@PhileasF  Can I trouble you to repost that here:

http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/sidrat/regeneration/

Its a great post – and contains much to discuss…at length…

Cheers

@ardaraith                True enough. although, interestingly, the only other woman we have seen regenerate had much the same attitude: see Romana in Destiny of the Daleks.  🙂

@ardaraith            Moffat likes to repeat himself with variations. 🙂

@ScaryB                 I thought the prequel was set in their joint memories – intimitng that there might be a frozen in time moment as […]

@miapatrick

 I don’t know. I saw some difference between ‘Mels’ and ‘River’. They shared traits, which they would, having at that point exactly the same memories, but I do think they were different ‘people’, and […]

@Bluesqueakpip

the only way the Doctor can die in fact is if we’re in a ‘time can be changed’ scenario – and frankly, Moffat’s already done ‘the Doctor dies’. I don’t think he’s going to be so careless a writer […]

@Timeloop.    I don’t think Clara is definitely in love with the Doctor. Listens carefully to what she says. I think it is classic Moffat – sounds like something but actually is something else. Lovey-schmovey

 
@Craig.  @Phaseshift. @JimTheFish

I have just discovered that I’m going to have to go into a bit of confinement on Friday and will miss Sat – I will be out of action tilmWednesday next week it seems. No […]

@PhaseShift.  Guilty as charged. Kind of anyway. Yes, I wanted him to go. But I wanted him to have a better deal than he got.

Hated the Watcher concept. And I hated how they killed him.

So I have always […]

@Timeloop.       Suicide can be altruistic. I think all of the Doctors who died that way were altruistic….the exception for me is Tom Baker, because he seemed to me to justo give up – he had had enough.

I did […]

@shazzbot  Sorry, forgot.

i think the regeneration image of 10 becoming 11 was just to emphasise the process to the Cyberiad.

@shazzbot

I think @ScaryB is right – some of my characterisations may be my own take. Tom Baker seemed to me to give up, to let go of the Telescope and therefore commit suicide by falling to his death. But it […]

If anyone is interested there is a memories related blog entry here:

Permalink:http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/sidrat/all-just-stories-in-the-end/

Come one and all.

Warning – it is VERY long….

@Shazzbot         I think it depends on each “character” of the Doctor. Tennant was not ready to regenerate but he had to because he had to take responsibility. Ecclestone went cheerfully enough, so did Davison […]

@SatsumaJoe        I don’t think we know exactly what happened but it looked to me that the Doctor said “take me”, gobble me up – but clara stepped in with the leaf and saved the Doctor.

That said, it did look […]