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From: jim@timeinc.UUCP (Jim Scardelis)
Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho
Subject: Re: Why "Logopolis" sucked
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Date: Thu, 21-Feb-85 23:41:24 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 21 23:41:24 1985
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> And then there is the injury.  Regeneration is supposed to take place in
> massive cell damage.  For example, from old age for Doctor #1, Forced by the
> time lords for #2, radiation poisoning for #3 and Spectrox poisoning for #5.
> But what's this for, a long fall???  I thought the whole idea was that
> regeneration did not deal with damaged organs, for example a gun wound as
> seen in the Deadly Assassin.   But how sad to see the doctor, who has faced
> Daleks, Cybermen, the Master and the Black Guardian, "die" from a fall.
> And he isn't even pushed, he lets go in this strange fatalistic ending.
> (Here I go again.  Fatalism is so contrary to the doctor's philosophy as
> a renegade time-lord.  This doesn't wash.)

If regeneration only occurs in time of massive cell damage, then please
explain Romana's regeneration....all of the references I can find to it
(videotape, books, etc.) seem to point that she regenerated just because
she felt like it. I get the feeling that Cardinal Borusa did that too...

					Jim Scardelis
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