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Doctor Who can live for ever! Not limited to 12 lives!

  • 19-11-2010 7:31pm
    #1
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭


    Retcons in comic books are almost an accepted evil, but retconning Doctor Who? That’s exactly what the BBC has done, and worse yet it retcons out something established by the Fourth Doctor; Tom Baker. Back in the 70s, the Tom Baker Doctor established that the Doctor can only regenerate 12 times, which means whoever would’ve been cast as the Doctor after Matt Smith would be the last Doctor Who ever. But now, that’s no longer the case.

    The BBC has confirmed via the Guardian in the UK that Doctor Who is now immortal. He can regenerate as many times as he wants. Worse yet, the retcon is being made as an off-hand comment in the Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures, and it will air in the UK via a two part episode on the 25th and 26th of October. Since that show doesn’t air on BBC America, we’ll have to wait until it hits DVD/BluRay to see it.

    * http://furiousfanboys.com/2010/10/the-bcc-retcons-doctor-who/

    * http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/oct/12/doctor-who-immortal-reveals-bbc


Comments

  • #2
    Speedsie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,328 ✭✭✭Speedsie
    ¡arriba, arriba! ¡andale, andale!


    Shouldn't this be in the Doctor Who & Torchwood Forum?
    Or merged with http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056059255
    :)


  • #3
    The Sparrow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,614 ✭✭✭The Sparrow


    October called. It wants its news back. :)


  • #4
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Speedsie wrote: »
    Shouldn't this be in the Doctor Who & Torchwood Forum?
    Or merged with http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056059255
    :)
    Your right, forgot that section exists.
    My stupidity entirely.


  • #5
    Mr E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,571 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    Ah a milestone... your 17,000th post is an admission of stupidity. :)

    I'll move this to the DW&T forum.


  • #6
    Daemos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,645 ✭✭✭Daemos


    13 lives, 12 regenerations. Noob :P

    Can't say I'm surprised. Disappointed that it seems to be done outside of the show's narrative, but did anyone really think they'd end the show after 13 Doctors?


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  • #7
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Daemos wrote: »
    13 lives, 12 regenerations. Noob :P

    Well seen as I was around for the very first one and all the rest, one starts to lose count after a while. :D


  • #8
    cloud493
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    Yush :D Doctor who forever.


  • #9
    Lantus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,027 ✭✭✭Lantus


    Give the phenonenal writing that has been created for the last two doctors and potentially more to come it seems like stupidity suicide to stop at 12. An arbitary number that I'm sure no thought they would get anywhere near!

    Tom baker was 1974 to 1981. Who can predict over 30 years in the future that the show would still be going? A time lord maybe......

    Would you write this in today? no...


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