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Who Is The Valeyard And Why Should You Care?
Being one of the non-Brits who works here and working on the comic side of the site… I tend to stay away from the Doctor Who conversations and leave them to Rich and Brendon. But, I am half-Brit (Mom was born in London) and I'm a Whovian. I've been to Gallifrey One a couple times even.
I've enjoyed all the talk about the 50th anniversary, and all the theories on the message board since the mention of The Valeyard at the end of The Name Of The Doctor. The Valeyard was first seen in The Trial Of A Timelord, in the Colin Baker 6th Doctor era, and revealed by the Master as an amalgamation of the Doctor's darker sides from somewhere between the twelfth and final doctors.
But how does the Valeyard play into future episodes?
Some folks think John Hurt who is introduced as The Doctor in the last episode is the Valeyard while others, like Brendon and Rich, think Hurt is the Ninth Doctor as we never saw, a regeneration between Paul McGann and Christopher Eccleston.
We're calling it "The Hurt Insert". That would bump each of the doctors up a number, making Smith the Twelfth and Peter Capaldi the Last Doctor. And The Valeyard… someone in between. Like The Watcher in Logopolis.
Either way, Steven Moffat doesn't seem the type to just throw the name in there for a laugh.
We won't know for sure until the 50th Anniversary special… but for those of you who don't know what the Valeyard is, here is the handy-dandy clip the BBC posted on their official Doctor Who Youtube page.
[youtube]http://youtu.be/Y2INBe_qZFo[/youtube]
Production on the Doctor Who Christmas Special starts on Sunday. There are rumours – apparently rooted in a deleted tweet from John Hurt's official account – that the actor will be staying around after the 50th. Let's see if anybody catches him on set next week.
And if they do, if he's wearing Valeyard costume.
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