I interrupt my Seattle vacation and current pinot grigio sipping in the lobby of the Westin to take a moment to mourn the fact that Mr. David Tennant has quit his role as Doctor Who. CK introduced me to Doctor Who when we first started dating. Initially I mocked him mercilessly for liking the show but ever so slowly I started to change my tune. Initially it was simply the girl crush I developed on Billie Piper, but soon enough I became completely wrapped up in the Dalek filled plot-lines. Admittedly, I was a bit distraught over my first Doctor Who regeneration from bad boy Christopher Eccleston to David’s more quirky Doctor, but in the end he was fabulous. I can’t even begin to imagine who they’ll find to fill his shoes. Care to speculate on your Doctor wish-list?
29Oct 2008
My phone has been ringing off and on over the past couple of hours, alternating between pollsters and distraught Dr. Who fans passing along the David Tennant news. My wife is the Dr. Who fan in the family, but I have liked the new series, particularly DT’s take on the Doctor. When someone mentioned that he had left the series in part to play Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Karen responded, “What! He gave up Dr. Who to play Hamlet. What was he thinking?”
By the way, I think there’s a science fiction museum in the vicinity of the Space Needle, so if you need a place to mourn the loss of DT, check it out (I believe it has Captain Kirk’s chair from the Enterprise on display).