They never include him as part of their Doctor collective.
No, I don’t buy it. The Doctor does indeed know what his real name is, and I think the episode is actually built on the plot point of him telling River Song his name. She needs to learn it prior to her untimely demise in The Library.
“Regeneration yes, reincarnation no.” and that would be why I shouldn’t reply to comments when I’m tired, its been one of those days/weeks. I did mean regeneration, no idea why I wrote the other… although if you take what I wrote I could still be right after all 🙂
Anyway I stand corrected, I’m working from mostly classic who info and it has been a long time since I last watched The Five Doctors. I’m only really up on the new series through “Daleks of Manhattan”, so there is probably canon info I don’t have.
oh and thanks for the spoiler 😉
Also if you are right about him needing to pass that along at this point it could be done in a way where we still don’t learn it.
so secret preserved
But we know the episode won’t include River cause she already did her one show this season she signed on for.
Humm…look at the jpg, it has the name Alex Kingston on it. River Song is in the show
Also…http://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=103210
River is signed for one more story for this series. She did have her first appearance for this year, but she will be in the final episode of this season.
I certainly hope not. One of the greatest fan appeals of the Doctor over these 5 decades is the mystery of his real name. Let’s hope Moffat is just teasing with that title. I’m sure he is.
Could it be that after 900 years Clara has stumbled across the name of the Doctor? In last night’s episode “Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS” she enters one of the rooms in the infinite space of the TARDIS. It is a library which contains The Book of the Time Lords. She finds the Doctor’s name, puts her finger on it, smiles and says “Who.” Could it be that we have always known the name of the Doctor? Could it possibly be his name has always been Doctor Who? Or, perhaps, does The Book of the Time Lords spell it Hu? Or, quite possibly Moffat is playing with us?