Re: This is not the end, and the Moment was not prepared for

On 03/06/2025 09:25, Mickmane wrote:

On 03.06.25, solar penguin  <solar.penguin@gmail.com> wrote:

The Last Doctor <mike@xenocyte.com> wrote:

>

What if ... the next Doctor has not been cast yet, and Billie Piper
is playing the Moment in a call back to the Watcher in Logopolis.
The next Doctor then emerges from her at the start of the next
episode.

>
What did I forget there, Watcher in Logopolis?

Throughout Logopolis, a mysterious white figure kept appearing in the
 distance. Then at the end when Tom fell off of Jodrell Bank's big radio
 scope and regenerated, the figure (the Watcher) merged with the Doctor and
 send to be some sort of ghostly dula or midwife for the regeneration,
 leading Teagn to declare with some sort of miraculaous Oracular knowledge
 "The Watcher was the Doctor all along!"
The idea of midwiving regeneration was actually introduced in Planet of the
 Spiders when Kan Po's next incarnation, Cho Je, was present as some sort of
 psychic projection all the way through the story till the regeneration
 actually occurred.
On reflection, there's actually a better callback that could be taking place
 here - Destiny of the Daleks.
Ncuti's is the first voluntary regeneration that any Doctor we've seen has
 ever had. Maybe, like Romana when she regenerated just becasue she was
 bored (read, Tom insisted that his new girlfriend should replace Mary
 Tamm), the Doctor is going to be able to experiment with new faces and
 bodies before settling into the one that will be the Doctor we will refer
 to as 16? And they're just trying Rose on for size?
If Moffat is writing a Christmas Special I can imagine a sort of reboot of
 the Curse of Fatal Death being canonised, where lots of names fans have
 been kicking around the Internet get to be the Doctor for 5 minutes each
 before someone nobody thought of or wanted gets the part. Cue Richard E
 Grant, Lydia West, Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Grant, Idris Elba, Gillian
 Anderson, Whoopi Goldberg, Kris Marshall, David Tennant AGAIN!, Paul
 McGann, Keeley Hawes etc for moments each as the Doctor alongside Billie
 ...
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 sometimes.