I
don't even mean this in a canon sort of way. The canon and continuity
of regeneration is nonsense and always has been. The idea that any
sort of consistent rules exist that preclude Matt Smith coming back
as the Thirteenth Doctor is just mad. I'm taking this from a more
practical yet seemingly less discussed avenue.
We've
been here before, of course. When Smith was leaving the rumour did
the rounds that Tennant would be coming back to “save the series”.
It was piffle then and it is piffle now which, as I say, this has
nothing to do with anything as involved as canon or continuity...
No,
it is because Tennant and Smith are actual human beings with actual
careers.
They've
moved on. They aren't coming back. I don't care if Smith says he
regrets leaving when he did. He's not going to take a massive pay cut
compared to his current work and lock down nine months of his
schedule to go back to an old role. Actors who do that, let's be
brutally honest, tend to be ones who haven't got much else going on.
And
even beyond those practicalities, I'm not certain who it would
actually benefits. Certainly not Smith, who gets to experience a pay
cut and a significant step back in his career. Definitely not
Chibnall, who gets to write someone else's version of the Doctor
instead of his own because bringing Smith back is a nostalgia move so
he'd have to be ultra-faithful to the character as written by Moffat.
Not the BBC, either, who get to market the big relaunch of their
flagship sci-fi series by admitting they have no better idea than
call a mulligan on the last three seasons which'll look great to both
the general audience and overseas buyers alike.
And
not the fans who want it, either, because they get a showrunner
shackled to his predecessor's creative vision which is a recipe for
success every time I've seen it happen, let me tell you.
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