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In the Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, what is each cameo provider's connection to Doctor Who?
As you might expect, it's a long list.
Sean Pertwee is the son of the late Jon Pertwee, who played the Third Doctor
Olivia Colman appeared in "The Eleventh Hour" as the Mother, one of the forms taken ...
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Which episodes did the footage of the thirteen doctors come from?
TL;DR: skip to the end for the complete answer, or read in order if you want to feel more involved in the search for the quotes.
Here's the transcript from Chakoteya of the relevant passage in Day of ...
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How did all the Doctors know to save Gallifrey?
12th Doctor (Capaldi) knew to come because 11 (Smith) retained his own memories.
For the others it's not shown on-screen, but we can safely assume that War (Hurt), 10 (Tennant), and 11 contacted the ...
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Help understanding the Doctor's strategy in Day of the Doctor
what comes in their mind when 11 says "this time there's 3 of us"?
The fact that there are three of them.
After centuries of bemoaning what he was forced to do, he's hit by the realisation that he ...
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How did the 10th Doctor recognize his 11th incarnation as his future self?
How he talks
The Eleventh Doctor says "I've never seen it from the outside." This should serve as a pretty strong indication that he has indeed seen it from the inside, i.e. that he is the Doctor.
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Whose hand is this in Day of the Doctor?
In-universe, it's obviously Clara's arm
The rings alone give it away; rings are a staple of Clara's costume, more so than probably any other character, and she's almost never seen without one or two ...
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Do the 3 Doctors remember that they saved Gallifrey after 'Day of the Doctor'?
Eleven remembers, but War and Ten don't.
From the transcript of Day of the Doctor (emphasis mine):
WAR DOCTOR: I won't remember this, will I?
DOCTOR 11: The time streams are out of sync. You can'...
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How could the Doctor destroy the Dalek fleet this way?
WARRIOR: The Dalek fleets are surrounding Gallifrey, firing on it constantly.
DOCTOR 10: The Sky Trench is holding, but what if the whole planet just disappeared?
CLARA: Tiny bit of an ask.
DOCTOR 10: ...
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How did the 10th Doctor recognize his 11th incarnation as his future self?
Doctor 10 mentions in "The Sound of Drums" that Time lords just know who they are by sight.
Coupled with the first episode of "The End of Time" where the Doctor wanders around trying to sniff out ...
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Whose hand is this in Day of the Doctor?
It might yet be Clara.
My first guess was Missy, because it's simply what Moffat would do to screw with us. There are even (plausible?) fan theories (1, 2) that try to explain this.
But Googling for ...
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Whose hand is this in Day of the Doctor?
It is Clara's hand. The finger rings and the cuff of the leather jacket match as shown from this still from around 5 mins and 40 seconds into the episode.
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How did the Doctors enter the "Gallifrey Falls" painting?
The Doctors didn't have to be present at the time the painting was made to enter one. They were able to use the stasis cube to put themselves into an existing painting.
Note that, when Eleven was ...
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Are the "Under Gallery" and "Black Archive" in "Day of the Doctor" actually something else?
As some commenters have already suggested that there is no basis for this theory, and as nothing has come forth after some time has passed, I thought it would be worth examining your points critically ...
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What was the outcome of the meeting between humans and Zygons in "The Day of the Doctor"?
This question is in need of an updated answer, after the airing of Series 9 last year.
In the two-parter story comprising episodes 7 and 8, "The Zygon Invasion" and "The Zygon Inversion", we learn ...
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Why do the first 10 Doctors (Hartnell-Tennant) have to forget the events of the 50th anniversary special, but the 11th and 12th Doctors do not?
It is a well established fact in Doctor Who canon, that when he crosses his own timeline (ie, meets his past selves) only his most recent incarnation retains the memories.
(there may be some minor ...
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Why do the first 10 Doctors (Hartnell-Tennant) have to forget the events of the 50th anniversary special, but the 11th and 12th Doctors do not?
The first 8 Doctors wouldn't have remembered it because the end of the Time War hadn't happened for them yet. The War Doctor, Eccleston, Tennant and Smith would not remember changing events of the end ...
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How could this planet return to the universe?
Frozen in time with this particular trick doesn't seem to mean complete stasis.
In the same epidsode, earlier in The Day of the Doctor, Ten, Eleven, and the War Doctor used the same trick to seal ...
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When was Peter Capaldi's Doctor in "Day of the Doctor"?
Whenever multiple incarnations of The Doctor inhabits the same timeline it is a paradox that is corrected as soon as they leave. At the end of The Day of The Doctor the War Doctor has this exchange ...
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In the Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, what is each cameo provider's connection to Doctor Who?
The Doctor Who wiki gives a comprehensive list of the cameos, and a cross-reference for who they all are.
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Fiveish_Doctors_Reboot_(TV_story)
To summarize, they're ...
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Help understanding the Doctor's strategy in Day of the Doctor
Sorry to resurrect such an old question, but my take on the "I'm getting it now too" is that at some point ten or eleven manage to communicate with one, and from that point onwards in some pseudo-time ...
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In Doctor Who, why can things be changed inside a stasis painting if it’s frozen?
This is a total guess, but they could be 4-dimensional lifeforms in a 3-dimensional world.
Much like the creatures in Flatline are 2(3)-dimensional lifeforms in a 3(4)-dimensional world. Just the ...
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In Doctor Who, why can things be changed inside a stasis painting if it’s frozen?
There are different perspectives for visualizing a stasis painting.
In Day of the Doctor, we saw Gallifreyian saying,
We'd lost in another dimension.
It means that when you create a stasis ...
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