![]() Having two Doctors exist at the same time does mean that Ncuti Gatwa and David Tennant could meet up again in Doctor Who's future. What's more, UNIT will surely be delighted to know that they've got an Earthbound Doctor once again. It's revealed in the touching final scene that the Doctor has already taken Rose to Mars, and traveled to New York's gilded age with Mel. Both Doctors effectively do the same thing in The Giggle, but rather than " let it go", the Fourteenth Doctor still seems keen to have adventures. ![]() The Doctor's bi-generation was teased by Doctor Who's metacrisis solution, when Donna and her daughter Rose (Yasmin Finney) divided the Time Lord mind between them. ![]() This would freshen up Doctor Who for the Ncuti Gatwa era, with the time traveler being put on the back foot again, learning and reacting to each new situation instead of being the slightly insufferable know-it-all that previous incarnations could be. David Tennant and Ncuti Gatwa's Doctors had the Fourteenth Doctor's costume split between them, so it's possible that not every memory has been transferred. However, as bi-generation is a brand-new concept, it's not completely outwith the realm of possibility that the Fifteenth Doctor has forgotten some things. Although the Fourteenth Doctor spends time showing Fifteen how to operate the TARDIS, it feels like he's trying to be useful and find something to do now that his successor has arrived. So it certainly seems that he retains those memories and that knowledge, but has managed to move past the emotional baggage of all that pain and loss. Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor definitely appears to have the same memories as David Tennant's Doctor, referencing everything from Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) to the devastation of Logopolis and the death of Adric (Matthew Waterhouse). The bi-generation between David Tennant and Ncuti Gatwa is merely the latest quirk of this unknowable process. Much later, Jodie Whittaker's Thirteenth Doctor discovered that they provided the genetic building blocks for Time Lord regeneration. And then, in Matt Smith's final Doctor Who adventure, "The Time of the Doctor", the Eleventh Doctor was awarded a brand-new regeneration cycle. In the late 1970s, Romana (Lalla Ward) was able to choose bodies before settling on her next regeneration in "Destiny of the Daleks". The specifics of regeneration in Doctor Who have never been nailed down, and the ancient Gallifreyan process to cheat death is regularly being tweaked or rewritten by subsequent production teams. However, the Toymaker got more than he bargained for when, rather than trigger a regeneration, he caused the first-ever bi-generation. Due to the rules of the Doctor and the Toymaker's game, the cosmic trickster decides that a new incarnation should play their third and final game. Doctor Whohas made history with its first ever bi-generation as Ncuti Gatwa succeeded David Tennant as the Doctor in the final 60th anniversary special, "The Giggle." Facing off against a returning 1960s villain, the Toymaker (Neil Patrick Harris), the Fourteenth Doctor was shot by a Galvanic beam to trigger a regeneration.
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