Spoilers Russell T. Davies Returns to Doctor Who as New Showrunner

[jaime]

And also the other alleged photo

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Interesting. This one wasn’t on the Reddit posts I saw. Those were clearly not the Tardis.

 

[jaime]

Discussing things with a friend last night he came up with the theory that the Doctor regenerates into Belinda. Which comes as a shock to Belinda

Well, it certainly suggests consent issues.

 

[jaime]

That one could go either way. Granted her pose could be the sort of "just regenerated, checking out my new body" thing, but something about the shot makes me think it's from an interview.

Again, we'll just have to wait and see.

And just to give a silly nitpick, would regeneration really have obvious hair dye right off the bat?

(Yes, I know it could, just making a stupid joke. Laugh or groan, don't come at me with explanations of how regeneration "actually" works.)

You may be onto something though, it took a while for the fifth to regen his highlights in.

 

[JD]

Looks like the Doctor and Belinda are Captain Poppy's parents.

I have a feeling that's going to be just in the "wish world".

 

[JD]

I don't think anyone has posted this yet.
Varada Sethu & Carole Anne Ford

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It's always kind of fun when you get to see people who have been parts of different eras of a big franchise like this get together for a chat.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

I posted it in the review thread since this thread wasn't suppose to be a spoiler thread but that didn't stop some people...

 

[Rich Watson]

I have a feeling that's going to be just in the "wish world".

Well, of course. What's really interesting is back in 'Space Babies' we got this dialogue:

“I'm sorry, Poppy, I'm so sorry, but we are not your mummy and daddy. I wish we were, but we're not."

So looks like the two season story was all planned from the beginning. Well, except for whatever happened to get Millie demoted to guest star status.

 

[Starkers]

Well, except for whatever happened to get Millie demoted to guest star status.

We may never know. I think there are four options here:

1. The rumours were true and Millie was a nightmare to work with (although Corrie seemed sad to lose her and she always seems really pleasant in interviews. I remember seeing similar accusations levelled at Pearl)

2. RTD decided the dynamic between the Doctor and Ruby wasn't working but either contractually or just out of common decency decided to give her work in the next season (I'd call this the Freema Factor )

3. It was always the plan. I do wonder if RTD always wanted a non-white Tardis crew but felt he couldn't jump straight in there so he went with Millie in the first season.

4. It's always possible that Millie decided it was too much for her (yes she was in 200 odd episodes of Corrie but that's much more of an ensemble and I imagine a far less pressured work environment. We need to remember she is still relatively young). This might have coincided with Varada impressing in Boom and the stars aligned.

 

[Rich Watson]

We may never know. I think there are four options here:

1. The rumours were true and Millie was a nightmare to work with (although Corrie seemed sad to lose her and she always seems really pleasant in interviews. I remember seeing similar accusations levelled at Pearl)

2. RTD decided the dynamic between the Doctor and Ruby wasn't working but either contractually or just out of common decency decided to give her work in the next season (I'd call this the Freema Factor )

3. It was always the plan. I do wonder if RTD always wanted a non-white Tardis crew but felt he couldn't jump straight in there so he went with Millie in the first season.

4. It's always possible that Millie decided it was too much for her (yes she was in 200 odd episodes of Corrie but that's much more of an ensemble and I imagine a far less pressured work environment. We need to remember she is still relatively young). This might have coincided with Varada impressing in Boom and the stars aligned.

I don't think it was 1or she wouldn't be back at all.

3 seems unlikely given the foreshadowing that looks to have been happening.

I think 4 is the most likely. In Corrie she was just one of a large cast and now she's co-lead and for the first month of shooting basically had to do it alone since Ncuti was finishing Sex Education. I know I'd have probably found it too much pressure at that age.

 

[Starkers]

Yeah talk about being dropped in at the deep end!