How many regeneration are left for the new Doctor?

[Mego Magyar]

OK, here is a question, the Time Lords gave the Doctor a new regeneration cycle ( 12 regeneration ) but was one of these used up to regenerate into the Capaldi Doctor?
I think yes and he now has 11 regeneration left.

[ubermanx]

Who sez they gave him a new regeneration cycle? Maybe they gave him unlimited regenerations. Maybe he received one regeneration from each Time Lord in the pocket universe so now he has a few billion deaths to spare?

- Marty

[Nostalgiabuff]

he said it was a new regeneration cycle, but maybe they will answer that in the first new episode

[Timothy2251]

I think he has 12 regenerations left - he said prior to regenerating into Capaldi that he was in default mode as the 11th/12th Doctor.

I'm with ubermax, though. Who's to say the Time Lords didn't give him unlimited regenerations at this point?

[ubermanx]

I can see them keeping the new 12 regeneration cycle as that has been a part of Whovian lore for quite some time.

But from a business side, I can see them ditching it so the problem doesn't need a new MacGuffin once they burn thru the next 12 actors which could happen a bit faster than the first 12.

It could go either way once explored in the new Peter Capaldi series.

- Marty

[Nostalgiabuff]

didn't they actually say a few years ago that they had dropped the whole only 12 regen's allowed?

[johnmiic]

RTD tried to break from that limit in a Sara Jane Adventures episode but Moffatt decided to stick to the rule.

[palitoy]

RTD tried to break from that limit in a Sara Jane Adventures episode but Moffatt decided to stick to the rule.

No he was just screwing the fan base, he admitted he threw that in there to irritate fans. RTD loves to bother the more anorak who fans.

[Mikey]

If they really wanted to they could make it the timelords only gave him 1 new regeneration, this way he has to beg for another one everytime he dies in the future.

It would get old pretty quick though.

[YANOULI]

Technically, Capaldi is the 13th Doctor.

There was a short prequel to the anniversary episode online in which Paul McGann regenerated into the John Hurt Doctor. Therefore Hurt was Dr 9, Eccleston was Dr 10, Tennant was Dr 11 and Smith was 12, which makes Capaldi Dr 13 ( the 12th regeneration ).

As for the regeneration cycle available, the Timelords were going to give the master a new set in the 5 Doctors, so in theory there is no limit to how many times he can regenerate.

[Mego Magyar]

Technically, Capaldi is the 13th Doctor.

There was a short prequel to the anniversary episode online in which Paul McGann regenerated into the John Hurt Doctor. Therefore Hurt was Dr 9, Eccleston was Dr 10, Tennant was Dr 11 and Smith was 12, which makes Capaldi Dr 13 ( the 12th regeneration ).

As for the regeneration cycle available, the Timelords were going to give the master a new set in the 5 Doctors, so in theory there is no limit to how many times he can regenerate.

As Smith's Doctor stated, he was the 13th. Tennant was 10th and 11th, when Tennent started to regenerate in The Stolen Earth/Journey's End he healed himself and siphoned off the rest of the regeneration energy into the hand but that was still a use of a regeneration. So Capaldi is the first Doctor of the new regeneration cycle that the Time Lords gave him. One regeneration used to turn into Capaldi and 11 more left.

A regeneration cycle consists of 12 regeneration, the cycle isn't limitless. Of course the Time Lords can always give out another cycle after this one is used up.

[ubermanx]

Technically, Capaldi is the 13th Doctor.

There was a short prequel to the anniversary episode online in which Paul McGann regenerated into the John Hurt Doctor. Therefore Hurt was Dr 9, Eccleston was Dr 10, Tennant was Dr 11 and Smith was 12, which makes Capaldi Dr 13 ( the 12th regeneration ).

As for the regeneration cycle available, the Timelords were going to give the master a new set in the 5 Doctors, so in theory there is no limit to how many times he can regenerate.

Incorrect kind sir ... Moffat has been quoted as saying that Matt Smith is the Thirteenth Doctor. This is due to the inclusion of the War Doctor and David Tennant’s "borrowed DNA-from-a-hand second Tenth Doctor" that resides with Rose in the "pocket"/alternative universe.

This Mirror article http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/d...s-matt-2847509 quotes a BBC source as saying "There have been two David Tennant Doctor Whos technically and with John Hurt playing another Doctor in the film, it basically means he can’t regenerate again."

- Marty

[Gorn Captain]

If it's up to Moffat, he'll magically get more and more regenerations.
Just sprinkle a little Timelord Fairy Dust, and presto!

[megotastic]

your all wrong-
there can be 12 regenerations and therfor 13 seperate doctors- but- the doctor has used up a regeneration without changing his face therefor it goes like this
first incarnation- william hartnell, second troughton, third pertwee,fourth baker, fifth, davison,sixth baker, seventh,mccoy,eighth, mcgann,nith, hurt, tenth eccleston,11th, tennant,12th tennant again- used up a regeneration-13th smith- runs out of lives- new cycle of 12 given by timelords-14th incarnation of the doctor is peter capaldi- but because one incarnation took two lives and one didnt use the name doctor- he is the 12th doctor- 13th incarnation- but theres been 14 livesused inc capaldi.

[Earth 2 Chris]

^That was my understanding, based on what Smith said in "The Time of the Doctor".

Chris