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He already mentioned being a dad once in the second season. No details about that are released, but at least this time he certainly relates it to his entire family dying in the Time War.
And Jenny was very well introduced. It has return visit written all over it, dunnit?
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The implication seemed to be that she was revived by the terraforming stuff, so I'm a little disappointed that there was no real explanation given for her failure to regenerate. The "maybe she wasn't enough like you" theory was kind of lame.
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Wasn't it explained somewhere that you have to be an actual Time Lord to get the regenerations? Perhaps Jenny was created as a "regular" Gallifreyan and not a Time Lord.
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Well then why would the Doctor seam to think it was a possibility? Clearly she didn't regenerate anyway, as her face and body were unchanged. So the terraform idea is probably what happened, contrived though it may be.
The fluffy energy stuff escaping from her mouth was basically the same as the fluffy energy stuff that the Doctor spewed out following his regeneration. That, combined with his ability to regrow things within a few hours of regeneration, leads me to think that she only regenerated the damaged areas just like he did. Doubt she's got Captain Jack-esque invulnerability, though.
It's been implied in the original series and several books that the Time Lords are not an actual race, but that Gallifreyans are "granted" twelve regenerations upon becoming a Time Lord. We don't actually know HOW regeneration works, but it's generally accepted that Gallifreyans as a race are not born innately able to regenerate.
"The fluffy energy stuff escaping from her mouth was basically the same as the fluffy energy stuff that the Doctor spewed out following his regeneration."
I think what the Doctor expelled was the energy he absorbed from Rose that she had absorbed from the TARDIS. Which, as I recall, was bright orange. What came out of Jenny (shouldn't it be "Genny"?) certainly appeared to be the same yellow and green stuff that came out of the terraforming ball.
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Wasn't that what actually killed him though? And I say again, if Gallifreyans don't naturally regenerate then why would The Doctor act like it was a possibility?
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He might be thinking that since he's already GOT altered DNA, that Jenny would have enough in her to do so. I personally think that he was simply grief-stricken after losing someone he had JUST accepted as his offspring, that he would knee-jerkedly think that Jenny should be able to regenerate. It's almost jarring when the Doctor DOESN'T have the answer, isn't it? Both Martha and Donna showed him up in this episode, in that sense.
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