User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-9435571-20131123214400/@comment-25074676-20131124205401
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I personally don't like the term: "<number> Doctor" because it's a mental shortcut. It can have multiple meanings:
1) The actor who chronologically played the Doctor (it was good until now)
2) The incarnation that used the title (because now there's one who used another title... and then went back to original one)
3) The chronological incarnation
I personally understand it as 3) but a lot of people understand it as 2)
