15 Annoying Mistakes You Never Noticed In Doctor Who
8. Your Lifespan May Vary
The average lifespan of each of a Time Lords Regenerations has never been precisely nailed down but there have always been rough ballpark figures based on the admittedly vague ages of the Doctor. The First Doctor hit old age before he was 256 and left Gallifrey, and (judging by his age being 400 in 1967s Tomb Of The Cybermen) managed to chalk up around three-and-a-half centuries in his first body. Meanwhile the War Doctor appears to have eked out a couple of incredibly stressful centuries before going the way of the First Doctor and starting to wear a bit thin. So judging by that, a Time Lords average lifespan would seem to be around three to four hundred years. Case closed. Until the Eleventh Doctor fouled things up by somehow managing to live for over a thousand years. The Eleventh Doctor put off his death at the end of Series 6 by a few hundred years and came out at the other end without a mark on him. And then spent another nine hundred years defending Trenzalore; not starting to approach old age for another three hundred years and managing to keep going for another six hundred before Regenerating. The Tenth Doctors boast of being 903 years old doesnt seem so hot anymore. As with most discrepancies in Doctor Who, theres always some kind of flimsy explanation if you think hard enough. And if his incredibly long lifespan was trait of that particular body, then the Eleventh Doctor certainly won the body lottery. While the Sixth Doctor lost big time with a body weak enough for a bump on the head to be fatal.
JG Moore is a writer and filmmaker from the south of England. He also works as an editor and VFX artist, and has a BA in Media Production from the University Of Winchester.
