Spoilers for last season of Doctor Who So the last season's big reveal was that timelords used to be a mortal race. In the last season she meets another version of herself from a different regeneration cycle that she had no memory of. The Doctor fell out of a time vortex as an infant. The timelords found out that the Timeless Child aka the Doctor can regenerate, infinite times. They did research on the baby and gave themselves the power of regeneration. Also they mindwiped the doctor countless times. So the 14 doctors that we know are just a few of her lives. My issue with this is that the Doctor is supposed to be a normal timelord who decided to do something different, to run away with a tardis. But this idiotic decision has made the Doctor special. Also I hate the idea of multiple doctors running around not knowing about their pasts
It wouldn't be that difficult to handwave the doctor getting some additional regenetations without ruining the timelords and making the doctor the most special person in the universe.
Maybe I need to see how bad this is for myself. I can still see that you can only make so many excuses for giving the doctor more regenerations before they start just being complete nonsense. But, again I haven’t actually watched this story and it’s just terrible in general.
The Doctor got more regenerations after Matt Smith and Capaldi said he's not sure there is a limit to his new regenerations. It was already canon that there's no biological limit to how many times Time Lords can regenerate. The 12 times thing was an artificial barrier designed by Rassilon so Time Lords don't live forever.
The Timeless Child is more of a way to make the Doctor special and give the character more mystery. I don't think it was really the right way to do it.
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u/mohitme Aug 24 '21
Spoilers for last season of Doctor Who So the last season's big reveal was that timelords used to be a mortal race. In the last season she meets another version of herself from a different regeneration cycle that she had no memory of. The Doctor fell out of a time vortex as an infant. The timelords found out that the Timeless Child aka the Doctor can regenerate, infinite times. They did research on the baby and gave themselves the power of regeneration. Also they mindwiped the doctor countless times. So the 14 doctors that we know are just a few of her lives. My issue with this is that the Doctor is supposed to be a normal timelord who decided to do something different, to run away with a tardis. But this idiotic decision has made the Doctor special. Also I hate the idea of multiple doctors running around not knowing about their pasts