Just how many regenerations now?

I'm calling bullshit on Moffatt.

This gets vaguely, kinda, maybe spoilery. Read at your own risk.






























You were warned.








So apparently Smith's Doctor is now considered the Thirteenth incarnation in the renumbering.

How in the hell is that possible, you ask? Well, here's what the fan wonks have to say on that topic:
Hartnell - First
Troughton - Second
Pertwee - Third
Baker (Tom) - Fourth
Davison - Fifth
Baker (Colin) - Sixth
McCoy - Seventh
McGann - Eighth
Hurt - Ninth (this was the first re-ordering)
Eccleston - Tenth
Tennant - Eleventh and this is where the reordering gets weird. He's also the Twelfth because of that weird "his hand regenerated" bullshitty side-story.
That makes Smith the Thirteenth Doctor.

By tradition (as established in "The Deadly Assassin", you can't have more than twelve regenerations (and thus, thirteen incarnations) of any one Time Lord without cheating (see Rassilon and the Master for how that's done). So Capelli's Doctor will actually be the Fourteenth, by this counting.

So how is this bullshit? Really? They're going to count a decapitated hand becoming a weird clone thing as a regeneration? Um... No. That's just... no.

No, no, no.