Well, if there isn't a multi-Doctor extravaganza for the 50th, there better be something really damn mind-blowing to make up for it. I mean... when not even the show being canceled for well over a decade can stop the tradition of multi-Doctor specials on big anniversaries (see: Zagreus), Moffat will have his work cut out for him justifying it to his own inner fanboy if he opts out.
That said, I'd give it at least a 75% chance that we do get multiple Doctors, and that all the actors involved have been solemnly instructed to lie their asses off and say they're still waiting for the phone call. I'm also pretty sure that all the living former Doctors except Eccleston have expressed willingness to participate--heck, if Moffat is crazy enough not to do it then he'll probably have to beat some of them off with a stick.
Aging aside, the logistical issue I'm most interested in is the fact that technically, whatever happens will be the same guy going through the same events seven times. Will they remember what their future selves did/will do? What their past selves did? Any attempt to play with who knows what, and at what time? I doubt it'll just get conveniently ignored like in the classic specials, given all the wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey and spoilers and predestination paradoxes and events getting erased and monsters that make you forget things that've been on the show lately, but it'll be a lot trickier to handle than when it was just Five and Ten in Time Crash. It'll probably be either a blanket explanation (oh noes the Silence! everyone but Eleven forgets all the significant parts!) or some truly virtuoso juggling of nested ontological landmines. (Which, far from being an atrocious mixed metaphor, is in fact a literal activity that Eleven has taken up as a hobby in between knitting and erasing himself from databases. I'd try to illustrate it but I don't have any eleven-dimensional paper.)
That said, I'd give it at least a 75% chance that we do get multiple Doctors, and that all the actors involved have been solemnly instructed to lie their asses off and say they're still waiting for the phone call. I'm also pretty sure that all the living former Doctors except Eccleston have expressed willingness to participate--heck, if Moffat is crazy enough not to do it then he'll probably have to beat some of them off with a stick.
Aging aside, the logistical issue I'm most interested in is the fact that technically, whatever happens will be the same guy going through the same events seven times. Will they remember what their future selves did/will do? What their past selves did? Any attempt to play with who knows what, and at what time? I doubt it'll just get conveniently ignored like in the classic specials, given all the wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey and spoilers and predestination paradoxes and events getting erased and monsters that make you forget things that've been on the show lately, but it'll be a lot trickier to handle than when it was just Five and Ten in Time Crash. It'll probably be either a blanket explanation (oh noes the Silence! everyone but Eleven forgets all the significant parts!) or some truly virtuoso juggling of nested ontological landmines. (Which, far from being an atrocious mixed metaphor, is in fact a literal activity that Eleven has taken up as a hobby in between knitting and erasing himself from databases. I'd try to illustrate it but I don't have any eleven-dimensional paper.)
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