Plot hole regarding the number of regenerations
gareth1408
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I'm sure someone else must have picked up on this
Just watching 'The Wedding of River Song' on Watch
The whole crux of this storyline was he had to die, he's shot once and starts to regenerate, so they shoot him mid regeneration to kill him permanently dead.
But from what we've just found out in TTOTD, he had no regenerations left?
Just watching 'The Wedding of River Song' on Watch
The whole crux of this storyline was he had to die, he's shot once and starts to regenerate, so they shoot him mid regeneration to kill him permanently dead.
But from what we've just found out in TTOTD, he had no regenerations left?
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Because that was not The Doctor it was the Teselecta and he set it up to appear he was regenerating.
But why bother? He had no regenerations left, surely it was more believable just to keel over straight away?
Because only he knew he had none left as far as everybody else knew he had two left so had to keep up that illusion.
As long as people were expecting two shots to be needed to kill him he had to make the Teselector die that way in order to be convincing.
Because A) The Hurt Doctor hadn't been thought of yet, and
As I've said before to myself mainly , this is just a TV show, but I'm just saying their maybe "some" truth in the original OP. Now we've seen the future events which led to the silence et al and the assassination of the 'Doctor' in Wedding of River Song.
'Null and void'? Have you actually heard yourself?
If you think that about the thread, don't participate, simple
As well as the Telselecta episode, in the episode where the Cybermen are trying to "convert" him with cybernetic implants, he makes reference to perhaps having to regenerate to get rid of their influence. I'm sure there was another episode as well where he refers to regenerating.
I think Moffat just created more questions here than anything else. If he still wanted to refer to the "13 lives" issue, he should have inserted something that makes reference to the fact that the Doctor didn't realise that the "Meta-crisis" regeneration counted as a life.
13th regeneration can be initiated at will by Time Lords on their final life - it just kills them. (Source: The Twin Dilemma)
Basically he just doesn't mention the metacrisis or the War Doctor to anyone who isn't already aware of them prior to TNOTD/TDOTD/TTOTD and he keeps up the pretense that he has not used up all his regenerations.
It makes complete sense that he wouldn't want his enemies to know that he had reached this vulnerable point and that he wouldn't want to upset his companions by telling them unless it was absolutely necessary.
... and of course "Rule #1 - The Doctor lies!"