"Incoherent mess" is a very good description for this episode.
The aborted regeneration refers to Ten - unless you were wondering why the other aborted regeneration didn't count also?
I know Ten's aborted regeneration at the end of S4 is counted here, which would mean Eleven should have known from the start that he was actually the last. My confusion is that when Eleven was shot on the lakeshore in "The Impossible Astronaut," he appeared to start to regenerate before being shot again. How could he do that if he was already out of regenerations? Would River know that he shouldn't be able to even start regenerating? I don't remember enough of the "robot duplicate full of tiny people" explanation for his survival to know whether that was actual regeneration energy (even though he wasn't really dying) or some special effect to fool those who needed to think him dead.
I don't really get why Moffat felt the need to try to pack so many plot points into this to make it more confusing and less emotionally centered. Twelve will still be the Doctor and Moffat will still (and least initially) be showrunner, so even the unanswered questions created during Eleven's run could have been left alone for now. It's as baffling as it is frustrating.
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The aborted regeneration refers to Ten - unless you were wondering why the other aborted regeneration didn't count also?
I know Ten's aborted regeneration at the end of S4 is counted here, which would mean Eleven should have known from the start that he was actually the last. My confusion is that when Eleven was shot on the lakeshore in "The Impossible Astronaut," he appeared to start to regenerate before being shot again. How could he do that if he was already out of regenerations? Would River know that he shouldn't be able to even start regenerating? I don't remember enough of the "robot duplicate full of tiny people" explanation for his survival to know whether that was actual regeneration energy (even though he wasn't really dying) or some special effect to fool those who needed to think him dead.
I don't really get why Moffat felt the need to try to pack so many plot points into this to make it more confusing and less emotionally centered. Twelve will still be the Doctor and Moffat will still (and least initially) be showrunner, so even the unanswered questions created during Eleven's run could have been left alone for now. It's as baffling as it is frustrating.