The Regeneration Awards
The Doctor Who Team
Ten years ago this week the Ninth Doctor morphed into the Tenth meaning regenerations were back with a (literal) bang! We’re celebrating a decade of changing and rearranging with the first ever Regeneration Awards… Drumroll, please!
The award for the most the most Heart Breaking Regeneration goes to…
A moment so sad it makes the death of Bambi’s mum look like The Lego Movie. “I don’t want to go…” Enough said.
The award for the most ‘Oh, I get it now’ Regeneration goes to…
So, the TARDIS crashes into a Nazi HQ in 1938 and Melody is promptly shot by Adolph Hitler. Don’t you just hate it when that happens? But Melody lingered on because boom! She regenerated into… Wait a minute, that’s Alex Kingston! So, Melody was River all along… Oh, I get it now!
The award for the most the Most Unexpected Regeneration goes to…
In a shock twist the mini episode re-introduced the Eighth Doctor and then had the audacity to kill him off almost immediately as he became the War Doctor. Meaning that ironically, even after regenerating he still looked Hurt.
The award for the Scariest Regeneration goes to…
Most regenerations tug on your heart-strings but this one sent shivers down your spine. There was something demonic about the Master morphing into his new body (at last!) and it set up one of Doctor Who’s best cliff-hangers as he immediately nicked the TARDIS and left the Doctor to the ferocious Futurekind. Homicidal Time Lords, eh? They may regenerate but they never really change, do they?
The award for the most the ‘Stop Messing with my Feels’ Regeneration goes to…
Good news! The Eleventh Doctor had been made young again and after a thousand years on a single planet, he was finally free to roam the universe once more. Bad news! He was about to regenerate… Clara’s tears and the ‘dying’ Time Lord’s poignant sight of Amy ensured the scene was so sad it would have made a Cyberman weep but hey, moments later we were greeting the Twelfth Doctor meaning hurrah – we end on another ‘Good news’!
The Special Award goes to…
The first regeneration of the twentieth-first century has a special place in our hearts because it reminded us that Doctor Who could still make you weep one moment and cheer the next. The Ninth Doctor had a ‘fantastic’ farewell and a new era dawned… All change!
Want more? Find out about the very first adventure to feature a change of Doctors – The Tenth Planet or check out early regeneration stories such as Planet of the Spiders, Logopolis and the brilliant The Caves of Androzani.
