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Originally Posted by adzii_nufc
Paul McGann > John Hurt > Christopher Eccleston
John Hurt is an incarnation but not The Doctor so to speak, he killed the timelords which is probably what broke his promise to the name of 'The Doctor' a huge thing that doesn't just go away. He regenerated into Eccleston
and I assume the memories were erased or he was kept secret (The Doctor's secret)
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Stolen a copy of the 50th anniversary script, have you?
Exactly where Hurt fits in, we don't know. What we can infer from what was broadcast is that he is a past regeneration of the Time Lord who we watch on TV from week to week, but he is a regeneration that The Doctor refuses to acknowledge, because of something he did that he finds abhorrent.
Where he fits in, we do not know. He may have ended the Time War. He may have done something that prompted the Doctor to flee Gallifrey. He may be The Other, or a variation on that character, who was intended to be introduced in the late 80s before the show was cancelled.
Interestingly, however, if he is an incarnation of the Time Lord we call the Dcotor, that individual no longer has two regenerations left, but one. Probably.