10 Important Doctor Who Questions NOBODY Can Answer
Compared to these mind-boggling questions, answering "Doctor Who?" is a walk in the park!
There are many reasons to envy people who are coming to Doctor Who for the first time. Twitter user jeje has reminded many of us just how brilliant the Steven Moffat and Matt Smith era of the show was, and it's been a thrill to experience it all again through their tweets.
If only we could go back to a simpler time when all we had to keep track of was how many Doctors there were, or decide where in the show's 60-year history would be a good place to start watching.
Because once you're properly into Doctor Who, you start to ask yourself much bigger questions. We know that there are Doctor Who questions that must never be answered, but there are also those that can never be satisfactorily solved.
Whether it's concepts too huge and confusing to realise in a mainstream entertainment show on Disney+, or the whereabouts of vitally important characters we've never met, Doctor Who is full of unanswerable questions.
We can try and provide solutions to some of them, but nobody, not even showrunners like Russell T Davies, can provide rock-solid answers. At least, not yet.
10. Can Time Lords Regenerate Into Animals Or Aliens?
To be honest, regeneration could take up all ten entries in this list. How does it sometimes change the Doctor's clothes? How can the Doctor and Romana choose their future faces?
But most pressingly of all, can Time Lords only regenerate into British character actors?
Generally? Yes. That's mainly what we see, after all. But there are some hints throughout Doctor Who history that suggest otherwise. For example, just before regeneration, the Ninth Doctor speculated that his next incarnation could grow another head. The Eleventh Doctor also checked to see if he had a full set of human anatomy in The End of Time.
And then, of course, there's Destiny of the Daleks, in which Romana regenerates into a small blue alien and an eight-foot-tall goddess. Meanwhile, other media – like the lockdown webcast The Secret of Novice Hame – has even suggested that the Doctor can become an animal.
So while it may be possible, we'll probably never get a definitive answer on whether the Doctor can be an animal or an alien, and you know what, that's for the best.
As fans we freak out when the sonic screwdriver gets an update, so god knows how we'd handle Dog-tor Who.