Night of the Doctor

[EMCE Hammer]

I must be easily impressed because he's now one of my favorite doctors.

[clemso]

Interesting, in the short, he had a choice to become a Woman and he didn't take it

[Mego Magyar]

I had forgotten the stuff about the 5 Doctors and the Master.

The 507 sounded more like sarcasm to me.

[johnmiic]

This is the full story, Part 1:

[johnmiic]

The 12 regeneration limit was thrown out in the Sara Jane Adventures. At :33 the Doctor states 507 times. This may not hold up tho for any reason the producer wants to use. If you haven't seen it, The Death of the Doctor is like a little bonus Matt Smith adventure:

[jwyblejr]

magyar1964
in 5 Doctors one of the enticements offered to the Master by the high was a new regeneration cycle if he helped them to save the Doctor so that established the ability "overwrite" the 12 regneration limit created by Bob Holmes in Deadly Assasin (which was a device for his plot). For all we know (and my yet find out in the special) the master got his new batch of regenerations as part of an enitcement toget him to join the timelord cause.
I'm not even making a jusdgement about how the Master got the ability but he did get it somehow so there is a way to bypass the limit

even in the classic series they sometimes ignored ideas and limitations form earlier produciton teams (the state of temporal grace for instance), the idea that the Doctor built the ship (unearthly child and the chase), or the fact that every time the cybermen apeared they had new weaknesses (tenth planet it was radiation, Troughton era it was cold on telos, Revenge of the cybermen - gold, etc)

jwyblejr - in the classic show regnerations looked different every time and sometimes not always for the better despite inprovements in technology (see the Watcher and the regenetation into Davison as compared to the pertwee regeneration into Tom)

I should have explained better. I meant this explains why when the Doctor regenerates now,we get the light shooting out of his neck and arms. I'm guessing it's because of the stuff he drank.

[samurainoir]

[samurainoir]

Ook! I kinda sorta remember this one when I was a kid. BifBangPow's Morbius is pretty sweet,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H2SQrMuoVI

[johnnystorm]

Brain of Morbius was the 4th Doctor (Tom Baker).

[Earth 2 Chris]

Brain Of Morbius is a good start.

Who is the Doctor in that story?

Being a newbie to all of this, I'm even more confused...but no less intrigued.


Chris

[jds1911a1]

magyar1964
in 5 Doctors one of the enticements offered to the Master by the high was a new regeneration cycle if he helped them to save the Doctor so that established the ability "overwrite" the 12 regneration limit created by Bob Holmes in Deadly Assasin (which was a device for his plot). For all we know (and my yet find out in the special) the master got his new batch of regenerations as part of an enitcement toget him to join the timelord cause.
I'm not even making a jusdgement about how the Master got the ability but he did get it somehow so there is a way to bypass the limit

even in the classic series they sometimes ignored ideas and limitations form earlier produciton teams (the state of temporal grace for instance), the idea that the Doctor built the ship (unearthly child and the chase), or the fact that every time the cybermen apeared they had new weaknesses (tenth planet it was radiation, Troughton era it was cold on telos, Revenge of the cybermen - gold, etc)

jwyblejr - in the classic show regnerations looked different every time and sometimes not always for the better despite inprovements in technology (see the Watcher and the regenetation into Davison as compared to the pertwee regeneration into Tom)

[jwyblejr]

So that's why the regenerations look so different now.

[palitoy]

Is there a back story to that planet, the sisterhood and the elixir from the original series that new who fans can check out?

Brain Of Morbius is a good start.

[samurainoir]

Is there a back story to that planet, the sisterhood and the elixir from the original series that new who fans can check out?

I kind of wish they stretched out McGann's return as the Doctor to some more minisodes.

It looks like Christopher Eccleston really could of have some meaty material to play with rather than John Hurt if he hadn't of burned his bridge. Although being the main antagonist in Thor means he's not hurting either. (pun intended)

At the recent Who-con, I found it fascinating that folks were referring to Hurt as 8.5 in order to try and retain their original numbering system. 8)

[Mego Magyar]

With the Master's abilty to regenerate from Derek Jacoby to John Simm (after he stole the bodies of both Tremas and Eric Roberts) I think we can throw 12 regenrations out the window

But the Master used some very evil ways to stay alive - taking over other peoples bodies isn't really the Doctor's style.

Hmmmm....

Yeah; I think they changed it so Time Lords have an unspecified number now. It's not indefinite, 'cos it takes a lot of effort, but there's no set number. Which is probably good, since the 13th Doctor is supposed to be evil. (Unless he IS; and that's what #12 was so worried about.)

Don C.

I don't remember anything about the 12 regenerations being thrown out but then I don't know everything about Who as I've never followed the audios or books.
As for the 13th being evil, the Valeyard is described by the Master as an amalgamation of the Doctor's darker sides from between his twelfth and final incarnations -not the true 13th Doctor.