Originally Posted By: Nowhereman
You honestly thought he was a future doctor?
I have to say that right from the moment they met, I knew he was a fake of some sort!
I thought the writing on this episode showed that up straight away.
There was very little said or done that would indicate he was genuine, in my opinion!

I thought that for him not to be a Doctor would've been such a cop-out that I didn't think Davies would be that big of an asshole. So as I watched it I believed that there was a traumatic regeneration because that was the only non-idiotic way to go. That would've been a good story and there is precedent with the Valeyard to have a possible future Doctor appear. The way they handled it was just tacky.

Bow ties are coool.