In her statement (which you can read in its entirety below), Cook explained that the decision was made "out of respect for the feelings of Doctor Who fans around the world" and that "it doesn't seem appropriate at this time."
Doctor Who Lockdown final rewatch artwork, courtesy of BBC Studios.
The final go-around was to focus on Peter[...]
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In her statement, Cook stated that the decision was made "out of respect for the feelings of Doctor Who fans around the world." As Cook reasons, "It doesn't seem appropriate at this time." Peter Capaldi's final two regular episodes ("The Ends of the Earth" and "The Doctor Falls") were to be the two-episode focus of[...]
Doctor Who Magazine writer and BBC Radio editor Emily Cook announced on Twitter that the final rewatch will be "The Ends of the Earth" and "The Doctor Falls", Peter Capaldi's final two regular episodes before he regenerated into Jodie Whittaker in the Christmas Special "Twice Upon a Time" This rewatch will blow out all the[...]
Hell, even the Master, perhaps the most significant other Time Lord role in Doctor Who, changed gender and became Missy.
If it continued to be the case that the Doctor regenerates into another man every time, it creates an odd subtext: why is the Doctor, arguably one of the few "good" Time Lords we've seen, always[...]