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Were Smith and Tennant fired?
Nope. Next dopey question... |
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I have it on good authority that this is how it went down back in 2009...
Moffat: "I'd love to have you on board for Series 5, David". Tennant: "Ah that's great, Steven! I could stay in this thing forever!" Moffat: "I'm gonna draft in a Scottish companion, Scottish Master... maybe chuck in some references to Scottish independence and Paisley in my first few episodes. Just us Scots together! I've been thinking of plastering the St Andrews Cross all over the new TARDIS exterior, nothing is too outrageous! You can scale back the fake accent too if you want, we'll blame it on the timey wimey or something" RTD: "To hell with that, this is a big gay Welsh thing. You're ruining the plans Steven! It's worse than my big stonking deux ex machina moments!!!". Moffat: "Well I'm The Moff. Just accept it". RTD: "Sorry David, I'm gonna have to write you out. Not quite sure how yet but we can't be pushing agendas on the show like this, we simply can't". Tennant: "But... I can do so much more. So much more! AND IT'S NOT FAIR!!!!. I don't wanna go". RTD: *scribbles hastily on paper* "Keep it coming Dave, this stuff is gold!". There'll never be a shortage of people intensely angry at Moffat, Russell Davies, Capaldi, or any of the actors or writers for things they imagine them to have done. The existence of these kinds of people are why I blanch at the idea of describing myself as a 'fan' and being associated with that kind of irrationality. |
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If you read Russell T Davies's book The Writer's Tale: The Final Chapter, then it clearly mentions David choosing to leave and Russell deciding to leave then also.
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Wri..._Final_Chapter I've got the book and have read it from cover to cover more than once. It is quite an interesting read, I must say. There are things mentioned in there that I didn't know, beforehand. |
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New Who was at its peak when RTDs left and Moffat took over. It was a pretty big decision for David Tennant to leave because he was so incredibly popular. It make sense for him to go when he did but it wasn't strange to think Moffat would want to keep him because it was working so well having him in the role. It didn't work out too badly having Matt take over though, either!
With Capaldi?? I mean I don't even stray into these forums anymore really, I just popped in after seeing an article about him complaining about the BBC today. I just rarely hear anything about Doctor Who nowadays, I don't actually know what kind of audience its aiming at. For the most part it doesn't seem like children are overly interested as I work in a school and I've never heard a word about the show (I was still a child when Who came back and it was discussed all the time!!). I've tried mentioning it to some of our 11 year olds and they just gave me a blank face so... Its faded out quite a lot, and I think CC will have a lot of ambition to try and make it into the must watch, much hyped event telly it became not so many years ago. He saw a return to that with the hype that surrounded Broadchurch and I'm sure he'd like to work with a clean slate. There wouldn't be as much of a risk in losing Capaldi, in my opinion, because he's not the giant, popular actor that Tennant became towards the end of RTD's reign. It would actually draw more attention to the show by bringing in someone new again, and it would be at exactly the right time to draw new people in if they had either lost love for the show in recent years or never liked it at all. I would be very disappointed if Capaldi stayed. |
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Why would Tennant have returned for the 50th if he was fired ??
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The way I remember it, Tennant was considering a fifth year, and Moffat even planned a version of Series 5 where he was the Doctor (he met Amy as a child just before he regenerated, and then she met him as an adult earlier in his timeline) and Smith pulled a Pertwee, where he offered to stay for a pay-rise, but was pretty content to leave otherwise.
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