It looks like something is brewing with Doctor Who and how it comes back to our screens after the abysmal last few years of the formerly classic series.
You may recall, if you made it that far, that at the end of the 2025 series, Ncuti Gatwa’s 15th Doctor, for some reason, regenerates in the usual way, an explosion of energy erupts from the Doctor’s body, he is engulfed in light, and, where we would usually meet the next Doctor, we see… Billy Piper as Rose Tyler?!
Check the clip out here:
While this was an obvious bit of stunt casting at the last minute to get people talking about the series, it also meant that fans who still cared about what comes next, were scratching their heads… why was Rose, who was the Doctor’s companion from 2005 to 2006 under, first Christopher Eccleston’s 9th Doctor and then David Tennant’s 10th Doctor, she then returned for specials in 2008, 2010, and 2013, seemingly the next face of the Doctor?
Well, it seems that we might be finally getting an answer to this question.
On the official Doctor Who site today, a new update from UNIT (United Nations Intelligence Taskforce), reads:
“As Rose Tyler is currently both missing from this universe and flagged as a complex space-time event, maybe keep an eye out. I’ve got the Vlinx scanning all media channels and the Subwave Network.”
What does this mean? Well, Rose, at the end of her run with Tennant, was stuck in an alternate dimension with her mum and that universe’s version of her dad (who was dead in the real universe (it’s Doctor Who)) – although she returned several times, as listed above – and now it seems that the BBC might be going to writer Rose back into the new series but, given this description, it looks like she won’t be the Doctor but is still Rose. Somehow.
Which is interesting because a rumoured plot leak of the 2027 Christmas Special is that Rose will replace the Doctor becasue the Doctor is lost in space and time and Rose will have to reach out the retired David Tennant Doctor in our universe – look, there’s two Doctors now because the last series introduced bi-Regernation and it makes no sense and is really stupid, but let’s go with it (we have no choice right now) – to try to find the other prime Doctor and bring him (or her) back.
Or something.
I have no idea how this will turn out, and I have no doubt that some suits at the BBC believe that reuniting Piper and Tennant is a sure-fire way to bring the fans back. I remain sceptical… they will need to have some damed good writer to make this work and win back the fans.
Thoughts? I know you have them and I wanna hear ’em all!
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Source: DoctorWho.TV
Marc
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