End of 10 Hypothesis

[bismarck_1892]

Just putting it out there.

I was looking into some spoilers for the end of Tennant's Doctor. It occured to me that the reason Ten is going may be because his partial regeneration at the end of season 4 is running out. Its temporary, and his "song is ending."

Just a thought.

 

[Chaos Descending]

This is a popular theory, I've heard it from a few people.

 

[bismarck_1892]

This is a popular theory, I've heard it from a few people.

Great minds think alike, I guess.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

That's a pretty good theory. If it becomes true, I'll feel better about the whole 10.2 business (although it'll still be a case of RTD having his cake and eating it, too, for Rose).

 

[Bacl]

I've heard similar thoughts expressed that he is revisiting all that he knew as the Doctor as a kind of "10th life flashes before your eyes" sort of thing. The Master is not really back, just a echo from the past, a mental demon to be overcome as he lays dying in his Tardis.

However, I will be very disappointed if the big two-part finale and end of The 10th Doctor turns out to all be in his head.

 

[C.E. Evans]

I still think he'll slip on a banana peel...


Banana peel + trainers = regeneration

 

[Professor Zoom]

I still think he'll slip on a banana peel...


Banana peel + trainers = regeneration

Happened to Doctor Number 6, so why not?

 

[Starkers]

If he doesn't trip over a brick I'm going to hunt RTD down and kill him

Seriously I have no idea, although I suspect it's gonna be epic!

 

[OhCaptainMyCaptain]

Wow, and here I was thinking I was all clever for thinking the same thing.



My thinking was pretty similar to that.

Spoiler: End of Season 4

I was thinking that the partial/10.5 regeneration in Stolen Earth had not used up a regeneration....Just delayed finishing it up.

if I were a gambling man, I'd bet Ten's draining-of-his-excess-regenerative-energy-into-his-severed-hand trick was enough to temporarilly halt the process, but he was unable to stop it altogether. All he did was to delay the final completion of the regeneration. Sooner or later, it's going to catch up with him, so he's been living on borrowed time since the end of the fourth season.

In other words, that "aborted" regeneration never completely finished up, and now, quite soon, it's going to complete and he'll change into Eleven.

That also ties in with RTD's statement that this regeneration was going to be different and that it's "complex". It also prevents using up a regeneration unneccesarilly.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

 

[Bacl]

I vote for tripping on a brick.

Imagine: Two-part mega battle against The Master in which all companions show up for a line and we see the apotheosis of The 10th Doctor. He wins, all is well, and then the Doctor is just walking along, trips on a brick, and regenerates.

Now THAT would be brave of RTD!

 

[Cutter John]

I don't know. I keep getting more of a 'It's a Wonderful Life' vibe from the bits and pieces we've gotten. With Timothy Dalton playing the part of the angel.

Probably totally wrong, but hey.

 

[Starkers]

I don't know. I keep getting more of a 'It's a Wonderful Life' vibe from the bits and pieces we've gotten. With Timothy Dalton playing the part of the angel.

Probably totally wrong, but hey.

Acrtually I could see that, but at the moment anything could happen, there might be giant armies of Daleks we just haven't seen any snippets of them yet

 

[Cutter John]

True enough. Right now its ALL speculation.

 

[The Wormhole]

I still think he'll slip on a banana peel...

Or trip over a brick.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

Or maybe, he'll trip the brick and the brick will regenerate into 11.

 

[Classic Fan]

Wow, and here I was thinking I was all clever for thinking the same thing.



My thinking was pretty similar to that.

Spoiler: End of Season 4

I was thinking that the partial/10.5 regeneration in Stolen Earth had not used up a regeneration....Just delayed finishing it up.

if I were a gambling man, I'd bet Ten's draining-of-his-excess-regenerative-energy-into-his-severed-hand trick was enough to temporarilly halt the process, but he was unable to stop it altogether. All he did was to delay the final completion of the regeneration. Sooner or later, it's going to catch up with him, so he's been living on borrowed time since the end of the fourth season.

In other words, that "aborted" regeneration never completely finished up, and now, quite soon, it's going to complete and he'll change into Eleven.

That also ties in with RTD's statement that this regeneration was going to be different and that it's "complex". It also prevents using up a regeneration unneccesarilly.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Dude, thats a good theory.

Ive herd the 'borrowed time from 10.2' idea before, quite soon after the episode aired. It makes sense, and like you said, the regeneration isnt wasted, its just in limbo until it kicks in again.

 

[Cky]

Wow, and here I was thinking I was all clever for thinking the same thing.



My thinking was pretty similar to that.

Spoiler: End of Season 4

I was thinking that the partial/10.5 regeneration in Stolen Earth had not used up a regeneration....Just delayed finishing it up.

if I were a gambling man, I'd bet Ten's draining-of-his-excess-regenerative-energy-into-his-severed-hand trick was enough to temporarilly halt the process, but he was unable to stop it altogether. All he did was to delay the final completion of the regeneration. Sooner or later, it's going to catch up with him, so he's been living on borrowed time since the end of the fourth season.

In other words, that "aborted" regeneration never completely finished up, and now, quite soon, it's going to complete and he'll change into Eleven.

That also ties in with RTD's statement that this regeneration was going to be different and that it's "complex". It also prevents using up a regeneration unneccesarilly.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

I agree, but looking at the new pictures of Matt Smith in Tens outfit (just to show how much I think Tennant is my Doctor, I didn't even realise that statement first read "Pictures of Matt Smith in The Doctors outfit.), which is tattered, I think he'll narrowly get through whatever he has to get through, and then on the way on his travels, he regenerates alone, causing the destruction of the Tardis, crashing it at the start of the fifth series and the start of the Eleventh Doctor stories.

Also fits with the "sad" ending Tennant alluded too, the Doctor regenerating alone is a bit sad to me.