Thread:Turtle365/@comment-15395126-20150726080448

So I've basically established the Series 11 plot:
 * Series 11 of Doctor Who sees the newly-regenerated Thirteenth Doctor embark on a quest to find his missing home planet, Gallifrey, that takes him to the farthest regions of the known universe and across the event horizon.
 * Unfortunately, every clue the Doctor finds on his hunt leads him to a dead end; it is ultimately revealed that this is because Gallifrey does not exist in a physical form or specific location. Realizing his search has been in vain, the Doctor abandons all hope of returning his home planet to the universe until he learns that it has been alive inside him ever since he first entered his twelfth incarnation. This is because the Time Lords had hidden their entire civilization in the regenerative energy they bestowed upon the dying Eleventh Doctor on Trenzalore.
 * Regeneration is the only way the Doctor can fully and truly free Gallifrey and its people; he likes his present incarnation, however, and decides to search across time and space for an alternate means of accomplishing this task.

Moving forward, I'm thinking about the plot of Series 12. I want to bring the Answer to the Question into play and somehow link it to the Doctor's ability to restore Gallifrey to the universe. Now that he knows the planet and its people are inside him, the Doctor's next step is to prepare the universe for his planet's return. He also is trying to find a way to do so that does not require his regeneration. But why does this involve the Answer? Why is it necessary for the Doctor to reveal this? The stakes have to be very high this time around, and we CANNOT MAKE SOMETHING REDUNDANT TO SERIES 7. For a potential basic plot summary for Series 12, I have:
 * The Doctor must face his biggest fears when his final incarnation, the Valeyard, returns from the future to destroy everything he holds dear. The key to stopping the Valeyard lies in the Doctor's past, thus the Time Lord sets out on an epic quest to unlock his biggest secret. However, shadowy figures lurk in the darkness…The Valeyard is just the beginning…

What are your thoughts on this? I kinda like it. I know we need to finish Series 11 first before work on Series 12 can really begin, but I'd at least like to know as we dive into 11 where we'll be going with it. What we need to figure out as far as 12 goes is what exactly the Valeyard and the Answer have to do with Gallifrey... 