createdmyself replied to your post “why did the doctor age anyway? like, he’s been in that incarnation for...”
He was dying. He didn't have anymore regenerations left so he just started aging as a way to die.
But he didn't seem to be aging earlier on? Like in Impossible Astronaut it had been 200 years since he last saw Amy and there wasn't any aging?
thetwelfths replied to your post “why did the doctor age anyway? like, he’s been in that incarnation for...”
i think it's because the doctor DOES age. We just very seen it. All in all, it was 900 years (I believe). We've seen The Doctor at what, like... 100, 200 years passed his regeneration. First died of old age. Time Lords do age, just... slowly.
the way he was aging felt off, like when he aged 200 there was not really any sign of it, but in 300 years he aged enough for those wrinkles and greys?
bowtied replied to your post “why did the doctor age anyway? like, he’s been in that incarnation for...”
( ooc: i think he can choose whether or not he wants to age. at least, there was a deleted scene from the angels take manhattan that implied that. I think he chose to age for his own reasons. )
that was how i thought it was originally, but i don't know now...
intelligenceandanger replied to your post “why did the doctor age anyway? like, he’s been in that incarnation for...”
[Didn't the first Doctor age? He started out the show kind of old. Other than that, I have no clue.]
I always thought the first incarnation would age for time lords, and then they just wouldn't physically appear older unless they did something about it.