10 Doctor Who Fan Theories That Became Fact

The twisty-turny nature of Steven Moffat's series arcs inspired a feverish level of fan debate and speculation that was at one of its peaks during the timey-wimey, universe-destroying shenanigans of Series 5.

The episode Flesh and Stone contained a seemingly out-of-place scene where the Eleventh Doctor has a conversation with Amy while sporting his signature tweed jacket, despite having lost said jacket to the notorious tweed lovers the Weeping Angels a few minutes before.

Because the shot seemed to be trying to hide the fact that Smith was wearing a jacket (by using an extreme close-up with his clothing barely visible), some believed that the Doctor Who team had simply made a mistake, and that this was nothing more than a continuity error. 

Others – high on the many clues and hints already dropped throughout the series, from cracks in time to something about silence falling – instead were adamant that this was a piece of Moffat’s puzzle, and that perhaps this jacket-wearing Doctor was from a different point in time. This was an extremely popular theory at the time, and even though it seems obvious in hindsight, it did have a crackpot whiff about it!

Those true believers were of course proven correct at the very end of the series, when a future jacket-wearing Doctor travelled back along his own timeline and ended up in a forest in a bottle on a spaceship in a maze, where he implored Amy to remember what he told her when she was a child, knowing that this would help bring him back to the universe.