There’s actually a threat inherent in going again to the Tennant nicely once more, particularly so quickly after the present’s sixtieth anniversary arc. However love him or hate him, Tennant’s nonetheless the most well-liked modern-era Physician, and has already been deployed to assist ease a transition between two eras of the present earlier than. His Fourteenth Physician not solely nonetheless exists on the earth of the present (thanks, biregenration!) however he’s canonically not doing a lot past hanging out at Donna Noble’s home together with his toes up. If something may get him out of retirement, one has to imagine it might be an unidentified and mysterious regenerated being who occurs to be sporting Rose Tyler’s face.
Reuniting Tennant and Piper, two of the figures who’re most answerable for the present’s trendy recognition, may genuinely function a bridge to no matter’s subsequent for the franchise. (Notably since we don’t know what that can appear like as but.) It could in all probability go a lengthy method towards smoothing the ruffled feathers inside the fandom after Gatwa’s abrupt departure, which was messy, abrupt, and positively felt like a last-second Hail Mary that showrunner Russell T. Davies concocted out of desperation when his unique plans needed to be scrapped.
A TV film or feature-length particular may additionally assist Davies and pals reorient the present’s narrative in a method that makes the mess of final season’s finale really feel extra considerate and deliberate, or at the very least prefer it served some type of a bigger objective past shock worth. It may, if crucial, additionally function a definitive endcap to the second Davies period, ought to he determine it’s time to surrender the keys to the TARDIS earlier than the following Physician arrives. In brief, it’s in all probability not one thing anybody would have predicted may occur when Gatwa’s period first began, however the thought may remedy some very actual issues for the franchise (and bask in some first-rate fan service on the similar time)
It’ll doubtless be some time earlier than we discover what’s subsequent for the Whoniverse, because of the bizarre manufacturing limbo the present is at the moment trapped in whereas all of us await Disney+ to determine whether or not to proceed its partnership with the present. (This in all probability received’t occur till after spinoff sequence The Battle Between The Land and the Sea has aired on the earliest. Sigh.) And, look, it’s clearly a protracted shot in one of the best of all attainable worlds. Tennant and Piper are each booked and busy, and every little thing behind the scenes at Physician Who looks like a battle proper now. However wouldn’t it’s sort of cool if it did?
