Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2015 06:55:09 +0000 (UTC)
From: Tamar Lindsay <dicconf at dmarc-yahoo.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Dr. Who
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Sure. Years ago the Council offered extra regenerations to the  Master when they wanted him to do something for him. Rassilon was involved in that one, too.
Regeneration is a process, not inborn to Gallifreyans. (And there was one episode that has been carefully ignored ever since, in which a different culture had a much better process.)

The definition of "Time Lord" is iffy, in my opinion, but at least once a Doctor said that once his regenerations were used up he wouldn't be a Time Lord any more. I think that was writer-flaw; the plot also involved his being able to give his regenerations to someone else, which doesn't sound right. But the producers never worried about keeping things consistent.

=Tamar, watched Classic Who, never watched these new guys.

On Sunday, December 6, 2015 12:12 AM, mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
Ok... just saw tonights (as well as the Xmas special), so I'm sort of
overWhoed (does that make this Whoville?).

Anyway... in the show, Rassilon said something that has me wondering... about
both River and Clara: he said, "how many regenerations have we granted him?".

Does this mean that the Council, at least, can *grant* more regenerations to
someone? And if so... River? Clara? Suppose Clara were to be granted a
regeneration... *while in the Tardis*. Would she mutate to become another Time
Lord?

    mark