To put it simply, the latest we know is that The Doctor is not a Time Lord, and seemingly has far more regenerations than the originally stated With that said, we don't know the full story, and with The Master largely orchestrating The Doctor's discovery, there's plenty of reason to be skeptical. Chris Chibnall still has a plan for how this shakes out and has confirmed there's more to it than what fans have seen.
Rest assured, if you're confused on what's going on with Doctor Who 's regeneration story, you aren't the only one. The good news is answers are coming, at least, according to Chris Chibnall. For more on the series, read on about the rumors about Jodie Whittaker's upcoming exit , and share in the comments who you'd like to see potentially replace her. Mick likes good television, but also reality television. Mick Joest.
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Throughout this time, the Twelfth Doctor steadily grew weaker, nearly collapsing at one point while at Villengard and having to sit down for a few minutes to recover. After the adventure, both Doctors chose to regenerate.
While holding his regeneration back a little longer to make an advisory speech to his future incarnation, the Twelfth Doctor continued to grow weaker and collapsed to the floor just before his regeneration occurred, though he managed to stand up once more by leaning on the TARDIS console to help him to his feet.
While most regenerations seemed to cause moments of mental instability, with temporary amnesia often noted, some offered particularly profound instances of physical peril. Ambient complexity could also contribute to the failure of a regeneration. TV : Castrovalva The Eighth Doctor claimed that anaesthesia had "nearly destroyed the regenerative process" during his seventh regeneration as an explanation for the particularly severe amnesia he suffered afterwards.
TV : Doctor Who During the Tenth Doctor 's post-regenerative state, he suffered an arrest in one of his hearts and began to exhale regenerative energy when Rose Tyler revived him too early. After this, he said that he was having a neural implosion , and slipped into a coma-like state for most of the day.
TV : The Christmas Invasion Upon hearing of this, the Third Doctor suggested that his future self was suffering from a regeneration crisis. The Master regenerates. TV : Utopia. Regeneration, especially later ones, could be painful. After trying to deflect the question, he quickly said, "It always hurts," before, in the same breath, continuing with the task at hand.
TV : The Night of the Doctor After being asked if regeneration was painful when she described the process, the Thirteenth Doctor replied that "you have no idea.
In some cases, it was possible for the regenerative process to be restarted by another Time Lord if it failed, such as when K'anpo Rimpoche gave the Third Doctor's body "a little push" to initiate the regeneration process after he was exposed to the radiation of the Metebelis crystals , although he warned that the new Doctor would be somewhat shaken up as a result of this method.
There were many ways to reverse a regeneration. One way involved the sacrifice of another, causing the regeneration to reverse. One example of this was when the Third Doctor had an encounter with the Nurazh.
As the Doctor battled the Nurazh's main host, the two fell off a building, killing the Doctor. As the Third Doctor nearly regenerated into the Fourth , the Nurazh possessed the Time Lord's body; however, it found itself unable to cope with the two Time Lord minds within the body and it soon perished, restoring the Doctor to his previous incarnation in the process. When trapped in a dimensionally-unstable pocket universe created and controlled by Iam and the First Rani , the Sixth Doctor's morphic print was destabilised, causing him to unwillingly and painfully regress back through his previous selves as his body sought a stable morphic print.
He was forced to rely on the stabilising atmosphere of the TARDIS and a personal morphic stabiliser he designed to operate in this realm until it was returned to the real universe. Some Time Lords of the first rank attempted retro-regeneration, reverting from their current incarnation back into a prior body, but this procedure was relatively rare, to the extent that the Sixth Doctor was unable to recall any examples of it.
Moments later, he changed back, but wondered if he got back the regeneration he wasted. On rare occasions, it was possible for Time Lords to deliberately allow themselves to mentally regress back to the personas of previous selves while remaining the same incarnation physically.
When he was trapped in Iam's unstable realm, the Sixth Doctor was able to use his current morphic instability to allow the Third Doctor 's persona to take control, allowing him to draw on his past self's skill for hand-to-hand combat. PROSE : State of Change On another occasion, the Seventh Doctor used the TARDIS telepathic circuits to bring the Third Doctor to the fore so that he could use his past self's skill with technology to disarm a dangerous bomb, although his control sometimes slipped as his current self tried to assert itself, resulting in the Third Doctor referring to his current associates by the names of his own companions.
Considered as a rare mental illness, Time Lords might not lose their past personas when they regenerate. As a result, these Time Lords acquired new physical bodies, but the past personas remained conscious and active in their minds, rather than simply retreating into the Time Lord's subconscious.
These past incarnations thrived and accumulated inside the current incarnation's head, fighting over control of the physical body. One known Time Lord who had this illness was the Eleven. AUDIO : The Eleven Immediately after regeneration, the previous incarnations would be mentally weaker and more disorientated, but they would eventually assert themselves and resume the Eleven's warped sense of mental balance. The Time Lord who lasted the longest with this condition other than the Eleven died after shooting out both his hearts with a staser in his eighth body.
AUDIO : World of Damnation The very nature of this illness also had an unusual side-effect of somehow affecting the regeneration energy produced by the Eleven, with the result that he was the only known Time Lord the Ravenous could not feed off. The Doctor begins a regeneration without changing his appearance. TV : The Stolen Earth.
A Time Lord could avoid the change of appearance and personality caused by regeneration by focusing the regenerative energies into a "bio-matching receptacle", as the Tenth Doctor did with his own severed hand.
The hand siphoned off the excess energy that would have changed his appearance while the Doctor used just enough to heal himself TV : Journey's End from the injury sustained from a Dalek gunstick. TV : Journey's End As a result, the Doctor used up a full regeneration his eleventh of twelve overall , TV : The Time of the Doctor but kept his appearance, allowing him to avoid the usual post-regenerative confusion and disorientation experienced in the past.
During the time when he controlled the Source of Traken , TV : The Keeper of Traken the Master was able to use the Source to heal his injuries in place of regenerating, noting that this process was far smoother than regeneration as it avoided sacrificing the healthy tissue in the process, although this method eventually proved short-term when he expended the last of the Source. The regeneration process could also be delayed to allow healing. The Second Doctor was shot in the head when confronted by guards on Skybase , causing damage to his skull and frontal lobe; and the subsequent fall broke his nose, jaw, right femur, and collarbone, along with causing some spine damage.
He began to regenerate, but an injection of Shiner DNA delayed the regeneration and kept him alive long enough for his body to go into a six-month healing coma to recover on its own, although he was briefly certain that he had regenerated when he woke up. PROSE : The Indestructible Man When the Seventh Doctor deliberately affected himself with light wave sickness to save the Spiridons from the Daleks, he briefly believed that he was going to regenerate until he retreated to the TARDIS, his body spending some time fighting between its cellular paralysis and natural desire to regenerate until it stabilised in his current self.
When his second heart was extracted by Sabbath and placed in Sabbath himself, the stolen heart created a link between the Eighth Doctor and Sabbath that rendered the Doctor essentially immortal; as his second heart was still beating in Sabbath's chest, the Doctor could survive normally fatal injuries, such as having his chest crushed by sandbags or being stabbed in his remaining heart, without changing, although he would go into a near-death state until his body could heal.
However, it was unspecified if there were any limits to this connection - the Doctor only needed to use it when he and Sabbath were on the same planet at the same time in the same city - and the connection was lost when Sabbath tore the Doctor's heart out of himself.
The ancient Gallifreyan scientist Artron was able to devise a system of perpetual regeneration where the subject would not need to change their appearance during the process, but even after this knowledge was regained during the Time War with the recovery of Artron's Matrix print, the Time Lords were never shown putting it into full practise, save for granting the Master a new set of regenerations in return for his assistance while insisting that he limit himself to the standard thirteen lives under the usual rules.
One of Romana's intermediate forms during her first regeneration. TV : Destiny of the Daleks. Foreman , an early Gallifreyan but not a Time Lord , absorbed the DNA around him and underwent indescribable changes as a result of mutations, transcending sex, species and even physical existence itself. AUDIO : Spring Although the Doctor 's actual tenth self was, like the Time Lord's previous and later bodies, indistinguishable from a human , the previous incarnation of the Doctor had mused that his next body "might have two heads… or no head" before regenerating.
Occasionally, a regeneration would fail and the process would abort. Though the Time Lord would have regenerated, they would be severely deformed. Though Time Lord technology could treat this, on some occasions the damage would be too severe to fix. Regenerative collapse was a potentially fatal complication of regeneration. Mortally wounded by Zor , the Sixth Doctor 's body attempted to regenerate when he found himself on the brink of a regenerative collapse.
Fortunately, he was found and healed by Captain Jack Harkness , saving his life as well as stopping him from regenerating. After being shot by the War Lords , the War Chief was barely able to survive. While being returned to the War Lords' planet , his body attempted to regenerate. Due to the massive injuries and the lack of medical care, this regeneration aborted. This resulted in two conjoined individual bodies, poorly fused together, and also apparently compromised his ability to regenerate ever again, preventing him from simply regenerating once more to solve the problem.
During the Last Great Time War , Rassilon experimented on other Time Lords, retro-evolving their timelines and connecting them to the time vortex, in order to build a possibility engine - a machine to question about decisions to make during the conflict.
A side effect of the process on the so-called Interstitials was the trapping in a loop of an iterative regenerative cycle, which caused their appearance to enter a state of constant flux among their different incarnations. Even if a Time Lord's body was damaged to the point that regeneration became impossible, their cells would continue attempting to do so, making the actual process of death very slow; it took each copy of the Twelfth Doctor imprisoned in his Confession Dial "about a day and a half" to die after being attacked by the Veil.
TV : Heaven Sent There were, however, ways to circumvent this. A "full blast" of the Master 's laser screwdriver killed Missy within a minute, with no visible wound and not even the beginnings of a regeneration.
More simply, dealing a second killing blow to a Time Lord while they were already regenerating could prove fatal, as after beginning to regenerate from a first shot the Teselecta duplicate of the Eleventh Doctor at Lake Silencio appeared to die instantly when shot mid-regeneration. As noted above, regeneration was not guaranteed. The Doctor on numerous occasions believed they were at risk of actually dying. Even with regeneration a possibility, the Doctor came to feel such a change as being a "death".
In recollecting the events surrounding the Master 's attempt to steal the Eye of Harmony , the Eighth Doctor referred to his incarnations as "lives". The Twelfth Doctor also referred to regeneration though not his own as the same as death, but also stated that to Time Lords, death was simply "man flu". TV : Hell Bent When faced with regeneration himself, however, this Doctor truly valued his life, resisting the process as he didn't want to change.
After seeing what his future would bring though, he felt more comfortable, embracing the change as he lost consciousness. In fact, the Doctor sometimes seemed to regard their previous incarnations as different individuals, capable of interacting and working with each other. TV : The Three Doctors , The Five Doctors , The Two Doctors , Time Crash , The Day of the Doctor , Twice Upon a Time However, they still regarded their other selves as them, to the extent that their seventh incarnation became ashamed of the actions of his sixth self , going through a period of keeping his memory of his previous self locked up in his mind PROSE : Head Games until he accepted that he was the Doctor in all of his incarnations, and forgave his past self's sins after he nearly died after being shot by an arrow.
TV : Hell Bent The Missy and Harold Saxon incarnations of the Master grew to outright despise each other, despite having grown attracted to each other when working together, due to their juxtaposed view of the Doctor, to the point that they actually killed each other. At the same time, meeting other Doctors could allow other incarnations the chance to re-evaluate their opinion of themselves, such as the Eighth Doctor coming to admire the Sixth Doctor where his seventh had feared his potential, PROSE : The Eight Doctors and the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors recognising that the War Doctor was a true Doctor despite denying him for years.
TV : The Day of the Doctor. The Twelfth Doctor was also rather fond of the First Doctor, in a way very much tied to their shared identity; presented with this embodiment of his younger days, the Twelfth Doctor was amused at the First's old ways such as how he still called the TARDIS "the Ship" , and how he looked wearing the sonic sunglasses. He was, nonetheless, incredibly embarrassed by his original incarnation's occasional sexist remarks. The First Doctor's reaction to his future was much less warm; he was dismayed at learning the Twelfth Doctor played the electric guitar , and disappointed in the Twelfth Doctor's lacklustre treatment of their TARDIS deeming the new decoration "hideous" and expressing dismay at the dirtiness of the console room, which he attributed to the absence of Polly Wright , who, in his days, cleaned the TARDIS for him.
He also criticised the Twelfth Doctor's over-reliance on technology over his own intellect, and his need to always boast about his plans. As a whole, the First Doctor was, at first, horrified to learn he would eventually become a "Doctor of War". However, he grew to admire his future self, believing their actions were for the greater good rather than malicious purposes as he initially believed.
Most other Time Lords never expressed any strong opinions about their other incarnations as they had never met their other selves. However the General 's twelfth incarnation noted an immediate dissatisfaction with her predecessor shortly after her regeneration.
TV : Hell Bent More notably, when the Time Lord Straxus learned that he would become the insane Kotris in his next incarnation, he was horrified at his next self, proclaiming that Kotris was a psychopath, although Kotris claimed that his insanity was the result of Straxus' insanity and self-loathing.
However, despite his disgust at Kotris's actions, Straxus only made a few half-hearted efforts to kill himself to avoid becoming Kotris which were prevented by a drone Kotris had sent, until the final confrontation between the two incarnations culminated in Straxus being exterminated as even the Daleks were disgusted with his selfishness. AUDIO : X and the Daleks When the Master made contact with the Cult of the Heretic and was offered an alliance with them if he killed one of his past selves - with the promise that the Cult would use the Anomaly Cage to prevent him being wiped out by the paradox - the Master laughed as he dismissed his past incarnations as foolish.
Although he later claimed that he had targeted his past self at a point when he knew that the younger Master would survive, the two Masters found it difficult to cooperate, as the younger Master was more serious and dedicated to ensuring victory where the future Master's new lease on life had left him more inclined to make various bad jokes as he taunted his enemies. The older Master noted that the Cult's plans to remake the universe had been inspired by the beliefs of the renegade Time Lord known as the Heretic, whose belief that the universe was sick, led him to perceive regeneration as the only cure for this 'illness'.
In general, the Doctor avoided discussing regeneration with their companions unless someone else brought it up first, TV : Planet of the Spiders but explained the process in the aftermath. They were particularly open about the process in their eighth incarnation , telling companion Charley Pollard about regeneration and their past faces, noting at one point that he considered regeneration superior to the straightforward immortality of the ruthless Sebastian Grayle , as regeneration allowed him to change and develop as time went on where Grayle was stuck with one point of view and no real way to change.
AUDIO : Seasons of Fear Despite this, the Doctor's attitude towards regeneration seemed to change during their later incarnations, considering it more like true death. In their ninth incarnation , the Doctor bade farewell to his companion even though he was not actually dying. TV : The Parting of the Ways The Doctor's tenth incarnation was concerned about a prediction made regarding his own impending regeneration, saying, "Even if I change, it feels like dying.
Everything I am dies. Some new man goes sauntering away TV : The Day of the Doctor Following his regeneration into his seventh incarnation , the Doctor's memories of his sixth self's persona came to resent the current Doctor, accusing the current Doctor of "murdering" him PROSE : Head Games before the Doctor came to accept that he was the Doctor in all his lives and forgive the sins of his previous self. TV : The Day of the Doctor After receiving his new regeneration cycle, the Eleventh Doctor appeared relatively comfortable about his imminent regeneration, reflecting that everyone changed throughout their lives and the important thing was to remember who you had been, TV : The Time of the Doctor although his fear about the scale of the change he was about to experience prompted him to call his current companion in their personal future to ask her to stay with his next incarnation and help him through the transition to his new body.
TV : Deep Breath The Twelfth Doctor later recalled that the end of the First Doctor 's life at Snowcap was "the place where [he] died", comparing it to Clara Oswald 's limited memories of her 'splinters' by describing it as something so huge and terrible that the mind had to block it out in the aftermath.
Harriet called the Tenth Doctor "absolutely the same man ", still believing in this despite the Doctor threatening to destroy her government after she ordered Torchwood to blow up the Sycorax spaceship. TV : The Christmas Invasion , The Stolen Earth While the Brigadier noted that one Doctor was more than enough to deal with at any time, TV : The Three Doctors he nevertheless confidently proclaimed that all of the Doctors were "remarkable chaps", willing to work with whatever Doctor answered his calls for help even if he acknowledged that he knew certain Doctors better than others.
After deciding to help the Doctor against the Mondasian Cybermen , the Missy incarnation of the Master was shown to see her past self as still being her, stating that she'd loved being him and the feeling of all that he was. However, due to her genuine desire to change, Missy mortally wounded her past self to force his regeneration into herself, appearing to see it as necessary to ensure the Master became Missy. Although most associated with Time Lords , regeneration also existed in other species, or sometimes in specific individuals, directly copied from the Time Lords.
This form of regeneration was explicitly shown to allow a change in gender. TV : The Hand of Fear. Like their masters the Time Lords, the living timeships the TARDISes were capable of regenerating themselves if they were heavily damaged, leaving a very characteristic Artron energy trace when they did so. The Timeless Child was a member of a "Timeless" species with the power to regenerate an infinite number of times.
This child's ability to regenerate was used by the Shobogan scientist Tecteun from Gallifrey to create the Time Lords. Kate Yates regenerated her hair when her Dalek Factor was activated after being hit by a car. Swarm regenerates.
TV : The Halloween Apocalypse. Swarm , an enemy of the Division and of the ancient versions of the Doctor who fought on the Division's behalf, showed the ability to renew himself after consuming the life force of Division agent En Sentac , reducing her to ash in the process. As he regenerated, Swarm glowed blue and red and the crystal growths on his face extended, before receding again as he settled into his new incarnation.
Early in their history, the Time Lords discovered the planet Minyos , and gave the natives some of their technology. TV : Underworld This included bestowing the power of regeneration on the Minyan royal family, who knew it as "cellular renewal", and kept it secret from their subjects until Oxirgi 's revolution against the rule of the "Gods", during which the princess Malika faced public execution by firing squad and renewed herself in a flash of golden light immediately after she'd been shot.
Over time, they wearied of life. TV : Underworld. Time Lords fighting the War in Heaven gave the ability of regeneration to their lesser species regen-inf soldiers. After the Celestial Toymaker , a Guardian of Time , merged with the Doctor 's friend and fellow Time Lord Rallon , he gained a form of regeneration, albeit not in the direct way one might have expected; after centuries of keeping the Toymaker in check, Rallon 'died' when he triggered all twelve of his regenerations at once, but the Toymaker was subsequently kept in check by Rallon's Watcher, with the Doctor explaining the situation to his companions by using the analogy of the Toymaker having regenerated himself.
Mawdryn and his followers, who had stolen the Time Lords' regeneration technology, also had a great number of incarnations, though they had no control over when it would happen and what form, often grotesque, they would change into. Consequently, they longed for death, making their mutations a kind of de facto punishment by the Time Lords for stealing their technology.
TV : Regeneration He later regenerated again after exhausting his power core to defeat Trojan. TV : The Eclipse of the Korven. During the Last Great Time War , the Daleks discovered the ability to use artron energy leeched from other time travellers to enact a similar renewal to the Time Lords'. This would allow the Dalek to repair its casing as well as heal its inner organic body. However, this process was still primitive by the time the destruction of Gallifrey by the Doctor ; PROSE : Dalek it also caused the Dalek to absorb DNA from the time traveller it had used to power its regeneration, beginning to mutate and thus deviated from the Dalek baseline.
TV : Dalek. Due to being experimented on by the Dalek Overseer , an Ogron was sent to Gallifrey with the memories and certain biological traits of the Doctor , retaining DNA traces of the Doctor that created the impression that he was actually a regenerated Doctor rather than a completely different person. The Ogron, named "Doctor Ogron" by Bliss , was exterminated by the Daleks, but, due to possessing aspects of the Doctor's biology, regenerated. He was restored to life but did not change his appearance like a Time Lord would.
Davros , with the help of Colony Sarff , once tricked the Twelfth Doctor into sacrificing some regeneration energy to him and then funnelled much more energy than the Doctor had meant to give into the systems of the Dalek City , pumping all the dying Daleks there full of the regeneration energy. Lit aglow with the familiar orange halo, the Daleks emerged "renewed" and "more powerful", though this victory was short-lived, as, all according to the Doctor's plan, the mass of the regenerated Daleks in the sewers led to the destruction of the City.
The CyberMasters , a group of Cybermen created by the Spy Master from the corpses of Time Lords, possessed the ability to regenerate due to their origins. The Aja'ib contained tales involving regeneration.
Regeneration was introduced to the mythos of Doctor Who to solve a practical staffing problem: the production team needed to find a way to exit William Hartnell but still keep the show running. The original idea for this replacement came from producer John Wiles and script editor Donald Tosh. They proposed to write out Hartnell during The Celestial Toymaker , a serial they commissioned and prepped, but ultimately didn't produce.
Yet whilst regeneration might seem like the key to limitless possibilities — and seemingly, even immortality — Doctor Who has ultimately shown that is not the case. Even if they avoided accidents and illnesses, each form would eventually wither and die from old age, as the First and War Doctors did. So, despite their huge longevity, a Time Lord would eventually reach the ultimate limit of their regenerative cycle and pass away for the last time.
However, they are still forced to either change — or else perish — at some point shortly afterward. On a similar note, the Time Lord device known as the Chameleon Arch essentially transformed a Time Lord into a human— and consequently removed both the Time Lord's consciousness and regenerative ability. On another note, the Twelfth Doctor showcased that Time Lords can transfer their energy to restore non-Gallifreyans as well.
Yet this is kind of healing is rarely done by Time Lords since it their power levels are substantially drained, resulting in an adverse effect upon their future regenerations. Time Lords can also be definitively killed mid-way through their change when they are in a weakened state. Doctor Who largely posits that regeneration is a question of "change or die" for Time Lords, although the show has offered some degree of wriggle room for these characters. For example, the transformative aspect of the process can be avoided in very rare situations.
But, as soon as he was healed, the Doctor cast off the remaining regeneration energy, and he stayed as he was because there was not enough left to power the change. It must be noted that, in this instance, the Doctor still used up one of his lives, and he was only able to regenerate in this way because he could channel his powers into a compatible receptacle — namely his handily preserved severed hand.
The show has even posited that this is not the first time that the cycle has been renewed, and that the Doctor enjoyed a whole series of personas off-screen before the events of Doctor Who even began. Since Peter Capaldi however The Doctor now has 11 regenerations ahead.
It is a whole new regeneration cycle meaning he can regenerate 12 more times. If you remember when the TARDIS was in the human body, she said that "she has 30 desktop of the TARDIS" and when the doctor claimed "it has only been changed a dozen times" she said "so far, yes" which could mean that more regeneration are to come.
When the 10th has his hand cut off in the 's Christmas Special what does he say? So, when the 11th mentions "A whole new regeneration cycle" he might be referring to a single regeneration. At this point, everything is possible: single regeneration only, new set of 12 regenerations, unlimited regenerations, other number somehow Nothing got written in stone. And even if it was, come the need they'd find a new way to extend that number.
I think we'll have to wait for the series for some development on that matter. What we know is that there will be new doctors as long as it is proffitable, so we need not to worry. Yet, wish we knew the specific details.
As for the 'new set of lives' This new set of regenerations judging by the first story will be the politically correct set. You will see women very very soon playing the doctor not too mention every colour of the rainbow.
And possibly shock horror an American in the role all depends 'where' the viewing figures are. And why not! The precedent set in the classic series, when the Master was given a new set of regenerations, was just that - an entirely new set.
The young Matt Smith that appears just before Capaldi does not appear to be a "new" doctor, so the logical conclusion is that the Doctor has another 12 regenerations ahead of him. We don't know. The writers intend for it to be unknown. Probably at least one more. In Kill the Moon, the Doctor says he doesn't know how many times he may regenerate, and that he could very well regenerate forever. You'll have to spend a lot of time shooting me because I will keep on regenerating.
In fact, I'm not entirely sure that I won't keep on regenerating for ever. And in Hell Bent, the second most recent episode at the time of this answer, Rassilon doesn't know, but implies the Doctor will regenerate at least once more. When he's about to kill the Doctor, he says,. The writers were clearly very intentional about establishing that the Doctor has an unknown number of regenerations.
The show will never again have to deal with the problem of the Doctor running out of regenerations unless a future writer wants to make another story out of it. But in any case, we can be certain that the Doctor will never run out of regenerations for as long as the show continues. During the final scene of Series 10, Twelve is rather ambivalent about whether he wants to regenerate at all, but at no point does he mention running out of regenerations. Thirteen also has not discussed it during Series 11, and out of universe statements by new showrunner Chris Chibnall have repeatedly emphasized the importance of accessibility to new viewers.
Series 11 has heavily focused on introducing new characters and settings rather than returning to past continuity, so it's unlikely that they will bring up the "number of regenerations" issue any time soon. So in Time of The Doctor, Smith said that 10 aka Tennant was having vanity issues so he regenerated twice. I see the first as healing himself since he got shot by a dalek.
The Sisterhood of Khan triggered a regeneration. They also said timelord science was advanced. And right before McGann changes he says physician heal thy self. So I see the War Doctor as Doctor 8. So really Capaldi could be the last doctor, or the new first doctor of a new regeneration cycle. I myself believe that Capaldi being old means a whole new cycle and it will keep the series going on for a few more decades.
Probably by 75th Anniversary or th Anniversary this will all be explained. Or it will all end with Capaldi. I think Peter Capaldi is the first the new regeneration cycle Matt Smith was the 12th and final doctor if not counting John Hurt he will be still considered the eleventh doctor Peter Capaldi stays the 12th doctor so he has one more regeneration left or dies in the 8th series after the master returns.
A regeneration is when you take a new form, right? The doctor had 12 regenerations. When he was "born" he didn't regenerate into the 1st doctor, which means 1st reincarnation- 2nd reincarnations is one regeneration and so on. So when the 11th doctor Matt turned into the 12th doctor Capaldi , he still has one more regeneration before he has used all 12 regenerations.
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