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    From doctor@1:2320/105.1 to All on Sat Jul 27 20:40:57 2013
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho.moderated
    From Address: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor)
    Subject: New Regeneration cycle

    Remember in Let's kill Hitler, the Doctor died and was resurrected
    by River Song. Hence the Doctor has a new regeneration cycle.


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  • From Brian Watson@1:2320/105.1 to All on Sun Jul 28 08:18:16 2013
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho.moderated
    From Address: Brian@imagebus.co.uk
    Subject: Re: New Regeneration cycle

    "The Doctor" <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote in message news:kt1747$n14$1@gallifrey.nk.ca...
    Remember in Let's kill Hitler, the Doctor died and was resurrected
    by River Song. Hence the Doctor has a new regeneration cycle.

    How many gears does it have, I wonder?

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    "Fight like the Devil, die like a gentleman."

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  • From news@1:2320/105.1 to All on Mon Aug 5 09:21:13 2013
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho.moderated
    From Address: news@fx14.iad.highwinds-media.com
    Subject: Re: New Regeneration cycle

    On 2013-07-30 11:34:23 +0000, jsreckley@atlanticbb.net said:

    Can someone check Matt Smith's guest appearance in the Sarah Jane
    Chronicles? The partial clip I viewed had The Doctor responding to a
    question about his number of regenerations. His answer was I beileve
    over 500.

    The clip was on Youtube, since the final season of the Sarah Jane
    Chronicles was never shown in the US.

    If you've watched the clip, it's very very very apparent that the 11th
    Doctor is just picking a number at random to get Clyde to stop asking.

    I would have thought that with the Time Lords gone, the "limit" has
    been removed. The Second Doctor established that Time Lords could theoretically "live forever, barring accidents" and equally
    "established" in the show is that the Doctor is far older than he lets
    on. Lots of examples from Pertwee on.

    Bottom line: I think it would be very simple to explain away logically
    the 12-regeneration limit. Heck, the Doctor has already been seen to
    have fully or partially regenerate more than 12 times already. And
    that's before we get into the John Hurt Doctor (since we don't yet know
    where in the timeline he goes, though everyone has their theories).

    All the Doctor has to do is say that the Time Lords had a limit they
    imposed for balance, but they're gone now.

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  • From James Kuyper@1:2320/105.1 to All on Mon Aug 5 10:12:59 2013
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho.moderated
    From Address: jameskuyper@verizon.net
    Subject: Re: New Regeneration cycle

    On 08/05/2013 09:21 AM, news wrote:
    On 2013-07-30 11:34:23 +0000, jsreckley@atlanticbb.net said:

    Can someone check Matt Smith's guest appearance in the Sarah Jane
    Chronicles? The partial clip I viewed had The Doctor responding to a
    question about his number of regenerations. His answer was I beileve
    over 500.

    The clip was on Youtube, since the final season of the Sarah Jane
    Chronicles was never shown in the US.

    If you've watched the clip, it's very very very apparent that the 11th Doctor is just picking a number at random to get Clyde to stop asking.

    I would have thought that with the Time Lords gone, the "limit" has
    been removed.

    You're implying that the limit was legal, rather than biological. "The
    Deadly Assassin" is the episode which introduced the concept of that
    limit. The plot of that episode makes no sense if it were a legal limit, because it applied that concept to The Master, who would not have felt
    bound by arbitrary legal limits. That episode makes no sense unless it's
    a fundamental biological limit (and not one easily circumvented, because
    if it were, The Master would have been able to circumvent it, or at
    least to find someone who could).
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    James Kuyper

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  • From doctor@1:2320/105.1 to All on Sun Jul 28 18:04:56 2013
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho.moderated
    From Address: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor)
    Subject: Re: New Regeneration cycle

    In article <ksqdnbn_edd-UmnMnZ2dnUVZ8hadnZ2d@bt.com>,
    Brian Watson <Brian@imagebus.co.uk> wrote:
    "The Doctor" <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote in message >news:kt1747$n14$1@gallifrey.nk.ca...
    Remember in Let's kill Hitler, the Doctor died and was resurrected
    by River Song. Hence the Doctor has a new regeneration cycle.

    How many gears does it have, I wonder?


    12 IIRC but ask River what she gave up so that the Doctor could live on.
    --
    Brian
    "Fight like the Devil, die like a gentleman."



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  • From jsreckley@1:2320/105.1 to All on Tue Jul 30 07:34:23 2013
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho.moderated
    From Address: jsreckley@atlanticbb.net
    Subject: Re: New Regeneration cycle

    On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 18:04:56 -0400, doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The
    Doctor) wrote:

    In article <ksqdnbn_edd-UmnMnZ2dnUVZ8hadnZ2d@bt.com>,
    Brian Watson <Brian@imagebus.co.uk> wrote:
    "The Doctor" <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote in message >>news:kt1747$n14$1@gallifrey.nk.ca...
    Remember in Let's kill Hitler, the Doctor died and was resurrected
    by River Song. Hence the Doctor has a new regeneration cycle.

    How many gears does it have, I wonder?


    12 IIRC but ask River what she gave up so that the Doctor could live on.
    --

    Can someone check Matt Smith's guest appearance in the Sarah Jane
    Chronicles? The partial clip I viewed had The Doctor responding to a
    question about his number of regenerations. His answer was I beileve
    over 500.

    The clip was on Youtube, since the final season of the Sarah Jane
    Chronicles was never shown in the US.

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  • From James Kuyper@1:2320/105.1 to All on Tue Jul 30 08:28:01 2013
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho.moderated
    From Address: jameskuyper@verizon.net
    Subject: Re: New Regeneration cycle

    On 07/30/2013 07:34 AM, jsreckley@atlanticbb.net wrote:
    ...
    Can someone check Matt Smith's guest appearance in the Sarah Jane
    Chronicles? The partial clip I viewed had The Doctor responding to a
    question about his number of regenerations. His answer was I beileve
    over 500.

    The clip was on Youtube, since the final season of the Sarah Jane
    Chronicles was never shown in the US.

    The limit of 12 regenerations was well and firmly established in "The
    Deadly Assassin", and has been reinforced many times since then. <http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Death_of_the_Doctor> mentions the 507 regeneration limit, but says "Later statements by Russell T Davies
    suggest this was likely a joke."

    I fully expect the Doctor to have more than 12 regenerations, but I
    expect him to do so by extraordinary means, just as the Master did
    (though the Doctor's extraordinary means should not be as evil as the
    ones the Master used). I hope they don't give him the extra
    regenerations just by arbitrarily re-writing the limit.
    --
    James Kuyper

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  • From doctor@1:2320/105.1 to All on Tue Jul 30 10:10:59 2013
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho.moderated
    From Address: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor)
    Subject: Re: New Regeneration cycle

    LEt recall River Song did poison the Doctor in Nazi Germany.

    As soon as she saw who she was, she revived him
    giving him the rest oft her regeneration cycle.
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