Get ready Doctor Who fans, I’m about to throw some fan theory your way. Why is the twelfth Doctor so connected to the First Doctor?
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While any show is on hiatus, you begin to think up fan theories. Whether it’s a couple months (every American show ever) or years (Sherlock), it happens. Well, I have my first Doctor Who theory, and it’s that, somehow, the First Doctor and the Twelfth Doctor are connected.
It’s quite simple when you think about it. Beyond the fact that David Bradley is set to return, which is Moffat’s gift to Capaldi, anyone could look further at this coincidence. Why the First Doctor? Why not the Fifth Doctor, and do another Time Crash? In the widely acclaimed Spare Parts, the Fifth Doctor has come into contact with the Mondasian Cybermen as well.
In fact, nothing quite explains why the TARDIS would lead the Doctor to his very first regeneration, except for this very important fact: this is the second first Doctor.
Don’t get confused yet! I can explain…
Now, before you get too confused, I can make it really easy for you. In The Time of the Doctor, Eleven was getting ready to die, because he had reached his final regeneration. With the addition of TenToo and the War Doctor, the Doctor was out time. It was only when Clara asked the Time Lords for help through the crack in the wall that the Doctor was given the ability to regenerate.
This technically makes 12 the first doctor in a whole new regeneration cycle. Even in Husbands of River Song, she says that he can’t have more than Twelve faces (including the War Doctor). So this is uncharted territory for a Time Lord.
In a sense, he’s retconned himself and is going back to being the first regeneration…a second time. This could be why we’ve seen an attachment to Susan in the beginning of the season when we’ve seen her mentioned. And it’s definitely why the TARDIS could have gotten confused, and sent the Doctor to the South Pole.
Maybe the TARDIS got confused and sent the new first regeneration back to where the old first regeneration happened.
No matter what happens, we’re going to see the Twelfth Doctor most likely regenerate in the same place as the First Doctor, forever linking the two. As fan theories go, I’ve thought this one out pretty well.