In Physician Who Journal 579, Physician Who showrunner Russell T Davies teased shared a number of doable situations for why the Fourteenth Physician resembles the Tenth Physician (David Tennant):
“A mysteriously forgotten tour for the TARDIS in between Planet of the Ood and Sontaran Strategem? Or perhaps a multiverse factor, they’re all the fad nowadays. Possibly that is the Physician and Donna from Universe 557, all set to collide with our personal. Then once more, perhaps, simply perhaps, this return is so inconceivable that it’s really an intricate phantasm created by an outdated enemy of the Physician’s. Or perhaps an outdated enemy of Donna’s. Nerys! After all, I wouldn’t give that away within the pages of DWM, would I? However then once more. This journal is the primary place I ever revealed the title of Billie Piper’s Rose (in difficulty 340). So learn rigorously. There are truths in right here.”
Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) Married Shaun Temple (Karl Collins) in 2010 and so they have a teenaged daughter named Rose (Yasmin Finney). There’s nothing which might point out Donna’s life hasn’t progressed naturally from the identified universe or is a part of a forgotten 2008 tour.
In video of the making of the 13-to-Fourteen regeneration, Davies clarified that the Fourteenth Physician will not be an phantasm, a joke or the deliberate trick of a foe. At first look, there don’t look like any truths in Davies’ unique tease.
“He’s the Fourteenth Physician as a result of he’s not a trick Physician. He’s not a fake Physician. He’s not a jape. He’s not a plan by the Trickster or something. He’s genuinely the Fourteenth Physician. There’s one thing subtler happening that does get revealed.”
So what’s the delicate factor? There are a couple of clues. The Physician should work out why he received his outdated face again and why he runs into Donna once more in spite of everything these years.
“Now, I’ve received this buddy, known as Donna Noble,” the Fourteenth Physician muses to Shirley Ann Bingham. “I needed to wipe her reminiscence to avoid wasting her life. If she remembers me, she’s going to die. So what occurs subsequent? A spaceship crashes proper in entrance of her. It’s like she’s drawing us in. I don’t consider in future however, if future exists, then it’s heading for Donna Noble.”
Donna absorbed the Physician’s data skills in a phenomenon referred to as a Metacrisis. This disaster would have killed her had the Physician not wiped her reminiscence. However what if Donna’s reminiscences are the important thing to avoid wasting Earth from an alien risk? Rose might also have half to play within the thriller. May she have inherited Metacrisis capabilities from her mom?
Physician Who will return in November 2023 with three sixtieth anniversary specials starring David Tennant because the Fourteenth Physician and Catherine Tate as companion Donna Noble titled The Star Beast, Wild Blue Yonder and The Giggle.
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