I agree.
Agreed. If there is an out to give the Doctor another 12 regenerations, he will be given them.
I liked the episode, but there was just too much. The two shows should have been spread out into three hours.
As for the number, I’m sure the BBC will continue to refer to Tarrant as Doctor Number 11. The second version of himself wasn’t technically even a Time Lord.
As others have mentioned, the number of regenerations was set at twelve, but the Master is way beyond that, and the limit was clearly not hard and fast.
Chris Tarrant? You heard it here first, folks.
Transmat, it’s been recycled a few times by various stories, but it’s never been as key to stories as Star Trek’s transporter, so it’s not remembered as well.
Chris Tarrant is the Doctor?
The Master did use up all twelve of his regenerations (giving 13 lives), but by stealing energy from the Eye of Harmony on Gallifrey and the Source on Traken he gained tha ability to transfer his essence into other bodies.
In the Five Doctors he was offered a whole new regeneration cycle to rescue the Doctor. Whether he ever received this was never shown in the series, but it is implied in the book First Frontier.
There was also the implication in the Brain of Morbius that the Doctor had regenerated many times in the past. Towards the end of the original series it was implied that the Doctor wasn’t merely a Time Lord and that he went back to the old times on Gallifrey, maybe further. This was played upon a lot in the novels produced by Virgin, but has not been confirmed on screen.
So is this it for the series? Why? Seemed to be doing fairly well.
Tennant needs some time off for Hamlet I believe. I understand there will be some specials next year under Moffat and then the series will resume in 2010. It is hoped Tennant will return for 2010.
On the pay cheque they’ve offered him, he’d be pretty stupid not to.
The specials are still on RTD’s watch.
Huh? That doesn’t make any sense to me. Hey, glad the guy got more work and all, but if he can’t support the series, regenerate his ass and get a new Doctor!?! He was good, but then I thought the first guy was really good too, and they didn’t hesitate to loose him.
I did not know, is there any details on how many specials?
I think the consensus is that there are five (although the BBC has been a bit cagey - possibly due to the fact that they haven’t finalised the scheduling). Christmas 2008 is definite though, having already been filmed and Christmas 2009 is pretty certain. We don’t really know where the three others are going to be scheduled - I’d imagine Easter weekend will be one though.
Chris Eccleston only wanted to do one season, and it is because they are refreshing the entire programme-making team that they are having a quieter 2009 to give everyone a chance to settle into the job. Tennant is taking that opportunity to do Hamlet* and Loves Labours Lost which fit in nicely before he starts on the filming of the latter 4 specials.
- with Patrick Stewart as Claudius for that extra-geeky edge.
The word on the street is that there will be a Christmas Special this year, a Christmas special next year, with three specials in between.
And, AIUI, it was a BBC management decision to do less Who next year, not because DT wanted to do Hamlet.
According to an interview with RTD in Doctor Who magazine (which I cheekily read in WH Smiths), the Christmas special will not be called The Return of the Cybermen. The official title is a secret. It seems that this also be some kind of variant cyberman featured. No info available so far.
The new variant will be a Cybershade according to Wikipedia.
So, who thinks it will have anything to do with the burning of the Library of Congress?
Exterminieren!
Exterminieren!
German language students giggling!
That’s how I’m reacting to the tragedy of Donna. It seems like her mother has shifted gears and might be supportive in the future. I hope that’s true and that Donna responds to the support.
I’d really like to see an episode where the Doctor and Donna cross paths again, and she’s a successful (although maybe not in financial terms) private investigator. They could work at cross purposes, with the Doctor having to be careful not to trigger any memories.
Her mother could shift to telling her that she’s a wonderfully talented investigator, but she should be taking cases that pay a little better.
Ah, well. If everyone is feeling Donna’s pain, I guess that’s a writing success.