David Tennant Stands Down From "Doctor Who" 245
Dave Knott writes "After winning the outstanding drama performance prize at the British National Television Awards, David Tennant announced that he will be quitting the iconic role of The Doctor. Quoting Tennant: 'When Doctor Who returns in 2010 it won't be with me. Now don't make me cry. I love this part, and I love this show so much that if I don't take a deep breath and move on now I never will, and you'll be wheeling me out of the Tardis in my bath chair.' Tennant will appear in a Christmas special, titled The Next Doctor, before filming four more specials in January. After that, the search will be on for the actor to play the 11th incarnation of The Doctor."
Patrick Stewart (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Interview with David Tennant (Score:3, Interesting)
The best thing I saw in this article was the fact that Davies was leaving, hopefully paving the way for better episodes
Not so much that Davies is leaving as that Moffat is taking over. He's the author of pretty much all of the best episodes since it came back.
Re:We have a problem (Score:5, Interesting)
Baker had been WAY more typecast though. Plus with the success of the show I'm fairly sure Tennant's career is on a far better trajectory.
And Tom Baker is an arse anyway. Refusing to appear with other Doctors at conventions etc... Always loved him, but given what I've read and heard recently, Baker was, and will always, an arse.
Sad Tennant is leaving. He has been a fantastic Doctor. Not as big a wrench to me though as my kids. I've had eight Doctor regenerations now when this one happens. My eldest has only seen Eccleston (but never had time to get attached) and my youngest has only ever known Tennant.
Re:Wasn't the 1st doctor (Score:3, Interesting)
Not always younger. Or at least that's not part of the canon, but it does seem to go that way. (At least until you get up around Baker/McCoy).
If I remember my lore, the only non-death regen was Troughton/Pertwee where the regen was forced on the Doctor by the Timelords. May be remembering that wrong though.
Just hope RTD has no say in the casting given that fuckwit has said he wanted to cast JK Rowling AND Price Charles in the show.
God bless you for getting the show back on the air Russell, but you are a fucking moron. "Midnight" was awesome. Take the rest of your lame scripts with you and shove them up your arse. (And you'd probably enjoy you big gay ball of Welshness.)
Re:Continuity (Score:4, Interesting)
Yeah, Dr who people are odd, but it is science fiction so they can do pretty much whatever they want
I remember reading an interview recently of someone... I think it was the head writer of the current show... saying something to the effect of, "You can't have continuity errors when you're writing a scifi show about time travel, because no matter how crazy it gets, you can always come up with a crazy explanation."
I'm paraphrasing.
Life on marzzzzzz (Score:4, Interesting)
That last master (Sims) would make a great doctor. Plus there's history of time lords regenerating into people they've seen before. At least Romana did.
Re:Continuity (Score:1, Interesting)
If I recall, the regeneration limit imposed by the Time Lords. Now that they're gone he is free to go beyond twelve.