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Ok, Thoughts/Questions on the Doctor
9 years ago
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So, i'm not a big Dr Who fan, but i do enjoy watching the show from time to time, and the specials are usually really fun to watch. I was browsing through youtube videos, and came across one from Day of the Doctor, where the War Doctor starts regeneration. Now I'd been under the assumption that the War Doctor as actually the first Doctor, and because of what he did, the others pretty much hid their memory of him. But the video mentioned that it went from the War Doctor to Eccleston's, The 10th Doctor.
Apparently, (and i just looked this up on google)
In his original conception of the show's anniversary special, Moffat had written the Ninth Doctor as having ended the Time War. However, he was "pretty certain" that Christopher Eccleston would decline to return to the role, which he did. As he also had reservations about making Paul McGann's Eighth Doctor the incarnation who had ended the war, he created a never-before-seen past incarnation of the Doctor, which allowed him "a freer hand" in writing the story, acknowledging that the success of doing this would be predicated on being able to cast an actor with a significant enough profile.
So, if this is the case, then the numbers from 9 onwards are off by one, though it's also stated that the character felt like he didn't deserve to call himself the doctor as he became a warrior in the Time War....
Doesn't this mean then that Capaldi's Doctor should technically be the last one? Wasn't it stated that they can only go through 13 regenerations? or is that wrong?
Apparently, (and i just looked this up on google)
In his original conception of the show's anniversary special, Moffat had written the Ninth Doctor as having ended the Time War. However, he was "pretty certain" that Christopher Eccleston would decline to return to the role, which he did. As he also had reservations about making Paul McGann's Eighth Doctor the incarnation who had ended the war, he created a never-before-seen past incarnation of the Doctor, which allowed him "a freer hand" in writing the story, acknowledging that the success of doing this would be predicated on being able to cast an actor with a significant enough profile.
So, if this is the case, then the numbers from 9 onwards are off by one, though it's also stated that the character felt like he didn't deserve to call himself the doctor as he became a warrior in the Time War....
Doesn't this mean then that Capaldi's Doctor should technically be the last one? Wasn't it stated that they can only go through 13 regenerations? or is that wrong?
but the time lords granted an entire new set of regenerations at the end of the matt smith series of episodes
It's been proven in the past that the whole 13 regenerations was an arbitrary thing the Time Lords set on their own society to prevent the 'same' people from pretty much existing indefinitely.
After 13 times you were expected to sacrifice your genetic material to The Loom out of which a new Time Lord baby would be created for one of the families in like for a kid.
This is because the Gallifreyans, the ones now in charge at any rate, are completely barren because of some asshole stunt they pulled, and the repercussions of it.
It is hypothesised, though, that The Doctor is actually the reincarnation of the founding trio of his own society. There were Omega (he used to live in the antimatter universe), Rasillon (whose name is, iirc, the defacto title of the ruler of Gallifrey) and "The Other One". And that's all that 'we' really know. There was a third, and he 'went away'.