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).
-- 
James Kuyper

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