Official Doctor Who Thread

Before you had a plot that lasted about 4-6 episodes and at the end of the series there was usually an event and if you were lucky a regeneration at the end, there was no build up to a grand fight, it was usually just a new or recurring villain, now it seems the entire new series are just to built up for a climatic fight and for it to be good so people tune in or forget any bad episodes.

Interesting to think the Daleks never caused a Doctor's regeneration.

I know at least we are assuming they did not directly cause the 8th Doctor to change to the 9th.

Well no one knows what happened to the movie Doctor, unless he regenerated during the time war, there is a good question how did all of the Timelords die if they can regenerate, it seems the master died in the movie he did not regenerate he could have done, then in the series he had his body back after it was destroyed by the Daleks?

Time Lords can die just like humans, their regenerative process does not make them totally immune to death.

Classic series examples of Time Lords who actually did die for good and didn't regenerate:

Runcible, Chancellor Goth and the Time Lord President in The Deadly Assassin
Hedin in Arc of Infinity
The Castellan in The Five Doctors

The Master is a special case, especially when it comes to the TVM. It would take to long to try and explain that one. I will say that the Master had used up his lives by the time of the movie and cheated death by non-Gallifreyan means.

The new series gavce him the ability to regenerate again as a 'gift' by the Time Lords so he could fight in the War for them.

the new Who is continued from the old series
not so much the Ecclestone series in fact i always thought that to be a re imagining of Who early on in the run but the Tennant seasons are def part of Who continuity because of everything ive stated
the fact that Sarah Jane Smith is in there portrayed my Miss Sladen is all you need
the whole Master death scene was far more emotional because of the links to earlier Who throught Tennants adventures
i see Pertwee holding a dying Roger Delgado,Baker or Davidson holding Ainley in tears begging him to renerate and it adds far more weight to the scene because of that
there was at least one referance to the Baker years on the xmas special add to this RTDs admitance that the Children in need special is cannon i think we can safely say this is not series four episode 36 or whatever coming up but episode 739

the Doctor less episode sounds fun this time round again
3 assistants competing with each other
its fairly obvious big D is coming back though
a horrible rag The Sun is but they are usually right about the spoilers for the final episodes
i just hope they keep the original look
im not keen on the Sontarons new armour and arent they going to look similar to the inferior Judoon with Helmets up

missed the 15mins
is this a fake image of the two together taken from dif scenes or the real deal?

more here
http://billiepiper.albumpost.com/album78/aap

Oh I never said they were ammune from death many have died in the past, som of which you pointed out it just seems that if the Daleks could wipe out all of the timelords, why can they not the Doctor?

Pretty sure it is genuine.

Indications continue to come in that Billie is in the 'Doctor Lite' episode, for speculation about whuch see my Black Guardian gumf above.

Of course, that was just mad wibble from fans, but the theme- that the story is about the companions in the series without the Doctor (Rose, Martha and Donna)- seems to be holding.

Maybe.

Well, online news is now claiming the Doctor will not be in the episode that Rose will be appearing in. This seems to confirm Billie is not doing more than just 1 episode as opposed to 3 but if this is accurate (that she and Donna ad Martha team up to save the world) then won't fans feel cheated if the Doctor never comes face to face with Rose?

Originally posted by Neo Darkhalen
Oh I never said they were ammune from death many have died in the past, of which you pointed out it just seems that if the Daleks could wipe out all of the timelords, why can they not the Doctor?

You did ask how the Time Lords as a people could die if they could regenerate, but to answer the question how the Doctor has survived when the rest of his race did not-

The Doctor, as far as we know, has never been exterminated by the Daleks, unless it happened in the War offscreen from 8th to 9th. The extermination guns could very well suspend the regenerative process.

The Daleks would have to know all Time Lords regenerate and planned for it when the war began.

Yes but I never said they were ammune from death, just burn there bodies to ash, then they could not regenerate.

No you didn't say they were immune from death but your question asked how come they did not regenerate when the Daleks exterminated them. Suffice to say I hope I answered your rather informative question(s).

You need to stop getting so wound up.

I was answering the questions you asked to the best of my ability. Perhaps you should not be so defensive when I do reply. A personal remark is uncalled for.

It was not personal. 😬

Perhaps not but this is how arguments begin. No offense was intended mate.

Arguments, I did not consider this to go that for.

No thankfully.

What do you want to see happen in Series 4? Should more details of the Time War be revealed?

Very true, I would like to see less emphysis on companions and more about the Doctor, I would also like to see Dalek Caan back.

I think we need one good Dalek story that answers some of the questions if it is true we will not be getting a Time War movie or flashback episode proper. What is Arcadia? How did the Dalek Emperor take Cruciform? What really caused The Eighth Doctor to regenerate and how did he escape the final destruction of the the Dalek fleet and his own people? Were any companions travelling with him at the time the War broke out? Things like that.