{"id":2071,"date":"2008-10-29T17:33:24","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T22:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2071"},"modified":"2008-10-29T17:33:24","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T22:33:24","slug":"on-the-end-of-an-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2071","title":{"rendered":"On the End of an Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/7698539.stm\">David Tennant announced today that he will be stepping down from his role as the Doctor in <i>Doctor Who<\/i><\/a> at the end of 2009 Specials.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d been hoping that Tennant would have stayed through the 2010 season, the first with Steven Moffat as the series&#8217; head writer.<\/p>\n<p>But he&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<p>And the inevitable speculation has already begun &mdash; Who will be the next Doctor?  Over the weekend, IO9 made <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5068503\/who-should-be-the-next-who\">the case for Stephen Fry<\/a>, which I would be <i>completely<\/i> thrilled with.<\/p>\n<p>However, I imagine the eleventh Doctor will <b>not<\/b> be Fry.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll miss David Tennant as the Doctor.  I may have quibbles with some of the stories, but I&#8217;ve never had an issue with Tennant as an actor.  He will forever be one of the benchmarks against which an actor&#8217;s performance will be measured.<\/p>\n<p>The end of an era, indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Tennant announced today that he will be stepping down from his role as the Doctor in Doctor Who at the end of 2009 Specials. I&#8217;d been hoping that Tennant would have stayed through the 2010 season, the first with Steven Moffat as the series&#8217; head writer. But he&#8217;s not. And the inevitable speculation has<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2071\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On the End of an Era&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doctor-who","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}