Doctor Who: 10 Huge Plot Holes The Writers Hoped We Forgot

4. Why Does Eleven Pretend He's Not The Last Incarnation?

After 'The Time of the Doctor', we learned that Matt Smith was the final incarnation of the Doctor: it was a bit of a plot twist to spring on us though, because watching any of Eleven's adventures, up to meeting the War Doctor, you'd honestly have no idea. On the beach in Utah, the Doctor began to regenerate. Come 'The Angels Take Manhattan', he used regeneration energy to fix River's wrist, despite not actually having any more to use for himself, it would seem. In 'Let's Kill Hitler', he was prepared to regenerate after River killed him, and in 'Nightmare In Silver', he threatened to do it to get Mr Clever out of his head. Sorry, but does the Doctor actually know that he's on his last incarnation, or did it take John Hurt to remind him? Moffat claims he doesn't keep count of his bodies, but that's just scatterbrained of him, especially given all the references to Eleven we've heard these past few years. It's just as well he remembered which one he was in time, otherwise he'd have died in 'The Time of the Doctor' with no help from the Time Lords.