New Series of Dr Who

[belboid]

oh, i assumed they were doing it so as not to invoke payments for copyright infringement

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Pretty sure it has been 12 regenerations for ever.

Isn't the 12 regenerations limit artificially set by the Timelords? No more Timelords, no more limit... ??

 

[holteman]

"welcome to a new series of 'exterminate'.... This series we will be following London's newest pest control expert Dalek Kahn around as he deals with cockroaches, rats and a time lord infestation in a second story flat in Brixton"

 

[holteman]

DALEK!
You fools.

YEs ...sorry.... Dalek's.... annagram of Kaled's.......opps

 

[krtek a houby]

Isn't the 12 regenerations limit artificially set by the Timelords? No more Timelords, no more limit... ??

Strictly speaking, yeah but the Master has overcome that problem on several occasions...

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Strictly speaking, yeah but the Master has overcome that problem on several occasions...

Well, exactly, so even more of a case for no limit.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Isn't the 12 regenerations limit artificially set by the Timelords? No more Timelords, no more limit... ??

The timelords dished out extra cycles.
I'm sure the who writers can write off whatever they have to in a line. That or simply ignore it.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

the masters broken the limit but then again he's been a cat person and a bit of green slime so meh

 

[Lord Camomile]

That 12 regenerations isn't enough for The Master does kind of imply he's a bit of a clumsy sod.

 

[Quartz]

Speaking of the Master, now he's free of the drums, is he going to turn to Good? Temporarily, of course.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

the masters broken the limit but then again he's been a cat person and a bit of green slime so meh

Ah but the master did his 12 then started robbing other bodies, then was given a new cycle by the timelords annnnnd . . . another body for helping out in the timewar.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Speaking of the Master, now he's free of the drums, is he going to turn to Good? Temporarily, of course.

I like a good master/doctor team up.

 

[DotCommunist]

He also stole alien power sources to keep his body going. Wasn't that what Keeper of Traken was about or am I wrong

 

[belboid]

just re-watched the last one again, to make sure i haven't missed owt.

bloody good stuff, i do especially the way it's blown out of the water those claiming there was no build up to the finale, and that KG can't act. fules u all!!

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

He also stole alien power sources to keep his body going. Wasn't that what Keeper of Traken was about or am I wrong

He nicked that blokes body in keeper of traken. Double lame because the trakenite already looked like Pertwees master and had a name that was a fucking anagram of 'Master'.

I think he might have been keeping himself alive until robbing the body with some traken magics. His tardis was that stone man thing.

 

[Vintage Paw]

KG can act. She can act a really shouty, annoying twat character really well.

 

[AverageJoe]

wtf did you miss in the Da Vinci Code?

No no no. Not me. (ok, yes me). But the whole shebang with the twist in the Da Vinci Code was that the person sitting to the left of jeebus wasnt a bloke - IT WAS A BURD - which to be fair to Dan Brown, was quite brilliant and made 200 million people worldwide buy the book.

I am expecting a similar level of OH MY GOD IT WAS THERE IN FRONT OF ME AND I NEVER SAW IT levels of facepalm from the last episode.

And then we all calm down and agree that it was quite clever.

 

[belboid]

KG can act. She can act a really shouty, annoying twat character really well.

Yup. And can go through a pretty big range of emotions in two seconds as she

Spoiler: this bit

realises she has a dead lover who isn't dead any more and who has just killed her

That was not the work of someone who justs pouts and is annoying. You're just missing the subtelty of this series cos of the overblown big bright blatantless of the RTD days.

 

[rollinder]

Pretty sure it has been 12 regenerations for ever.

except when they could "live forever barring accidents" (according to Troughton iirc)

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

except when they could "live forever barring accidents" (according to Troughton iirc)

Yes, but that implies not needing to use up regenerations.

 

[Santino]

Maybe that was when the Timelords were all-powerful and Gallifrey still existed.

 

[DotCommunist]

I think it was when the BBC were all powerful and getting rid of Who actors without fuss existed

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

except when they could "live forever barring accidents" (according to Troughton iirc)

i think he was just being romantic with the potential life span of a galifrayan

that and perhaps commenting that no life is free from accident

 

[Stigmata]

I think whoever wrote that line of dialogue is probably qute embarrassed by it now

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

nah just chalk it up to artistic license... on the doctors behalf

mind you i don't know the context but i can imagine him doing in a grandfatherly way trying to bring over the sheer vastness of a timelords life span to a companion

 

[rollinder]

tbh it was the first time the Time Lords had even been invented/introduced and nobody'd got round to making up the rest of it yet. The Deadly Assassin was actually a retcon.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Yup. And can go through a pretty big range of emotions in two seconds as she

Spoiler: this bit

realises she has a dead lover who isn't dead any more and who has just killed her

That was not the work of someone who justs pouts and is annoying. You're just missing the subtelty of this series cos of the overblown big bright blatantless of the RTD days.

It's hard to catch the subtlety when someone is shouting and pouting at you all the time.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

It's hard to catch the subtlety when someone is shouting and pouting at you all the time.

Am I right in thinking that Amy is the sort of girl you would be intimidated by in real life?

 

[hektik]

That 12 regenerations isn't enough for The Master does kind of imply he's a bit of a clumsy sod.

to be fair, the doctor isn't that far behind him- he took care of his first incarnation, but he's fairly raced through the next 10. There was a good bit in Amy's choice where the dreamlord mentions how the doctor throws his life away carelessly - I'm guessing that if you were a timelord and you were fairly careful with your regenerations - maybe sitting in a library on gallifrey, reading up on some benign alien race, instead of running round the universe shouting at daleks/cybermen etc, you could live to a ripe old age pretty well.

 

[danny la rouge]

to be fair, the doctor isn't that far behind him- he took care of his first incarnation, but he's fairly raced through the next 10.

Are you certain Hartnell was his first incarnation? There may have been previous ones not documented by the show.