![]() Davies wants to celebrate the brilliance of Tennant’s tenure as Ten. ![]() The 14th Doctor’s familiar face makes it clear that, for the 60th anniversary, newly reappointed showrunner Russell T. For the first time, the Doctor has regenerated into someone he has already been (if we’re not counting the time Tennant literally already did that 15 years ago). Anniversary specials in Who bring back former Doctors alongside the most modern incarnation (Tennant did it for the 50th!), but the latest, 14th version of the Doctor is an entirely new person who looks, sounds, and behaves just like Ten. Now, Tennant is back - but in a different way to how he was back before. Over his four-year run, the tenth Doctor started to feel like the defining version of the character - his 135-minute finale was almost a weepy funeral for the actor, as if he were actually dying and not just considering other career options. Tennant led the charge for Who’s new legacy in the modern era, deploying his charm, cheer, and cheekbones with ruthless effectiveness. It was as if he hadn’t just spontaneously combusted himself and instead merely cleared his throat. ![]() Within a few seconds of Christopher Eccleston (the underrated ninth Doctor) bursting into cosmic flame and replacing his physiology with Tennant’s in 2005 ( Doctor Who cleverly figured out how to outlive its lead actors with the title character’s “regeneration”), the young Scot lit up the screen. His original run as the tenth incarnation of the Doctor came in the reboot’s second season, meaning the show had a whole 13 episodes under its belt to experiment with tone, structure, and mid-aughts-era BBC budgets (read: £3.17 per episode). It’s unclear exactly how David Tennant became the poster boy for the revamped era of Doctor Who, but like so many of the adventures of the centuries-old alien, it may be a matter of timing.
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