Quote Originally Posted by Hursticon View Post
The Valeyard seems like it'd be a hard thing to tackle at this point (Had to do a wiki search on that one, ), at least on-screen without having another "Multi-Doctor" episode to deal with it, so perhaps it's a story better leant to an Animated or Audio-based story?
...Also, I thought that a recent retcon at some point had dispelled the hard-rule of only 13 regenerations?
I don't think they will ignore the Valeyard as the Great Intelligence say it is one of the Doctor's future names in "the Name of the Doctor"

They say that he is a result of the 12th to 13th regeneration, but how he is spawned isn't stated. I'm sure they could write around it.

Also, the Master had used all 12 of his regenerations but the Time Lords resurrected him and he had more regenerations. He had also always planned to steal the Doctor's remaining regenerations so he can keep living. It shows that Time Lords can be given more regenerations
They could find a way to give the Doctor more, or have sneakily given him more in the past.

Like maybe when River healed him in "Let's kill Hitler" the processes also transferred some of her own regenerations to him so he has more.