WTF?

Oct. 18th, 2010 07:08 pm
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Okay, this is several days old so I may be the last to know, but word is that the BBC is going to completely do away with the 12 Regenerations Only piece of show canon. No explanations, just gone. And even odder, they're going to do it in Eleven's upcoming appearance on the Sarah Jane Adventures rather than address it in the parent show.

One source of many.

I wonder whose call that was. It seems like a blithe way to get rid of such an old "rule". I had been expecting something more grand if they chose to retcon that, maybe something special on the 13th regeneration that would negate the rule. But no, looks like they're just going to ignore any reasoning behind it. Hrm.

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Date: 2010-10-18 11:18 pm (UTC)
ext_2410: (Comic Uh)
From: [identity profile] kimberlyfdr.livejournal.com
WTF?! Is Russell T. Davies going to seriously ruin the show's decades old canon? I hope not!

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Date: 2010-10-18 11:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] castalianspring.livejournal.com
*shrug* I dunno. Rusty's only still working on SJA, not DW. So it could be him, it could be Moffatt, or it could be some bigwigs at the BBC who think it's better to keep the franchise running as long as it can.

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Date: 2010-10-19 04:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dragoness22.livejournal.com
ok, they've got to at least lampshade it or something... "Good thing you're so determined, Doctor, otherwise you couldn't have managed to regenerate that extra time!" or have the Doctor be all "what? How am I... huh?" and then have it a plot point, him figuring out how he regenerated more than the norm... I mean, hasn't the Master exceeded his 12 regenerations? I know someone adversarial has...

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Date: 2010-10-19 02:38 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] deborak
They could turn him an immortal vampire to better fit the current marketing trends.

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