Doctor Who The Doctor's Daughter?

I was about to answer this in full, but I see marthajones83 has said most of what I was going to, with reference to one of my previous answers - and no I don't mind :-)

I'll just add that there is a long standing precedent in Doctor Who for Time Lords recovering from serious injury without regenerating, even outwith their regeneration cycle. In the 3rd Doctor story "Spearhead from Space", the Doctor recovered from a gunshot wound, very similar to Jenny's. he also went into a coma in which he gave the appearance of death in similar fashion to Jenny. Martha, not being used to Time Lord physiology, just assumed she was dead and didn't give her time to recover. To be perfectly honest, the Doctor should have known better.

Also as marthajones83 implied, there is a bit in the next story you'll see, where the Doctor makes an amazing recovery from something that would kill a human, without regenerating.

Before it is absolutely necessary for a Time Lord to regenerate, they need to have something wrong with them that they simply can't recover from. They can choose to regenerate, however, as we saw with the Master in "Utopia" and Romana in "Destiny of the Daleks", or choose not to regenerate, as we saw with the Master in "Last of the Time Lords"

You are right that there is a possibility that the terraforming device might have helped though.

Edit: Amber is correct about the female Time Lord. That was Romana who travelled with the 4th Doctor. When she regenerated in "Destiny of the Daleks", she not only was able to choose her own appearance, but was also able to "try on" a number of different appearances before she decided on a final one. It was strongly implied that this was an ability peculiar to female Time Lords.

Also, Jenny's recovery was obviously not instantaneous. We have no idea how much time passed between the Doctor leaving and her recovering, but it was implied in the episode that some time had passed. Your memory must be playing tricks on you regarding regenerations in the old series. No actual regeneration took more than a few seconds, although the Doctor was often quite ill for a while afterwards - as was the 10th Doctor after his regeneration.

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In the old series of Doctor Who I think the doctor traveled with a female time lord at one point in the series. If I'm remembering this correctly other time lords are able to choose their appearance. I don't know why the doctor can't choose his appearance. Anyway, if this is the case maybe she choose to look the same.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong about this, it's been awhile since I've seen the older episodes and I was fairly young at the time.

Anyway that's the only explanation I can come up with.

Err.. I hope you don't mind me quoting someone else... But this is the best explanation I have seen!

"I think Jenny may be perfectly capable of regeneration, but was able to recover from her gunshot wound without needing to resort to that. It also may be the case that since she was generated by the machine, she was undergoing a post-regenerative cycle similar to the Doctor in "The Christmas Invasion".

This seems likely since the stuff that came out of her mouth seemed very similar to what happened to the Doctor in that episode before he grew back his severed hand. So in that case, Jenny would simply have been able to grow back the tissue that had been damaged by the bullet.

It was established in the classic series that Time Lords have quite amazing powers of recovery, particularly in the few days immediately after a regeneration. The third Doctor was shot during his first story "Spearhead from Space" and recovered without regenerating.

I also think the Master could have recovered from his gunshot wound in "Last of the Time Lords", but he chose not too simply to get back at the Doctor."

Err sorry, I cut out the last paragraph because it contains a bit of a spoiler for next week's episode The Unicorn and the Wasp (For those of us in the US). But if you don't mind spoilers, well that full answer can be seen on the link below! The answer was given by Spacephantom... And I hope he doesn't mind my posting it! lol.

I hope this helped!

I don't know, but she is sooooooo lucky getting to kiss Chris from skins!!!

Has the serious finale of torchwood been aired there? Coz its REALLY good!

Well, I thought it was clever. Did you make it up? If so send it in to Readers Digest and you might get some money if they like it well enough to print. Good luck.