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The Doctor's aging in TTOTD...

ShoppyShoppy Posts: 1,094
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...means no timey wimey explanation necessary should Matt make a guest appearance as 11 at a later date when he is visibly older...

Well done Moffat....again:)

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    DWA9ISDWA9IS Posts: 10,557
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    Shoppy wrote: »
    ...means no timey wimey explanation necessary should Matt make a guest appearance as 11 at a later date when he is visibly older...

    Well done Moffat....again:)

    That wont work as he never left Trenzalore properly during the time he aged
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    Benjamin SiskoBenjamin Sisko Posts: 1,921
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    lotrjw wrote: »
    That wont work as he never left Trenzalore properly during the time he aged

    It was also implied the Time Lords sent the Second Doctor straight to Earth after the War Games, but a Multi-Doctor story soon disproved that. ;)

    A lot can happen in 300+ years! :D
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    ShoppyShoppy Posts: 1,094
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    Benjamin Sisko wrote: »
    It was also implied the Time Lords sent the Second Doctor straight to Earth after the War Games, but a Multi-Doctor story soon disproved that. ;)

    A lot can happen in 300+ years! :D

    Yeah that's what I was thinking :)
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    doctor blue boxdoctor blue box Posts: 7,341
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    I liked his aging in this episode as I alway's assumed that if he stayed in a body long enough, it would age just like it presumably did with hartnell. As such it didn't make sense to me how he had a supposed 200 year farewell tour in series 6 and did not visibly age
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    Sufyaan_KaziSufyaan_Kazi Posts: 3,862
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    At one point he looked a lot like Gordon Ramsay ...
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    ThrombinThrombin Posts: 9,416
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    doctor blue box wrote: »
    I liked his aging in this episode as I alway's assumed that if he stayed in a body long enough, it would age just like it presumably did with hartnell. As such it didn't make sense to me how he had a supposed 200 year farewell tour in series 6 and did not visibly age

    My guess is that his body deteriorates based on the energies and situations he is exposed to rather than just the passage of time. Maybe that's why the second Doctor once said that Time Lords could live forever, barring accidents. If they just spent all their time in the safety of Gallifrey maybe they'd never wear out and never need to regnerate!

    It could also be that the effects accelerate as he begins to wear out. So once he started to look old after the first 300 years of Trenzalore he could have gone rapidly downhill from there. For all we know, Clara's second visit could have only been ten years after her first!
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    lady_xanaxlady_xanax Posts: 5,662
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    Well, it doesn't because his aging was basically a rubbery mask. So unless he happens to look like a rubbery puppet when he's older, it makes no difference.
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    doctor blue boxdoctor blue box Posts: 7,341
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    Thrombin wrote: »
    My guess is that his body deteriorates based on the energies and situations he is exposed to rather than just the passage of time. Maybe that's why the second Doctor once said that Time Lords could live forever, barring accidents. If they just spent all their time in the safety of Gallifrey maybe they'd never wear out and never need to regnerate!

    It could also be that the effects accelerate as he begins to wear out. So once he started to look old after the first 300 years of Trenzalore he could have gone rapidly downhill from there. For all we know, Clara's second visit could have only been ten years after her first!

    like the theory but the only flaw I can see in that is that hartnell's doctor was pretty aged to the point where he had to regenerate of old age and he had spent most of his time just on gallifrey, before running away
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    Sufyaan_KaziSufyaan_Kazi Posts: 3,862
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    Middle face here:

    http://brianofmorbius.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/time-of-the-doctor-10.jpg

    And:

    http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/food/ic/food_1x1_304/chefs/gordon_ramsay_1x1.jpg
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    ThrombinThrombin Posts: 9,416
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    doctor blue box wrote: »
    like the theory but the only flaw I can see in that is that hartnell's doctor was pretty aged to the point where he had to regenerate of old age and he had spent most of his time just on gallifrey, before running away

    Maybe having kids and Grandkids aged him prematurely :D

    Or maybe a Time Lord's first body ages more normally but after regeneration the ageing happens differently.
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    James FrederickJames Frederick Posts: 53,184
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    My theory is that he was using up the last bit of his regeneration energy to slow down the ageing process either before or when he was on Trenzalore he completely ran out and then started to age.

    Maybe that is another reason River was unhappy with them when he healed her wrist as that could have cost him about 100 years
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