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shermarama....speculation about Dr. Who.
I doubt I'll be particularly satisfied with the ending, however it goes, anyway. And I've arranged to be staffing a beer festival in a field in rural Sussex at the same time as next week's. Still, we're getting free entry and camping, and payment for serving shifts in beer tokens, so it's not all bad...
Well now. There's no way he's regenerating to someone else, I'd have heard about that, even though I've not been looking. So what else is going on? I think there's two basic options, which are:
1) Something about the weird time situation, the one second shift, means that he can't regenerate into a solid separate person and there'll be an empty suit on the floor with a) his personality being temporarily carried round by someone else, either the Tardis or one of the characters around somewhere (personally I'd like to see Bernard Cribbins getting a shot at it) or b) he'll be basically absent until the humans sort out the problem - and the resolution depends on whatever is on Donna's back, and everything'll get rewound and he won't have had to regenerate so it'll all be undone. Fits the pattern of many previous situations, but hmm.
2) The hand! The presence of the hand will allow him to regenerate to being the same person again, using the genetic material in it as a template, with the hand being either destroyed or sort of used up in the process to prevent this being a device for him to always do that. Does that use up a regeneration? Will that get taken away again if time gets rewound when Donna does whatever it is Donna has to do? Do we care, given that it seems pretty likely to all be a rewind job again?
1) Something about the weird time situation, the one second shift, means that he can't regenerate into a solid separate person and there'll be an empty suit on the floor with a) his personality being temporarily carried round by someone else, either the Tardis or one of the characters around somewhere (personally I'd like to see Bernard Cribbins getting a shot at it) or b) he'll be basically absent until the humans sort out the problem - and the resolution depends on whatever is on Donna's back, and everything'll get rewound and he won't have had to regenerate so it'll all be undone. Fits the pattern of many previous situations, but hmm.
2) The hand! The presence of the hand will allow him to regenerate to being the same person again, using the genetic material in it as a template, with the hand being either destroyed or sort of used up in the process to prevent this being a device for him to always do that. Does that use up a regeneration? Will that get taken away again if time gets rewound when Donna does whatever it is Donna has to do? Do we care, given that it seems pretty likely to all be a rewind job again?
I doubt I'll be particularly satisfied with the ending, however it goes, anyway. And I've arranged to be staffing a beer festival in a field in rural Sussex at the same time as next week's. Still, we're getting free entry and camping, and payment for serving shifts in beer tokens, so it's not all bad...
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Date: 2008-07-01 09:00 am (UTC)Why does Billie Piper suddenly have a speech impediment?
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Date: 2008-07-01 07:42 pm (UTC)Or... is it part of some cunning subplot and she'll turn out to have been hiding something vital in her gums for those scenes?
And as for Robert Carlyle - pah, that's just people thinking of another skinny dark-haired Scottish bloke. In my opinion, the only possible choice for 11 is Paul Bettany, with bleach-blond spiky punk hair. Oh yeah.
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Date: 2008-07-02 08:51 am (UTC)