The General's Regeneration | Hell Bent | Doctor Who

Taken from Doctor Who: Series 9 Episode 12 "Hell Bent"

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[Trayusstudent]

I love how the General just accepts he isn't going to change the Doctor's mind so wishes him luck. Glad they got him back to do this episode!

[rymdalkis]

10th Doctor: "Even if I change it feels like dying. Everything I am dies. Some new man goes sauntering away... and I'm dead"
12th Doctor: "Death is Time Lord for man flu"

[namenotfound]

I love how the Doctor calls regeneration basically the flu even though he has an existential crisis every regeneration 😂

[dastardlycrook]

*Regenerates from a kind, soft hearted and understanding man.*
UGH How do you deal with all that ego?

[PoissonVisageStudios]

"How do you cope with all that ego?" is a much more egotistical attitude than anything the previous incarnation ever said.

[whatthetrend]

Doctor: regeneration?!
General: 12th
Doctor: Oh sorry
-credits roll-

[JustLukeMorgan]

What I love about this is that it shows how other timelords will simply regenerate and won't be phased by it, but the Doctor spends sometimes an entire series trying to find out who he is, trying to adjust etc. Reminds me of the Master's old line about how timelords are 'supposed to face death with dignity'.

[PixelM]

Doctor: Regeneration?

General: 10th

Doctor: Good luck

Me: Now that’s scary

[ValpasKankaristo]

To all of you saying how out of character this scene was for the Doctor... Wasn't that one of the central themes of the episodes? He even says it himself: "I broke my own rules. I became the Hybrid."

[masterjocohen]

I always think that the (male) general could be a replacement for Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier.

[ShadeStormXD]

"Regeneration?"

"hmfff, tenth"

"good luck"

damn that hits

[Silverwind]

Say what you will about this episode or this scene, but I love this regeneration. I like how the General is lying down as opposed to standing, I like how it's the least explosive regeneration of the new series, and I like how the other Time Lords treat the regeneration as a basic incident.

[ScatteredCollector]

For all those in disbelief that the Doctor would ever wield a gun, keep in mind, both Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Tenth, Eleventh incarnations have used guns at some point.

[deltahalo]

I love this scene, the look in the Doctors eye as he's considering what he's about to do, how Clara and the General are trying to talk him down but he's bulldozing through without considering them. It's a great moment.

[sploofmcsterra]

When you shorten someone's life by potentially centuries and alter their self so all but their memories are effectively killed.
The Doctor: "This is completely justified!"

[bradleykingswell]

Just think about this: the general helped the doctor get rid of FREAKING RASSILON and stood by his side. then the doctor goes and shoots him like he meant nothing! so out of character. so what if the general could regenerate, that still must hurt like hell. One of the many things I hate about this episode

[thelisapisa]

Why dont you upload something from John Hurt .... he was a great doctor :/
Rest in Peace John 😢😢😢

[Tonatsi]

I love how, from this moment, up until the very end of the episode, the story tries to make you think that the Doctor succeeded in making Clara forget about him, and that he's just saying his last goodbyes, or maybe he wasnt able to keep himself away, and is just indulging himself before continueing, and only at the very end do we find out that the opposite is true, that He lost his memory of her.

[shoogamoogaman]

Series 10

The Doctor - "Timelords are far beyond you human's obsession with gender and it's associated stereotypes!"

Series 9

The General - "Back to normal am I? Only time I've been a man that last body. Dear Lord how do you cope with all that ego?"

[morgan]

I always thought this entire scene was so strange for the Doctor, how he could shoot the general when he was just trying to help him. But after rewatching this and scrolling through some comments, I feel like I've come to the realization that the Doctor shot the general precisely because he was trying to help him. Well, to us the general is trying to help as he's attempting to convince the Doctor not to save Clara for fear of the destruction of the universe, but to the Doctor, this man is standing in the way of something he's spent over a million years trying to get back. After all these years he spent trapped trying to save Gallifrey and bring Clara back, he's being told that he can't. And the general pretty much stated that its his role to protect the new president and that he wasn't going to let the Doctor do this. That, to me at least, tells me there would have been no peaceful resolution to this situation. The general has a duty and could have even tried to physically restrain the Doctor had he not been shot.

Now, I am in no way shape or form condoning the Doctor's actions here, but these are things that I never considered watching this show. I never stopped to think about all of the unspoken lines that the characters' actions portray, like the grief and pain in the Doctor's face when he points the gun at the general. You can see the Doctor throwing himself so much into getting Clara back that he's putting time itself in danger. Its as he even said later, he broke all of his own rules and became something else. So, when I consider that as well, it makes more sense to me that I, or all of us, would view the Doctor's actions in this scene as out of character. Because it was out of character, that was the whole point.