Moffat discusses the regeneration limit

[Samurai8472]

http://www.newsarama.com/tv/Doctor-Who-Paley-Center-100415.html

A very important aspect of the Doctor’s own past will finally be dealt with this season as Newsarama learned exclusively – The Doctor’s regeneration limit. “It’s been addressed in a very, very cheeky way by an old friend of mine and I’m not going to tell you any more about that,” said Moffat, telling us to “wait and see.”

Something you don’t have to wait for is discovering who the Eleventh Doctor’s Big Bad will be. Smith told the crowd it’s seen in the very first episode. “Albeit, not in the most conventional form. You’re going to have to think about it and find out what it is, but it’s in there,” he said. “And that’s the one, that’s what takes us through the whole series and my god, it’s bad.”

I wonder what he means by "cheeky"

 

[Bacl]

I'm betting on "Former Doctor" as being the answer to either one or two. Either a farmer Doctor that he bumps into mentions something like, "Eleventh!?!? Oy, mate, you've only got two regenerations left!"

or

The big bad is David Tennant, Doc 10/2, half-human, ehatever, and he's breaking through back to his dimension as a Valeyard-like creature to gobble up Matt Smith and his remaining regenerations.

 

[Samurai8472]

A warped version of the 1st doctor?


Radio Times Episode Quotes

The Eleventh Hour : "Who Da Man!"

The Beast Below: "Nobody talk to me! Nobody human has anything to say to me today!"

Victory Of The Daleks: "I wanted to know what their plan was. I was their plan!"

Time Of Angels/Flesh and Stone: "Is River Song your wife?"

Vampires In Venice: "You know what's dangerous about you? Not that you ask people to take risks, but that you make them want to impress you!"

Amy's Choice: "I know who you are. There's only one person in the universe who hates me as much as you do."

Episodes 8 & 9: "While you've been drilling down... something else has been drilling up"

Episode 10: "Art can wait, this is life and death. We need to talk to Vincent van Gogh!"

Episode 11: "All I have to do is pass as an ordinary human being. What could possibly go wrong?"

Episode 12/13: "There was a goblin. Or a trickster, or a warrior. A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being all the cosmos. Nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it - one day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world."

 

[Count Zero]

The big bad is David Tennant, Doc 10/2, half-human, ehatever, and he's breaking through back to his dimension as a Valeyard-like creature to gobble up Matt Smith and his remaining regenerations.

Mmh, would they have been able to keep it a secret if Tennant had reprised his role? Somehow, I seriously doubt it.

 

[Kibbin]

I like the idea of Ten coming back mad and angry and vengeful and all that but with him currently being the most popular doc I doubt they'd do it.

 

[The Wormhole]

Also, isn't it too soon to bring Tennant, or any previous Doctor back? Let Smith consolidate himself as the Doctor in his first year without bringing anyone back. In fact, at this point we might as well hold off returning Doctors until the 50th anniversary special in 2013.

 

[SeerSGB]

The big bad is David Tennant, Doc 10/2, half-human, ehatever, and he's breaking through back to his dimension as a Valeyard-like creature to gobble up Matt Smith and his remaining regenerations.

Mmh, would they have been able to keep it a secret if Tennant had reprised his role? Somehow, I seriously doubt it.

Would they absolutely need Tennant to do this sort of story? Maybe 10 1/2 goes through a botched regen cycle (say he tries to induce one to regain his timelord abilities) and in the process mutilates/changes into a sort of "in between" being that's seeking out the "real" doctor to still his regenerations.

 

[Shazam!]

a farmer Doctor

lol

 

[Silent_Bob]

Bringing Tennant back this early into Smiths run as the Doctor runs the risk of the audience actually siding with Pseudo-Ten rather than Eleven. If they are ever going to go down the Valeyard route, i'd imagine they'd wait a few years.

 

[Shazam!]

Tennant coming back as a bad guy is the worst idea since Spike becoming a good guy in Buffy.

 

[John Picard]

Has anyone discussed the "cracks" that Prisoner Zero mentioned in The Eleventh Hour? That caught the Doctor offguard, and when he demanded an answer, Prisoner Zero told him he'd have to figure that one out for himself. I knew right away this new Series is going to have a bit of a background arc.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

A warped version of the 1st doctor?

If they do this, I always thought that the creepy old guy in "Captain Jack Harkness"/"End of Days" would be a good 1st Doctor.

a farmer Doctor

lol

I'm suddenly getting Little House on the Prairie flashbacks. "Dr. Baker! Dr. Baker! We need leeches!"

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Has anyone discussed the "cracks" that Prisoner Zero mentioned in The Eleventh Hour? That caught the Doctor offguard, and when he demanded an answer, Prisoner Zero told him he'd have to figure that one out for himself. I knew right away this new Series is going to have a bit of a background arc.

My current working theory is that the cracks are related to the Time War, that Moffat may actually be dealing with the ramifications of a war that removed things wholecloth from the timestream. The Doctor, being "inside," isn't aware of the changes to the timestream, and the cracks are places where old history and new history collide.

And, TheGallifreyanSith, wherever did you get your cross-gendered Batman avatar from?

 

[Maestro]

I heard it was going to be Tom Baker.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Has anyone discussed the "cracks" that Prisoner Zero mentioned in The Eleventh Hour? That caught the Doctor offguard, and when he demanded an answer, Prisoner Zero told him he'd have to figure that one out for himself. I knew right away this new Series is going to have a bit of a background arc.

Didn't you see the crack running along the hull of Starship UK in the second episode?

Lightly peppered plotting as usual.

Okay, it's the Ood.

In the montage, of the Doctor's greatest hits in the first episode this year, there was some stellar stuff... But Man as well as the Doctor (baring the time travel in the Waters of Mars, which was probably astral projection.) it's supposed to be nearly 3000 years before Man and the Ood meet one another... Detective work is about finding inconsistencies, but I just thought that this was some idiot being lazy and frakking up more so than...

To play Moffat's Clues we gotta find a... (Crack!)
A Crack, right! And that's our first... (clue!)
A clue? (A clue!)
Then we put it in our... (notebook!)
Cause they're Moffat's Clues, Moffat's Clues!
We gotta find another crack, that's the second clue
We put it in our notebook
Cause they're whose clues? Moffat's Clues!
We gotta find the last Crack, that's the third clue
We put it in our notebook
Cause they're Moffat's Clues, Moffat's Clues!
You know what to do!
Sit down in our Thinking Chair and think...think...think!
Cause when we use our mind, take a step at a time we can do anything...that we wanna do!


(I was a Dad once.)

 

[Guy Gardener]

a farmer Doctor

lol

Only slightly less likely than a scarecrow Doctor.

 

[26138]

a farmer Doctor

lol

Only slightly less likely than a scarecrow Doctor.

Worzel Gummidge

 

[The Wormhole]

If you can forgive the thread necromancy (I thought it preferable to starting another thread) I have to ask: what was this "cheeky referance to the regeneration limit" that was supposed to be in S5? I don't remember the regeneration limit being mentioned once, either cheeky or otherwise.

 

[captcalhoun]

there wasn't.

 

[The]

Yeah, me either. I'm assuming it either hit the cutting room floor, it was sooo "cheeky" we didn't catch it, or it's in Neil Gaiman's story that's been pushed to next year. Anyone?