User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Tales from the Tardis/@comment-188432-20131126205522/@comment-2112031-20131214070132

120d wrote: I don't know if this helps, but I sort of call the John Hurt Doctor, the 8.5th Doctor because he is in between the 8th Doctor and the 9th Doctor and he was created because of a formula that was given to the 8th Doctor by a Time Lady in the short The Night of the Doctor, which, in my opinion doesn't really count as a full regeneration. The War Doctor definitely counts as a full regeneration. The potion merely triggered the Doctor to regenerate into a specific mindset and appearance.