If he was so against regenerating why didnt he simply grab a sharp knife and lop off his hand and syphon off the energy into it again ergo no chance. and then sometime in the first 15 hours after the regeneration he could use the residual energy to grow a new hand.

i will get my tin hat on

Cos David Tennant didn't wanna do it anymore...

Because 10 is only a character, it was the actor who wanted to leave..

Which is a shame, because he's deprived me (and all other Who fans) of 10 hours of Dr Who adventures.

As I understand it (and I'm happy to be corrected if I've got it wrong), Tennant was offered the part of Hamlet on stage, and jumped at it. I have no problems with that at all.
He also knew he couldn't do that and Who, so the Who team held production on Series 31 (Series 5 under the new Calendar). This was so he could have a year off to do hamlet, then come back fresh and recharged the next year.
"No problem for the fans" says the production team "We'll give you 4 special episodes this year. That'll make up for it, won't it?"
Ummm. No.
Not counting the Christmas special, which we probably would have had anyway (given the recent history), we're now left with 3 extra episode.
3 "special" episodes. Special in what way? Because they're longer? Ummm, not really.
Ok, they'll be BIG storylines - something we've never seen before?

I'll reserve judgement on that, but suffice to say, there wasn't much special about Waters on Mars and Planet fo the Dead, plotlines we could have seen mixed in with another 10 episodes.

Ok, so as fans we'll sacrifice 10 episodes this year.
Oh, but wait.. he's said he doesn't want to do it anymore...

To me, it's the same as a mate asking if you can babysit his kids for a night, and you saying you will. Then another mate asks if you want to go to the cinema/pub/somewhere on that night and you say no, because you promised to babysit. Then when you get there, to babysit, you're told "Oh, no.. I'm not going out tonight now. I changed my mind. Never mind, eh?"



David Tennant owes me 10 hours of Dr Who!

The gap year was planned before Tennant took the Hamlet job.

Get on the phone to his Agent, maybe we can put together a whopping 10 hour Multi Doctor story.

As i said, I am happy to be corrected

So, out of interest - was the gap year to allow Tennant some room to breath?

What I'm getting at is, did he know he was going before the gap year was planned?

And I am happy to correct you

I think it was to give production a year of to come come up with ideas and such to have a fresh start in 2010 or something like that.

Then my entire Tennant rant is pointless now.

Thanks for clearing it up

Well for a start if he syphoned off all the energy into the hand and there wasn't actually a regeneration, there'd be no 'residual energy' to grow one back afterwards.

Plus we all know RTD would never use the same ludicrous plot device twice, right

He Could have avoided the whole regeneration itself if he didn't make the long speech to Wilf, And just pressed the button with a long stick, and he called the Master stupid

Haha.

He could have just used that time to run to the TARDIS, then go grab Jack and be back in mere seconds, send him in there to absorb the radiation and voila.

Because we all know how precise the TARDIS is about time and location, especially in a crisis.

It was quite precise on mars, and that was with a robot driving it.

If Tennant hadn't left now, I don't think he'd have left at all, and the show would of ended in a few years with Doctor 10.

At least now they can close the current chapter and start creating a new one. Sure, it doesn't flow so nicely, but its nice to be able to come at the show from a new angle.

Lets be fair, the 6 - 8 year olds that first fell in love with Who are now 11 - 13 and are going to do that pre-teen cynical turn on a show they used to like because it was for them as a kid. It makes sense to alter the show for a new generation of kids. Every generation has their doctor.

Mine was McCoy, Tennant's was Peter Davidson, Russell T. Davies was Tom Baker...

Exactly.

The TARDIS is only temperamental when it suits the story. When it needs to be precise it miraculously is.