Doctor Who Question

[shadowkat]

Should make dinner but not sure what I want. Scrolled through flist and...
Regarding Doctor Who, what the heck is Valeyard? Or Vanyard? It's referred to in more than one post - as what they might be doing next year and who John Hurt might be, and I'm confused.

Comments

[londonkds.livejournal.com]

The Valeyard is a distillation of all the evil committed during the Doctor's lifetime that will be split off at some point during his regeneration from 12th to 13th. In the "Trial of a Time Lord" story he travelled back in time to the Sixth Doctor's era, when he was put on trial by the Time Lords for corrupt political reasons to complicated to explain, and got himself appointed the prosecuting council as part of a not-very-clear plan to take over all the Doctor's future versions and turn them into evil versions of him.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

So...Dr. Simian was the Valeyard?

[londonkds.livejournal.com]

No, Dr. Simeon was the Great Intelligence from the last Christmas episode, although there was a bit of similarity in plot. The speculation by some fans is that John Hurt's character is the Valeyard.