{"id":12020,"date":"2009-04-15T20:20:56","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T03:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/04\/15\/12020.html"},"modified":"2009-04-15T20:20:56","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T03:20:56","slug":"tennant-davies-on-leaving-dr-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/04\/15\/tennant-davies-on-leaving-dr-w\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennant & Davies on leaving Dr. Who"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Times Online<\/cite> last week had a fun interview with David Tennant and Russell T. Davies<\/a> about leaving Dr. Who<\/cite>.<\/p>\n

I suppose it could be argued that there are incredibly vague quasi-semi-spoilers in the first page of it, but really, it doesn't give anything away.<\/p>\n

(Added later: Um, unless any of you didn't know Tennant and Davies are planing to leave the show. In which case my entry title here is rather a giveaway, and I apologize. I'm hoping that that info has been impossible enough to miss that everybody knows it already; if I'm wrong, I apologize.)<\/p>\n

My favorite bits:<\/p>\n

During discussion of what projects they'll be doing next:<\/p>\n

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DT<\/strong>: Do you feel you want to do something with grown-up people having sex?<\/p>\n

RTD<\/strong>: Yes. And I'd like to write something like that, too. Boom, boom!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And later, in discussion of a hypothetical (but imaginary) \"chipmunk drama\" project:<\/p>\n

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RTD<\/strong>: You'd be a chipmunk, wouldn't you? A gay chipmunk?<\/p>\n

DT<\/strong>: I can't wait.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

David Tennant as a gay chipmunk! *swoon*<\/p>\n

On a more serious note:<\/p>\n

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DT<\/strong>: [...] The competition winner from Doctor Who<\/cite> magazine was on set today, a 15-year-old girl. When I was a kid, 15-year-old girls didn't watch Doctor Who.<\/p>\n

RTD<\/strong>: It's hard to express the joy of that. For 20 years, this thing was a joke. It was slightly embarrassing admitting liking it. In fact, very embarrassing. You'd see comedians taking the piss out of it. It would crop up on I Love the 60s shows, where they would make it look like rubbish. And to see it being what it always was in our hearts is just amazing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Of course, technically speaking, Tennant is wrong. 15-year-old girls have been watching Dr. Who<\/cite> for a long time. But I see what they mean.<\/p>\n

(On a side note, you can also view an image of a 1976 article about Tom Baker<\/a> (drag the image around to view the rest of the article); he mentions, among other things, a girl who wrote to tell him she'd knitted herself a Who<\/cite> scarf. No indication of her age, but still--that old article itself was apparently written by a woman, and she was clearly a bit of a fan. But even though she mentioned that the audience is 60% adults, she did talk about it as a kids' show.)<\/p>\n

Here's the end of the interview:<\/p>\n

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[Interviewer:] Would you work together again?<\/p>\n

DT<\/strong>: Only if he asks me.<\/p>\n

RTD<\/strong>: Oh, do shut up. Yes, please. I would love to.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Awww. Anyway, the whole interview is worth reading. Fun and charming.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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