User talk:Meganerd18

19:52: Tue 20 Dec 2011

I will forever stand against treating the Day of the Doctor novelization as fully canon, because the rewriting of the Eighth Doctor's regeneration immensely cheapens it, and that's just for starters. It's such a sharp contradiction, and the claims it makes are erroneous.

1. The Eighth Doctor drinks the Elixir of Life: This is wrong. It was never claimed to be the elixir, it was merely claimed to be a substance that aided in regeneration difficulties.

2. The Doctor always had the potential to be a warrior: This claim is also resting on something that was never claimed. It was never said that the elixirs gave traits to the Time Lord regenerating. It was simply said that they ensured the traits in question came out. "The change doesn't have to be random" is what is said. Plus, to claim it prevents the Doctor giving in to self-loathing is also a bold-faced lie, because that's the Doctor's emotion in that scene and a cornerstone of the War Doctor's personality.