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This thought has also occurred to me.
Yes, if we do indeed get a temporary 11th Dr for part of next week's episode, will it mean that that actor is obliged to be the 11th Dr when the proper time comes...?
I actually think... "not necessarily".
I imagine that at exactly what time in the Dr's life his 10th regeneration occurs may well impact upon what his 11th incarnation looks/acts like. So, there's no reason why whatever the premature 11th Dr looks/acts like would necessarily be the same as when the Dr's 10th regeneration eventually happens "at the right time".
It would be be an extremely interesting "what if" to give us a temporary 11th incarnation that isn't the same as the "proper" 11th incarnation that we'll eventually end up with whenever DT eventually decides to move on.
I wonder whether the next episode will actually dare to do something that interesting, or just go for the cop-out of revoking the regeneration before it even finishes. The latter would be a bit of a disappointment and missed-opportunity, I feel.
But that is what we've come to expect from Doctor Who, isn't it? Every dramatic cliffhanger is always turned around at the first moment of the next episode.
I hope that they do something different, but I'm expecting something to happen to the doctor, either that or for Jack to do a Rose and kiss the Doctor to suck in the elements of time.
Though I thought of this as something to kick in Jack's ageing process which we've seen does eventually happen. Or will Rose intervene, after all didn't we hear tonight that she is going to die? Or will we see something where Rose, Jack or Martha travel back in time to the point before he was blasted?
Could it really be TV's largest kept secret that no one knew was coming? Could David Tennant have actually quit the role, thus having other work lined up for next year, and they've all covered their tracks wonderfully, including inventing rumour stories such as him being payed a lot of money to stay on?
Aren't next year's specials due to budgeting rather than David Tennant wanting to do other things, I expect that the lack of series was planned before he arranged to do other things.
Inflatable Dartboard posted:
flaziola posted:
But as I've asked before, if the Doctor does change into someone else, and then changes back into David's incarnation, does this mean that when David does finally leave we'll already know the identity of the new Doctor.
This thought has also occurred to me.
Yes, if we do indeed get a temporary 11th Dr for part of next week's episode, will it mean that that actor is obliged to be the 11th Dr when the proper time comes...?
I actually think... "not necessarily".
I imagine that at exactly what time in the Dr's life his 10th regeneration occurs may well impact upon what his 11th incarnation looks/acts like. So, there's no reason why whatever the premature 11th Dr looks/acts like would necessarily be the same as when the Dr's 10th regeneration eventually happens "at the right time".
It would be be an extremely interesting "what if" to give us a temporary 11th incarnation that isn't the same as the "proper" 11th incarnation that we'll eventually end up with whenever DT eventually decides to move on.
I wonder whether the next episode will actually dare to do something that interesting, or just go for the cop-out of revoking the regeneration before it even finishes. The latter would be a bit of a disappointment and missed-opportunity, I feel.
But that is what we've come to expect from Doctor Who, isn't it? Every dramatic cliffhanger is always turned around at the first moment of the next episode.
I hope that they do something different, but I'm expecting something to happen to the doctor, either that or for Jack to do a Rose and kiss the Doctor to suck in the elements of time.
Though I thought of this as something to kick in Jack's ageing process which we've seen does eventually happen. Or will Rose intervene, after all didn't we hear tonight that she is going to die? Or will we see something where Rose, Jack or Martha travel back in time to the point before he was blasted?
Could it really be TV's largest kept secret that no one knew was coming? Could David Tennant have actually quit the role, thus having other work lined up for next year, and they've all covered their tracks wonderfully, including inventing rumour stories such as him being payed a lot of money to stay on?
Aren't next year's specials due to budgeting rather than David Tennant wanting to do other things, I expect that the lack of series was planned before he arranged to do other things.
