“A Scene We’ve Never Played Before”: How David Tennant’s Doctor Who Return Changes Show Teased By RTD
Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies shares his honest thoughts about how he approached writing David Tennant’s Fourteenth Doctor return. The show revealed a shocking twist when Jodie Whittaker’s Thirteenth Doctor took on the face of her Tenth incarnation in “The Power of the Doctor.” Tennant’s return to the role will help celebrate the show’s 60th anniversary before Ncuti Gatwa takes the keys to the TARDIS as the Fifteenth Doctor.
After the release of the first Doctor Who 60th-anniversary episode, “The Star Beast,” Davies sat down with the BTS show Doctor Who: Unleashed. The showrunner stated he had no reservations about Tennant’s return, as the scenario would allow his regeneration into Gatwa to be unlike anything the series has seen. Check out Davies’ response below:
Oh! I didn’t worry about that for a second. It was just like, so, Jodie Whittaker becomes David Tennant. Once you think that, it’s like, there’s no rules, you can do absolutely everything you want. There’ll be fans complaining about that, “You can’t do that.” Every time someone says “You can’t do that,”, that’s exactly where you should go.
It’s funny, because he’s an old Doctor, he’s played the Doctor before, but this has never happened. The Doctor’s never got his face back before, or her face back before, so that’s fascinating. It’s a plot that runs throughout the three hours of why has this happened, why has this happened, and leads towards the most extraordinary ending, which is a scene we’ve never played before in the whole 60 years of Doctor Who, so, that’s what I mean – New areas, new territory, new thoughts, new lines, new ideas. That’s always the right place to be.
This is an ongoing story…
