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Hmm…seems as though that the Doctor may be regenerating, but he isn’t taking it lying down…

“The Time of the Doctor” airs at 9/8c on BBC America, and 8/7c on Space in Canada, on December 25th.
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While we all await “The Time of the Doctor” on Christmas Day, don’t forget that “The Day of the Doctor” is available on [sfs=1371]Blu-ray[/sfs] and [sfs=1372]DVD[/sfs] tomorrow! Order now!

It’s official…BBC America will air this year’s Christmas episode, “The Time of the Doctor”, which is expected to be Matt Smith’s last and a regeneration to Peter Capaldi, on Christmas evening at 9/8c.

So it’s hardly a secret that Peter Capaldi is taking over the role of the Doctor starting with this year’s Christmas episode of Doctor Who (titled “The Time of the Doctor”), and he had a very small cameo (well, his eyes did) in “The Day of the Doctor”. But the Daily Mirror published this article, which claims that Matt Smith will reveal that he is in fact the 13th Doctor – not the 11th as always thought, and not the 12th including John Hurt’s War Doctor – and is now facing his own death.

It is claimed that the “missing” regeneration is because of the metacrisis – when Tennant’s Doctor saved himself by diverting the regeneration energy into his previously severed hand in “Journey’s End” (and then forming another copy of himself).

Leaving aside the many ways in which showrunner Steven Moffat can write around the regeneration limit, this seems to be discounting something that happened right in the “The Day of the Doctor”!

SPOILER WARNING: In case you haven’t seen “The Day of the Doctor” yet, read no further. Then again, if you haven’t seen it by now…WHY NOT?!?
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In case you haven’t seen it yet…there was another special related to Doctor Who – but it wasn’t broadcast in the U.S. It’s called “The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot”, created by the Fifth Doctor himself, Peter Davison, and looks at what happens when Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy are determined to appear in the 50th Anniversary special episode, even though they aren’t actually invited…lots of cameos by former companions, family members, etc.
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All time coordinates are set to tomorrow for the debut of “Day of the Doctor”, but in the meantime we have another minisode just released…this time, we get a first person look at what it was like to be a new soldier on Gallifrey, at what appears to be the end of the Time War…

As an added bonus, check out the Google Doodle, which is a Doctor Who-themed game (you may need to go to google.co.uk to see it).
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[By the way, if you are in the U.S., BBC America will air “Day of the Doctor” at 2:50pm ET, in conjunction with the global simulcast.]

So, after letting the mini-episode teaser for Doctor Who, “Night of the Doctor” (if you haven’t seen it, see it here) sink in, I have a variety of thoughts, both as to how it relates to the Doctor (and the upcoming 50th Anniversary episode, “The Day of the Doctor”) as well as a couple items in my essay I posted this week.

Spoilers beware…
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And now, here’s a teaser for the upcoming docudrama about the creation of Doctor Who, “An Adventure in Space and Time”, written by Mark Gatiss and starring David Bradley as William Hartnell and Jessica Raine as Verity Lambert.

In the U.S., this will premiere on Friday, November 22nd, at 10/9c on BBC America.
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If you’ve followed the saga of the Doctor, and the many questions that have come up about his regenerations…prepare to have your mind blown…
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A recent comment by showrunner Steven Moffat has thrown Doctor Who fandom into chaos – just how many times has the Doctor regenerated? It is established canon that a Time Lord can only regenerate 12 times (giving him 13 incarnations), barring external influence (more on that later). And since the revival, we’ve all worked on the assumption that we were seeing the 9th, 10th, and 11th Doctor. The last episode threw in a wrench – A possibly previously unknown Doctor (or “non-Doctor”, per Smith – I’ll refer to the incarnations by the actor’s name), which would likely boost everyone at least from Eccleston up by one. But this also got me thinking about regeneration in general – what is it, how do completely different bodies and personalities come about, what control is there, and how does the limit work?
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