Comments | kittywiskers: Bored.

kittywiskers

Bored.

Apr 23, 2010 15:28

All my teachers are away at a town-wide meeting so I will take up your flist space with some drivel as I waste a bit more time ( Read more... )

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kittywiskers April 24 2010, 15:15:00 UTC

When an actor leaves to do other things they replace them by having the Doctor regenerate into a 'new form'. The 9th Doctor, for instance, didn't want to be typecast so he left after just one year/season. David Tennant has been the 10th Doctor for three seasons and a bunch of made for TV specials which totals to four years. I think it was just time. He's off working on different projects and last year he returned to the royal Shakespeare company to perform Hamlet with Patrick Stewart (Captain Picard from Star Trek the Next Gen).

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kittywiskers April 28 2010, 02:54:01 UTC

Well, that must just be because you're not into Trek. He'll always be Picard to me.

vorcephrus April 24 2010, 15:01:21 UTC

They replace the Dr. Who actor every year. It's a formulaic thing... or that's how it used to work, maybe it's less often now.

kittywiskers April 24 2010, 15:18:41 UTC

Nowadays at least it happens when an actor chooses to leave the program for whatever reason. On the reboot so far we've had 9 for one year, 10 for four, and now Matt Smith for however long. I think originally it was supposed to stop at 10 regenerations but that bit of lore seems to have gone by the wayside.