Spoilers It Takes You Away grade and discussion thread

[Gavin70]

Would have liked Yas to do more.

That's basically been my theme song for this season. I'm loving all the team, but (for me) she's been the most underused.

Having seven grandmothers hints at a reproduction technology akin to Looms?

It's open to interpretation. Could be taken as different regenerations of the same grandmother. Depends where future writers want to go with it.

 

[Gavin70]

the conflict between Grannies 2 and 5 wasn't a subplot in The Seven Grannies.

And there's our next spin off series. I'd totally watch it.

 

[Guy Gardener]

How long do expect a marriage to last for a race of people that live that long, who frequently have a catastrophic change in personality, sightliness and superficial age.

2 grand fathers could have had seven wives, and some of the wives may have remarried wives or died.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

I quite liked the Looms idea -- it reminded one that, despite superficial appearance, the Doctor really is an alien -- besides casual references to two hearts and an ectospleen.

 

[Mr Soak]

How long do expect a marriage to last for a race of people that live that long, who frequently have a catastrophic change in personality, sightliness and superficial age.

2 grand fathers could have had seven wives, and some of the wives may have remarried wives or died.

Pretty much like Trill. Oh. Crossover? Trill=Time Lords? Anyone up for it?

 

[Skellington]

How long do expect a marriage to last for a race of people that live that long, who frequently have a catastrophic change in personality, sightliness and superficial age.

2 grand fathers could have had seven wives, and some of the wives may have remarried wives or died.

Also, the term “grandmother” could be meant loosely given that numerous generations of Gallifreyans could be alive at once, and that individuals may have changed sex since contributing to the gene pool.

In any case, perhaps group marriages are a thing on Gallifrey and a person might only be peripherally aware of which members are their actual biological parents.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I though, or at least I think I got the idea from Classic Who, that it was quite rare for a Time Lord to regenerate, at least not as often as the Doctor does. The Doctor lead quite a dangerous lives so gets badly injured far more often than any regular Time Lord does.

 

[matthunter]

I though, or at least I think I got the idea from Classic Who, that it was quite rare for a Time Lord to regenerate, at least not as often as the Doctor does. The Doctor lead quite a dangerous lives so gets badly injured far more often than any regular Time Lord does.

We don't get many hints but Borusa, who was the Doctor's tutor at the Academy, at least had a regeneration or two left in him during The Five Doctors since the Doctor initially assumed he wanted to rewrite Gallifreyan law so he could remain President throughout his remaining lives.

That said, if the Doctor made it to 450 years old in two bodies (Tomb of the Cybermen) and then used up another four or five just getting to 953 (the Seventh Doctor, though that was retconned with the New Series and the War Doctor explicitly saying he was 800), it's pretty obvious s/he is burning the candle at both ends whilst holding a flamethrower to the middle bit.

The only real evidence is that Professor Chronotis, from the unfinished Tom Baker story Shada, was at the end of his regenerations after living around 12,000 years. This would tie up with the notion that each body can last around 1000 years (Matt Smith's incarnation was 1200 by the end of Time of the Doctor). So yes, the notion that the Doctor has used an entire regeneration cycle in the time two bodies should have lasted implies s/he lives a bit dangerously.

 

[Mr Soak]

Regarding the Doctor’s age, isn’t there a threory that the Doctor bases his age in the new series from when he was revived on Karn?

 

[matthunter]

Regarding the Doctor’s age, isn’t there a threory that the Doctor bases his age in the new series from when he was revived on Karn?

Haven't heard that one, but there was the "nine hundred years of phone box travel" get-out in the Eccleston series suggesting he based his age on when he became "The Doctor", so his life on Gallifrey didn't count (and, potentially, his time as the Warrior, since he didn't think he WAS The Doctor during the Time War).

 

[Kemaiku]

Sylvester McCoys Doctor was about to, or did, celebrate his 2000th year during the final classic series.

I have no idea how long the 8th Doctor was meant to have lived before his "death" in Night of the Doctor.

Then again, the War Doctor was blocked out of his memories, so Tennant saying he's 900 would only be the 9th and 10th Doctors.

13 would be 3500 or so in linear terms from all 15 lives so far.

 

[Mr Soak]

The Eighth Doctor had a 1000 (or 1100) year diary in the movie.

In McCoy’s first story, he and the Rani are both 953, I don’t know where the 2000 ace from.