Board Thread:Tales from the Tardis/@comment-188432-20131126205522/@comment-27026537-20131127031344

True... Although him just calling himself the 13th surely wouldn't give anyone else any details not to mention if he runs into any of his past selves either they won't remember it if he doesn't or, they remember it because he remembers it and therefor the loop is stable as long as he does whatever...

Besides isn't that one of The Doctors acknowledges The War Doctor as A _Doctor_ one of the big points of the episode - aye non but the 11th Doctor remember this (who would then think of himself as the 12th, although he's been known as the 11th for most of the time so out of universe we stick with 11th) If Capaldi's Doctor doesn't consider the War Doctor as an actual Docotor then that is sort of a mood whiplash like... insanely so :/

As for him considering the War Doctor part of his life as an asterisk ... well that seems invalidating to the aforementioned, unless its in terms of a short period of his life - but I don't think??? we haev any idea how "old" the War Doctor - in terms of just that incarnation - is? :/ so there is a tiny bit of room to work with but I really thought 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 'War', 8, 9, 10, 11*, 13 would be much more intuitive :/
 * 11 obv. being the one that starts to think of himself as 12th... (but known for most of the time as 11 so doesn't matter)