User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-4189499-20131115045802/@comment-75.170.166.216-20131117035359

This is a slippery slope, you guys. The DWU is deep and open. Just because we've only seen a little over a dozen actors play the role doesn't guarantee that the writers won't come up with a clever way of working more incarnations in. But to label them by number in order of the actors is pretty confusing too-is Hurt 9 or 12? Do we have any guarantee that there was no incarnation before the one who looks like William Hartnell? Time travel is a strong trope and allows writers a lot of leeway.