You're correct.

Naked emotional manipulation and a call-back to Baker's pre-regeneration flashbacks (and conceivably Davison's A Day In The Life regeneration).

To be super super pedantic - it could be Mondas. The Doctor clearly knows of Mondas and the events that take place in 1986 when he arrives at Antartica at the start of The Tenth Planet. He treats everything that's going on in that story as a simple fact of history. The implication is that he's fully aware of the…

I wont assign grades, but sure:

That, no, but in the end she made the right call to stand and fight, even though she never got to do it. That's the tragedy of it all - the Doctor actually succeeded, even though he'll never know.

Sean has said quite explicitly that he will never, ever play the Doctor, though he enjoys slapping on the costume from time to time

If it's a man, this is my vote. Though I'd prefer it if it wasn't a man.

Hey, there's an idea. Maybe Colin Baker can play the next Doctor!

She's already ruled herself explicitly out. It's not her. Sorry. I'd have liked her as well.

I reckon he could tackle Warrior's Gate or Amy's Choice…

Something something Katrina also died something.

That's more or less how Tennant's Doctor describes it - he said it feels like dying and another man gets up and walks away but "it isn't me".

I assume this is right but he seemed a bit… healthy for that Doctor, who spend most of that story dying, and not proudly strutting about the place.

Hey now there, Mr With Your Facts!

I'll be utterly astonished if she doesn't get at the very least a Pond-esque cameo in the Christmas special.

(it's not a tradition)

I don't mind that the 80's Cybermen didn't get a look-in, I just wish they'd stuck with the originals. Conceptually it works, showing the Cybermen's evolution, but on-screen… eh, I just don't like those Cybermen.

Bony M wrote a song about him? Wow, that really is torture!

Practically? I think you mean "exactly".

Still better than the explanation for surviving Planet Of Fire in Mark Of The Rani.