The Whistleblower making some huge claims about the 50th:
Spoiler
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
The Anniversary Show Plot
The Doctor is disturbed after events from The Name of the Doctor. He is unsure whether to believe them or not, or whether Time has reset itself.
He hangs onto the fact that Clara is still around. If she wasn’t, his life would have ended. Self is important – who he is has never been more so.
He’s surprised to receive a message from UNIT, particularly Kate Stewart, who says she got his contact details from Torchwood files. She tells him he really should meet her.
Trying to dematerialise the TARDIS something goes wrong. The Doctor equates it to two magnets repelling each other. He looks scared.
The Doctor meets Kate who seems to know something he doesn’t. There are some well known scenes with the TARDIS here. UNIT’s scientific advisor is wearing a familiar scarf. The Doctor likes it and asks where she got it. She says he gave her it, and the Doctor is confused. Kate takes the Doctor and Clara into the national portrait museum. Here he sees why she has called him. There are paintings of all the previous Doctors here. Some seem to be moving, as though they are replaying old adventures over and over. Some are reaching out of the paintings, communicating. Others seem to show the Doctor getting old in certain incarnations, and in pain. Some bleed into each other – Doctors appear in scenes they were never involved in.
The Doctor surmises this is due to events from the series finale. He becomes increasingly panicky. He is confronted by the John Hurt character. He tells the Doctor to remember. Clara repeats it. “Run, you clever boy, and remember”. Appalled, the Doctor does. This other man is also the Doctor. As the Time War locked at the end of the Moment, the regeneration split him in two. This is the Ninth Doctor. He explains the Time Lines have been corrupted. The Doctors must go back in Time to fix them. They travel back into the Doctor’s past, and meet the Tenth, who is having an adventure with Queen Elizabeth and the Zygons. They get caught up in this adventure.
Defeating the Zygons, the three Doctors head back towards the Eighth Doctor, but something goes wrong. Time won’t let them go back into the Time War. The Ninth Doctor gets increasingly frustrated and angry. Both Ten and Eleven become suspicious. They confront him on it. Realising they’re going no further, the Ninth reveals himself as Omega, escaped during the Time of the Return of Rassilon, and manipulating the Doctor ever since. Lots of flashbacks show the signs of Omega all around the Doctor’s life. It seems too that the Doctor died in The Big Bang, and all the Eleventh has been since then has been a living memory of what he was. The Eleventh is horrified. Amy, Rory, all the good he’s done has been a lie. But it seems not – these are events dreamt by the dead Doctor as IF he had survived.
The tenth Doctor understands – Omega wants to go back into all the Doctors pasts and, as he did in Arc of Infinity, claim his life for himself. He needs Gallifreyan DNA to map on and remain in this Universe.
For Omega to be defeated, both Doctors must touch. The Blinovitch Limitation Effect will cancel everything out, destroying Omega. But, the Tenth says, it will also destroy the Eleventh Doctor, meaning the Tenth never died and can continue the journey. He promises to look after Amy and Clara. “I’m sorry. I’m so sorry” the Tenth Doctor says, and, as Omega screams, both Doctors hug.
A maelstrom of vortexes explode around them. TARDISes fly off in every direction, the portraits scream. Omega promises this won’t be the end as he disappears in blinding light.
As it fades, the Tenth Doctor is standing there. Rose is with him. He looks at her. She asks what is happening. He looks at his hands. “I’m regenerating…” he says and begins to change. As the process takes hold, we see many flashbacks, all the Doctors from one to ten, and beyond, then into the Eleventh, Amy, Rory, Clara and, as the regeneration fades, Clara’s voice… “And remember…”
The Eleventh Doctor emerges from the regeneration cloud, his life and past renewed and repaired, and alive again. Time to keep on travelling]