Thread:Turtle365/@comment-15395126-20151206015105/@comment-15395126-20151206215823

I agree that Gallifrey's return was not explained well in Hell Bent. Moffat chose to be lazy with his writing, simply to maintain the pacing of the episode...

Are we honestly expected to be content as fans with "It somehow unfroze itself and has been hiding at the end of the universe?" Rubbish, I say! There's got to be more to it than that!

What I don't understand is how the Doctor wound up on Gallifrey in the first place. In Heaven Sent, he notes that the stars have not moved since he first arrived in the confession dial. It was therefore reasonable to believe he was still on Earth, the last place he was before being trapped in it… I already stated above that I feel the Doctor was able to conquer Gallifrey and banish the High Council too easily. I therefore spent the entirety of Hell Bent trying to find a way to say the events of the episode never really happened…I've got nothing, though.

The events that transpire in Hell Bent with Clara and then Ashildr pretty much confirm Gallifrey has actually returned and is now at the end of the universe; the Doctor remembers his journey with Clara without actually remembering her, thus he knows now where his planet is. That removes the point of making a series about him searching for it…

Series 11 was also to reveal that Gallifrey is hidden inside the Doctor; I was trying to see if I could make the events of Hell Bent work with that idea, but I haven't had any luck so far…

It honestly looks like the best course of action at this point would be one of the following:
 * Make Series 11 about the return of the Valeyard.
 * Drop Series 11 and its sequel projects to focus entirely on spin-offs

My frustration with Doctor Who right now has made me think about what I hope to accomplish as a writer…I originally set out to develop "canon fanon," or fanon focused on canon characters, thus the events about which I wrote would be "canon." This vision then distorted over time and became fanon that could be canon. Remembering what my original vision was as a fan-fiction writer makes me wonder whether or not the Thirteenth Doctor should be erased entirely and we simply develop new stories for Doctors and characters that already exist… On the subject of spin-offs, I'm considering developing the hinted-at/suggested/teased-but-not-really-happening Missy spin-off and/or the Clara and Me spin-off…As far as titles for these spin-offs go, I was thinking the Clara/Me one could be called one of the following:
 * Come Dine with Me
 * Clara Who and Me or Clara and Me

Thoughts? Focusing on spin-offs means we do not have to battle the canon of the actual Doctor Who show any longer. Making new stories for previous Doctors/characters also means this, but I feel like this is already being done too much on this Wiki and in the real world by the BBC (through Big Finish and comics and such). At the same time, I'll want to write Doctor Who as I watch Doctor Who (the show is so gosh-darn inspiring!), so I really don't know if we should find a way to make Series 11 as we originally planned it work, or bump Series 12's plot up to Series 11's...