David Tennant leaves DW after the specials

[Samson88B]

Fan casting to BEGIN? Dude, it's been going on for freaking YEARS!

Tennant's tenure will forever be seen as premature, but best to go out on top rather than having stayed well after you should have left, for the good of your career AND for the show. I agree that Tennant has arguably been the most memorable Doctor since Tom Baker, but everyone's gotta go and having a new Doctor for a new head writer to play with makes perfect sense. I look forward to both Moffat's writing of a new role as much as I will the new actor's intepretation of it, whoever it turns out to be.

Personally, I won't speculate. Even as a Canadian fan for over twenty five years (and I'm 32!), every time a new Doctor is introduced I've had no idea who it was. Eccleston and Tennat joined that list, so I'm just gonna let it roll on as it has since 2005.

Mark

QTF!

I will miss his version of the Doctor very much. But I would much rather see him go out on top. Tom B. is still my favorite Doctor, but it is a sad statement when I say that when he finally left the role as Doctor I did not miss him. It is much better to be a sweet memory than a sour one. Good luck David T.

Thank you for all of the fantastic memories and times that you have allowed me to share with my sons (the new Doctor Who fan generation). Good luck in your future. I hope you have many more exiting regenerations left to your life!

 

[I am not Spock]

Maybe they can cast david hewlett as the next doctor after all he is a fan of the show and atlantis has been cancelled so he should be free.

Actually, I think Hewlett is a pretty damned good choice for the Eleventh Doc.

Also, your avatar and sig line reminded me of something. If he hadn't already played a Krillitane villain in 'School Reunion', I'd think Anthony Head would make an awesome Doctor. ASH can pull off quirky humour, and darkness and introspection very well.

 

[StarTrek1701]

I am not much into Dr. Who (more a Torchwood guy) but I am sad to see Tennant go. Now they should get Sean Bean to play the 11th Doc!

 

[Australis]

My theory for the specials.

One will have River Song.

The other will have Donna, and in the process of saving her from imploding, the Doctor will change into... to be continued.

 

[Jim Steele]

I hate to peddle that disgusting phrase, but the "wibbly wobbly timey wimey" (uuugh) model of time travel means that the Doctor we know never has to meet River Song again. Ever. On screen or off.

 

[wamdue]

I hope the show is not going to abuse wibbly wobbly timey wimey in S5 (even more so than they already do)

 

[Jim Steele]

Doesn't matter. Doctor Who was never about consistency. It's about adventure.

 

[wamdue]

I still think its starting to be over used, good examples being Jenny (the Doctor was only there to help create her, because the TARDIS spotted her in time, and bought the Doctor to her (as I recall) ) River Song, yeah the fans will just put it down to WWTW, Last of the Time Lords, I will allow Blink & Time Crash, but they really should not abuse it, just because they can.

 

[Stevil2001]

I hate to peddle that disgusting phrase, but the "wibbly wobbly timey wimey" (uuugh) model of time travel means that the Doctor we know never has to meet River Song again. Ever. On screen or off.

Actually, it does. "Wibbly wobbly, timey wimey" was used in a context of explaining a closed loop of events, where events were their own cause-- or there was no cause! It had nothing to do with the changing of the timeline, just an explanation that cause and effect weren't linear, which is exactly what is going on in the case of River Song. It suggested that the events of "Blink" (and "Time Crash") almost had to unfold the way they did.

 

[Jim Steele]

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Actually, it does.

No, it really doesn't. The entire relationship (aside from it's end/beginning in the library) could now occur in a pocket of time that will never be fully realised.

"Wibbly wobbly, timey wimey" was used in a context of explaining a closed loop of events, where events were their own cause.

It was also used as code to say "It's TV, we can do whatever we like"


I'm not saying they won't revisit River Song, I'm just saying they really don't need to.

 

[wamdue]

im not saying dont use it, just dont over use it.

 

[Professor Zoom]

I thought the character was fun. My problems with that two-parter had more to do with how completely thick the Doctor was; he's a time traveler, and yet he can't conceive of or accept that he's going to run into someone who knows him that he hasn't met yet?

I think it was more about the Doctor not expecting to be MARRIED (again?)...he understands meeting someone he hasn't met, but, getting so close to someone in his future that he's going to tell his name too? I think that's what he couldn't conceive of.

 

[Jim Steele]

I thought the character was fun. My problems with that two-parter had more to do with how completely thick the Doctor was; he's a time traveler, and yet he can't conceive of or accept that he's going to run into someone who knows him that he hasn't met yet?

I think it was more about the Doctor not expecting to be MARRIED (again?)...he understands meeting someone he hasn't met, but, getting so close to someone in his future that he's going to tell his name too? I think that's what he couldn't conceive of.

Exactly. He's no stranger to non-linear causality. But if you told me 8 years ago that by the end of the decade I'd be a married father, I'd have a great deal of trouble believing it.

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

I wonder if, for at least one of his final appearances, they'll show Tennant's Doctor has having visibly aged - thus allowing him to have "centuries" of adventures we'll never see. We know that regardless of passed time, Gallifreyans DO age, but very slowly. The Seventh Doctor probably had quite some time between "Survival" and the '96 TVM for his actor to have aged so significantly, for example; the fourth Doctor as well during Tom Baker's seven year run.

Mark

 

[Timby]

I admit, I don't understand the hang-up people have about the Doctor and romantic entanglements. What's the very first thing we learn about the Doctor, way back in 1963? He has a granddaughter. Which means he has children. At some point in his life, the Doctor had romantic entanglements.

I think, for the Doctor, some of the relationships he had with his companions gave him the emotional component of a romantic entanglement without the physical component. And sometimes, I imagine that some of them gave him the physical component as well.

My biggest hang-up with all of that is that it's just so boring. We're watching the adventures of a man who can go anywhere, do anything, show us anything in the universe ... and instead, we get the Doctor and Rose giggling at each other like kids in junior high.

 

[Saul]

Doctor Who is Dead!

Long live the Doctor!

 

[Newspaper Taxi]

I wouldn't get too hung up on the wobbly-wobbly time model. It's a purposefully vague way of saying, "Hey, time travel make NO sense!". You could also explain it away as the Doctor suddenly having a small stroke, or him suddenly being possessed by the wayward spirit of Dr. Seuss, who, as it turns out, is actually an alien from the future.

 

[Mr Awe]

Dang, that's too bad. I was hoping Tennant would stay around until the end of the 5th season. I've thoroughly enjoyed his portrayal of the Doctor.

Mr Awe

 

[Winterwind]

While he isn't my favourite Doctor, I have enjoyed his time immensely. I really did think he'd stick around for Moffat's first season and then leave. I just read an interview with him where he said that he almost changed his mind for that very reason, to do S5 with Moffat.

Ah well. Clean slate in 2010.

 

[The]

I hate to peddle that disgusting phrase, but the "wibbly wobbly timey wimey" (uuugh) model of time travel means that the Doctor we know never has to meet River Song again. Ever. On screen or off.

Agreed. I simply don't understand why some fans are so literal about the whole River Song story. It's a great story, but...

• 1) Absolutely nowhere in either episode does it say it happens/ed to the 10th Doctor.
  
  2) Absolutely nowhere in the history of Doctor Who is there any example of consistency of such a nature that should give any of us hope that such a story will actually be explored.

The Daleks are the most popular characters in Who, aside from The Doctor himself, and even they have two different origins. Why do people believe that this side-note minutia of history in Who is going to be focused on?

Understand, I'm not discounting anyone's opinion, or trying to dash any hopes. I loved the story. I've had the hots for Alex Kingston for over a decade ( ) and would have zero problem with having her reappear again. And with The Moff taking over, it's at least in the ballpark as possibility. But, then again, that's like saying because Peter Davison appeared in a seven-minute segment, that The Seven Doctors is a planned certainty (which I would also die for).

Overall, I wouldn't mind it. But, I don't believe for a second it's going to happen to Tennant's incarnation, and I'm almost positive that it will never be explored in the future.

I am prepared to eat my words. But, while I wait, could someone with an opposing belief enlighten me to what I'm missing that leads fans down this path with such expectancy and debate?