Talk:Romana (Doctor Who)
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About the regeneration business - please state the story that was given as the source of information for the bit just removed. If it is some untelevised story or any medium other than the TV series and TV movie, then it should , in my firm view, be discounted.
- Well, it's a well-established bit of fan speculation (based on [some rather large extrapolations from] the regen scene in Destiny and also the end of The War Games) but you were probably right to delete it. (Indeed, the fact that Romana's regeneration scene admits of such possibilities is one reason why a lot of people don't like it). --Bth
- it's true that at the end of Troughton, the Time Lords (though I don't think named as such) offer him a choice of bodies, which he refuses, and then choose Pertwee for him. However, they say "your appearance has changed before, it can change again" -- always seemed to me to imply that regeneration is not something innate. Because the TL mythos wasn't established then, the whole Troughton regeneration is maybe up for retconning, if anyone really cares that much. -- Tarquin
- Tarquin watch Episode 10 of The War Games again - they are definately identified as Time Lords - as for "your appearance has changed before, it can change again" - it is just another way of describing the regeneration process - and i hardly think that all Time Lord regenerations would be as random as the Doctor's - specially on Gallifrey itself.
- whoa! steady on there! I may remember this sort of stuff (inaccurately, as you can see), but I don't actually have any of them on tape! The last episode of DW I watched was the final Sylvester McCoy one. Yes, "your appearance has changed before, it can change again" does describe regen, but it implies that on this occasion they are forcing it. That's if I remember the line correctly. -- Tarquin
- If the Time Lords can chose the next incarnation's appearance when they force a regeneration they they may be able to do the same when its voluntary - but all the Doctor's regenerations (except for his second) have been where there has been no time for all that malarky - just survival.
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In the 2005 Season 27, they've started a plot thread saying that "The War" (as yet undescribed in any detail) turned Gallifrey into a burned-out husk and that The Doctor is "the last Timelord". This doesn't seem to be the same thing as the novels' erasing them from history, because other alien characters remember that there were Timelords, implying that they weren't erased from history altogether. I would assume he's "the last Timelord" because being isolationist all the Timelords live on Gallifrey, and if you destroy Gallifrey you kill them all...but Romana wasn't on Gallifrey. She's in the parallel dimension E-space. Does this mean she survived or died? If she died, they'd have to explain how she got out of E-space and returned to Gallifrey. This is quite perplexing and should be addressed (of course, the Fall of Gallifrey in The War seems to be a major subplot starting with Season 27).
- Something that we'll just have to wait and see. This level of speculation is really beyond the scope of an encyclopedia article. --khaosworks 22:22, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)