From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho.moderated
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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.

-- 
Cheers
chas_m

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