As much as i can't afford to get into the books and audio, I'd love to read about that whole relationship. I can imagine the Sisterhood being just neutral enough to help the Master, willingly or not.
A question about Regeneration
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As much as i can't afford to get into the books and audio, I'd love to read about that whole relationship. I can imagine the Sisterhood being just neutral enough to help the Master, willingly or not.
Oh it’s possible. And in character that Missy is a deliberate result of that. You can practically hear the curse ‘and you will become everything you are not’
Who says he's the one doing all the stealing? The TARDIS can't let the Doctor and Companions have all the fun. More than likely she's scanning everything around her while she's alone, copying what she likes using her Architectural Reconfiguration System.
You do know what was in that goblet Ohila gave Eight, right?
Lemonade and dry ice.
That whole goblet stunt was about putting Eight in the right mindset to concentrate on becoming a warrior during his regeneration. "He knew that darkness was always inside him. Allowing him to pretend it came from elsewhere was a mercy of sorts. From that moment on he had quite enough to worry about and I didn’t want to add self-loathing to his many burdens."
That whole goblet stunt was about putting Eight in the right mindset to concentrate on becoming a warrior during his regeneration. "He knew that darkness was always inside him. Allowing him to pretend it came from elsewhere was a mercy of sorts. From that moment on he had quite enough to worry about and I didn’t want to add self-loathing to his many burdens."
Oh yeah. I know that. But the Master isn’t getting the R.Whites option. And they love a good curse those Karnies
It presumably dies. Regenerations don't happen on whims, they're caused by severe bodily trauma.
Just be glad Gallifrayans, and humans, aren't Amphiprion ocellaris. In the school, the most dominant ones tend to switch sexes if the female that all the males are hanging out with dies. Or Thalassoma lunare, for the opposite situation to occur.
That seems neatly convenient. In most mammalian species, once the mother dies the unborn baby within dies within minutes due to the nutrient and oxygen flow stopping. If only brain dead and autonomous systems still functioning, the baby could still survive. anyway, how long is the gestation period to begin with? No incubation machines, given the other sorts of technology the species developed? And if a TARDIS can make a being revert to an earlier form of development (e.g. Margaret Thatcher Slitheen in "Boom Town") then the same technology can surely be used for tangential situations. Or why not have a male step in, regenerate into a surrogate? And why would anyone care about how the species breeds, as if there's nothing more interesting going on in the galaxy in the first place? The Doctor was a geek amongst his/her own people to begin with. Not an alpha, not a beta (using debunked psychology regarding the human species but whatever, that's made a comeback by the devolutionaries and/or the Pavlov-conditioned parrots, etc, so why not...)
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You mean the one from The Five Doctors?
It certainly could be. Unless the Castellan was on his final incarnation, there’s no reason he couldn’t have regenerated from the blaster hit.
(I am not aware of any weapon that can render a Time Lord unable to regenerate. If I’m wrong, feel free to correct me)
Especially since the General was hit with basically the same kind of weapon. If the General can regenerate from that, so can the Castellan.
The only “evidence” against this, is the fact that the General (based on her “Back to normal” comment) has apparently always been female, except for that one male incarnation...
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In Deadly Assassin, it's pretty clear that stasars kill fully, inhibiting regeneration (the guard in ep1, the President, Solis). Runcible, oddly, dies from stabbing, but doesn't regenerate despite having time to stagger over and speak (poisoned blade, inhibiting regen?)
I should think that being beheaded would prohibit regeneration. Unless they can regenerate into something that doesn't need one.
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As we saw in the early Hartnell stories, the Doctor and companions just tend to accumulate clothes. The whole wardrobe thing was actually pointed out in a mocking way in the Key to Time season, when they landed on Tara and the Doctor says, "Hadn't you better get changed?". Romana goes into the wardrobe room and finds a whole long length of women's clothes, all labeled as to which place they're supposed to be worn. Romana's pulling hangers aside, muttering "Tara, Tara... Tahiti?" and she shakes her head at the coconut bra and grass skirt, moving on to find the purple outfit she wore in that story.
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^^^Or, the writers of Who were so forward thinking way back in the 60s/70s, that they knew one day the DR would regen into a woman, hence why the tardis has both genders clothing. 
There were some female companions that didn't change outfits that often (ie. Leela; if she changed during a story, she was back in her leather outfit in the next story). Other female companions not only changed outfits from story to story, but went through multiple changes in the same story.^^^Or, the writers of Who were so forward thinking way back in the 60s/70s, that they knew one day the DR would regen into a woman, hence why the tardis has both genders clothing.
The most changes ever that I can think of include Romana in "Destiny of the Daleks," when she's regenerating and trying out new bodies, and Nyssa, in "Terminus." She starts out mostly dressed, and by the end of the story she's literally running around in her underwear, and there's a brief scene when she removes her skirt on-camera so she's just in her panties (presumably) and a very brief, frilly slip.
Given how Victoria, Sarah Jane, Romana, and Nyssa enjoyed changing outfits (plus whatever got left behind by Barbara, who had a few exotic outfits from the various historical eras, and Sarah wore a dress in one story that used to belong to Victoria), the new Doctor will have plenty of women's clothes to pick from.
Those pants, for instance, are reminiscent of Sarah Jane's culottes in the first several episodes of "Genesis of the Daleks", before she changed into a pair of trousers. They wouldn't be exactly the same as Sarah wore, however, since Sarah left her original clothes behind on Skaro.
So,e characters had their own wardrobe because they took it with them...Leela and her hunting gear is an example, but Ace had her own gear and probably went shopping, Donna packed for the trip...so did Rose if memory doesn’t cheat.
Well, it depends on how they joined.
Tegan spent the first few stories in her stewardess uniform, since the Doctor kept promising to get her back to Heathrow. In the meantime, Nyssa had discovered the wardrobe, shed her "Traken Lady" image, and was trying out all kinds of ridiculous outfits. She urged Tegan to find something more comfortable to wear, Tegan refused, and so that's why she didn't get a new costume until "Arc of Infinity" (having been fired from her job and rejoined the Doctor and Nyssa after wandering around Amsterdam on a holiday). After that Tegan had a few costume changes... and even the Doctor noticed her cleavage in the fancy gown she wore in "Enlightenment."
I would imagine that in most cases the companions don't worry about returning whatever they happen to be wearing when it's time to leave, particularly when they have only seconds to get out of there before being killed. In the Hartnell era we'd see Ian, Barbara, and Susan in the TARDIS, still wearing their Chinese robes, Roman tunics, Aztec outfits, etc.
I'm trying to think if any companion ever arrived in the TARDIS, already bringing a suitcase with them. I know Sarah Jane left with one. Susan left with only one shoe.
Ace is near the top of my Least Favorite Companion list, so I've blocked out a lot of things about her. When you consider all the Nitro-9 and other crap she carried around, I'm surprised there was room for any clothes in her backpack.
I haven't watched the nuWho stories that much. I've probably seen most of them only once, and there are lots I've never seen (and don't even care; I skipped Capaldi's entire final season).
Far be it from me to defend Ace... (Who I am I kidding, gelignite at dawn sir!) but those back packs are huge, and she was making up nitro nine on the sly anyway. Hence her plans for fenrics jar. And we saw most of her clothes in Ice World, strewn around her room after she got blown through a time storm...or was just messy. She had her climbing gear in there too, as we saw. She’s totally believable in a traveller sort of way, as befits her character.
According to Steve Gallagher (though I rather suggested this to him during the In-Vision Terminus issue), he wrote on the assumption that Nyssa would still be in her brown tunic with the collar clasp, and it was hastily written to suit her new outfit.
I assume you're talking about a comic?
I don't read Doctor Who comics.
I don't read Doctor Who comics.
And if you mean my comment about Ace, nope, all on screen dialogue and shots.
So what does this refer to, then?
I have no idea what that even means.
I know Terminus is a Fifth Doctor story, and it's the one where Nyssa leaves to stay on Terminus and find a cure for the disease that people are sent there for.
Other than that, the post makes no sense to me.
It helps if you watch the episode rather than reading a synopsis. Nossa, quite famously as it seems out of place, basically strips down as the story continues. Possibly because she’s running a fever, possibly because the whole thing is pretty odd.
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