Yes, I'm that pedantic

[flicky1991]

If the whole history of Gallifrey has been destroyed (see Doctor Who Annual 2006, page 21; which, incidentally, mentions

the face of Boe's last words

), then how is the Doctor still alive? He couldn't have been born!

 

Okay, the text isn't that specific, but it's a reasonable interpretation.

[USWhoFan]

Unless he was out of the normal stream of time when the destruction took place.

??? So he wasn't affected, maybe. ???

[Fenriswolf]

Welcome to the giddy heights of TV-show continuity editing and design. They'll be some deus-ex-machina that prevented the Doctor from being wiped out in the Time War.

 

Rather like the Army of Ghosts and Doomsday device, aka Voidship.

[Tenebrae]

Yes, it's the Doctor remember. Although, we don't really know enough about the time war to know how or why the Daleks and Time Lords were erased from history... so really, there could be any number of explanations for how he managed to survive.

[maybrick]

Remember: He's the Doctor. He's a genius. No. More than that, he's a SUPER-genius. His alien timelord mind can grasp concepts we mortals could never understand even in the year 5 billion/apple/blahdeblah. If there's a way, then he'd be able to do it. And really, why try to explain how he did it? It would only make our heads explode.

[dBLOOD]

The planet was destroyed probably in the war (not like vanished in a second, rather destroyed "slowly", because the war was going on the planet too), and the Doctor was probably fighthing somewhere else. And if I remember correctly, the doctor mentions, that he destroyed the Daleks, and the Time Lords with it.

Maybe the Time Lords found a way to lure the Daleks to the planet, than the Doctor had to activate the "Time Vortexual Hyper Dalek Destroyer Mechanism (or whatever :D), with all the Time Lords on the planet (except him). Maybe someone was needed from outside of the effective range to activate the Ultimate Time Weapon.