{"id":20034,"date":"2013-11-25T20:11:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T20:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/11\/25\/is-the-war-doctor-now-considered-as-the-canonical\/"},"modified":"2013-11-25T20:11:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T20:11:57","slug":"is-the-war-doctor-now-considered-as-the-canonical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/11\/25\/is-the-war-doctor-now-considered-as-the-canonical\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the War Doctor now considered as the canonical Ninth Doctor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pseudointellectualnavelgazing.tumblr.com\/post\/68085892516\/is-the-war-doctor-now-considered-as-the-canonical-ninth\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">pseudointellectualnavelgazing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/neil-gaiman.tumblr.com\/post\/68084200411\/is-the-war-doctor-now-considered-as-the-canonical\">neil-gaiman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I don\u2019t really understand the question. I\u2019m tempted to say something like, \u201cNo, the John Hurt War Doctor is just something that happened in THE NAME OF THE DOCTOR, THE NIGHT OF THE DOCTOR and THE DAY OF THE DOCTOR on television.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If it happens on the TV, it\u2019s canonical, unless it isn\u2019t. (For example, no-one seems entirely sure whether we get to see <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/7y8uNMPJfwQ\">pre-Hartnell regenerations during the mindbending battles of Brain of Morbius<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>We now know there was a regeneration between the Paul McGann Eighth Doctor and the Chris Ecclestone Ninth Doctor, one whom the Doctor himself has only just begun to regard as being The Doctor (as opposed to being something else).<\/p>\n<p>If you mean, \u201cDo we now all have to agree to renumber all the Doctors?\u201d, I think the main purpose of numbering things is to communicate, and we all know who we mean when we say Doctors NIne, Ten or Eleven. If anyone corrects you and says \u201cYou mean TWELFTH!\u201d when you say \u201cMatt Smith was the eleventh Doctor\u201d then that person is being irritatingly pedantic and should be pitied, in a nice way and with a gentle friendly, not-patronising sort of love, because they will have long hard lives ahead of them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Neil Gaiman always gives the best advice \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>pseudointellectualnavelgazing: neil-gaiman: I don\u2019t really understand the question. I\u2019m tempted to say something like, \u201cNo, the John Hurt War Doctor is just something that happened in THE NAME OF THE DOCTOR, THE NIGHT OF THE DOCTOR and THE DAY OF THE DOCTOR on television.\u201d If it happens on the TV, it\u2019s canonical, unless it isn\u2019t. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/11\/25\/is-the-war-doctor-now-considered-as-the-canonical\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is the War Doctor now considered as the canonical Ninth Doctor?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1601],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20034"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}