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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[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.