what happens to the doctor after his thirteenth rejeneration

[thegatebuilders]

i know the time lords can rejenerate a maximum of thirteen times, so what happens after that, does he simply die.

[The Signal]

12 times, he can regenerate 12 times. And yes, he just dies, though if the show is still going strong at the point where the 13th Doctor wants to leave (the actor obviously) TPTB will get around it.

[Hulabaloo]

Oh god i hope not.

[Metarock Sam]

Well hopefully theyll get around it doing something really cool or something.

[The Signal]

Had it not been for School Reunion I would say that they would say that he wasnt actually the Doctor from the old series, meaning DT would be the 2nd Doctor. With that option well and truly out of the window, Im going to go with him having a new regeneration cycle granted to him in the Time War.

[Darkseid]

The Doctor will die.

The show that will replace it will be Mickey and Jackie Tyler in; 'THE ODD COUPLE 3000"

[Metarock Sam]

Or the Show will turn into Rose as she discovers that she is a timelord.

[Darkseid]

Or the Show will turn into Rose as she discovers that she is a timelord.

After watching this past weeks episode, I can believe that she and Sarah Jane Smith could have some adventures together once Rose gets back to Earth for good. That would be kinda interesting...

[creed462]

I think that somehow he will get another Regeneration cycle

[Metarock Sam]

After watching this past weeks episode, I can believe that she and Sarah Jane Smith could have some adventures together once Rose gets back to Earth for good. That would be kinda interesting...

Perhaps Something could happen to Jackie and in the end Sarah Jane takers her in under her wing.

[Wraith Scientist]

Had it not been for School Reunion I would say that they would say that he wasnt actually the Doctor from the old series, meaning DT would be the 2nd Doctor.

I would have liked that option

However, there are some discrepancies between these series and the previous, and these series feel like 'Doctor Who Redone' rather than 'Doctor Who Continued', so maybe this series takes place in an entirely different universe/timeline/continuity than the last series, and the new simply 'borrows' aspects from the old. Maybe this Doctor did have a companion called SJS, but it wasn't the SJS of the previous series? This is also implied by SJS talking about her 'romantic' relationship with the Doctor. And it was implied that the Doctor left her to fight in the time war ('everybody died'), rather than what happened in the actual series. After seeing his race perish he might have been suitably grief-ridden to leave her lest he get attached and watch her die too.

This theory is also supported by the minor changes that have been made in the new series.

With his comment about time lords never aging and having to watch their friends grow old and die, he gave the impression that the time lords are immortal. Maybe the time lords of this series don't have the regeneration limit of the last series?

The previous series don't mention the time war either, but that probably came after.

I prefer to think that the Doctor now is a new Doctor, but share characteristics of the 'old Doctor'. 'Doctor Who Redone' rather than 'Doctor Who Continued'

That way, we can considerably simplify the timeline and remove several massive plot holes in one go

[The Signal]

With his comment about time lords never aging and having to watch their friends grow old and die, he gave the impression that the time lords are immortal. Maybe the time lords of this series don't have the regeneration limit of the last series?

Well really, barring accidents they are, a Time Lord can live for almost eternity, only the 1st Doctor seemed to die of old age, but it could have been for other reasons that we just didnt realise, it wasnt really addressed by the show.

[Metarock Sam]

It wasnt old age, more exhaustion that caused the first Doctor to regenerate.

[Wraith Scientist]

Well really, barring accidents they are, a Time Lord can live for almost eternity, only the 1st Doctor seemed to die of old age, but it could have been for other reasons that we just didnt realise, it wasnt really addressed by the show.

From Dalek

DOCTOR: They're never gonna come! Your race is dead! You all burnt, all of you. Ten million ships on fire - the entire Dalek race wiped out in one second.

DALEK: You lie!

DOCTOR: I watched it happen. I made it happen.

DALEK: You destroyed us?

DOCTOR: I had no choice.

DALEK: And what of the Time Lords?

DOCTOR: Dead. They burnt with you. The end of the last great Time War. Everyone lost.

They seem to be quite mortal here - vunerable to fire ... hmm ...

Maybe they can only regenerate so much - if you destroy the body completely then they can't regererate, but otherwise they have a potentially infinite set of regenerations and don't age.

I stand by my theory that these aren't the time lords of the previous series
It makes more sense to me that way

[Metarock Sam]

i time Lords can be killed through the use of disintegrater laser weapons for example the weapons carried by the Gallifreyan royal guard (The Castellan in the Five Doctors was killed this way) and an Daleks beam cannon. Alot of evidence supporst this.