(July 16, 2017 at 4:29 pm)pocaracas Wrote:(July 16, 2017 at 4:09 pm)Cecelia Wrote: It did, I thought.
Haven't seen the past season yet, but didn't the 11th Doctor get extra regenerations after Clara asked Gallfrey to help him so he could take on the Daleks in The Time of the Doctor?
I don't remember that...but sure...why not make the regenerations something that the government of Gallifrey can add to?
It's not like it's always been a sort of biological ability that all time lords have, is it?
It was in Matt Smiths last Christmas episode. As for regeneration itself, as with most explanations of Time Lord lore, the go to answer is: Rassilon did it.
Rassilon in the new series is insane / evil but in the original series he was the highly respected founder of Time Lord society and helped invented time travel and regeneration as well as most other things. So it's totally possible that Rassilon granted a new set of regenerations to the Doctor in order to ensure that the Doctor could find Gallifrey.
