Completely agreed on the Smith thing. Also, hasn't it already been revealed? Hurt ditched "The Doctor", he didn't agree with the principles (or as he says did what he had to) and didn't go on to be the guy who makes peace. We don't know why, but that's why Smith didn't like him.
I reckon that Doctor is the one who settled the time war and committed genocide. People forget that the first Doctor was a hunted villain and only called himself "The Doctor" for make up for what he had done, which clashes with Tennant's reign as he says he chose his name as a child when The Master chose his.
He didnt ditch the Doctor per se, what he did made the Doctor (Smith in this case) say that basically he had betrayed the name of the Doctor and he didnt deserve to be called it
Also is his existence the last secret of the Doctor, or what he did the secret, as if it is what he did, then it must be something more than the time war, as the Doctor himself has said that he pretty much wiped out the Time Lords and the Daleks, so if it is something he did by rights it should be worse than wiping out two races
Anyway a good finale and a nice curve ball thrwon at the end from the writers, leaving more questions than answers ready for November, could this Hurt 'Doctor' even be an older version of the Tenant Doctor who was left with Rose on the paralel world ?
Who knows how it all comes together, but must admit i am looking forward to November to see what happens
And as an aside, as it was set on Trezalor, and the question that should never be answered was kinda answered (by River though), does that mean that it's the end of the silence as well, as 'silence will fall', maybe the Hurt Doc is tied up in that somewhere and we may see why the silence were that obsessed with getting rid of the doctor
I dunno the more i consider it, the more questions that spring to mind :damn:
