No, I'm NOT happy about this either. I mean MID-SEASON?! After we JUST escaped a near "OMG they killed him!" moment at the end of last season? AFTER we just lost the companion we all loved so much?!
And yeah, I get that he doesn't want to get stuck in the role, but it's only been THREE years!!!! THREE years doesn't even make a "it's been too long" TV career! UGH!
I read somewhere that someone was trying to claim Tennant has more episodes under his belt than Tom Baker. I don't think that's right... I know they did things differently back in the day, with multi-part stories instead of standalone episodes, but each of those parts was a full what we consider today an episode, right? Forty minutes or whatever they run?
The standard was four half-hour-time-slot episodes per story arc.
Ah, now I'm remembering Tom Baker's Victorian episode. See, he'd just picked up a half-savage young lady who didn't take well to corsetry and dresses (only explanation for why she kept getting nobbled in fights) and there was a Doctor Watson analogue, and then there was the Chinese guy with the cursed puppet (it looked like it was a puppet but it could walk on its own) only the puppet wasn't cursed at all. Far from it - it was the Manchurian Homunculus from a thousand years in the future, made of high technology and the bestial brain of a pig. Oh, the unfolding creepiness!
And the Mara! For a monster that only turned up twice, I had many hours of being scared out of my noggin. Because it was scary! Very much scary! Eeee!
This makes me very sad. Although, I finally know what people mean when they sad "my Doctor." Tennant will be that for me. I watched Nine but my heart fluttters for Ten.
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Doctors come and Doctors go, like the tides and punctuation mistakes. The next one will have lovable qualities too, I swear.
(Though I sorely miss Eccleston.)
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And yeah, I get that he doesn't want to get stuck in the role, but it's only been THREE years!!!! THREE years doesn't even make a "it's been too long" TV career! UGH!
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Ah, now I'm remembering Tom Baker's Victorian episode. See, he'd just picked up a half-savage young lady who didn't take well to corsetry and dresses (only explanation for why she kept getting nobbled in fights) and there was a Doctor Watson analogue, and then there was the Chinese guy with the cursed puppet (it looked like it was a puppet but it could walk on its own) only the puppet wasn't cursed at all. Far from it - it was the Manchurian Homunculus from a thousand years in the future, made of high technology and the bestial brain of a pig. Oh, the unfolding creepiness!
And the Mara! For a monster that only turned up twice, I had many hours of being scared out of my noggin. Because it was scary! Very much scary! Eeee!
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