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I stopped watching old Doctor Who before some of you were even born, so I can't claim to be an expert. But the key serials I've heard referred to by others are the Fourth Doctor one "The Deadly Assassin" (which establishes the Regen limit at 12, and that more enrrgy is needed to get more) and the Fifth Doctor one "Mawdryn Undead" (which confirms the 5Doc is his fifth incarnation and reiterates Timelords have a set amount of energy). But if it is just a case of getting more energy then I suspect they'll find a way around it somehow. There are all sorts of ways he might do so, which perhaps were barred to the Master, as an outcast and criminal, by mainstream Timelord society. The Doctor might not feel constrained any more by what could just be "not the done thing" when there's no one else around to invoke this taboo.
quote:Originally posted by TSN: Even if it were a word, shouldn't they have been saying "exterminieren Sie"? As it was, it was like they were zipping around yelling "To exterminate! To exterminate!"
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I just re-watched "The Deadly Assassin" on YouTube, they refer mostly to the fact that a Time Lord has twelve regenerations and must accept death afterwards, which the Master was trying to circumvent by accessing the Eye of Harmony - though there was no garuntee that this would work. Ironically, the Master ends up IN the Eye of Harmony at the end of the TVM. Maybe in a roundabout way he got what he wanted, since the next time we see him he's in a new body with resumably twelve more regenerations to waste. He said that the Time Lords resurrected him, but not how; his being in the EoH having something to do with it makes a whole lot of sense.
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