Because ROBERT HOLMES said that Time Lords died the thirteenth time, even though he would have been extremely hostile to the idea that past continuity should be given any respect if it gets in the way of the story you want to tell.
I'm mostly just mildly disappointed they didn't used this as an opportunity to Zog Crystal him into a woman.
I simply don't understand why people are going on about Rusty "ruining everything." Do these people actually want the show to finish because of an off-the-cuff '70s fanwank? The Deadly Assassin is wildly overrated by boy-fandom anyway, and since when does New Who fandom care about it? Meh.
I gather that off-LJ there were people seriously ANGRY about Eccleston quitting after one year, because they would have to end the show when the thirteenth actor left and this was reducing the finite amount of Doctor Who that there would ever be.
Apparently so. How do they think the BBC works? "This show is getting us good ratings and we sell fuckloads of toys and sticker books from it. Ideally we'd keep it going, but it turns out there's a bit from an episode made in the 1970s that makes that impossible."
I just prefer the idea of the Doctor having a finite lifetime, be it thirteen bodies or whatever number, because I do like the sense of an ending, but I also haven't been really...wanking about it?
I can see how it would be poetic, in a hypothetical universe where this isn't a flagship show, it's more the apoplectic rage at Rusty for doing something another writer would've done anyway. To be fair most of the wank I've seen is on Tumblr.
Basically I'm just interested in seeing the series end on the note of the Doctor coming to the end of...something, so it feels like an ending. The amount of regenerations it takes to get there, I don't really care.
I'm assuming by "immortal" they mean theoretically unlimited regenerations but still possible ways of dying that don't allow for regeneration, because otherwise that sort of kills the stakes from a story-telling point of view (I mean, I know he's not at risk of dropping dead in the middle of a story anyway, but to be able to brush off all risk with "that's okay, I literally can't ever die" is a bit much.)
I'm on the fence about it in terms of the story. Quite like the idea of the story going on forever, but if it has to end then his Permanent Death is probably the best way to do it. Thing is though, some fan somewhere down the line would revive him anyway, so again, on the fence.
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I simply don't understand why people are going on about Rusty "ruining everything." Do these people actually want the show to finish because of an off-the-cuff '70s fanwank? The Deadly Assassin is wildly overrated by boy-fandom anyway, and since when does New Who fandom care about it? Meh.
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(... am I sexually corrupted girlfan if I think the very best part of Deadly Assassin is Four inna wet shirt?)
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I'm assuming by "immortal" they mean theoretically unlimited regenerations but still possible ways of dying that don't allow for regeneration, because otherwise that sort of kills the stakes from a story-telling point of view (I mean, I know he's not at risk of dropping dead in the middle of a story anyway, but to be able to brush off all risk with "that's okay, I literally can't ever die" is a bit much.)
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