doctor who 6x12 'closing time'

[fox]

So if I'm counting in anything like base 10, the Doctor still has 200 years of his own timestream to get through between last week and next week. The way he was talking tonight ("tomorrow is the day I die"), and the fact that he got the blue stationery from Craig and Sophie, makes me think he used up those 200 years between last week and this week, but in any case, the question remains: two hundred years! Where's he (or where will he have) been?

It's possible this was all explained in the Confidential and I don't know because I didn't watch it, but I feel like if you need extras to make your canon clear (because Confidential ≠ canon, dontchaknow), you didn't do the canon right in the first place.

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[longtimegone]

I was thinking this was his last stop after (200 years) of doing all that gallivanting through history that Amy and Rory talked about/saw at the beginning of The Impossible Astronaut.

I haven't watched the Confidential either though, so I may be wrong.

[fox]

Yeah, but he was 1103 or whatever when they met him and the little girl shot him, and then they went back to the diner and there he was and he was 908 (or, again, whatever) - and then they were with him from then on. But now he's going to Utah with the hat and going to get shot. So the 200 years didn't happen between 6x02 and 6x11 - it either came between leaving them in their new place and descending on Craig, or it hasn't happened yet. Right? Or am I missing/forgetting something?

[longtimegone]

it either came between leaving them in their new place and descending on Craig

Yep, I assumed the 200 missing years happened (for the Doctor) after the Doctor left Amy and Rory at their new house, and before the Doctor popped up on Craig's doorstep. After "Closing Time", he took the stationary and the Stetson from Craig, mails the letters, and, from the Doctor's perspective, the next time we see him is on the hood of that car in Utah. But maybe I'm forgetting something that would make that not make sense?

The Confidential didn't have anything to say about it, btw.

[pocketmouse]

He had that one line (that he stole from 10) about how he'd been off on his own for a bit, so maybe 'a bit' means 200 years. Or, equally likely, he lied to the Ponds about how old he was in Impossible Astronaut.

[fox]

Assuming he wasn't lying, see above - I may be missing something?

[pocketmouse]

Well, like I said, he did have a line about how he'd been off on his own for a bit. He could be calling 200 years 'a bit.' He does have a gift for understatement.

[fox]

Right - but is that bit supposed to have been between leaving Craig and showing up in Utah? is what I'm asking.

[pocketmouse]

If he says he's already done it, plus the fact that he says multiple times that he's going to die tomorrow, I'd say he's already done it. So it's between last week's episode and this week's.

[fox]

Oh he told Craig he'd been on his own for a bit? I thought you were reminding me that he'd told the Ponds this when they arrived in Utah. In that case I did totally miss it. My bad. :-)

[pocketmouse]

No, he said it in this episode, either to Craig or maybe when Craig was asleep, but it was in this episode.