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* The [[Tenth Doctor]]'s revelation in ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'' that the TARDIS console was six-sided because it was ''meant'' to be piloted by six people, thus explaining why all incarnations of the Doctor couldn't always fly the TARDIS reliably. | * The [[Tenth Doctor]]'s revelation in ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'' that the TARDIS console was six-sided because it was ''meant'' to be piloted by six people, thus explaining why all incarnations of the Doctor couldn't always fly the TARDIS reliably. | ||
* The notion of [[the TARDIS]] as a living being, which gradually seeped into the series starting with ''[[The Edge of Destruction (TV story)|The Edge of Destruction]]'', giving writers licence to have the TARDIS behave as narratively expedient. | * The notion of [[the TARDIS]] as a living being, which gradually seeped into the series starting with ''[[The Edge of Destruction (TV story)|The Edge of Destruction]]'', giving writers licence to have the TARDIS behave as narratively expedient. | ||
* [[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|''The Name of the Doctor'']] introduced a new incarnation of the Doctor at the conclusion of it's story, but rather than it being a future incarnation it's revealed in the same story that this was in fact a ''past'' incarnation. This new incarnation, portrayed by [[John Hurt]], had his origins revealed in [[The Night of the Doctor (TV story)|''The Night of the Doctor'']] which showed he was the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s immediate successor, and refusing to go by the name of 'the Doctor' would be known as the Warrior, or more commonly the [[War Doctor]], and revealing him to have been the incarnation of the Doctor to have fought in the [[Time war]]. The purpose behind retroactively inserting an incarnation in between the Doctor's eighth and ninth incarnations came about due to [[Christopher Eccleston]] declining to do the 50th anniversary special [[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|''The Day of the Doctor'']], which the original script had had the Ninth Doctor be the incarnation to have fought in the Time War, with [[Steven Moffat]] creating the War Doctor to replace the Ninth Doctor's role in the story and with the War Doctor's refusal to go by the name of the Doctor making him an unnumbered inclusion in the list of incarnations, keeping the Ninth Doctor as the ninth incarnation to call himself the Doctor. The retroactive introduction of the War Doctor also had the effect of retroactively causing the[[Eleventh Doctor]] to have no regenerations left following his introduction, a fact that wouldn't be known until [[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|''The Time of the Doctor'']]. | |||
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