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I must confess that I was deeply saddened to learn that David Tennant would not be continuing as \u201cthe doctor\u201d in Doctor Who. As a young kid, I was never that into Doctor Who. When the new series came about, I must tell you that I was less than impressed with the actor they had playing \u201cthe Doctor\u201d. I watched some of the episodes because the scripts were so well done, but I couldn’t call myself a fan.<\/p>\n

Things changed dramatically when they brought in David Tennant. I had no idea who he was or that he was even in the Royal Shakespeare company, let alone that he played Hamlet for them. The first thing to change was my buying of the premise. David’s acting ability is such that he was on screen for less than a minute and already I was simply along for the ride.<\/p>\n

A few episodes into the new doctor I noticed that the level of writing for the show was skyrocketing. The scripts kept going farther and pushing the actors and they kept rising to the challenge. I must admit that I only \u201cliked\u201d the Rose Tyler character. Perhaps because the \u201cwholesome blonde from a bad part of town\u201d angle of her character seemed a bit clich\u00e9, perhaps because it was a bit too obvious everyone was trying to push for a love story with that character.<\/p>\n

Then the writers introduced Donna Noble. What a treasure of a character! The chemistry between her and the doctor was simply could not be written into a script. During the all of the finally specials you heard several times people saying that David Tennant was an actor without limits. While I agree with that statement whole heartedly, I think a good many of the people saying such things failed to notice that Doctor Donna kept in locked step with the Doctor throughout her existence in the series.<\/p>\n

It’s a horrible thing to watch the end of such a magnificent pairing and an even more tragic thing to see a young and brilliant actor walk away from such a remarkable show. I understand being young and wanting to branch out into other things. I also understand wanting to go out on top, rather than riding a once loved series all the way to the bottom as so many have done before. Speaking as one who is long in the tooth, at some point in the not too distant future, the energy of youth will fade and one will look back fondly on this time wondering why they didn’t try to make it last just a little longer.<\/p>\n

One must pity any actor who thinks they can fill the shoes of David Tennant or that they will be given a companion character like Donna Noble or an actor (actress) like Cathrine Tate to play the role. Speaking as a published author who has never written screen play, I have to ask, where do the writers go after having written for David and Cathrine for so long? Do you continue lunging forward setting up the replacement for a spectacular flame out in just a couple of episodes or do you pull back to the level of writing we saw with the first new Doctor when I wasn’t a fan?<\/p>\n

I am going to miss the Doctors without limits. Their particular DVD set may find its way into my collection.<\/p>\n

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