What happens when all the regenerations are up? Just a thought.
What happens when all the regenerations are up?
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He will die.
I think something will happen that will allow the Doctor to keep regenerating and he will have to live with the idea that the next time he might not regenerate. If not he could become like Captain Jack/Face of Boe and live forever.
Or the powers that be could be really bold and let him actually die and maybe have Jenny (Doctor's Daughter) or someone else take over the title of The Doctor.
Or the powers that be could be really bold and let him actually die and maybe have Jenny (Doctor's Daughter) or someone else take over the title of The Doctor.
That's be a interesting approach. Making the Doctor legacy type hero, and still keeping the mystery as we'll be given the idea of "how many "Doctors" have there been through out history.
Most likely this. They'll cook up some big deal about it, or they'll explain it away as the regeneration cap isn't in play anymore.
Nah, I figure that'll be alt-Doctor that's on Peter's world. Something will jump start his timelord DNA and he'll start regenerating and come back even more pissed off due to have to live after Rose is dead.
The way I would handle it is to have him regenerate past the cap, and then we could have a storyline investigating why the Doctor's limit didn't kick in. It could even make for a truly epic event if we had the Doctor regenerating a dozen or more times in the course of the storyline (with all sorts of actors making cameos as the Doctor). Then when it's done, we have the new status quo with a new regeneration limit.
at that stage will he even be recongiseable as the Doctor? I mean in how he acts not his looks
Well we know the Time Lords can give another full cycle of regenerations, as they offered the Master in The five Doctors.....now all the makers of Dr who need to do is get them back and were off.
The whole regeneration thing is a bit muddled(And it was originally called renewal for the first three Doctors).
Romana seemed to use them up at will in Destiny Of the Daleks just for vanity, The Master has already circumvented the 13th regenerations limit, and Troughtons Dr was forced to regenerate(Renew) by the Time Lords even though his life was not in danger of ending.
Yeah the old regeneration limit thing is a bit muddled, but you got to love it.
The whole regeneration thing is a bit muddled(And it was originally called renewal for the first three Doctors).
Romana seemed to use them up at will in Destiny Of the Daleks just for vanity, The Master has already circumvented the 13th regenerations limit, and Troughtons Dr was forced to regenerate(Renew) by the Time Lords even though his life was not in danger of ending.
Yeah the old regeneration limit thing is a bit muddled, but you got to love it.
Whatever happens, it won't be this:
"Dammit! We've reached the regeneration limit! Whatever will we do?"
"Hmmm....looks like this is the end for our flagship show that's a hit all over the world and a fecking huge money spinner to boot...."
"Yeah....let's just not make any more. Wouldn't want to piss off the purists...."
"Dammit! We've reached the regeneration limit! Whatever will we do?"
"Hmmm....looks like this is the end for our flagship show that's a hit all over the world and a fecking huge money spinner to boot...."
"Yeah....let's just not make any more. Wouldn't want to piss off the purists...."
The rules of this show are made, and routinely broken, by writers. When his "last" incarnation comes to regenerate, they will write their way out of this particular "rule".
Whether or not they make a hoo-haout of it, dismiss it with little more than a passing line of dialogue, or simply not mention it at all - it won't be a big deal.
Whether or not they make a hoo-haout of it, dismiss it with little more than a passing line of dialogue, or simply not mention it at all - it won't be a big deal.
as long as they explain it, or spend the next season explaining it (in Lost fashion) then it should be okWhatever happens, it won't be this:
"Dammit! We've reached the regeneration limit! Whatever will we do?"
"Hmmm....looks like this is the end for our flagship show that's a hit all over the world and a fecking huge money spinner to boot...."
"Yeah....let's just not make any more. Wouldn't want to piss off the purists...."
Ugggggggh. I hope they don't dwell on it too much.
Should be "Hmm, that's not supposed to happen" and just move on.
Depends on how obessed he [Dr2] is with his origin. I can see him either going really pissed off and resentful that he got dumped on some backwater world, or going with trying to crave out an identity for himself and for various reasons feeling like he's stuck in the shadow of the original.
I can also see a means of using Dr. 2 as a means to get past the cap: Big event, get tenant back for a one-shot, Dr. 2 breaks through the barrier, mandatory big classic alien threat, the last Dr. 1 regeneration dies saving both universes and 2 gives up his life(s) in order to "reboot" his dying self.
Of course, there are some people who would argue that the Fourth Doctor was actually the Thirteenth Doctor (and that the Morbius Doctors are indeed pre-Hartnell Doctors), which is why the Watcher was needed to regenerate him, and that therefore the question was already answered.
And then there are those who think that the Fifth Doctor's wonder about not regenerating was due not to the poison, but because he was the the Thirteenth Doctor, and again, the question is answered.
I agree with neither of those points of view, but I wanted to include them for the sake of completion. And argument.
And then there are those who think that the Fifth Doctor's wonder about not regenerating was due not to the poison, but because he was the the Thirteenth Doctor, and again, the question is answered.
I agree with neither of those points of view, but I wanted to include them for the sake of completion. And argument.
Yearrragh, I remember those debates. Problem is, given the basic premise of the who-verse, it could work, but it'd take a lot of retconning in spots.Of course, there are some people who would argue that the Fourth Doctor was actually the Thirteenth Doctor (and that the Morbius Doctors are indeed pre-Hartnell Doctors), which is why the Watcher was needed to regenerate him, and that therefore the question was already answered.
And then there are those who think that the Fifth Doctor's wonder about not regenerating was due not to the poison, but because he was the the Thirteenth Doctor, and again, the question is answered.
I agree with neither of those points of view, but I wanted to include them for the sake of completion. And argument.
