[ SECRET POST #2610 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2610 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies]


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03.
[Twin Peaks]


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04.
[DC Comics, Strix and Batgirl]


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05.
[my mad fat diary]


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06.
[Sekai Seifuku]


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07.
[Lindsey Stirling]


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08.
[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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09.
[Attack on Titan]


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10.
[How to Train Your Dragon]


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11.
[Figure Skating]


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12.
[A Wild Endeavour]


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13.
[American Horror Story]


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14.
[The Americans]

















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 061 secrets from Secret Submission Post #372.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Unpopular Fan Theories

[(Anonymous)]

The twelve-regeneration limit on Time Lords was statutory, not absolute, the conservation of a limited resource for a large population. (There is canon supporting this reading, BTW.)

The Doctor actually died dozens of times during the Time War, brief lives, some less than a day long, that were deleted out of reality along with the rest of the War.

Re: Unpopular Fan Theories

[(Anonymous)]

The twelve-regeneration limit on Time Lords was statutory, not absolute, the conservation of a limited resource for a large population. (There is canon supporting this reading, BTW.)

I thought this WAS widely accepted? A bunch of the Master's storylines after the Delgado era backed it up. In 'The Deadly Assassin' he tries to give himself new lives using a means that will destroy Gallifrey if he succeeds, which implies it's less than safe, but in 'The Five Doctors' the Time Lords basically bribe him with the promise of a new set of regenerations if he cooperates, so apparently it's only unsafe to steal them rather than be assigned them. In the Eighth Doctor movie, he tries to steal the Doctor's regenerations directly, so they're transferable between Time Lords, but again terribly unsafe. And the Time Lords apparently resurrected him themselves during the Time War and he got at least one extra regeneration out of that.

In between, of course, the Master survives without Time Lord given regenerations by reverting to a ghost-like entity at several points (between Crispy Master and Ainley, and before robbing another body in the Movie, not to mention whatever the hell happened between him being sucked into the Eye of Harmony and being resurrected by the Time Lords), which could be a base form for Time Lords and the 'bodies' are all a later, technologically assisted ability. It's possible that the bodies Time Lords have were hard-coded for a certain number of regenerations, adjustable by the Time Lords as a society but dangerous for individual Time Lords to try on their own, hence why the Master keeps going back to Gallifrey for them or failing that trying to rob the Doctor in increasingly dangerous ways.

I thought this was a fairly common theory, especially since 'Five Doctors' when the Time Lords flat out bribed the Master with regenerations. The Master as a character basically runs on the idea that regenerations are not absolute, and desperation to renew them created one of the most dangerous criminals Gallifrey had ever seen (which says interesting things about them as a society, when you think about it).

I mean, are there people who disagree with the idea? There's wiggle room, but essentially the Master's entire story after Delgado is one big confirmation that the regeneration limits are NOT hard biological rules, not in the face of Time Lord technology or the individual stubbornness of a particularly brilliant and psychotic Time Lord.

Re: Unpopular Fan Theories

[(Anonymous)]

See, you and I agree on this, but there's an awful lot of folks out there who have absorbed the idea that it's an absolute rule. Not sure how.

Re: Unpopular Fan Theories

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Actually, now that I think about it, it could be canon for the NuWho Doctor? In that, in the absence of the Time Lords and their technology, the 12-regeneration limit is now an absolute rule for him, because the technology to gain more is on the other side of a Time Lock at present. It mightn't be that regenerations were always absolute, but that they have become so since the Time War?

Because the Master has proved that an individual Time Lord, no matter how brilliant, can't just manufacture new regenerations without Gallifreyan technology. He can steal them from other Time Lords, or he can just hijack other bodies entirely from his proto-form, but the technology to actually produce/assign them appears to have been uniquely Gallifreyan and probably under heavy lock-and-key, since in 'Deadly Assassin' the Master had to attempt to use old Rassilon-era tech with possibly cataclysmic consequences for the entire planet.

So it is entirely possible that any Time Lords stranded on this side of the Time Lock actually can't increase their regeneration limits any more? Not unless they can re-invent the technology from scratch, anyway. Maybe that's what people are referring to in the NuWho era.