Moffat Teases the Hybrid

Steven Moffat has hinted that we might see the reason why the Doctor left Gallifrey, and it may be to do with the “hybrid creature,” as mentioned by Davros in The Witch’s Familiar.

Speaking in the new issue of DWM (#492) he says: “We know the Doctor has done unmentioned – and unmentionable – things during the Time War. Even now that his biggest crime has been reversed. John Hurt seemed very young in The Night of the Doctor, but very old by The Day of the Doctor. What happened during those years? He clearly did a lot of bad things during the Time War. He was the most terrifying warrior. And that’s the thing we play with this year. What did he get up to in the years we didn’t see him?

He adds: “Now, having spent a lot of time writing the show, I think the character of the Doctor is actually quite well delineated. I get him. I get that he’s aspiring to be a thing called ‘the Doctor’, but he isn’t really. I get that he’s at some level an exceptional but nevertheless quite ordinary person, trying to live up to an impossible ideal. I think that’s all there. And so you have to wonder what fired him off Gallifrey in the first place…”

Asked specifically if it ties to the Hybrid, Moffat teases: “You’ll just have to keep watching, won’t you.”