B058 The Night of the Doctor

So I just have a couple of things to add.
1) During the discussion of whether this would have been Eccelston instead of John Hurt, Marie says that in “Rose” we never got to see the regeneration, so Eccleston could have been the Doctor for a long time before that episode, and so would have been the War Doctor if Moffat had got his way. I disagree; at 11:50 into the episode, The Doctor is in Rose’s kitchen while she’s on the phone in the living room, and he’s going through things quickly at random (even reading a novel in a second flat), like he’s still high on regeneration energy, and he looks into the mirror and appraises his (new) face, and says “Hmm, could have been worse. And look at the ears!” He had only met Rose the night before, and was on the track of the Nestene amplifier on the roof of her building. But this implies this episode comes very shortly after he has regenerated. So either the Time War was an afterthought, McGann was supposed to have fought the Time War, or there was always going to be a War Doctor.
2) Between when the classic Doctor Who series was cancelled in 1989 and it was brought back in 2005, there were a couple of series of Novels published by Virgin books; the first were The New Adventures which follow the Seventh Doctor and Ace where the TV series leaves off. These were supplemented (starting in 1994) by the Missing Adventures, featuring Doctors One through Six, and their respective companions. After the TV movie with Paul McGann, they ended, but a new series of books, by the BBC itself, was started. In the first of these novels (“The Eight Doctors”, by Terrence Dicks), the Eighth Doctor falls prey to a trap left by the Master in his TARDIS, and loses his memory. The Tardis then sends his to locations where his previous incarnations are, so that he can mentally rapport with them (as he did in “The Three Doctors”) and get parts of his memories back, one incarnation at a time.
In this book, while the Third Doctor is chasing down The Master after the events of “The Sea Devils”, the Eighth Doctor has landed at UNIT HQ, in the Doctor’s lab, and the Brigadier comes in. The Doctor knows BAGLS, but BAGLS isn’t quite sure who the Doctor is. The Doctor doesn’t know who Jo Grant is, and a couple other things, and the Brig says “But if you’re the Doctor…”
To which the Doctor says, ” Let’s just say I’m a Doctor. Clearly, I’m not the one you were expecting.” Which is almost exactly what the line of dialog in the mini episode is.
Over the course of New Who, I have seen many occasions where lines of dialog, planets, monsters, and ideas were harvested from these novels which all were written during the hiatus between classic and new Who. This is jus one example.