TWRoO said:
The last few epsodes Karen Gillan has mainly been a guest rather than The Doctor's companion. Shame to see her go, maybe she will come back on occasion a-la Billie Piper and Freema Agyeman. (although they have been entirely absent from the 11th Doctor, the only link between 11th and previous Doctor's has been River Song) Also yeah I remember something about it being 12 regenerations, but I don't think it has been mentioned about a limit in any of the new series... I expect it will be glossed over when the time comes that the 12th Doctor doesn't want to continue. |
The "512 regenerations" Dannie is talking about is a comment the eleventh Doctor makes in the Sarah Jane spinoff. The black boy in the series (Clyde? His name eludes me) asks the Doctor how many times he can regenerate, and the Doctor replies 507. It's delivered as something of a joke, though, and probably not worth reading too much into.
They're almost definitely not going to end the show because of the 13-lives limit, though. The limit first appeared in a Tom Baker story (The Deadly Assassin, was it?), and the writer of the story has later said that he only chose the number 13 because it was a nice number, and they were never going to reach that amount of Doctors anyway.
They've already dodged the regeneration limit a few times, though. The Master has been given at least one new regeneration cycle (in the Time War at least, and there was something about it in the Five Doctors too).
A bit more on-topic, my favourite Doctor is the tenth one, played by David Tennant. Then the second-place is a three-way tie between Matt Smith, Christoffer Eccleston and Patrick Troughton, all of which were absolutely fantastic in the role. I also really liked the Peter Davison Doctor, so he's definitely my 5th favourite. None of the other 6 Doctors particularly pickled my fancy.
