Do you ever just get hit with pangs of anger about the 50th anniversary?
tbh I kind of forget about it lol. It’s so far from how I personally interpreted the Time War shenanigans that I discount it from my headcanon. As far as I’m concerned:
The Moment used Bad Wolf’s/Rose’s image to try to persuade him not to kill the Time Lords, yet failed to do so because the Doctors realised they had to do it because a) they can’t rewrite their own person history like that and b) they can’t just remove Gallifrey and hope the Daleks die in their own crossfire because c) the Time War wasn’t just some simple laser battle on the soil/in the skies of Gallifrey but existed in many corners of time and space, affecting many different species and d) the Time Lords were very corrupt by this point, at least the High Council were, and needed to be stopped; the Doctor unfortunately had to sacrifice the children/innocent Gallifreyans along with the corrupt ones to end it
and e) the Moment was just using the image of Bad Wolf/Rose as a cheap manipulation ploy, not because Bad Wolf actually had anything to do with it
Also, in my mind, the three Doctors hit the big red button together after Clara says something like at least the different versions of him can shoulder the load a bit in that moment
But whilst Hurt’s Doctor remembers this, the other two have to forget because timelines
Oh! And in my head, both versions of Elizabeth I we saw? Both Zygons. The real Elizabeth only shouts ‘off with his head’ in The Shakespeare Code because, when she defeats the imposter Liz and gets back to her throne, she sees that portrait of them being ~married and hates him for almost besmirching her reputation
Also Hurt!Doctor doesn’t regenerate at the end of the episode in my head, because it makes no sense, as he says he’s 800 but Nine says he’s 900 in Rose, and there is no way in hell you are going to get me to believe that Nine wandered around for a century without catching sight of himself in the mirror. And no one’s gonna give me the ‘the doctor lies’ bullshit either, ta
I mean if we’re getting really technical with regards to how far away the 50th was from what I wanted, then Hurt!Doctor wasn’t 8.5 at all, but actually a future him (because I liked him! He was funny [and the one I liked best of all three of them but that’s delving into 10&11’s characterisation stuff which is another kettle of fish altogether] I just didn’t like how he replaced Paul Mcgann) and so in my version 8 actually pressed the button with Ten and Eleven
Conclusion: the Time Lords are still dead, the 2.47 billion maypole children didn’t exist anyway (because how can such a long-lived species with a relatively small population have 2.47 billion children on that planet at one time?? More like 2.47 million. Not dancing around a maypole, either. More like, staring into the vortex and going mad or running away)
So basically, if the Time Lords to come back, or if there’s an ongoing plot about the Doctor ~finding Gallifrey again, then I’m gonna reinvent the reason for that in my head to fit in line with my 50th headcanon. Something like, they got back via person/reason x y z, something akin to how they did before, in The End of Time, by using the Master, rather than ‘yay the doctor didn’t really kill them !!111’
Honestly I would like it much better if there were a story where the Doctor discovered a lost colony of Gallifreyans who had set up home on a different planet somehow somewhere, having survived the Time War, like the colony in fadewithfury's Human Nature AU Bring Down the Sky. I feel like that would be a much more poignant way for the Doctor to discover he’s not alone/didn’t kill all of them in the end. Much more poignant than simply rewriting canon, at least
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