Howling:The Doctor starts running: Sound of Drums vs. Name of the Doctor

In The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords The Doctor says that his journey started when he was a child, however in The Name of the Doctor we see The Doctor as an old man with Susan stealing the TARDIS for the first time. Is this really a continuity error? My theories:
 * 1. He was young by Time Lord standards, taking into consideration that Time Lords live way longer than humans.
 * 2. He was referring to the fact he was in his fist incarnation.
 * 3. "Rule Number 1: The Doctor Lies"-River Song

Thecrazyweirdo ☎  01:49, January 4, 2014 (UTC)

Maybe he was a traveller around Gallifrey. 87.102.91.126talk to me 11:14, January 5, 2014 (UTC)
 * True, but it's implied that he started running from Gallifrey as a child. Thecrazyweirdo ☎  17:22, January 5, 2014 (UTC)

The two are not mutually exclusive. Running doesn't necessarily require one to steal a tardis 72.177.169.170talk to me 00:22, January 7, 2014 (UTC)

72: No, they're not mutually exclusive. In any case, when the Tenth Doctor said, "I've been running ever since" (i.e., ever since looking into the Untempered Schism), he was using a semi-humorous comment to avoid giving a real answer to the question he'd been asked. It wasn't said in a way that indicated that he literally started his physical flight from Gallifrey at that very moment. It's much more likely that he had in mind (but didn't actually spell out) that the process of his estrangement from Time Lord society began more-or-less from the moment of his initiation into that society -- the process that eventually led him to go off with his granddaughter in a "rackety old TARDIS" (Tegan's description in The Five Doctors). --89.243.204.145talk to me 23:02, January 24, 2014 (UTC)


 * Good Point. Thecrazyweirdo ☎  18:20, January 25, 2014 (UTC)