Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-4028641-20150828141837/@comment-1293767-20151024194607

Danniesen wrote: If we count flashbacks into multi-Doctor then we might as well also count flashbacks and archive footage as appearances.

Why would we could archive footage? I think it was CzechOut who used the analogy in the past that archive footage--unless it's used in a new way that's specifically meant to be seen as "new material" (i.e. repurposing old clips to have the Clara echo and the First Doctor meet in The Name of the Doctor or the reuse of old clips to make it appear all the Doctors have gathered to save Gallifrey in The Day of the Doctor--it's essentially just a reference, no different to namedropping a character or showing a photograph of them. But if it's new content in the style of a flashback, that's completely different.

Danniesen wrote: Listen can be said not to be multi-Doctor, as I said before that he wasn't the Doctor (not even Theta Sigma) at that point.

Sorry, I don't agree at all. It's the same character no matter what name he's going by.