My take is the same as John's: Moffat's pulling our leg, and the Doctor is actually saying "The hybrid is Me". And I suspect Moffat's going to pull a Prophecy Wording Twist, and it will turn out that the Time Lords spent all this time worried for nothing, that the prophecy about the hybrid walking through the ruins of Gallifrey doesn't mean she's going to bring about Gallifrey's ruin, only that when Gallifrey finally falls into ruin Me will still be there.
This of course raises the question of how Me got to Gallifrey in the first place. (Which would have to be answered anyway, since she's in the Next Time preview.) This episode implies an answer, though I'm not sure if it's going to be the true answer or just Moffat pulling our other leg:
The other side of the "I really wasn't travelling in time" reveal is that the Doctor is presumably equally correct about his other estimate, that the teleporter hadn't moved him more than a light year from London. Which might just be because he was teleported into the confession dial, and then the confession dial was carried to Gallifrey by other means, but then he'd presumably have something more to say about the position of the stars. The other possibility - implied by the Doctor's line to the boy about having come the long way - is that the confession dial was just sitting on Earth the whole time, as Earth gradually became Gallifrey around it...
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Date: 2015-11-29 01:32 pm (UTC)This of course raises the question of how Me got to Gallifrey in the first place. (Which would have to be answered anyway, since she's in the Next Time preview.) This episode implies an answer, though I'm not sure if it's going to be the true answer or just Moffat pulling our other leg:
The other side of the "I really wasn't travelling in time" reveal is that the Doctor is presumably equally correct about his other estimate, that the teleporter hadn't moved him more than a light year from London. Which might just be because he was teleported into the confession dial, and then the confession dial was carried to Gallifrey by other means, but then he'd presumably have something more to say about the position of the stars. The other possibility - implied by the Doctor's line to the boy about having come the long way - is that the confession dial was just sitting on Earth the whole time, as Earth gradually became Gallifrey around it...