Matt Smith Regenerating in Next Series

[Count Zero]

I'm pretty sure they won't just stop making more of the show because they've reached the regeneration limit (which was a later invention, anyway - I'll stick with the Second Doctor who said that, barring accidents, Time Lords can live forever).

I think it would be way too early for Eleven to regenerate, he should have more than two series.

 

[Pseudo]

yes lets not go wasting regenerations, the 8th & 9th regernations were both wasted, heck you could argue Ten blow a regeneration, and Matt is actually the 12th Doctor.

Why not there's 507 regenerations, if they keep up the current average of 4.7 years per regeneration that'll take us in to the 44th century. I think they can afford to waste one or two regenerations.

the 507 regneration is far from being an accpet fact about the Doctor, we had a thread on it recently in this very forum.

I'm pretty sure that this forum's acceptance of the 507 regenerations probably won't be part of the reasoning the production team will be using when deciding whether they accept the it.

 

[OmahaStar]

Who the fuck is Romana?

Seriously?

 

[Bacl]

No. AND I want Amy AND Rory to stay companions with Matt Smith for a long, long time.

Regenerations do come, but let us not have one every three years, thnx.

 

[scnj]

Does anyone else want the 11th Doctor to regenerate in the next series. If they do I hope they replace him with a more serious Doctor like Eccleston. I don't hate Matt but I think he was copying Tennant to much.

Are you kidding me?

 

[Whofan]

Romana was a companion of the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker). In her first incarnation she was played by Mary Tamm (Otherwise best known as Jon Voight's girlfriend in The Odessa file), and took part in the "Key To Time" saga. The next season, she regenerated into Lalla Ward (Choosing several bodies beforehand as alternatives) who had been in a previous story as a princess.

Romana (Along with the 2nd K-9) left the show in "Warrior's Gate" to help the people in another universe. Some of the novels and audios have her returning to 'our' universe and becoming Lady president of the time lords.


It's presumed that she was killed in the time war wherever she was.


Lalla Ward and Tom Baker were actually married for a very short time....

 

[Candlelight]

I don't like Matt Smith as the Doctor but even I don't want to see another regeneration just yet.

 

[Whofan]

Oh yeah, I forgot to add that Romana is also a time lord (Or Time lady rather)


There have been some rumors that Matt will be leaving at the end of the seventh season (or around Christmas this year) and that the reason they split the season in two is so he could fill out the three season contract.

 

[Dukhat]

I loved Eccleston. He had just the right sense of mysteriousness and idiosynchrasy for the part. Once he left and Tennant took over, I tried to like him. I really did. I even bought the second series on DVD, but I have yet to finish watching it. Tennant's acting was just too goofy and too much of a departure from Eccleston for me to like him.

Apparently the older, mysterious Doctors of yore are no longer apropos, and TPTB feel we need goofy kid Doctors instead.

 

[Whofan]

Patrick Troughton, Tom Baker, Colin Baker, and McCoy certainly had plenty of goofy moments. Tennant has plenty of serious scenes, but they're more in his last two seasons and the specials IMO. He was kind of still getting used to the role in his first season.


Even the actors who have played it a bit more seriously like Pertwee, Hartnell, and Davison did their share of comedy.

 

[wamdue]

Why not there's 507 regenerations, if they keep up the current average of 4.7 years per regeneration that'll take us in to the 44th century. I think they can afford to waste one or two regenerations.

the 507 regneration is far from being an accpet fact about the Doctor, we had a thread on it recently in this very forum.

I'm pretty sure that this forum's acceptance of the 507 regenerations probably won't be part of the reasoning the production team will be using when deciding whether they accept the it.

this isnt the only forum who hasnt accpeted it, I meant the thread on this forum as an example.

That said if the BBC was to go with it, fans would accpet it, but for the moment I dont think people are walking arounding saying that the Doctor has 507 regenerations.

 

[Count Zero]

Even the actors who have played it a bit more seriously like Pertwee, Hartnell, and Davison did their share of comedy.

I haven't yet seen anything of the Davison era, and Hartnell certainly had a more serious approach to the role, but Pertwee's Doctor wasn't really seriously played. He always has time for banter even in the most dire circumstances. His costume already doesn't exactly emanate seriousness. Also, Pertwee was mostly a comic actor and I'm pretty sure the producers of the series had that in mind when they hired him. He played the role a lot less openly comic like Troughton before him, that's true, but he's certainly not on the same level of seriousness as William Hartnell.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Those south American tribes that practise Cannibalism, rumour has it, that they eat people to gain their "power" whether that be health, specific traits, longevity, intellect or new limbs...

The Doctor built a machine where he could give away his regenerations back in Mawdren Undead, and the Timelords offered the master a new set of 12 in the 5 doctors not that he tried to suck the Doctors remaining lives out of him in the movie... Maybe during the War Timelords were trading lives as currency or if they were in a situation where they knew that they would be killed in such a way that they would cycle through their last 4 or 5 lives in minutes that they passed on (or banked) those lives to other time lords rather than see them wasted?

 

[Starkers]

Oh yeah, I forgot to add that Romana is also a time lord (Or Time lady rather)


There have been some rumors that Matt will be leaving at the end of the seventh season (or around Christmas this year) and that the reason they split the season in two is so he could fill out the three season contract.

That notion still makes zero sense to me.

Great for Matt if he wants to leave and they're paying him for two seasons for essentially one season's work, but for the BBC that's the same as essentially letting him do a second year then paying him to not do a third, and that only makes sense if he was a colossal failure they wanted rid of and, aside from the odd crazy person, Matt Smith seems to have been a roaring success. There's no benefit for the BBC is doing this?

 

[Pseudo]

the 507 regneration is far from being an accpet fact about the Doctor, we had a thread on it recently in this very forum.

I'm pretty sure that this forum's acceptance of the 507 regenerations probably won't be part of the reasoning the production team will be using when deciding whether they accept the it.

this isnt the only forum who hasnt accpeted it, I meant the thread on this forum as an example.

That said if the BBC was to go with it, fans would accpet it, but for the moment I dont think people are walking arounding saying that the Doctor has 507 regenerations.

The point is that it's all hot air anyway. As soon as the Fourteenth Doctor's revealed I can't imagine too many people arguing that the it's all wrong and the show should have ended forever with the death of the Thirteenth Doctor.

That said I'm sure that everyone would be quite happy to hear the argument that someone loves Doctor Who so much that the series must end after the Thirteenth Doctor because of a line in one of the most asininely titled story's in the shows history*.

Spoiler: *

* The story itself is absolutely wonderful.

 

[wamdue]

I'm pretty sure that this forum's acceptance of the 507 regenerations probably won't be part of the reasoning the production team will be using when deciding whether they accept the it.

this isnt the only forum who hasnt accpeted it, I meant the thread on this forum as an example.

That said if the BBC was to go with it, fans would accpet it, but for the moment I dont think people are walking arounding saying that the Doctor has 507 regenerations.

The point is that it's all hot air anyway. As soon as the Fourteenth Doctor's revealed I can't imagine too many people arguing that the it's all wrong and the show should have ended forever with the death of the Thirteenth Doctor.

you dont have to play it as if the Doctor has always had an unlimited number of regenerations, you could at least play it like the 13th - 14th regeneration was a surprise the Doctor wasnt expecting.

the 14th Doctors first line could be "that wasnt meant to happen, 507 it is then."

I am also quite sure there will be fans who think its a insult to Classic Who, that the Doctor be allowed to continue past 13 regenerations, in exactly the same way some would deny that the new series was related to the Classic series.

 

[Pseudo]

this isnt the only forum who hasnt accpeted it, I meant the thread on this forum as an example.

That said if the BBC was to go with it, fans would accpet it, but for the moment I dont think people are walking arounding saying that the Doctor has 507 regenerations.

The point is that it's all hot air anyway. As soon as the Fourteenth Doctor's revealed I can't imagine too many people arguing that the it's all wrong and the show should have ended forever with the death of the Thirteenth Doctor.

you dont have to play it as if the Doctor has always had an unlimited number of regenerations, you could at least play it like the 13th - 14th regeneration was a surprise the Doctor wasnt expecting.

the 14th Doctors first line could be "that wasnt meant to happen, 507 it is then."

I am also quite sure there will be fans who think its a insult to Classic Who, that the Doctor be allowed to continue past 13 regenerations, in exactly the same way some would deny that the new series was related to the Classic series.

That'd be fine by me as long as those fans realise the arbitrary nature of the thirteen regeneration limit and the that the show had quite happily ran for thirteen years before anyone mentioned any kind of limit to The Doctor's regenerative abilities. At the end of the day, as Moffat said when asked about how they'd get around the limit they'll "make something up".

 

[wamdue]

The point is that it's all hot air anyway. As soon as the Fourteenth Doctor's revealed I can't imagine too many people arguing that the it's all wrong and the show should have ended forever with the death of the Thirteenth Doctor.

you dont have to play it as if the Doctor has always had an unlimited number of regenerations, you could at least play it like the 13th - 14th regeneration was a surprise the Doctor wasnt expecting.

the 14th Doctors first line could be "that wasnt meant to happen, 507 it is then."

I am also quite sure there will be fans who think its a insult to Classic Who, that the Doctor be allowed to continue past 13 regenerations, in exactly the same way some would deny that the new series was related to the Classic series.

That'd be fine by me as long as those fans realise the arbitrary nature of the thirteen regeneration limit and the that the show had quite happily ran for thirteen years before anyone mentioned any kind of limit to The Doctor's regenerative abilities. At the end of the day, as Moffat said when asked about how they'd get around the limit they'll "make something up".

damm my lack of comic book knowledge, but wasnt Kryptonite something that was added years later in the radio series, yet people dont say that Superman should just ignore it?

my point is that ltos of TV shows, movies books, have added limits to a characters powers at some stage in the shows life, the fact it wasnt mentioned for 13 years is meaningless.

How long was it until we found out the Doctor had two hearts?

Besides doesnt the idea that the Doctor doesnt have limited regenerations, take away from the times, he has given his life to save someone else?

 

[Pseudo]

you dont have to play it as if the Doctor has always had an unlimited number of regenerations, you could at least play it like the 13th - 14th regeneration was a surprise the Doctor wasnt expecting.

the 14th Doctors first line could be "that wasnt meant to happen, 507 it is then."

I am also quite sure there will be fans who think its a insult to Classic Who, that the Doctor be allowed to continue past 13 regenerations, in exactly the same way some would deny that the new series was related to the Classic series.

That'd be fine by me as long as those fans realise the arbitrary nature of the thirteen regeneration limit and the that the show had quite happily ran for thirteen years before anyone mentioned any kind of limit to The Doctor's regenerative abilities. At the end of the day, as Moffat said when asked about how they'd get around the limit they'll "make something up".

Besides doesnt the idea that the Doctor doesnt have limited regenerations, take away from the times, he has given his life to save someone else?

No, the fact that he has regenerations takes away from the times he's given his life to save someone else. But no one seems to mind so what the heck.

 

[Count Zero]

The old series contradicts itself on the matter, anyway. In The War Games, there wasn't any limit to the number of regenerations and the Doctor clearly stated that Timelords could esssentially live forever. So, how could falling back on this be an insult? They created the regeneration limit to have a dramatic story and they will discard it for the same reason some day should the need arise. Only very few people, in the grand scheme of things, care about it, anyway.


ETA: Damn, you guys are too fast for me.