Howling:Order Of Regeneration

I'm just curious. With the Eighth Doctor regenerating into the War Doctor, then where does he fit in the order of the Doctor's lives? If the War Doctor is the official Doctor, then the Doctors from Eccelson onward are bumped up one. That makes the Twelveth Doctor into the Thirteenth Doctor? Has anyone noticed this?Sefiros ☎  15:42, November 17, 2013 (UTC)


 * Yes, plenty of people have noticed this, but there is enough evidence to suggest that, while it would increase their "incarnation number" by one, their "Doctor number" would remain the same, as the War Doctor was "the one who broke the promise" of the name "the Doctor", and Clara said that the book on the history of the Time War called him by a different name. —BioniclesaurKing4t2 - "Hello, I'm the Doctor. Basically, . . . run." 17:11, November 17, 2013 (UTC)


 * Clara apparently discovered the Doctor's real name in that book. The exact circumstances of that are unclear but it didn't just say the War Doctor (stupid alternative).DCT ☎  16:47, November 18, 2013 (UTC)


 * For the "War Doctor", the BBC just needed a title for the credits of a minisode prequel that wouldn't spoil anything big in the 50th. On a similar note, they kept the credits name for "Thomas Thomas" from The Crimson Horror (the kid who gave Strax directions to Sweetville) as "Urchin Boy" to keep secret the joking reference to the TomTom GPS. —BioniclesaurKing4t2 - "Hello, I'm the Doctor. Basically, . . . run." 18:02, November 18, 2013 (UTC)

It was explicitly stated that the Hurt incarnation did NOT take the name "The Doctor". It's the same Time Lord, but Eccleston is still Nine, Tennant Ten etc. Time Lords do not use the same name for every incarnation. As an example, not all incarnations of The Master have been called 'The Master'.

The numeration of The Doctors remains the same, but the matter of regenerations allowed is still at issue. Until we learn that Mohila & The Sisterhood did something clever which affects a Time Lord's potential for regeneration (or some such thing) whether or not Hurt calls himself," The Doctor," he still uses up a regeneration, and following McGann, must precede Eccelston. Though of course there could be yet another Non-Doctor, except 11 says that "he is my secret."Phil Stone ☎  01:56, November 20, 2013 (UTC)


 * Plus, there probably wouldn't be another 'non-Doctor' simply because Moffat's using the 50th Anniversary Special to introduce one such incarnation, and it would be a near insult for someone to just say, "Y'know that guy who was the Doctor, but not the Doctor, that everyone made such a big deal about? Yeah, there's another one of 'em over there." —BioniclesaurKing4t2 - "Hello, I'm the Doctor. Basically, . . . run." 02:13, November 20, 2013 (UTC)

Well, yeah, that was the point. Christopher Eccleston is still the Ninth Doctor, David Tennant the Tenth Doctor etc. But Eccleston is the tenth incarnation of that Time Lord, Tennant the eleventh etc. How is that so hard to figure out?