Dr Who speculation (update)

Further to my earlier post about the fevered speculation surrounding the upcoming final episode of Dr Who later today, I have been hither and thither looking for the best of the speculation, here's some from Gallifrey One:

"l0256225 - Apologies for posting so late but could only just get to computer. The news on the regeneration i've been given about 2 hours ago is that as DT was only half hit by the dalek rays only one of his hearts dies and needs to regenerate, this is what causes him to split into 2 DT's, each with only 1 working heart and making him more human. Apparently the changing of spiecies is one of the running themes of the series.

By the end of the episode the 2 doctors do rejoin as 1 single timelord again, this joining is the reference of the 3 fold man (single heart doctor + single heart doctor = 2 heart doctor).

I know some of you may call BS on this, but this is from the same source that told me prior to christmas there was a regeneration toward the end of the series. None of you believed me then but it turned out to be true. Have a feeling this may be true too."


"Axis - Surely the only point of the split, and making a spare Doctor, is so that you can kill one off dramatically?"


"Holly - OK how's this for an idea? - Donna's double heartbeat bit in TL is her 'becoming' a timelady because of i dunno, the huon particles? Wilfred Mott being a time lord? (the anagram WTF, Time Lord having been unearthed on the what is donna poll thread). Sooo she's a timelady but the Doctor is two humans, and if either of them die, they.... die, no regen. so one of them dies, and donna realises if the other one dies then the earth is screwed, as in TL, and sacrifices her own life and her .... timeywimeyness sort of.... transfers into the remaining human doctor, replacing his timelord status, and this does something awful to her resulting in the eternal death Dalek Caan was burbling about.
oh, and he gets all her possible regenerations and they can have oodles more doctors?

it was worth a try..."


"king_ghidorah - Harriet Jones took the Master's ring at the end of LOTL. (don't moan! her ringtone was a dead giveaway...) He had hypno-thigh-sed her. Or something. She uses the subwave network, developed from Archangel by the Copper Foundation, to contact the Doctor's friends and thus the Doctor. As seen in the Stolen Earth.

But the signal contains...something else. The Master's ring contained his genetic make-up - thank you, Dr Lazarus! - and this is transmitted into the TARDIS. To wait.

When the Doctor needs to regenerate, he should be in the TARDIS. He doesn't need to be, but it's been noted that it helps. Why? The state of temporal grace helps the actual process, but mainly because his genetic make-up is boosted by the semi-sentient machine to ensure that he becomes him again. This time, however, the Master's genetic make-up contaminates and overtakes the weakened Doctor's.

When the Doctor regenerates, he completely becomes the Master.

Fortunately, some regeneration energy arcs over to his hand-in-a-jar and we get David Tennant as a fully-fledged Doctor, ready to fight the Daleks and the Master - to varying degrees - and go off to play Hamlet and not do a series next year and make us all wait for specials instead."


"Balzac - Ooh can I play? After all, no 'good' idea ever died of loneliness... so here comes my implausible and caffeine addled take on it.

The Doctor is regenerating. No doubt about that, is there? Presumably he can't/won't just regenerate into himself (which would be a bit pony, wouldn't it?), and I think we can guess that the pickled fist comes into play somehow.

So, what if...

When the Master was shot at the end of The Last of the Time Lords, he didn't just die, and he didn't transfer his essence into that ring. ( Maybe that's a red-nailed herring.)

Instead, he passed his essence into the Doctor, to lie dormant until his next regeneration. Don't ask me how. This is Sci-Fi, okay? And that's just the sort of thing the Master would do. Last time it was an implausible looking snake. This time its the Doctor. Probably involved a Chameleon ring, or some such. The point is - the Master is already with the Doctor, and has been since the beginning of Series 4.

Still with me...?

On regenerating, the Doctor becomes a Master-Doctor hybrid (brown suit), and the pickled fist grows to becomes the Doctor (blue suit). A sort of Threefold Man, if you like. But with only two suits.

If you want cream on top, then maybe the Master is defeated, enabling *someone*, *somehow* (it'll probably involve rings) to revert the Master-Doctor back to 'our' Doctor. The Hand-Doctor dies dramatically saving the day, tidying everything up, and causing Davros & the Daleks to lower their guard leading to their apparent defeat.

And then Gallifrey pops out of the Crucible, where the Time Lords have been practicing 27-ball interplanetary billiards for - like - *ages*. Someone inadvertenty pots one planet from the seventh dimension into a black hole, and everything kicks off again.

No?"