Saturday 11 May 2013

What is the Name of the Doctor?

Here is my list of suggestions for what the Name of the Doctor will be revealed to be in next week's season finale. Which do you think is the most likely?

  • "Doctor". Or "Dok-torr" or something similar.
  • "Doctor Who"
  • "Doctor Foreman"
  • Something depressingly ordinary like "Alan" or "Simon"
  • "John Smith"
  • "Theta Sigma"
  • A Gallifreyan/alien sounding name like "Morpak" or "Parabia"
  • A Time Lord name we already know like "Rassilon" or "Omega"
  • Another old-series name we already know like "Davros" or "Sutekh" or "Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart" or "Za"
  • A new-series name we already know like "Rory" or "The Moxx of Balhoon"
  • "River Song" / "Melody Pond"
  • "Clara"
  • "The Face of Boe"
  • "Captain Jack Harkness"
  • A name we know from Earth history like "Hannibal" or "Leonardo"
  • A name from fiction like "Hamlet" or "Beowulf" or "Jabberwocky"
  • A Biblical name like "Adam" or "Abraham"
  • "Jesus"
  • Nothing at all - revelations will be dangled in front of us then snatched away, like they were 25 years ago.
I think the last one is the most likely...but probably even more likely is that Steven Moffat will present us with an official Name of the Doctor unrelated to anything I've said above.

I just hope we're not disappointed by it.

Which of these names would you least/most like to see?

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