David Tennant returning to Doctor Who?

[Trubinator]

I apologize if there's already a thread on this, but I came across the following IMDB entry this morning on a random search: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0855039/

Note David Tennant's credit for the episode "Let's Kill Hitler." I wonder if this is the rumored appearance he's been teasing at for the last year or so ...

 

[Gepard]

I apologize if there's already a thread on this, but I came across the following IMDB ...

Aaaaand...stop right there. IMDB is essentially useless for this kind of thing, because anyone can edit any entry to say whatever they want and there's no way to verify it until after the show has aired. Remember the listing for Denise Crosby as Sela on the Star Trek: Nemesis page for months before release? Yeah.

Doesn't mean it's not true, of course, and I'd love to see Tennant return, but let's just say I doubt it.

 

[StCoop]

Aghhhhhhhhhhh, IMBD.

(And an added "Aghhhhhhh Wikipedia" too while I'm at it.)

Simple rule-of-thumb. If anyone can edit it, don't believe it.

 

[CommanderRaytas]

I can't see him returning without it being through the powers of fanwank....but if they managed to pull it off in a plausible way, I'd be happy.

 

[StCoop]

I can't see him returning without it being through the powers of fanwank....

I'd say it's a safe bet to predict he'll be back in 2013, just not before.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Aghhhhhhhhhhh, IMBD.

(And an added "Aghhhhhhh Wikipedia" too while I'm at it.)

Simple rule-of-thumb. If anyone can edit it, don't believe it.

I think Wikipedia is at least slightly better at policing things being added without proof.

The only way David Tennant is in this, imo, is if they show some kind of flashback to Night in the Library (in which case, it'll just be a reused clip, not a whole episode). I don't expect that, though. Just an overeager fan.

 

[Phily B]

IMDB listed Lucy Saxon and David Tennant for A Good Man Goes to War...

 

[Whofan]

Question is, how would Tennant coming back fit?

-In The Next Doctor, the Doctor initially assumes that Jackson Lake is a future incarnation, possibly the next one. How can he assume this if he's already met the next?

-And if you set it later, kind of makes the other specials a bit anticlimatic.

-Then again, I suppose you could use the 'memory erased' fix.

-Or just use the cloned version of Tennant, of course.

 

[Sindatur]

Well, since we have the other spoiler of returning Cast Members

Spoiler: Returning Cast Members

Rose, Martha, and Donna are apparently in flashback clips, so, Tennant is probably in those same clips

But, yea, IMDB is awesome for something that's already aired, but, for rumors (or starting them), no better than a gossip rag.

I can definitely see Tennant coming back for real in 50th Anniversary Special

 

[Trubinator]

I just think it would be neat to have him back! Wouldn't it be crazy for someone like Amy, who's been with this incarnation for so long, to interact with two versions of the Doctor at the same time? For her, I'm sure it would be "a whole different birthday," as River Song would say ...

 

[PorthosShadow]

Yeah, you have take anything you read on imdb with less than the smallest grain of salt. Anyway, if he was in "Let's Kill Hitler" I doubt TPTB would be able to hide that without someone leaking it. However, I don't doubt that he will be in the 50th anniversary but that's not for a little while yet.

 

[scnj]

I hope he doesn't. I endured four years of his inane antics already.

 

[Professor Zoom]

Question is, how would Tennant coming back fit?

-In The Next Doctor, the Doctor initially assumes that Jackson Lake is a future incarnation, possibly the next one. How can he assume this if he's already met the next?

-And if you set it later, kind of makes the other specials a bit anticlimatic.

-Then again, I suppose you could use the 'memory erased' fix.

-Or just use the cloned version of Tennant, of course.

At the beginning of the End of Time special, 10 traveled around quite a bit, trying to ignore the Ood call. Remember at the beginning he comes out of the Tardis with the hat and the lei?

It could be set right before that.

And besides, it's Doctor Who, madness lies ahead if you try to fit in everything in some sort of sense.

AND, Time can be changed. So...

 

[WillsBabe]

I hope he doesn't. I endured four years of his inane antics already.

I hope he does. I'd be up for some more.

 

[Newspaper Taxi]

Even if the IMDB listing is correct, which I doubt, I wouldn't expect anything beyond a still image of Tennant, or at most, a clip -- but I'd still bet on just a still image.

 

[23skidoo]

Tennant's too busy, like, establishing a career outside of Doctor Who. He isn't going to come back anytime soon, certainly not before the anniversary. Would Moffat really want to pull the trigger this early?

Odds are what it means is someone either BS'ing or reporting rumor as fact (IMDb is notorious for that) or it means maybe there's a flashback or use of archive footage coming up. Technically Tennant appeared in The Eleventh Hour, too along with Eccleston and the rest.

In defence of Wikipedia, people tend to cut it down without realizing the people who edit the articles - and remove BS when someone posts it, usually within about 10 minutes - tend to be anal-retentive to the extreme and won't allow nonsense or unsupported information to stay in the article for very long. I know this because I've had great difficulty getting some information added to several articles, even when I've cited chapter and verse from the TV show. I consider Wikipedia more reliable than IMDb because it's got more "peer review" than the database. Doesn't mean garbage doesn't sneak in unnoticed, of course. But unlike IMDb which can - and has - taken months to have errors removed, due to backlog, Wikipedia can have nonsense removed within seconds and anyone can go in and remove it, too.

Alex

 

[CommanderRaytas]

I hope he doesn't. I endured four years of his inane antics already.

I hope he does. I'd be up for some more.

Me too! But his appearance has to be plausible and not too devoid of logic.

 

[SteveJRogers]

I apologize if there's already a thread on this, but I came across the following IMDB ...

Aaaaand...stop right there. IMDB is essentially useless for this kind of thing, because anyone can edit any entry to say whatever they want and there's no way to verify it until after the show has aired. Remember the listing for Denise Crosby as Sela on the Star Trek: Nemesis page for months before release? Yeah.

That quite possibly may be the funniest movie speculation EVER! Well, besides some tabloid in London speculation that last summer's Inception really was what was to be The Dark Knight Rises under a different filming name.

What I think happened, since it wasn't just Sela, but just about every major Romulan character that had appeared in TNG and DS9, including Nimoy even, was that they saw a checklist of an autograph subset that Skybox (I'm pretty sure they did Nemesis. I don't think Rittenhouse had picked up the license yet) was producing for their Nemesis set, and put that list up!

 

[Garak]

Tennant is far and away the best Doctor evar, so I'd be happy to see him return even if it's just a flashback.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

If he returns, it should be in a multi-Doctor special, as is tradition. I wouldn't use him in a flashback unless it's stock footage (otherwise, it's a waste of having him come back).