About the president in Dark Eyes:
At the end of Dark Eyes 1 the timelines are altered due to the Dalek time controller's orders to kill a certain time Lord.
So, we don't know if this male unnamed president is still there after the changes brought by the shifting timelines.

I read a summary of the series 8 finale and I wondered what this Episode was supposed to be.

If some writer wants to have a female master, that's ok.
But could someone of them at least have found a good explanations to how exactly the master got into the Primary universe since I thought that he was dragged into the falling Gallifrey with Rassilon in "The End of Time".
So it would have been nice to see how and when he got out and how he became a woman.
Moreover, if she came from Gallifrey, she should have known where it is so that the Doctor could have found it.
Ever since I saw the 50th anniversary Episode "the day of the Doctor", I hoped that if they were going to bring a happy ending to the time Lords, we would see the Doctor looking for them and maybe finding them.
In my opinion, this entire series 8 should have been the usual settling in to this new Regeneration and after all post Regeneration Problems were solved, it should have been the search for the time Lords...
And while we were talking about other classic elements, I wonder why no writer of new Who wanted to bring back the two Guardians...

I can tell you what I got from End of Time, Day and Time of the Doctor:
I am not sure if that is correct though.
Night of the Doctor:
the war has already started and the eighth Doctor doesn't want to fight until the Point where gets a "controlled" Regeneration into the War Doctor.
At some Point, the known Events happen, lost emperor, running master and such.
At some Point, Rassilon leads and wants to end the war his own way.
Then the War Doctor steals the Moment and wants to use it.
Up to the Transition between the tenth and eleventh Doctor, we and all other races in the universe think that Daleks and time Lords are totally destroyed and also erased from the past.
In Day of the Doctor, the War Doctor activates the Moment and it sends him into his personal future to see what would happen to him if he actually kills his People.
He mets his tenth and eleventh self and they depart after stopping another Alien Invasion of earth.
Now the tenth and eleventh Doctor go back to the last day which is supposedly impossible due to the war being time locked.
The Doctors alter history to prevent the destruction of Gallifrey and send it into a pocket universe.
But the later incarnations of the Doctor can't remember that.
When the tenth Doctor faces Rassilon on earth in "end of Time", he destroys the Bridge with a gun causing Gallifrey to fall back into the war where he thinks that it gets blown up.
But not only falls Rassilon, but the Master gets dragged with him...

In Time of the Doctor, a strange Signal is sent which strangely all races of the universe fear (since no one is supposed to know that the time Lords still exist).
So they attack the planet on which the Signal is located.
The Doctor Comes to the planet and he figures out that the Signal is the question "Doctor Who?".
The last crack (Explosion of the tardis in series five finale) is on that planet and through that the message Comes into the Primary universe.
The doctor fights off all enemies and gets old since he is apparently in his 13th incarnation, because the war doctor Counts and the creation of the other human tenth doctor also Counts as a (stopped and moved) Regeneration.
His companion contacts the time Lords and tells them that they don't Need him to answer them with his real Name and she asks them to help.
Then shortly before the Doctor dies, energy is sent through the crack which restores the Doctor and later Forces a new Regeneration.
But the crack was expended and no one knows where Gallifrey actually is...

Now, Missy had to come from somewhere.
My opinion is that she must have come from Gallifrey.
I can't believe that if she came from it, she couldn't lead the Doctor to ist new Position as seen in the series 8 finale.
But if she was deliberately misleading the Doctor, we would have to ask for what purpose.
But if she knew where the planet was supposed to be, then we would ask ourselves why it was not at this Position in time.
But I wonder how she got into the universe since all cracks were sealed up and the master was dragged into the time lock with Rassilon in End of Time.
At least that's what I thought happened there in this Scene...

If you want to look at the eighth Doctor, then you should look into the Eighth Doctor books.
In the books compared to the TV movie, he is not half human or something (I haven't actually seen the movie to comment on that).
But in the books you also have a sort of time war, but obviously not against the Daleks but against Faction Paradox.
At ist end Gallifrey is also destroyed and the Doctor's Tardis is damaged so that he is stranded in the 9th century on earth and has to actually stay on earth until he reaches the present time around the year 2000 or so.
Later (in the last eighth Doctor book) it is revealed that before Gallifrey was destroyed but that the Doctor downloaded a copy of the entire Matrix into his head which caused him to Forget other things and up to that last book he isn't actually the last time Lord.
Four or five others are still there and one of them breaks the blocks on the Doctor so that he can remember.
And since he has (in theory) Access to the data of the time Lords he can restore them.
Unfortunately the Eighth Doctor books end with a cliffhanger and another Invasion atempt of earth.
Moreover, Mr. Davis stated several times that his last time war was to be placed after the "second war in heaven" (Name for the faction paradox conflict).
This might have changed now since we saw "Night of the Doctor" which gave a Regeneration Scene for the eighth Doctor which did not exist inthe Davis era.
It did not exist in the books, because the range was conveniently ended with the Launch of the 2005 TV series and the Big Finish Audios at that time were no where near a Point of a Regeneration Scene for the Eighth Doctor.
I liked the Davis era, like you.
But after four seasons (at which Point it was not yet known that Math Smith would follow), I had hoped that with all the hints, there would have been explanations, since we saw Rassilon and the Master.
I had hoped that after the tenth Doctor's Regeneration the fate of Romana and Leela would have been explained, since some Companion Chronicles of Big Finish implied that she actually somehow escaped the time war.
And since it was never (on Screen) stated if Susan was a time Lord or not, the question of if the Doctor was the last of his Kind could have been adressed differently.
What is also interesting is that in "the Gallifrey Chronicles" it is supposedly stated that in the future of the (then eighth Doctor) there would be three "ninth" doctors possibly in the same "Primary" timeline and not only the possibility of three possible ninth doctors.
Some People in the Big Finish Forums think that the Shalka Doctor from "Scream of the Shalka" would be a (possibly the Primary) ninth doctor if there never was a time war...
Maybe the book referenced that when the three ninth doctors were mentioned...

Back to the president of Gallifrey:
In Dark Eyes 1 there is a male president, allthough with no Name.
He is there up to the Point where the Dalek Time Controller orders the Extermination of Straxus thereby preventing the creation of Kotris.
This erases Kotris from existence and causes the timelines to shift and alter.
Unfortunately, there is no president seen in Dark Eyes 2.
I also doubt that we will see one in Dark Eyes 3 which will come out this month.
I hope that Big finish will at least bring an origin Story for the Viyrans, since they apeared in several titles now.
I wonder, does anyone know if Big Finish did ever make an actual Regeneration Scene for any time Lord, or was it only mentioned that someone would Need to Regenerate or that someone was unable to do so?

Well Stewart has done his usual moan on Death in Heaven Find it here

He has some rather interesting things to say about the prominance of the villains and the fact that the emotions weren't there, however I disagree with him that  being emotionally and interlectually flat isn't a reason to hate the finale. If Doctor Who isn't engaging on an emotional, interlectual or stylistic level then it's not doing anything, which for a series about an alien who travels through all time and space really is death!

I also personally never was! in the Moffat camp, I thought things started slipping right from the  first Eleventh Doctor Episode onwards.

I haven't seen the Christmas Episode.
But what I read was not that good about it.
I mean, series 8 ended with many questions especially the Location of Gallifrey, since the Doctor didn't find it.
It is not explained in the next Episode why the planet was not found and whether the new master did deliberately tell a false Location or if she really thought she had the right Location.

Let's hope that the upcoming Audio stories will give more answers to other questions.
I still wonder how Gallifrey: Intervention Earth will be featuring the new Romana since we haven't seen or heard her regenerating and her future self from Gallifrey 6 is supposed to be a Matrix projection.

And then there is Dark Eyes 4 with the Master, the Eminence and the Dalek Time Controller.
I wonder how that will go down.
Allthough I seriously wonder how These Events are placed chronologically.
The Problem is that Dark Eyes 1 had a male president and Narvin in Dark Eyes 3 is there talking with the Doctor but you don't get any clues to whether he has already done what ended Gallifrey 6 and potentially caused the time war or not.
I also would like to know how the time Controller still exists if Events from Dark Eyes 1 were erased and his rescue by the now removed time Lord also never happened.

And while we are talking about Audio stories, does anyone know what Big Finish did with "Prisoners of Fate" and "the Doctor's first Tardis"?
Why was "The beginning" not linked to that storyline?

The chronology of the Events before the war seem a bit strange.
In Gallifrey 6 Romana II is still president of the Primary timeline.
The Trailer for Intervention Earth however suggests that she regenerated between the Gallifrey and Intervention Earth.

About Ace:
She is and was on Gallifrey after leaving the Doctor.
That is fact, since the Doctor said so in Unit Dominion.
And the newest Bernice Summerfield Story showed Ace with Bernice and the seventh Doctor after she already had been on Gallifrey for some time.
I wonder how Bernice actually fits into the Audio continuity if her travels with the seventh Doctor (starting with Love and War) actually never happened in the Audio universe since the Virgin books are supposed to be in their own continuity.

Regarding Dark Eyes and the timeline:
True that the president might have been erased during the time shift at the end of Dark Eyes 1.
But isn't it true that Gallifrey 6 suggests that Narvin ordered the Events of Genesis of the Daleks and that his Action immidiately started the war?
If so, how come that it is also suggested that the Dark Eyes series seem to be placed after Gallifrey 6 (with no Romana)?
And I also wonder if the Eighth Doctor actually knows that Narvin caused his trip to the creation of the Daleks in the past?

I also wonder how the Dalek time Controller can exist since he was supposed to fall into a singularity in the final Episode of season four of the Eighth Doctor series.
If he himself ordered the previous incarnation of the time Lord who would rescue him killed, he could never have been rescued.
And we know that the time Controller remembers the old timeline from Dark Eyes 1 and was still present in the rewritten timeline of Dark Eyes 2.

I've one major complaint about the christmas special, spoiler warning ahead...

Aaarrrgh, I thought we got rid of the bloody woman then yet again she's right back there as if nothing happened, bouncing in and out of the series like some kind of demented space hopper. I'm sorry but Clara just needs to piss off already at this point, she's had so many occasions where it looked like she was going to leave then nothing happens I'm just getting really irritated.

My initial impressions of Clara with Matt Smith were positive, though bear in mind she did follow Pond, and I found her strong in the first episode personally though this may just be my tastes but ever since then she's just really got on my nerves.

Well like He Who Moans said, at this point the sheer number of false exits makes it feel like Moffat is just trolling us. When Clara finally goes I think a lot of people will simply say "about bloody time" thus robbing any potential impact they could squeeze out of the event, I already feel like that now so imagine how bad it'll be after another series of her.

That's all assuming they don't end up in a death spiral leading to new Who getting canned which could happen if Moffat doesn't watch his step. The Who brand has a hell of a lot of good will but even that won't last forever.

What I did not get was why the current era especially series 7 of Doctor Who did Play with the question of who the Doctor actually is and never giving any answer to the Thing.
I mean if everyone in the universe feared the question "Doctor Who?", I would have liked to see the answer.

For the plot with the time war:
While some hints existed in Big Finish stories that Leela escaped and lived past the war, they were obviously not confirmed on Screen.
If you accept that the Doctors saved Gallifrey and put it into another universe, couldn't this make a Story about redemption?
Dark, if this was properly done, wouldn't it be so bad for you?
And what good was the pre eleventh Doctor era with names of things from the war?
How can you know if a being named "nightmare child" is worse than the evil of the Daleks if you have neither seen what it did in the war, nor has the Doctor, Rassilon or the master specifically told the Viewer what the war did to the universe.
On the other Hand, what is the Problem with the space battle in Day of the Doctor?
Didn't they say that all forbidden weapons were already used up?
And didn't the time Lords in End of Time state that they were at the very edge of the war  and the time lock?
And if the battle over Gallifrey went on for hours or days, both sides would have worn down their enemie's fleets and super weapons.
I still don't get why the BBC did not make war stories either in the main Show, as a spinoff movie or series or in form of more than the one book we have...

About Big Finish:
Since the BBC only has the main book series which is mostly a stand alone Story collection, I still don't get what the original Problem was.
AudioGo made audiobooks of existing printed neww series books.
And they made the New Series Audio exclusive stories.
But if my Information is correct, both are more readings than full cast Audio Dramas...
This brings up the question why Big Finish simply can't buy the rights to new Who as Audio, or why the BBC seems to be unwilling to sell the license for it.
Especially since AudioGo is supposed to be now longer in Business I don't get what the Problem is.
On the other Hand, the BBC Eighth Doctor books and the Big Finish early eighth Doctor stories were also running around the same time and it was ok, since Big Finish made their own storyline totally separated from the books.

About Charley pollard:
While her travels with the eighth and later the sixth Doctor were nice, I still have some questions about this.
I recall the Eighth Doctor thought that Charley died.
But he later figured out that the woman he thought to be an old Charley was not her and that she still would exist somewhere.
This brings up why he never found out what happened.
Moreover the Doctor had often Problems with other People in his mind.
I wonder why his Memory of the true Story of Mila and Charley got restored to him (Eighth Doctor!).
And then there is the question of who or what the Viyrans are and why supposedly no one knows their origin.
And since the Dalek time Controller wanted and got more than one Virus, the Story should be told with the Doctor in it.

Well the list of unanswered questions that the Moff started and never delivered on is endless, indeed when did he ever answer! one of the questions he posed in the least satisfying way? I agree with He who moans on this one, it's like a mystery story saying "And the hero finally cracks the mysterious safe to find a box marked with the letter V and a question mark! and finally opens the box  inside that is a paper with a herren and a scarf" it's just bad writing pure and simple which is why we didn't get an answer.

Weerdly enough, pretending that there are only ten doctors is remarkably easy given how little eleventh and twelth doctors have to do with the previous series beyond the od throwaway line, (the moff treated those stupid cracks in time as his own time war, shoving all the previous plot up there and ignoring it himself).

If of course series 9 proves to be amazing, or the Moff suddenly dies and is replaced by someone good, I might have to change my opinion but it doesn't look like that is going to happen any time soon, (sinse even if the Moff is! replaced whether the replacement can salvage the series rassilon only knows).

Regarding the time war, to be honest this is why i always preferd the idea of the time war as something unknowable that screws around with reality warping timelines, sinse Cx2 is correct on Dalek infrastructure, simply blowing up a bloody huge fleet wouldn't stop the daleks, and it's ridiculous to assume that all the timelords happened to be on Galifrey. At least for the Daleks this is supported in Bf audios like the Dalek empire series when you see the daleks have literally their own galaxy to wage war from. If however we conceive of the war as something huge and timey wimey, then you don't need to worry about those sorts of questions, after all look at all the distorted and cutoff timelines in the axis.

I also like the idea from a thematic perspective that the Time war remains a mysterious evil and something beyond knolidge, sinse indeed something that could scare the master into fleeing to the end of the univers and involve weapons like the Nightmare child that were worse than the daleks must! be bad. Nothing you could see on screen could equal what you can imagine for that, it's the same reason Sauron isn't ever seen in Lord of the rings, sinse mystery increases fear, particularly when your dealing with a war that goes beyond time and reality.

As to Leela, I wonder if we'll see her parting from Romana and leaving galifrey at the end of the galifrey series, sinse we know she winds up a captive of the Zednai. I could well believe that Romana set this up rather than having Leela involved in a war she could not win, indeed it's possible romana flees galifrey as well. this is actually where I thought the galifrey series would end when Romana, Leela and Braxiatel ended up in the axis traversing realities, sinse it got them out of the main timtimeline. that was not the case of course but maybe it's a hint on where things are going.
Regarding the  license, remember that  audio go was bbc's publishing line, and all of the new series doctor who audio books (which are actually just audio readings of printed books and often abridged), are publishe by the bbc. The bbc isn't going to split the pie any time soon while they can make money off Doctor who, after all remember that at the time the 8th doctor novels were being published and Big Finish got the rights to the series, the Bbc didn't particularly give a monkies about what happened to Doctor who anyway.

With the 8th Doctor and charley, the setup is confusing but it makes sense, I recently heard the audios.

When they get to Singapore, the Doctor initially believes that the old lady he meets on the boat in the harbour is an older charley, however she turns out to be the girl who stowed away on the ship back in 1940 who got amnesia from the Cyber controller, and thus has nothing to do with Charley other than her thinking her name is Charlotte pollard, which she did sinse she met Charley in 1940.

Charley believes she sees the Cybermen shoot down the Doctor, but as his travels with Lucy Miller (and later Molly O'sullivan), happen after this we know he doesn't die. Charley however is stranded in the far future and is picked up by the sixth Doctor. Charley is then infected with a virus that the Tardis temporal grace didn't protect her from which allows Mila to take over Charley's boddy when they land on Amethist station. Mila was a prisoner who the Daleks experimented on, testing various viruses and energies who fled to the tardis during the time of the doctor's first encarnation but due to what the Daleks had done remained insubstantial until she could infect another person with the virus and steal their body. The Tardis didn't protect Charley because Charley was an anomaly in time.
Mila then travels with the 6th Doctor disguised as Charley while Charley leaves with the Viyrans. When they meet again on earth, Charley uses the Viyran mind wipe technology (and the Doctor's concent), to alter the Doctor's memories, both removing the explanation she gave the Doctor about meeting his 8th encarnation, and changing the appearence of the girl the Doctor met in the future to Mila's original one. I'd thus guess myself that after the 8th Doctor twigs that Charley has left him in the far future, he remembers who Mila was (or at least has an idea), and doesn't attempt to find Charley again sinse he knows it would mess up his sixth self's travels with her. I will confess this wasn't my favourite resolution to the paradox of Charley, sinse amnesia always feels a bit cheap as a plot device sinse it's a little too convenient to sweep everything under the rug, though at least it's very well established that a major part of how the Viyrans operate is removing all memory of themselves from anyone they encounter. Still, it's well played on all sides, and it does lead to the Charlotte pollard series, and season 1 of that was mostly pretty good, so I'm willing to let it pass, hay it's comparatively tame in terms of the moffat's instant "oooh look, this person is really someone else's grandfather's past self and the world was destroyed, although it wasn't" type of shenanigans, sinse hay at least it does have affects on what's going on especially with the Viyrans an the Doctor and also the Daleks plague orientated plans, plus it is played out over about 14 hours of story, not all crammed into a slap dash 45 minutes.

it is conceivable the 8th Doctor might run into a future version of charley after! she finished her travels with the sixth doctor, though we'll have to see.

With the Viyrans, sinse they're now the main enemies of the Charlotte Pollard series, I think we'll get more information about who and what exactly they are and who set them on their mission to wipe out viruses there.
I'd too like to see the Dalek time controller back, but we'll just have to wait on that one as well.

Yep, Moffat really did! stuff all Russel T davies plot up those cracks in time, that is actually not a joke, one reason why we don't get mentionnns of torchwood, the destruction of parliamentt, earth invaded by Daleks etc, heck even the master's previous appearence was only a throwaway line of dialogue with no consquence (not really the way to talk about a timeline that potentially destroyed most of humanity).

I actually find it ironic that Moffat at the moment is treating classic who as this set of sound  bights, that writing "I chesterton" on screen, or  having a metabelis christal will keep the fans happy, and yet he seems to be doing just the same with the Russel T davies era as well, having no consequences beyond the odd line of dialogue. indeed, the only species from Russel Who I can think of that Davies actually used (other than the Daleks and cybermen which are a central part of who anyway), were things from episodes he himself wrote, ie, the weeping angels and the clockwork robots from girl in the fireplace. Even the Ood only showed up in an episode by Niel Gayman.

Regarding the time war, the impression i always got from the Doctor's hints about the fall of arcadia and the nightmare child was that it was that it started with conventional battles, but then things escalated beyond the levels of reality, indeed the tenth doctor confirms this in End of time, talking of people going back in time to rewrite the consequences of battles then rewrite the rewrites, then rewrite the capability to go back etc, etc. 

The Moment I always personally imagined (and still imagine in my moffatless verse), was something amazingly destructive that hada transtemporal effect, rather like a bigger, badder and infinitely more destructive version of the Dalek time destructor seen in the Daleks master plan, a weapon that could accellerate time across an entire planet and cause it to become a wasteland devoid of life, like aging people to death in seconds.

I always imagined the moment was something like that, but on a much larger scale, heck perhaps it was the moment that caused the timelock on the war, giving erevocable consequences, not just a big planet bomb that mmm, caused the daleks to destroy each other with friendly fire, silly, silly moffat! .

Well with respect to  Romana and the novels, I suspect this is why Bf have started doing dramatizations of the novels, to bring those important elements into the continuity and so get a clear idea of most events, for example we already have the special telling how the 7th Doctor meets Bernice summerfield.

As to the moment, this is why it has to be something a little more major than just making gallifrey vanish. We already know the time war changed many elements in the over all timeline, and given what Zagreus says about Rassilon using the eye of harmony to anchor the web of time so that the timelords were the dominant species, even just the destruction of the eye would have a major effect. I actually wonder if the purpose of the moment was to make the mutual destruction  of the Daleks and Timelords a fixed point in time. AFter all, The Doctor does confirm in end of time that he was just as much out to stop the timelords at that point. If the Timelord's destruction was fixed, then logically neither the Doctor nor any previous timelords could've gone back and changed their own past without falling foul of the blinovich limitation affect.

With respect to The Doctor saying he was the last of the timelords, well he believed! himself to be the last but was already proved wrong by The MAster, ditto when the 9th Doctor said the lone Dalek he met in Vanstatten's vault was the last Dalek.

I do wonder, given that the master escaped The Moment's affects by making himself human if the Moment did indee do something racially weerd to the Timelords on a genetic or species wide level, indeed that would seem sort of fitting thematically with Genesis of the Daleks, trial of a timelord and all the other occasions that The Doctor has been accused of Genocide, that he must eventually wipe out the entire Dalek race plus the Timelords as well. 

I actually think The Doctor meeting another colony of survived Timelords would've been a much better series 5 plot over all, sinse the question of what status they had now they were no longer a galactic power, whether they still sought to unmake the universe and what relation the Doctor had to them could've been really quite interesting.

Regarding  higher powers, Russel T Davies confirmed that The Eternals left the Universe by their own means and returned to Eternity before the war started to avoid it's fallout. While it is conceivable that the guardians might have stopped things, at the same time the Guardians really only have power to affect what each other does, particularly sinse the Guardians as seen in The Chaos pool trilogy are portrayed much less emphatically as "good and evil" but rather "order and chaos" and what relationship the time war might have to that I'm not sure.

I do agree with he Who Moans though, much as I enjoyed various aspects of Russel's who The Doctor as space jesus and the Time lords as this surrigate order of Gods wasn't one of them, and that is something which just got a hell of a lot worse under Moffat, hell under Moffat the Doctor rarely solves problems at all Just shouts at them and says "I am the Doctor" until they go away :d.