Time of the Doctor is the 2013 Christmas special of Doctor Who starring Matt Smith in his final appereance as the Eleventh Doctor and Jenna Coleman as Clara Oswald. The episode features a brief appearance by Peter Capaldi as the Twelveth Doctor and features some of The Doctor's greatest enemies.
An mysterious message pulls The Doctor and Clara away from Clara's family Christmas dinner and brings The Doctor and Clara to a mysterious planet. Where on the planet, in an village-like colony called Christmas, The Doctor soon learns the planet is Trenzalore, the graveyard planet, which will be his final resting place, when he dies at the end of his thirteenth and final incarnation. But, The Doctor soon discovers that the message, which translates "Doctor Who?" could spell terrible consequences and will be the beginning of another Time War. The Doctor, indeed nearing the end of his thirteenth and final life, is forced to make his final stand against his enemies: The Daleks, The Cybermen, The Weeping Angels and The Silence, who have arrived on Trenzalore, bent on destroying The Doctor once and for all. As The Doctor acts to defend Trenazlore from his enemeis, Clara sets out to fight for The Doctor and to help him to defy his destiny and to change his future and his fate.
Handles is a disembodied Cyberman head that The Doctor had bought from the Maldovarium Market. The Doctor repaired the Cyberman head and cleaned out it's organic components and Cyberman protocols.
The Papal Mainframe is a space church, with it's own military force and was led by Mother Superior Tasha Lem. It was the custom of the Papal Mainframe that those who visited the space church, would be required to not wear clothing, however holographic clothing was acceptable, which the employees of the Papal Mainframe were trained to see through.
Yes. She left the Papal Mainframe to become a servant of The Silence and dedicated herself in destroying The Doctor.
The thirteen is counting regenerations:
In "The Stolen Earth" (#4.12), The Tenth Doctor (played by Tennant) was shot by a Dalek, forcing him to regenerate. However, in the following episode "Journey's End" (#4.13), The Tenth Doctor (still Tennant) transferred his remaining energy from his severed hand, interrupting the regenerative process and allowing him to heal, instead of becoming a new Doctor. The Tenth Doctor (still Tennant!) remained the same but evidently counted for two regenerations.
In "The Name of the Doctor" (#7.13), "Night of the Doctor" and "Day of the Doctor", we learn of an incarnation that existed between the Eighth (McGann) and Ninth Doctor (Eccleston), called The War Doctor (John Hurt). He came into being in The Night of the Doctor (2013) when The Eighth Doctor (McGann) was killed in a spaceship crash and temporarily revived by the Sisterhood of the Flame. They gave him a potion to help him regenerate into a new form, so he could return to Gallifrey as a warrior and fight in the Time War. This means The War Doctor (John Hurt) was 9, The Ninth Doctor (Eccleston) was 10, The Tenth Doctor (Tennant) was 11/12 and The Eleventh Doctor (Smith) was technically 13.
However, in fandom and references to the show, the Doctor numbering has detoured around these interruptions rather than adopting the chaos. The War Doctor is not referred to by number, only respectfully as The War Doctor. Eccleston is still 9th, Tennant gets only one number, not two, so he's still the 10th. Thus 11th is still Smith and 12th is still Capaldi.
In "The Stolen Earth" (#4.12), The Tenth Doctor (played by Tennant) was shot by a Dalek, forcing him to regenerate. However, in the following episode "Journey's End" (#4.13), The Tenth Doctor (still Tennant) transferred his remaining energy from his severed hand, interrupting the regenerative process and allowing him to heal, instead of becoming a new Doctor. The Tenth Doctor (still Tennant!) remained the same but evidently counted for two regenerations.
In "The Name of the Doctor" (#7.13), "Night of the Doctor" and "Day of the Doctor", we learn of an incarnation that existed between the Eighth (McGann) and Ninth Doctor (Eccleston), called The War Doctor (John Hurt). He came into being in The Night of the Doctor (2013) when The Eighth Doctor (McGann) was killed in a spaceship crash and temporarily revived by the Sisterhood of the Flame. They gave him a potion to help him regenerate into a new form, so he could return to Gallifrey as a warrior and fight in the Time War. This means The War Doctor (John Hurt) was 9, The Ninth Doctor (Eccleston) was 10, The Tenth Doctor (Tennant) was 11/12 and The Eleventh Doctor (Smith) was technically 13.
However, in fandom and references to the show, the Doctor numbering has detoured around these interruptions rather than adopting the chaos. The War Doctor is not referred to by number, only respectfully as The War Doctor. Eccleston is still 9th, Tennant gets only one number, not two, so he's still the 10th. Thus 11th is still Smith and 12th is still Capaldi.
Yes. Sheila Reid played Etta in the 1985 Colin Baker story "Vengeance on Varos". In "Time of the Doctor", she plays Clara's grandmother.
Karen Gillan had shaven off her hair for her role as Nebula in the 2014 science fiction adventure film Marvel's Guardian of the Galaxy and had to don a wig.
Scottish actor Peter Capaldi.
The regeneration was not a quick face change between the Eleventh to Twelfth Doctor. It began right after the Eleventh Doctor received his new regeneration cycle from the Time Lords, while he was on the balcony of the tower.
Clara told The Time Lord through the crack that The Doctor *is* his name and it has been his true name all along and Clara pleaded with the Time Lords to help The Doctor and to change his future and thus The Time Lords gave him a new regeneration cycle containing 12 new regenerations.
It's most likely a side effect of The Doctor being given a new regeneration cycle which may had caused loss of memory and that of the regeneration itself. Sometimes the regenerations don't always go right and causes The Doctor to feel unwell and one time The Doctor suffered amnesia as part of post-trauma regeneration when one of his hearts was damaged by a probe, when he was shot and anaesthetic had caused the regenerative cells to become damaged. It's possible, The Doctor again suffered post-regeneration trauma from his 14th regeneration.
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