As much as I don't want the show to end, I think that there was quite a bit of evidence in that episode that 11 (or at least who we think is 11 at the moment, but I'm not going to get into the whole John Hurt business), is the Last Doctor.
1. The dead TARDIS being used as a tomb was clearly the current console room, which suggests the Doctor will die before it changes again. Of course, you could argue that they just used it for convinience, as it's what we currently recognize as the TARDIS, and that it can change, but will change back before he dies. However:
2. The window on the massive TARDIS had the same crack that the smaller TARDIS sustained in this episode. The deliberately showed us the crack, which seemed to serve no particular purpose, and it was definitely a concious decision to include it in the big TARDIS, so Moffat is trying to tell us something. The Doctor loves his TARDIS, so I see no reason why he would leave the crack in the window for very long, meaning the point when he dies can't be far off.
3. We were promised in 'Lets Kill Hitler' that the Question would be asked at the 'Fall of the Eleventh'. Maybe this did not refer to the time at which Eleven died, but it was telling us that the question would be asked at the exact place where the 'Fall of the Eleventh' had previously occured, on Trenzalore, exactly where his grave would be. Basically, I'm suggesting that in the phrase, "On the fields of Trenzalore, at the Fall of the Eleventh, a Question will be asked", the 'Fall of the Eleventh is not referring to the Temporal location of the question being asked, but further clarifying exactly where on Trenzalore it will be asked; right outside the Doctors Tomb, as we saw last night. This suggests that the Doctor who dies in the 'small battle' on Trenzalore is in fact the Eleventh Doctor, and there are no more after him.
4. Clara was spread out into the Doctor's entire past and future, and she clearly said in the final scene that she had seen all Eleven incarnations of the Doctor. If there were to be any more, she would of course have seen them, but she didn't, so Eleven must be the last.
I'm not by any means saying that this is definitive proof, but it seems to be quite a bit of evidence all pointing in the same direction.
The introduction of John Hurts character could interfere with this theory, but given we have no idea where he fits into the timestream, we don't really know if his character contradicts the theory. If he's a future Doctor, maybe Trenzalore is the place where the person named the Doctor dies, as in he no-longer calls himself that, but the actual person lives on under a different name, as John Hurt. If he is a past Doctor, it doesn't seem to contradict my theory.
What do people think?
1. The dead TARDIS being used as a tomb was clearly the current console room, which suggests the Doctor will die before it changes again. Of course, you could argue that they just used it for convinience, as it's what we currently recognize as the TARDIS, and that it can change, but will change back before he dies. However:
2. The window on the massive TARDIS had the same crack that the smaller TARDIS sustained in this episode. The deliberately showed us the crack, which seemed to serve no particular purpose, and it was definitely a concious decision to include it in the big TARDIS, so Moffat is trying to tell us something. The Doctor loves his TARDIS, so I see no reason why he would leave the crack in the window for very long, meaning the point when he dies can't be far off.
3. We were promised in 'Lets Kill Hitler' that the Question would be asked at the 'Fall of the Eleventh'. Maybe this did not refer to the time at which Eleven died, but it was telling us that the question would be asked at the exact place where the 'Fall of the Eleventh' had previously occured, on Trenzalore, exactly where his grave would be. Basically, I'm suggesting that in the phrase, "On the fields of Trenzalore, at the Fall of the Eleventh, a Question will be asked", the 'Fall of the Eleventh is not referring to the Temporal location of the question being asked, but further clarifying exactly where on Trenzalore it will be asked; right outside the Doctors Tomb, as we saw last night. This suggests that the Doctor who dies in the 'small battle' on Trenzalore is in fact the Eleventh Doctor, and there are no more after him.
4. Clara was spread out into the Doctor's entire past and future, and she clearly said in the final scene that she had seen all Eleven incarnations of the Doctor. If there were to be any more, she would of course have seen them, but she didn't, so Eleven must be the last.
I'm not by any means saying that this is definitive proof, but it seems to be quite a bit of evidence all pointing in the same direction.
The introduction of John Hurts character could interfere with this theory, but given we have no idea where he fits into the timestream, we don't really know if his character contradicts the theory. If he's a future Doctor, maybe Trenzalore is the place where the person named the Doctor dies, as in he no-longer calls himself that, but the actual person lives on under a different name, as John Hurt. If he is a past Doctor, it doesn't seem to contradict my theory.
What do people think?