Wasn't something like that the children's-show spin-off that the BBC wanted? A series about the young Doctor at the Timelord Academy? (Harry Potter on Gallifrey, I suppose.) Russel T Davies wisely proposed 'The Sarah Jane Adventures' instead.

I liked the bit where he threatens the rabbit. It could only worked for Ten, really - it needs his pomposity, and his goofy humour to undercut it. Matt Smith talking to a bunny would be all too natural.

That's because the AV club has been locked in a stasis cube, separate form the rest of the universe.

I think it's just that RTD and Moffat have written different eras of the programme. Moffat's plotlines necessarily are the important ones in current continuity, just as RTD's were when he was showrunner. You might disagree, but I think Moffat was quite respectful of the show's long heritage in this episode.

Adjust the settings on your computer's irony-blocker ;-)

I saw this in a cinema, and everyone gasped and applauded when they saw Baker's face. I'm not sure whether this means they somehow didn't recognise his off-screen voice.

The final shot was the Doctor's dream, to judge by his voiceover. It was a nice iamge to go out on.

I expected Capaldi too. I anticipated a regeneration episode that featured the two of them interacting, with this scene setting it up. Perhaps we've had enough multiple-doctor interplay for now, though.

With the extra in-joke of his last line being "Now I'll never know if I was right".

"You were always my mum's favourite" ….. "You were always my favourite."

This is exactly the right attitude to have when watching 'Doctor Who'! Thanks, idiotking, for stating it so eloquently.

But wouldn't it still only matter after the death of the thirteenth doctor (Capaldi, by your count)?

Since he has that memory, his lack of faith and trust is hardly unexplainable. Besides, the War Doctor here has already been involved on the Time War and perhaps has seen and done other terrible things - the Doctor's trauma needn't be about only the last day of the Time War.

A lot of companions showed up as the images circling Davison's head, in the pastiche of his regenerations scene.

Quel dommage, @housebiden:disqus

To me, that was the one bit that felt like pure fan-service, without relevance to the plot. I'm a fan happy to be serviced, mind you, but there's something odd about the idea that in the future the doctor will somehow choose to regenerate as an earlier version of himself, and settle down to curate a museum.

And having to see him do it, rather than merely knowing it to be something he did in the past, would be very grim. I think Clara speaks for the audience when she says that she could never really picture the doctor doing something like that.

The Time War always felt like a sort of diagetic acknowledgement of the show's years off air - a trauma that separated the modern doctors from the classic one. To hint at Gallifrey's return in the fiftieth anniversary special feels like a confirmation that the show has returned successfully, and has been embraced. If…

I expect that the lines in 'The Name of the Doctor' about how what Hurt's character did wasn't done in … well, in "the name of the Doctor", as well as the line "I said he was me - I never said he was the Doctor" are there so that we don't have to number the War Doctor in the sequence of doctors. After all, this…

I like that story a lot, but I have to admit that, while I've enjoyed Moffat's tenure as showrunner, 'Library' would remain higher in my estimation if we'd never found out anything else about River Song : she was more interesting unexplained, really.