Thursday, October 30, 2008
David Tennant Leaving Doctor Who
When I read about this last night I was rather shocked and a bit sad. But that is testament to how successful David Tennant has been in the role and it is better he leaves whilst people want more. I did think that he should do a fourth series and then leave, but with hindsight leaving next year is perhaps the right time.
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I missed the awards (mostly because, meh, I generally dislike award shows) so caught confirmation of what I thought would be the case on the BBC 10pm news.
I sighed, felt sadness, but he's right to go. And it isn't yet anyway. I loved DW before this, and I will love it after: but the tenth doctor will always have a particularly special place in my affections for both actorly and shallow reasons.
Given the banter that RTD, DT and SM had when they did the podcast commentary for the Library story earlier this year, clearly DT would have settled very easily into the SM regime. But it would have made it even harder for him to extricate himself. This at least allows a clean start for Moffatt's time in charge.
The show is bigger than any one actor: with regeneration possible its been a mainstay that the key actor CAN and indeed SHOULD change.
Here's to the next 45 years...
Stephen Fry should be the next Doctor Who how cool would that be
That would be good, but am thinking of David Morrisey, depending on what the Christmas Special is like!
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