No because there was a whole speech about how the war had changed Gallifrey and the time lords.
It was quite explicit.
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Quote: Steve Sunshine @ 24th November 2013, 12:31 AM GMTWatching the Culture show now
Cheers Dolphin face.
Dolphins are cool
*does double back somersault, spy-hops and claps flippers*
Quote: Steve Sunshine @ 24th November 2013, 12:14 PM GMTDon't start your Timelord football chants with me
It was Gallifrey from before the Time War.
They used a Crystal to get through the Timelock & send a message into the future
Well the events happened about 400 years earlier and even then being outside of time whatever they sent would have had to travel into the future, past, both
Still with a wall between them. 
Quote: Nil Putters @ 24th November 2013, 12:55 AM GMT
Was this blink and you missed it? I must have blinked, damn, but recorded the show so yay.
Really enjoyed this, having three doctors sharing the screen was almost too much to bear! John Hurt was the ultimate though and gave the whole thing a huge boost. Highlight for me was the Tom Baker cameo at the end, seeing him walk off into the light brought a tear to my eye.
Quote: zooo @ 24th November 2013, 12:38 PM GMTStill with a wall between them.
Maybe that would have been moving if RTD hadn't undone the heartbreaking ending to that storyline with that nauseating duplicate happy ending.
While I enjoyed it, it hasn't really lingered in my mind. For a fiftieth special it seemed a bit throwaway. The moment we first heard Tom Baker's voice at the end was almost the most memorable thing about it all.
Quote: Harridan @ 24th November 2013, 12:42 PM GMTMaybe that would have been moving if RTD hadn't undone the heartbreaking ending to that storyline with that nauseating duplicate happy ending.
She only got a copy of the Doctor, not the proper one.
Quote: zooo @ 24th November 2013, 12:51 PM GMTShe only got a copy of the Doctor, not the proper one.
Which made it all the cheaper.
No, which kept it tragic.
Quote: chipolata @ 24th November 2013, 12:47 PM GMTWhile I enjoyed it, it hasn't really lingered in my mind. For a fiftieth special it seemed a bit throwaway. The moment we first heard Tom Baker's voice at the end was almost the most memorable thing about it all.
I think they could have made much better use of the other doctors. Even in flashback form, would have been nice to properly reference stuff pre-Tennant.
Quote: zooo @ 24th November 2013, 1:00 PM GMTNo, which kept it tragic.
Did you really find that tragic? I thought it completely spoiled the previous ending. If you trap someone in a parallel universe alone forever and ever you really undermine it by bringing them back and giving them a boyfriend to take home.
Quote: Harridan @ 24th November 2013, 1:04 PM GMTI think they could have made much better use of the other doctors. Even in flashback form, would have been nice to properly reference stuff pre-Tennant.
But then we would not have needed Peter Davison's Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, which was a Whovian gem.
I think we all would have liked to see more of the old doctors but would probably have been a bit of a nightmare trying to weave them all in.
Quote: Kevin Murphy @ 24th November 2013, 10:02 AM GMTCan you imagine if that had been our first glimpse of the next Doctor?
That would have been incredible.
Moffat really threw away a sure-fire shit-your-pants fangasm moment when he agreed to allow that silly "Meet The New Who" thing with Zoe Ball.
1) What happened at Trenzalore? This ep seems to follow it chronologically, but didn't the last episode end on a cliffhanger with Clara walking into and getting lost in some kind of time maelstrom? How did she get out of that? Wasn't Trenzalore meant to be a kind of big deal? Why was it?
This.