Re: From the Archives .....

On 19/04/2024 13:13, Daniel70 wrote:

Tonight's post from the past concerns Regeneration Limits, a topic that has been close to the Hearts of some here-abouts, recently!!
 Quote from 'Olton' in the 'Favourite Dr Who' thread of June 1991
In "Nightmare of Eden," the Doctor says something about timelords having 125 lives, and that he had had about 190. This clearly doesn't "jive" with other established facts, unless you want to think that he means that their lifespan is 125 times the length of a human's. That's possible, but the context that he uses it in implies 125 regenerations.
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 So it would seem that Chris Chibnall was not the first to suggest that there had been many re-generations PRIOR to Hartnell (over and above the "The Brain of Morbius" confusion).
 Discuss.

The Deadly Assassin which was 3 series earlier firmly establishes a limit of 12 regenerations and that is repeated by both the Doctor and the Master in The Keeper of Traken, the 4th Doctor's penultimate story.
Maybe he was talking about going undercover 190 times or on 190 different planets or different historical periods.
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