After five special episodes through the next year, David Tennant is leaving Doctor Who. Too bad, I thought he was a pretty good Doctor. Also hawt. But I can’t blame him for not wanting to be typecast, like Tom Baker was. Also, I’m relieved he won’t be subject anymore to the “the Doctor-is-the-Messiah” complex that seems to have overtaken the series. If I had been him I would have quit after the Tinkerbell Jesus treatment he got at the end of the 2007 run, but that’s one of the many reasons I’m not in showbiz. I can’t imagine who they’re going to replace him with, but they’re making noises about picking a black person or a woman, because being PC is more important than making sense. And maybe they can give him/her/it some sort of Time Lord disability, so crippled kids can identify with their hero — because we all know that no one can identify with any fictional character that is at all unlike them. That’s why science fiction and fantasy are such unpopular genres.
The show’s head guy promises a “spectacular” ending; I’d rather just have a well-written episode. But Russell T. has shown that when it comes to a choice between flashy special effect and coherent writing, he thinks coherency is for squares. (Watch the end of “Last of the Time Lords” if you don’t believe me.)
Anyway, what I wanna know is, what’s Davy gonna do next? And will he be naked? You didn’t see me type that.
Update: well, at least the fans are taking it well. Yep. (Backs away slowly.)
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October 30th, 2008 at 10:58 am
My vote: “You know what’s the difference between a Time Lord and pit bull? Lipstick!”
Just to stick it in the eye of the U.S. media.
October 30th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
I just had a thought: the next actor either better be as skinny if not skinnier than Tennant, which just may be impossible, or else he’s going to have a Hulk effect in his regeneration. (Or will they cop out and just use magic pants?) Or… here’s my scenario — he falls in his bath in the Tardis and injures himself so badly that he has to regenerate. Since he’s in the bath, he won’t have any clothes to worry about. And Davies can get Tennant and the new actor in a gratuitous semi-naked scene. Also it would be such an anti-climax to have this mundane thing happen and Davies is a bitch enough to do it after promising a “spectacular finale.”
By the way, there was an image on that Doctor Who Cat Macros site that was the Cassandra character (here in another context) with the caption “what’s the difference between a trampoline and a pit bull? Lipstick!” but I think they removed it.