~| |~ Introduction ~| |~

As you proberbly know, I have been a Doctor Who fan (or Whovian) since I was very young. The first episode I can remember watching must have been 'The Android Invasion'. A Tom Baker episode from 1975 which I remember watching in about 1993 on UK Gold. Ever since this episode, I have been watching Doctor Who ever since. I have a vast knowlege of Doctor Who seeing as i have most episodes on VHS and DVD. I have the complete 2005 series and have been anylising the similarities and differences between the old and new series.

~| |~ The Doctor ~| |~

The Doctor is a scientist from a planet called Gallifrey who is part of a special group of Gallifreyians called Time Lords who discovered the sectet to traveling in time and space with the help of Omega. After this, the scientists were re-named timelords. Some timelords got given a time and space traveling machine to observe other planets, but the doctor did not so he and Susan (his supposed grandaughter) stole one of these machines. Susan then later named it T.A.R.D.I.S (Time and Relative Dimention in Space) and the Doctor continued traveling through time and space saving planets from evil.

~| |~ Regeneration ~| |~

In all, the Doctor should have thirteen regenerative lives. At the moment the Doctor is in his tenth regeneration. Every time the doctor does regenerate, not only does he go through a dramatic change of apperence, but he also has to go through the hard process of getting together his old memories and emotions as well as getting aquired to his new ones. Usually it takes one whole episode to get the doctor fully regenerated and back in one piece but in all after he has regenerated, he has ten hours after to regenerate so he is fully happy with who he is. Also when he regenerates, he shows signs of his old characters as well as some new traits that makes him even more so unusual than before!

In the 1996 television movie of Doctor Who, we saw the doctor regenerate for the seventh time where his eighth self was played by Paul McGann. This was quite possibly the hardest regeneration for the Doctor yet as the surgeons who were operating on him to save his life after being shot, thought he was a normal human being. They took x-rays and didnt believe that he had two hearts and passed it off as a bad x-ray and when they opened him up, they couldnt find their way around and killed him. Or so they thought, he regenerated in the hospital morge and because of the surgeons not knowing that he is a timelord, he is now half human. My theory of this is that once the Doctor was put under anesthetic, the regenerative process was harmed meaning that he had to take human molecules to help him regenerate. I may be wrong about this one though because the doctor states to Grace that he is half human on his mothers side so it might just be a thing that was never brought up before and the writers just decided to add it in. So he might have been half human all along!

Whether or not the writers of Doctor Who are remembering that he is half human for the new series is completley unknown to me but even though the TV Movie has been classed as part of the TV series it should be refered to somewhere in the story to come but i think that even though they are classing it as part of the series they dont actually want to take anything from it because everybody knows that the movie is a big pile of shit.

In my oppinion, the eighth regeneration is yet to be explained because there is a massive chunk that has been left out of the Doctor Who storyline that needs to be filled.

My theory of the eighth regeneration is that when the Doctor left San Fransisco in the TV Movie, he got called back to Gallifrey after a while of saving other worlds to fight the third and final Time War between Gallifrey and the Daleks. Where I see it, the doctor was the person in charge of the Gallifreyan Army and he decided that he needed to attack the daleks full pelt with everything they had to destroy them for good. He knew that his plan would destroy the Daleks but would also destroy his planet and people. This was the hardest decission he had to make because he has run his life on the basis of saving the innocent not killing them bu the Daleks left him no choice. So he destroyed the planet, all of his people and even himself to destroy the daleks completley. The doctor then regenerated into his ninth form and continued to save the universe alone until he met Rose, which i feel fills the chunk left out quite well! Thats my theory on the matter anyway.

In the new TV Series the doctor refers to himself as Immortal. This has also been unexplained by the writers as the Doctor only has thirteen regenerative bodies. My theory on this is that now that he is the the only Time Lord left and no one higher up than him on his own plane to limit his regenerative cycle. In the five doctors, the Council of Gallifrey offered the Master a whole new regeneration cycle which shows that the Time Lords have the power to give more life to ofther Gallifreyans. Now that there is no Council, the Doctor must have got that power from the time lords so he no longer has only thirteen regenerations but an infinate ammount. Either this or he is just saying that he is Immortal because he is rareley ever defeated and has three more regenerations to go.

~| |~ The Doctor's Age ~| |~

The age of the Doctor is never really clear or accurate according to the TV Series. In memory, I believe his age has ranged from about 500 to 900 in earth years since he has been on air. This is easily explained seeing as we have no idea how long he traveled around after the TV movie and the Time War. So in Earth terms, yes maybe he has aged dramatically since the original series. As the Doctors appearence never seems to change over episodes, he always looks as if his current body hasn't aged at all. Which holds the question, does the Doctor actually age? The Doctor is immortal. This means that he lives forever. So does he ever get older?

Even though he is living, no he doesnt grow older. He just lives through time like us whereas time has stood still for his body. So really his age should be calculated by how old his body looks and not how long he has lived. So the doctor at the moment (played by David Tennant) is proberbly in his mid 30's and will stay that way till he regenerates again.

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- Words by Bobby O'Beirne -