Impurity shorten number of regenerations?
Jonathan Blum
In article <4pnqs2$9...@news2.tds.net>,
Chris Schumacher <csch...@waun.tdsnet.com> wrote:
>Also...Not really related, but was the War Chief in "The War Games" the
>Master?
Not according to the man who co-created both characters, Terrance Dicks.
>I found it rather silly that the War Lord seemed to forget that
>Time Lords can regenerate and just had his body taken away....
Read "Timewyrm: Exodus" by the aforementioned Mr. Dicks...
Regards,
Jon Blum
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Chris Schumacher
Now that we know that the doctor is half-human, (Ugh!) it brings
up an interesting question. How does his half-humaness affect his
regeneration abilities? Will he be able to regenerate 12 times like
the rest of the Time Lords, or what?
Also...Not really related, but was the War Chief in "The War Games" the
Master? I found it rather silly that the War Lord seemed to forget that
Time Lords can regenerate and just had his body taken away....
-==Kensu==-
Shannon Patrick Sullivan
Whilst vacationing on Gallifrey on 13 Jun 1996 01:28:34 GMT, I overheard Chris Schumacher say:
> Now that we know that the doctor is half-human, (Ugh!) it brings
> up an interesting question. How does his half-humaness affect his
> regeneration abilities? Will he be able to regenerate 12 times like
> the rest of the Time Lords, or what?
Well, the Doctor certainly seemed to think so in "Mawdryn Undead". Given
the fact that he has two hearts, a non-human body temperature and so on,
there's no reason to believe that the Doctor's ability to regenerate
would be hampered by his half-human ancestry.
> Also...Not really related, but was the War Chief in "The War Games" the
> Master? I found it rather silly that the War Lord seemed to forget that
> Time Lords can regenerate and just had his body taken away....
There's no evidence one way or the other onscreen. Back in the early
Eighties, DWM (when they were making up a lot of stuff about Doctor Who
and touting it as fact) put forth the theory that the Master, the War
Chief and the Monk were all the same Time Lord, but there's no reason
this should be so. Indeed, as far as the New Adventures are concerned,
they definitely aren't.
And perhaps the War Lord wasn't aware of a Time Lord's regenerative ability?
Shannon
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