We’re just about up to the final episode of the current season of Doctor Who.
The title of the episode is “The Name of the Doctor,” and it promises to reveal the Doctor’s actual name, something that has never been revealed in the 50-year history of the show.
We’ll apparently learn the Doctor’s name–and why he’s kept is secret all this time–at 8 p.m. on Saturday, May 18, when “The Name of the Doctor” airs on BBC America (or a few hours earlier, if you’re in the U.K.).
Here are a few thoughts . . .
Will They Really Reveal It?
I’m guessing that they will.
This runs the risk of taking an element of the mystery out of the show, but they’ve been teasing the audience with the idea for some time, and recently they’ve ramped that up in a big way.
With all the teasing, with titling the season’s final episode the way they did, and with putting “His Secret Revealed” on the promotional poster (above), they’ll have a lot of hacked off fans if they fail to deliver.
How Might They Cheat The Audience?
I can think of at least a couple of ways.
Back in series six the Doctor told the Flesh Doctor that he could come back from the sonic disintegration. The Flesh Doctor said he would try. Perhaps, that is the Doctor who falls and reveals his name, which does not have to be the same as the Doctor’s.
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