[net.tv.drwho] Regenerations when they're not needed

allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) (12/25/85)

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Quoted from <5020107@acf4.UUCP> ["Re: How do you kill a Time Lord?"], by percus@acf4.UUCP (Allon G. Percus)...
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| How does one explain Pertwee's Doctor's very poor bodily condition
| after "having been regenerated," as opposed to Romana II's flawless
| physiological performance in "Destiny of the Daleks"?  In both cases,
| there was no harm to the body before the regeneration, and I would
| imagine that the Time Lords can perform a regeneration on someone
| as skillfully as that person could do it himself.  So, if that's the
| case, Pertwee's Doctor should be in as good, or better shape in
| "Spearhead from Space" as Romana II in "Destiny of the Daleks."
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Romana did it to herself; it was forced on Troughton->Pertwee from outside.
He probably fought it (unconsciously?), which would account for his condition.
Perhaps it was an ``incomplete'' regenereation?

--Brandon
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