Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-5940646-20151203081819/@comment-6512-20151203234933

MystExplorer wrote: I wouldn't take that quote literally. I doubt even the Doctor is capable of holding two billion years' worth of memories. One interpretation of "I remember it all" is that he's talking about the time he spent with Clara. He's despairing at the realization that no matter how many times he goes through the cycle, Clara will still be dead.

That's one interpretation, but it ignores the "Every time," which is why I feel he's specifically talking about all these lives and cycles.

Dragonofelder wrote: Well that doesn't make sense.

I don't see why not. Within the realms of what this show has done and presented to us, it's not outside the realm of possibility (heck, earlier in the same episode The Doctor talks a locked door into opening for him). The Doctor transfers his life energy into a new body, it's not much of a stretch to imagine the memories of the cycle transfer across, but are temporarily locked away... sort of like forgetting a bad dream until a specific word or event reminds you of it.