2) What’s The Deal With The Doctor’s Regeneration?
The penultimate episode left us with a lot of questions that we want answered in the finale, but the biggest ones we have concern the shocking pre-titles sequence of “World Enough and Time” – which apparently showed the beginnings of the Doctor’s regeneration.
In a snowy landscape, the Doctor falls out of the TARDIS and collapses as his skin starts to glow. “Noo!” he repeatedly shouts, as one might if they were about to effectively die. Sounds just like a regeneration, right? The only thing is this season has tried to pull a fake regeneration on us before – in episode eight – so we should be careful not to immediately trust what we see.
If we do take it at face value, though, when, where and how does this happen? Immediately, it’s clear that the scene takes place long after the events of this episode, as Peter Capaldi’s hair is much longer. So, what’s happened to cause his death and does it have any relevance to what’s going on in these episodes? Or is this flashforward to the Christmas special just to play with the audience?