No there hasn't.

First there was fan speculation based on the photo of Hurt wearing Eccleston's coat.

Following that there was apparent "confirmation" from the costume designer whose description of Hurt's Doctor sounded like it was lifted directly from fan speculation in a forum...

...this was then reported on one sci-fi website and picked up by a tabloid newspaper...

...It was then stated on another sci-fi website as being "officially confirmed" in that newspaper.

So now people are assuming that is a definite because it's what they themselves were speculating to begin with.


Seems to me that fans have just been told what they want to hear - that they guessed right and don't need to guess again.
Great way of keeping things under wraps

the only clue I've weened is a quote from Moffat:-

"I don't even know what the Valeyard is meant to be... If you're going to hint at the Doctor having a dark side you have to mention the Valeyard though so that's why I put it in the script"


So for me

• It's nothing to do with the Valeyard

• the whole thing is some kind of tease.. hinting rather than insisiting

How about sending Centurian Rorus Gulielmus out to get Cybermens' attention by blowing up some of their space stations? That's a bit (cyber-) bloodthirsty.

Another hint to the time war was the amount of Daleks in the trailer (from those lucky enough to see it) implying that they were fully back as an entire galaxy threatening power and not just the odd one or two rebuilding the odd fleet or so...

I'm glad Moffat doesn't understand the first thing about the Valeyard (or the watcher for that matter) because it just fries my brain thinking about it!

Yeah, and considering it had no relevance to the rest of the episode (blatently written just so they could put the Cybermen in the trailer like they did with the Dalek later on that year too...)
a bit pointlessly bloodythirsty too....

It's been well established that the Cybermen are parasites - the only living parts of them are people that have been torn apart and stuffed screaming into a shell. In the past the Doctor has shown pity, but no regret, for freeing them from their tortured existence.

I was just chatting with Cleverbot and tried this out

Me : The last great time war.

CB : That senseless war...

Me : Not in the name of the doctor.

CB : Introducing John Hurt.

Trolled lol