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ow. I hate papercuts.
or paperburn.
1. If you blow a Highlander immortal up, is that as effective as taking their head? I mean, boom, they're dead, right?
2. Dot looks disturbingly attractive in Xena's peasant costume... She even has the boobilage for it.
3. Obviously, I need a good digital camera to take pictures of Action Figure Theatre, one of these days.
4. I need hot cocoa.
5. My headache was so bad at work today, I wanted to turn the lights out. Instead, I sat hunched, with the scarf my mother knitted me (which doubles as a shawl--this thing is frelling awesome) wrapped around my shoulder and serving as a half-decent sun visor.
6. How does work get done when my co-workers stand around talking half the day? I really don't get it.
1. If you blow a Highlander immortal up, is that as effective as taking their head? I mean, boom, they're dead, right?
2. Dot looks disturbingly attractive in Xena's peasant costume... She even has the boobilage for it.
3. Obviously, I need a good digital camera to take pictures of Action Figure Theatre, one of these days.
4. I need hot cocoa.
5. My headache was so bad at work today, I wanted to turn the lights out. Instead, I sat hunched, with the scarf my mother knitted me (which doubles as a shawl--this thing is frelling awesome) wrapped around my shoulder and serving as a half-decent sun visor.
6. How does work get done when my co-workers stand around talking half the day? I really don't get it.
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Well,
Now let me meet your question with a question of my own - If you blow up, shred/puree, vaporize, or otherwise messily kill a Time Lord, would they be able to regenerate into a new body from that? Would it use up more then one "life" in order to do it? Or would they, no matter what number life they're on, permanently die?
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Yet, we're not entirely certain what the general life-span of a time lord IS. Rassilon is older than any we know of, and if he's actually dead-dead, and not a deadish spirit hanging about for larks and giggles, I'll be shocked.
Might be something to ask on a DW comm, though. I'm just speculating, mostly.
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They also seem to treat all regenerations as sort of fragile and possibly unexpected things. The Doctor's rarely sure it's actually going to happen each time, and it always seems on the verge of going wrong. So I don't think it's as hard to kill a Timelord dead-dead as it seems, just be making the regeneration trickier than normal.
You don't seem to be taking into account that the Doctor isn't a normal case. His regenerations are always tricky - but he's always doing it under emergency conditions and he's the only one of them that's true of*.
We saw Romana exercise a fine control over her non-emergency regeneration aboard the TARDIS, and that's the equivalent of you or me getting, say, a haircut on a yacht. And that's nothing compared the manifestations of control of the Doctor's Teacher's regeneration (including a projection of his new body/personality that went around doing his business while he was incapacited), which was performed in a (though primitive) zero-environment, at the most leisurely pace of any regeneration we've witnessed. Even that one was self-induced and -monitored, of necessity due to the (self-)outcast lifestyle of the subject. Imagine the control that can be afforded by having it done properly in the Citadel medical bay, with your own morphologist in attendance.
We don't know what a normal regeneration is like because we've never seen one.
* Except, of course, the Master. But I'll bet the Rani wouldn't be caught regenerating on the UNIT lab floor. Or on grass.