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<div>By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising.</div><div></div><div></div><div>So, what are people's opinions on the effect used for regeneration in NuWho? Not necessarily the quality of the effect itself, more that is has been kept relatively consistent for this era of the show, for multiple characters (albeit with some minor tweaks here and there). The classic series, of course, utilised different effects for each Doctor's regeneration, some of which were really experimental and cool-looking, which seems to have been thrown out of the window for the new iteration of the show.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>doctor who regeneration effect download</div><div></div><div>Download: https://t.co/apAyEuVr0m </div><div></div><div></div><div>It makes sense for the first new series regeneration to have this glow/explosion/fire effect (which I'll call the NuWho effect), with Nine because it directly correlates with the cause of his death (as in, absorption of the time vortex energy.</div><div></div><div></div><div>The next regeneration in the series is The Master's in Utopia, which is similar but has a slightly different colour scheme, seemingly informed by his Time Lord essence in the fob watch (which is a neat way of differentiating it from Nine's a few series earlier). They also do a cool thing where it looks as though his eyes are rolling through the change which looks awesome, and, with the frantic tribal music, really adds to the madness of the new Master we're about to get. Other characters like River Song/Melody Pond also have the same effect applied (Day of the Moon, Let's Kill Hitler), and I'm sure there are others that I have forgotten about...</div><div></div><div></div><div>For the rest of the Doctors, though, it is pretty much the NuWho effect used for all of their regenerations, including fakeouts (eg. The Stolen Earth, The Impossible Astronaut, The Lie of the Land). In Night/Day of the Doctor, they gave McGann and Hurt respectively the NuWho effect for their regenerations, and even gave David Bradley's First Doctor a glow effect in Twice Upon a Time, before cutting to the original scene with Hartnell. The Timeless Child (sorry to remind everyone about that...) also uses the NuWho effect, meaning it also looks as though we'll be getting the same through the Chibnall era.</div><div></div><div></div><div>I really like how they slightly played with the formula with the transition from Eleven to Twelve by using what some called the 'sneeze' regeneration. It immediately catches the audience by surprise, perhaps due to us now coming to expect that same old effect that we've seen at least half a dozen times at this point. However, this itself is slighted by the fact it is preceded by Eleven having that grand regeneration on top of the clock tower using the NuWho effect. It also still uses the yellow glow so is obviously not a complete departure. How cool would it have been to have Eleven really trying to hold it back whilst giving that final speech, only for it to finally overcome him; he gives in and it all just happens in one quick burst. The new Doctor is here.</div><div></div><div></div><div>I've seen some different thoughts on this topic. Some people don't like the fact that the same effect is used and would like some variety in the regenerations, harkening back to the more experimental sequences done in the Classic era. Others like the consistency that using the one effect gives the regenerations (and consequently, the show) - I saw one person speaking about how it allows for a shorthand way of communicating a character is a Time Lord, or the Doctor is dying etc. I can see an argument for both sides, and although I like that idea of consistency, I still would like to see some different effects utilised so the sequences feel a little more unique from one another.</div><div></div><div></div><div>I'm interested to see other people's thoughts on this as it seems to be one that divides people. Obviously, in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't really mean anything, but I wonder, now the status quo has been set, if regeneration sequences will ever change in this iteration of the show?</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>During the old series, the process of regeneration varied(rainbow to the old body fading away and. Being replaced, to lightning shooting out of the body)and the masters regeneration energy was rainbow colored, but know the regeneration process is the standard orange energy l. Are there a explanation for this change?</div><div></div><div></div><div>In the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, regeneration is a biological ability exhibited by the Time Lords, a race of fictional humanoids originating on the planet Gallifrey. This process allows a Time Lord to undergo a transformation into a new physical form and a somewhat different personality after instances which would normally result in death. Regeneration has been used multiple times throughout the history of the show as a device for introducing a new actor for the lead role of its main character, the Doctor. Other Time Lords and similar characters have also regenerated, usually for narrative reasons, rather than casting.</div><div></div><div></div><div>The concept of regeneration was created in 1966 by the writers of Doctor Who as a method of replacing the leading actor. The Doctor had been played by William Hartnell since the programme began in 1963 but, by 1966, it was increasingly clear that Hartnell's health was deteriorating and he was becoming more difficult to work with. Producer John Wiles had, following several clashes with Hartnell, intended to have the actor replaced in The Celestial Toymaker; during two episodes of that serial, the Doctor is invisible (owing to Hartnell being on holiday during the recording). Wiles' plan was for the character to reappear played by a new actor. This proposal was vetoed by Gerald Savory, the BBC's Head of Serials (and Wiles' superior), which led to Wiles leaving before The Celestial Toymaker was produced.[1] However, it was apparent that it would not be possible for Hartnell to continue for much longer.</div><div></div><div></div><div>In the About Time reference series Lawrence Miles and Tat Wood note that the officially licensed magazine, Doctor Who Monthly, stated in a "Matrix Data-Bank" column in 1982 that its readers should not confuse the "regenerations" of later incarnations with the "rejuvenation" of Hartnell into Troughton.[4] However, dialogue within the series itself explicitly includes the First-to-Second "rejuvenation" when enumerating the Doctor's regenerations (for example in Mawdryn Undead (1983)).</div><div></div><div></div><div>In "The Timeless Children", it is explained that the Time Lords got their regeneration ability from an unknown person called The Timeless Child, a child found by an explorer called Tecteun. The child has an undefined amount of regenerations. Tecteun splices the regeneration ability from The Timeless Child across all Time Lords. It is revealed The Timeless Child is The Doctor, and that her thirteen lives (by the point of this episode) are not her only ones and she has lived an unknown number of previous lives.</div><div></div><div></div><div>The regeneration "effect" was accomplished during the series' original run from 1963 to 1989 primarily through the use of video mixing. Originally, the plan was to have Hartnell collapse at the end of The Tenth Planet with his cloak over his face, which would then be pulled back to reveal Troughton in the next serial. However, vision mixer Shirley Coward discovered and took advantage of a malfunction in the mixing desk which allowed Hartnell's image to be overexposed to the point of almost whiting out the screen, then fading back in to reveal Troughton's face. This also meant that the regeneration scene could take place with both actors at the conclusion of The Tenth Planet, and Troughton was accordingly signed up to participate.[citation needed]</div><div></div><div></div><div>Subsequent regenerations retained essentially the same method, with or without additional video or make-up effects. The transition from the Fourth to the Fifth Doctor used an additional make-up effect representing a transitional form known as the Watcher, but aside from this, other regenerations in the original series run simply mixed the image of the incoming actor on top of the outgoing one. The transition from the Seventh to the Eighth Doctor in the 1996 television movie took advantage of the higher budget and modern computer animation technology to "morph" the features of Sylvester McCoy into those of Paul McGann.</div><div></div><div></div><div>With the exception of the transitions from the Second to Third, each regeneration was shown on-screen, with the previous incumbent in the role symbolically "handing off" the character to the next. The Second Doctor was never seen to actually change into the Third, simply fading off into darkness at the end of The War Games and then stumbling out of the TARDIS, already regenerated, at the start of Spearhead from Space (1970).</div><div></div><div></div><div>The regeneration of the Sixth Doctor into the Seventh is the only time that a single actor took on the roles of two incarnations of the Doctor. Colin Baker declined the invitation to film the regeneration sequence at the start of Time and the Rani (1987) due to the circumstances in which the BBC dismissed him from the role.[citation needed] As a result, Sylvester McCoy had to don his predecessor's costume and a blond curly wig, lying face down, with the mixing effect to the Doctor's "new" features occurring as he was turned over.</div><div></div><div></div><div>The 2005 series, which revived the programme after its cancellation 16 years earlier, began with the Ninth Doctor already regenerated and no explanation given as to the circumstances behind the change (although a scene in the debut episode "Rose" when the Doctor commented on his appearance in a mirror indicated that the change had recently occurred). In the documentary series Doctor Who Confidential, producer Russell T Davies explained his reasoning that, after such a long hiatus, a regeneration in the first episode would be not only confusing for new viewers but also lacking in dramatic impact, as there would have been no emotional investment in the character being replaced.[5] The regeneration into the Ninth Doctor was later seen and explained in "The Day of the Doctor" (2013). In this episode, the War Doctor automatically begins a regeneration due to old age at the end of the Last Great Time War. However, the full transition is not seen with only the start of the regeneration being shown, as Christopher Eccleston decided not to reprise his role as the Ninth Doctor for the episode.</div><div></div><div> 7c6cff6d22</div>
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