bobs99 ... said:
I hate to bring a downer on the thread - but David Tennants last episode was on TV just now, and the send off to the old cast was touching. It really is sad watching that know knowing that after a season its unlikely we will ever see any of them again.
Jack's obviously in Torchwood again now, and given how she's related to it and based in New York with Torchwood going stateside Martha could show up. Bigger than that, though, the way Moffat's spoken every time he's been asked about it, it does sound like he wants Jack to meet the Eleventh Doctor at least once. Given he's already handed 11 off to RTD for Sarah Jane Adventures once, I can easily see him asking RTD to make a gap somewhere in Jack's Torchwood storyline so he can jump back into Who. It's probably not gonna happen until after the River Song storyline is over, though, as they kind of fill the same role in the TARDIS crew.
So... Doctor Who Wedding? Tennant just got engaged to Georgia Moffet,
The Sun reports. Pinch of salt as it's The Sun, but they're usually right on showbiz gossip like this.
For those who need reminding, she played Jenny in "The Doctor's Daughter", and she's the real life daughter of Peter Davison, the Fifth Doctor. That wedding will literally be choc full with people involved with the show. Crazy.
Mr. Sam said:
RTD sort of retconned the "same man, different face" thing by having Tennant describe it as "like dying" and "someone else just walks off." Moffat has since retconned it back, insisting on the "same man, different face" angle in interviews. A slight personality shift is part and parcel of either.
I think both are valid. Making it like death gives it a lot more weight, I think. It
is the same man with a different face, yes - same memories, same brain and so on - but everything that makes him who he is - his personality and his looks - dies. There's a base-line moral code to The Doctor, too, but even that has edited drastically - the third was happy to roll around with the military and punch dudes for the greater good, but the Fourth ran away from that almost immediately, and the Tenth likewise dislikes the military, whereas Eleven seems less bothered about working with them. Vast swathes of his personality change, so I would say it is like a death.
The only way it can be described is to use a rather sad example - but someone I know had their aunt get seriously injured in a major car accident. She was in a coma at first, but then when she woke up she was a completely different person. She almost refused to acknowledge her daughters, husband and family, and despite therapy and all sorts the trauma had changed who she was and she couldn't live with her old life and she jetted off to another country about a year after being fully recovered to start a new life. She left everything behind; family, fully-grown kids, devastated husband. She had the memories, too - she could remember getting married, having the kids, honeymoons, birthdays, all sorts of memories - but she said to her, she was disconnected from them. It was like they'd happened to someone else, like they were events she'd attended or seen on TV.
For them, they say the door is always open to her, but they otherwise treat it as if she's dead, because that woman they knew and loved pretty much was. She was a
completely different person, but with the same face. And that's how I think of regeneration.
If the above sort of interests you, a good book to read on that kind of subject is Richard Hammond (Top Gear) and his wife on his accident, as he too didn't recognise his wife (and kept insisting he had a wife, but she was French) or many of the things he loved in life like cars and machines. Thankfully for Hammond there was a trigger - his kids - and when he saw his kids everything else kind of fell back into place.
