Originally Posted by doctor blue box:
“but you keep comparing two different thing's which I'm not. I'm saying as many other's have - period before wedding of river song, hundred's of years, not a day older in apperance. Time of the doctor, hundred's of year's, lot's of difference, even if you only look at the half way point when he was only slightly older looking (which was probably more like the time scale for period before wedding of river song). Not different species aging being talked about here. one character, one body, similar scenario twice different outcomes of aging”
You seem to be missing my point of comparing how species age. You seem to think that he MUST look physically older because he'd aged 200 years during his "farewell tour," in the latter part of series 6. I'm saying that for a species that can last 600+ years in a single incarnation, aging 200 years is probably much like us aging 5 - 10 years.
There's no reason his body is going to decay in 200 years if he's still got 400+ years of life before he'd reach a natural death. Look at it like that; those 200 years might be the equivalent of a human's life between 20 and 30 years old. He's not going to show much in the way of physical signs of aging. A little, of course (and Matt does look older than he did in 11th Hour), but nothing significant.
You wouldn't look at a human and say "oh they haven't aged much between 20 and 30," then look at them again between say, 60 and 70 and go "wow they've physically aged a lot. That doesn't make sense because they didn't age that much between 20 and 30."
That's the reason I made the species comparison. My cat has physically aged more than me in 10 years because his species is shorter-lived. The Doctor ages less in 200 years than we do because his species is longer-lived. But just because his species is longer-lived, it doesn't mean he won't start to age and decay as the centuries pass by - just like how it doesn't mean I won't eventually get old and wrinkly just because I'm longer-lived than a cat.
There's absolutely no issue or contradiction in the Doctor not aging much in the first "missing 200 years," and quite visibly aging in the first 300 years of Trenzalore and then again even more so in the unknown period of time leading up to the end of the episode.