Howling:Addition to the Doctor's age confusion

One key factor to his age seems to have been overlooked. At the time of the first doctor's death he was hundreds of years old, and this suggests to me that a Timelord can live for a very long time without needing to regenerate, that a single Timelord lifetime can last for centuries before regeneration actually becomes a requirement.

(This is substantiated by the Master using the laser screwdriver to age the Doctor by "all nine hundred years" of his life, whereas if he is already at least 900 then he should have already reached his limit, and by the fourth Doctor judgmentally pointing out that Timelords live for thousands of years in The Deadly Assassin.)

Bearing this fact in mind, I remind you of the fact that the Seventh Doctor, in the opening to the Doctor Who movie, stated that he was "nearing the end" of his seventh life. Considering that his life usually gets cut short by the dangers posed by his adventures, it seems logical that if he could live out a full lifetime without getting killed, he should be able to live just as long as the original doctor.

So this means that if we include every previous claim of his age up to 1012, he still has to have lived for well over 200 extra years. Even if we assume he was in his 900's during his 6'th life he has to be at least 1100-and-something by now. So although his exact age is still undetermined, I think it is safe to say that he has definitely been lying about his age, as even the "not counting his time on Galifrey" argument fails to account for this discrepency.

Thanks for listening, hope you enjoyed. :)

DWfan