Diving into said commentary, we hear Davies explain that when David Tennant and Ncuti Gatwa split into two, "a whole timeline bigenerated".
The writer then suggests that each previous regeneration was impacted by the bigeneration, with every 'old' Doctor now surviving his demise in a splinter timeline.
"I think all of the Doctors came back to life with their individual TARDISes, the gift of the Toymaker, and they're all out there travelling round in what I'm calling a Doctor verse.
"Sylvester McCoy woke up in a drawer, in a morgue, in San Francisco… and Jon Pertwee woke up on the floor of the laboratory," he says.
“Bigeneration, we discover, is an ancient myth of the Time Lords where instead of a new body taking over from the old body, the new body separates from the old body and both are left alive.
"David [Tennant] is parked. For once, we’ve got a happy Doctor who is no longer saving the universe, but is parked with Donna (Catherine Tate) for a happy life, while the Doctor – which is always the next Doctor, and that’s always true of Doctor Who, the Doctor is the next Doctor – is out amongst the stars."
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Damian_W
2023-12-10 23:09:56
RTD's iPlayer commentary on the regeneration and what it means going forward.
I know there's an episode discussion thread but I've seen a lot of theories and ideas specifically about what's going on there with the "bigeneration" and how not much was explored on screen and I thought it was worth creating a thread specifically to highlight and discuss RTD's own words on it which I haven't seen creep into conversation too much yet. Because apparently it's a much bigger change than we thought.
In the Official Doctor Who Podcast first of all, RTD had this to say:
>What I advise you do, is to go to the commentary for this, the in-vision commentary, which will be available on iPlayer in the UK, and where you will hear astonishing revelations about the entire lore of Doctor Who and the creation of the Doctorverse in the moment of that bigeneration. It's much bigger than you think and I hope could lead to all sorts of things that you think.
Then switching over to the commentary they start talking about this specifically at time 44:40. I simplified some bits of people talking over each other and cut off a bit at the end where they were just rambling a bit about who was and wasn't in their TARDIS. But here is the conversation in the commentary for discussion: >RTD: "So, then, so a whole timeline bigenerated then"
Tennant: "That was it in that moment?"
RTD: "Yes, Sylvester McCoy woke up in a drawer in a morgue in San Francisco."
Tennant: *Laughing* "Unfortunately, nobody's got him out yet. He's still in there."
RTD: "Constantly regenerating, dies over and over again. And Jon Pertwee woke up in the floor of the laboratory."
Tennant: "Right, yes."
Collinson: "Colin Baker got out of... Got up and sorted the Rani out."
RTD: "Yes he did."
Collinson: "and did all of that."
RTD: "They all did."
Collinson: "Oh, interesting there you go."
RTD: "Most of the modern Doctors just end up in their own TARDIS. So Peter Capaldi just woke up in the TARDIS."
RTD speaking to Tennant: "You, your tenth version..."
Tennant: "Oh yes."
RTD: "Is also still out there. Just woke up in the TARDIS, because they've all been..." Tennant: "Does that mean there's three of me now?"
RTD: "Yep."
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