Note: this put up incorporates spoilers for this previous weekend’s Doctor Who season finale.
In the ultimate moments of “The Reality War,” the Fifteenth Doctor (Gatwa) sacrificed his present kind to avoid wasting the life of a kid, and in traditional Doctor Who vogue, the Time Lord’s regeneration course of ended with him getting a (kind of) new face. It’s not precisely clear how or why, however the Doctor regenerated right into a kind that appears loads like Rose Tyler (Billie Piper), the human companion to the Ninth (Christopher Eccleston) and Tenth Doctor (David Tennant).
This is the second time in latest Doctor Who historical past that the titular character has regenerated right into a physique portrayed by a collection veteran. Previously, Tennant returned to grow to be the Fourteenth Doctor after the Thirteenth (Jodie Whittaker) regenerated. “The Reality War” strongly implies that the Sixteenth Doctor might need remodeled right into a Rose Tyler facsimile for emotional causes. But, notably, the episode’s credit don’t specify who her new character is.
In a press release about her Who reveal, Piper famous how she has “at all times stated I might like to return to the Whoniverse as I’ve a few of my greatest reminiscences there.” Showrunner Russell T Davies added that “it’s an honour and a hoot to welcome [Piper] again to the Tardis, however fairly how and why and who’s a narrative but to be advised.”
In a press release of his personal, Gatwa thanked the Who fandom and “everybody that has performed a component in my journey because the Doctor.”
“You know once you get solid, in some unspecified time in the future you’ll have at hand again that sonic screwdriver and it’s all going to come back to an finish, however nothing fairly prepares you for it,” Gatwa stated. “There aren’t any phrases to explain what it feels prefer to be solid because the Doctor, nor are there phrases to elucidate what it feels prefer to be accepted into this iconic position that has existed for over 60 years and is really cherished by so many throughout the globe.”
The casting information was considerably shocking coming after an look Gatwa made on The Graham Norton present final fall the place he stated that there have been plans for him to start capturing a 3rd season as The Doctor. At the time, Gatwa’s feedback felt like an indication that the BBC meant to maintain the Fifteenth Doctor’s adventures going for some time longer. But, curiously, when Gatwa’s interview in the end aired on tv, his feedback had been edited to take away any point out of a 3rd season. It now looks as if the community determined to shift gears somewhat drastically and concentrate on taking part in to Who followers’ nostalgia by bringing again an outdated face.
It’s not clear when Doctor Who will return and clarify the Doctor’s newest face, however the BBC isn’t letting the franchise go dormant for too lengthy. The community additionally dropped a brand new trailer for The War Between The Land and The Sea, a derivative collection starring Russell Tovey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jemma Redgrave, and Alexander Devrient as a bunch of individuals making an attempt to cease a battle with creatures generally known as the Sea Devils.
Currently, The War Between the Land and the Sea doesn’t have a agency launch date, however we will count on to see it a while later this yr.
