It wasn’t that way back that Doctor Who followers met Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor, with this iteration of the heroic Time Lord coming into existence when David Tennant’s Fourteenth Doctor bi-generated in “The Giggle.” Nevertheless, along with his second season of the present coming to an finish quickly on the 2025 TV schedule, Gatwa’s Doctor Who future stays unsure, although the present is anticipated to proceed for 2 extra seasons. There’s now even a rumor claiming {that a} acquainted Doctor Who actor has been forged because the Sixteenth Doctor, though I’m extraordinarily skeptical that is really occurring.
Per data handed alongside by Sci-Fi & Fantasy Gazette, Billie Piper, who performed companion Rose Tyler for the Ninth and Tenth Medical doctors, has allegedly been tapped as Ncuti Gatwa’s successor. There’s additionally a picture supposedly making the rounds of Piper’s eyes glowing with regeneration power. It allegedly got here from an electronic mail despatched to these in Spain who’ve a Disney+ subscription, however I’m simply not shopping for this.
Right here’s the factor: we’ve seen with the Twelfth Doctor how this character has the aptitude of regenerating right into a face he’s seen earlier than. But to have The Doctor begin trying like one in all his former companions could be an uncommon artistic transfer to make. It will get even weirder with Billie Piper thrown into the combo contemplating that Rose Tyler is without doubt one of the few companions with whom The Doctor has shared a romantic connection.
Billie Piper was the primary companion of Doctor Who’s revival period, accompanying Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor for everything of his sole season. Then she caught round for David Tennant’s first season because the Tenth Doctor, however was then left trapped in a parallel universe. Piper then reprised Rose for a supporting position in 2008’s Season 4, which ended together with her returning to that different universe, however now attending to reside her life with a human/Time Lord hybrid duplicate of 10. Piper made her remaining onscreen look as Rose in direction of the top of David Tennant’s remaining common look as The Doctor, when he discreetly checked in on her in 2005, earlier than she met 9.
Though Piper did additionally return for Doctor Who’s fiftieth anniversary particular in 2013, however this was because the personification of The Second who took on Rose’s look in her “Dangerous Wolf” type. The actress has additionally vocally reprised Rose for some Massive End audio productions, however I discover it exhausting to consider that she’s been chosen to play the Sixteenth Doctor. Even by Doctor Who requirements, that is weird territory to tread into. Simply think about if 16 crossed paths with David Tennant’s Fourteenth Doctor, who’s present concurrently with 15. His mind may quick circuit.
Additionally, if it hasn’t been formally discovered but if Ncuti Gatwa is leaving Doctor Who after this season or not, then there’s no means an actor has already been forged as his substitute. So don’t, by any means, put cash on this… though this now reignited my hope to see Rose Tyler return sometime.
