Originally Posted by MI7
This is also backed up by the Master in both Utopia and LotTL, when he has to physically trigger the process both times. Ditto the Ninth Doctor in The Parting of the Ways, when he says he is "doing it right now".
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Because RTD has destroyed the concept of regeneration. See my Last of the Time Lords review for more bashing.
Originally Posted by MI7
There's been no magic safety feature seen that says that Time Lords only regenerate when it is "safe" to do so.
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Analysis of that kind of safety could not take place on a biological level -- I am saying that regeneration waits for
physical safety (something which
can be determined on a biological level, i.e. not occurring while underwater).
Originally Posted by MI7
Besides, who says he even wanted to regenerate and survive at that point?
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Regeneration, for the last time,
is not a process of will -- it is a biological fact.