Doctors Revisisted -- Tenth Doctor special

[dbskyler]

Well, that was interesting. Lots of David Tennant! (Hooray! Also, I understood every single word he said. I knew he was doing something funky with his accent in Broadchurch!)

We also got Camille, and Noel, and Freema, and Bernard Cribbins. No Billie and no Catherine (I was sad about one of those absences; I'll let you guess which one *g*). Also, for some bizarre reason, we got Peter Davison. Why? All I can suppose is that it was some wink-wink reference to the fact that Peter is David's father-in-law, but it just seemed bizarre. And we didn't get Georgia, which would've actually been appropriate -- in fact, more appropriate than some of the other one-off characters we got instead (e.g., Alex from "Christmas Invasion," otherwise known as "Harriet Jones helper-dude, and-I-bet-you-didn't-know-his-name-was-Alex").

At the end, Steven Moffat introduced "Stolen Earth / Journey's End," and he was very touchingly appreciative of Russell's script. It's not my favorite series finale, but it was nice to hear Steven's viewpoint on it.

Comments

[lolmac]

IIRC, when Peter Davison and David Tennant did the short crossover special, Tennant said that Davison was "his" Doctor. (Presumably, the Doctor that Tennant remembers most clearly from his childhood, the base of his own fandom.) Maybe that's why Davison was on the special?

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

I suppose it's possible, but they didn't mention that connection, nor did they mention "Time Crash" at all. The only other thing I can think of is that DT appeared on the other Doctors' retrospectives, giving his fanboy opinion, so perhaps TPTB thought it was only fair that another Doctor appeared on his, and Peter was the only one who agreed to do it? (And honestly, I think Peter would have agreed to do it even if he wasn't related to David; he's a nice guy, and has done other things like that.)