Theory Doctor Who: Theories/ hypothesi about the Doctor?

[Nerdy Luigi 2,065]

What do you think is going to happen to the doctor after the 12th? How? Why?

 

I believe the doctor has 11 additional regenerations. I believe these regenerations were given to him by River. Remember the episode where the Doctor went to Trenzeloor, the one just before the 50th special? In that episode River had no more regenerations. A time lord (which she is human, but with time lord attributes) has 13. She was on her third. Assuming that she would also give her current regeneration, that's eleven. I think she did this because also recall that she is in the largest database in the universe. I think she gave him all of her regenerations to put her there. Therefore, there shall be at least 11 more seasons of Doctor Who!

[UserNotFound 964]

I read somewhere that timelords are able to grant second regeneration cycles... And that Clara begged them to grant him it... That's just my opinion

[Fhaolan 4,484]

The Time Lords being able to grant a new cycle of regenerations was established in the 20th anniversary special 'The Five Doctors', as an enticement to get the Master to actually help for a change. Given he was out of regenerations and stealing bodies at that point. With the new series that was solidified when the Master showed up again and was able to regenerate normally, mentioning that the Time Lords 'brought him back'.

 

In the Christmas special 'The Time of the Doctor', which I'm not going to spoiler because it was long enough ago, the Time Lords gave the Doctor *at least* one more regeneration. It's very likely an entire new cycle, given that he had to 'reset' first.

 

Also notice that the actual regeneration itself took a lot less 'energy' and was considerably faster than the most recent regenerations. The reset was immense though. Added together it reinforces the theory that each regeneration takes more and more energy to pull off. Which got 'reset' and now we're at the beginning.

 

The question is whether that regeneration after the reset counts towards the new cycle, or does it put him at the start? In other words, is Capaldi mapping to Hartnell or Troughton in the original series?

 

Of course, it was also implied in the original series with the episodes 'The Brain of Morbius' that this is not the first time the Doctor was granted a new cycle. During the mental combat with Morbius, past incarnations of the two were seen in the scanner of the machine. When the Doctor was losing, it went *past* Hartnell and was showing more incarnations supposedly prior to that.