Doctor Who’s in an odd place each in the fictional universe it inhabits and our mundane actuality.
Final we noticed, the tenacious Time Lord Ncuti Gatwa was burning away to disclose the Doctor’s new face, and it appeared very acquainted. For no matter purpose, the Final of the Time Lords appeared to have taken on the type of his outdated companion Rose Tyler (Billie Piper).
Evidently, this sudden and sudden transformation has left plenty of fans very curious – and in some circumstances downright livid – about what’s next for the good physician.
Annoyingly, nevertheless, the BBC and Russell T Davies have remained tight-lipped on the state of affairs and at the time of writing, there’s been no phrase on the beloved sci-fi series’ future or whether or not Disney is excited about serving to finance one other run.
So what’s a Gallifreyan superfan to do then? Effectively, right here at Metro we’ve gathered our staff of devoted Doctor Who specialists – Deputy TB Editor Tom Percival, TV Reporter Asyia Iftikhar, and Senior TV Reporter Rebecca Cooke – and cracked out the crystal ball to foretell what’s next for the present, each by way of the story and the thorny world of TV manufacturing.
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Don’t fear, although, most of us are predicting a contented ending for the Doctor.
Tom’s Prediction – ‘One final particular’
It would simply be me, but it appears painfully apparent the place Doctor Who’s going next.
No matter Disney’s involvement, I feel we’re getting a minimum of yet one more particular, and I don’t imagine that Billie is enjoying a real incarnation of the Doctor. As an alternative, it appears much more believable that she’s the Dangerous Wolf entity borrowing the Doctor’s physique.
Mainly, on this imagined particular, we’d study that Rose’s consciousness exists in the Time Vortex as Dangerous Wolf. When 15 poured his regeneration power into the time vortex to convey again Poppy, a part of that consciousness merged with the Doctor.
Sadly, it’s not a real regeneration, and this new ‘Meta-Disaster Rose Doctor’ has a restricted time till the physique finishes ‘cooking’ and the true sixteenth Doc emerges. In that point, although, she has all Rose’s reminiscences and all the Doctor’s skills, so she decides to trace down her Doctor… aka David Tennant.
Over the course of a particular, we then get ‘Rose Doctor’ travelling by way of the Doctor’s timeline, working into some acquainted faces (outdated companions and a few returning Medical doctors maybe?) earlier than one closing tear-jerking run-in with the tenth Doctor giving closure on Davies’ tenure and the revived Doctor Who series. Mainly it’s one large blissful ending.
What occurs next is determined by whether or not the BBC desires extra Doctor Who or not. But both approach, I feel it’ll finish with the Rose Doctor regenerating into the true sixteenth Doctor.
This will both result in a 3rd season or, if the BBC decides it’s finished with Who, the regeneration will be left open-ended for some future author to choose up a decade or so from now.
No matter occurs, although, I feel it’s time for some recent blood, and which means two issues. Drop Russell T Davies and go away the nostalgia for New Who behind. Change is a part of the present’s DNA, and the refusal to ‘regenerate’ has been holding the series again.
Asyia’s prediction – ‘The present goes on…’
Disney will pull out of the deal, and the present will fall again into the BBC’s palms, returning with a 2026 festive particular by which era they will have chosen the sixteenth Doctor correct.
In the Christmas particular, very like Susan’s cameo was teased and by no means addressed once more in season two, Billie Piper will make a fleeting look earlier than the present rapidly strikes on.
I imagine she received’t even final the full episode, and her cameo will be resolved maybe even in the first 5 to 10 minutes, as the Doctor’s regeneration goes wacky as a consequence of Rose’s power being in the Time Vortex after the Dangerous Wolf incident.
Billie will then regenerate into thetrue16th Doctor, who will have their introductory journey.
The present will then return in 2027 for a full season three (ideally returning to, a minimum of, the 10-episode construction offered for Jodie Whittaker’s period) with a model new companion.
Belinda Chandra, Ruby Sunday, the fifteenth Doctor, and whoever Billie is portraying will be firmly left in the previous – and, such as you, I hope and assume there will be a brand new showrunner.
Becky’s Prediction – ‘Sizzling ones? Extra like Who Ones’
It’s honest to say the Billie Piper reveal has not gone down nicely.
Most see it as the Whoniverse placing the model on life assist, the place the reminiscences of the good ol’ heyday of the Russell reboot are intravenously administered to maintain the dwindling fanbase hopeful that our ailing Tardis may pull by way of.
So, if an concept like, say, bringing again a beloved companion and defying present logic by making her a Time Lord have been to backfire, how finest to fashion it out?
This season gave fans plenty of issues on their wishlist: large price range, stellar Doctor, lovable companion, some cracking episodes (Lux, The Effectively, and so forth). But nonetheless, it appeared the solely fans tuning in have been the meta superfans we met when the Doctor battled Mr Ring-a-Ding.
Let’s exit on a limb right here and say that Disney received’t again out. That Rose is the Sixteenth Doctor. (All the logical predictions have been taken.)
With the intention to get fans again in and hold Disney candy, we would have a giant shake-up on our palms. Large. Piper is so bonkers and out-there an individual to look in the regeneration, it may upset the time-space continuum sufficient to usher in the new regular: a Doctor-of-the-week format.
Hear me out. Maybe Piper is defined away with some timey-wimey nonsense, and maybe it seems the mechanics of Time Lord-dom are damaged. He/she/they is regenerating each hour of tv, to be exact.
Which Doctor Who prediction do you assume is true?
So, for a one-off particular season, enjoying the Doctor will be the new equal to internet hosting Saturday Evening Dwell. Or occurring Snack Wars. Or consuming some rooster in whichever poultry promotional content material you favor.
A rotating solid of ‘Doctor Who’s who’. The whiff of desperation is already in the air, so why not lean in?
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