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Canon question...has there ever been a description of how the Doctor ages within a generation?
I was thinking about the interviews with the living former doctors, in which they said that they had not even been contacted about the 50th anniversary show, much less been invited to participate.
Now, that could all be a ruse, but it got me to wondering if they weren't invited because they all look so different...except for Sylvester McCoy, of course...to their incarnations.
A Time Lord isn't like a vampire, but does he age really sloooowly?
Oh, bonny, that's interesting. All of the other Doctors are making up for that?
The first Doctor was about 450 years old when he regenerated into the Second, and appeared about a seventh of that age at the time. Not sure if his rate of aging would hold true for subsequent regenerations though, as they start in adulthood and aren't necessarily limited to a human-seeming form.
Is it canon that Timelords don't have to regenerate into what I think of as their standard humanoid form, assuming nothing goes wrong? Have we encountered non-human appearing timelords other than something going wrong?
Romana tried on a blue-skinned alien appearance when regenerating before settling on Lalla Ward, and I seem to recall Nine telling Rose that he might not have a mouth afterward.
The Nerdist recap said that the Doctor can't go to Trenzalore because it's where he died. Isn't it because it's his tomb that he not supposed to go there?
Did he also travel forward in time to after his death? Or does that time travel cicatrix free from such petty constriction.
Oh, man, Orphan Black was way more unsettling than DW tonight. Show better not kill Kira!
OK, yeah, so I'm a bit bothered that Sarah's specialness comes down to her ability to breed compared to the other clones. But Matt Frewer makes a convincingly creepy Big Bad, and even the boring boyfriend is getting increasingly interesting.
And Alison is a RIOT. It definitely looks like they're going to keep playing her storyline for laughs, which at least lightens the drama a bit.
The Doctor's travelled forward 100 trillion years, to when most of the stars are going out.
Yeah I first noticed that a few eps back I wondered if she might be the original, but then decided that the original would be older. I remember that when Dolly first became famous that there were popular explanations that clones tended to get organ damage and such compared to the originals.
Thanks, Victor. That's what I was wondering, because they specifically showed Clara counting out the doctors she has known.
