Actually, it's on BBC1 from 6 to 7 pm on Friday 25th December, and from 6:40 to 7:55 pm on Friday 1st January. Each followed by one hour of Confidential on BBCTHREE.
Really? How strange - I'd heard different. Must check my sources!
I already know what I'm gonna call her. Got a name all picked out...
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
Boxed Set, Vol. V: Just a Hint of Denial and a Dash of Retcon
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Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Dec 20, 2009 12:41:16 pm PST #11313 of 30001
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Calli - Dec 20, 2009 1:13:14 pm PST #11314 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Children, stone angels, now water...
That scene where the guy was looking up and one drop of water splashed on his face? I jumped and squeaked. Over a drop of water. It wasn't quite as extreme as my reaction to scenes in Blink, but still—water.
smonster - Dec 20, 2009 1:29:39 pm PST #11315 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I was drinking water at the time and couldn't help looking at the glass askance.
Plus, even if he is having decades' worth of adventures off-screen, he is still blowing through regenerations like a kid with a fist full of nickles in a penny arcade.
Hmm. I had only thought of that in a meta context, not a plot-based one. Nothing to lose making him a bit reckless.
WindSparrow - Dec 20, 2009 3:55:55 pm PST #11316 of 30001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Nothing to lose making him a bit reckless.
And at the same time, freaking his shit out a bit, when he stops to think about it.
Vortex - Dec 20, 2009 4:09:08 pm PST #11317 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I cried when she forgot.
Oh, my, yes. That was an amazing scene.
WindSparrow - Dec 20, 2009 4:09:27 pm PST #11318 of 30001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Hitch-Hiker's Guide on Daleks: [link]
askye - Dec 20, 2009 5:02:26 pm PST #11319 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
I haven't seen the Water special but I saw Journey's End. I haven't even seen the series with Donna but I cried when she forgot it was so...all the hope and how she finally, finally was good with herself and who she was. And all that had to go away. Oh and when the Doctor told her mother off. That was great.
Connie Neil - Dec 20, 2009 5:15:01 pm PST #11320 of 30001
brillig
How did the Master manage not to regenerate? Is that something all of them can do?
§ ita § - Dec 20, 2009 5:19:21 pm PST #11321 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Well, I don't think it's anything they've said has to happen, so I guess it's one of the easier retcons out there.
The way The Doctor talked, it sounded like an exceptional choice to make, but a choice nonetheless.
askye - Dec 20, 2009 5:26:44 pm PST #11322 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
I was trying to figure out how they could get around it, and what if they say that the 12 regenerations isn't a physical limit but something that was imposed by the Time Lords as a group so there weren't Time Lords living forever. So it's a choice and that way the Doctor could chose to keep living and keep regenerating.