GOODBYE MY DOCTOR
- A poem from the viewpoint of a companion


You've gone
I cant believe it
You've changed your face
And now you've gone

You say that it's still you
That you're the same old Doctor
But you look and sound so different
And its not you

I can't help feeling like this
I've lost you
And now I'm alone
And it hurts so bad

Goodbye My Doctor

Someone else now occupies the Tardis

It wouldn't surprise me at all if Tennant returned in 2013 for the show's 50th Anniversary.

Surely they'll have a multi-doctor story for it...and I think Tennant would be the most likely to come back for one.

I can't imagine Christopher Eccleston would return, but you never know.

Will be interesting to see what they do.

I watched the new Doctor Who tonight...Mixed feelings.

Loved the opening sequence and the blending of the Murray Gold and earlier themes, both modern and nostalgic at the same time. I like Amy Pond, his new companion as she's so gutsy and Scottish. The Doctor himself isn't as bad as I was worried he might be but he acts just like David and says things like what he would say...and well could be him if he looked differently. A little disturbing, I kept expecting to see David Tennant's face. I still find myself feeling sad as I long to see the Doctor I knew, the lonely traveller, the lone survivor, the one that I'm use to 'travelling' with. Yes, Matt Smith acts like him, even talks rather like him but isn't him. I'm sure with time, I'll settle down and perhaps even end up liking the new Doctor, but I will always find myself wondering what it would have been like if David had done this episode or that episode. Long time watchers of the show would be very familiar with these feelings. I've never experienced this before. David's Doctor was the first I got to know. I guess this is what it feels like to say goodbye to your Doctor and to welcome a new one...Bitter sweet.

My other thoughts...The TARDIS, from what we see, isn't too bad. Its interior is a mixture of DT's and the Paul McGann (8th Doctor) styles. I only don't like the glass shaped thingo going up and down in the 'time rotor' (the tall clear column), it looks a little too phallic to me!

The story lines I think will tend to be darker as the new producer, the then writer in Russell's era, wrote 'Blink' and many of the other dark episodes.

Goodbye my Doctor...Hello new Doctor...

Will I like him?...Time will tell.

Shockingly, I thought Tennant should have left at the end of 2008, instead of lumbering us with the strange case of the series voluntarily out of production for a year. Think about the hue and cry when it skipped production for eighteen months in the mid-eighties.

And I still think that.

On reunions, I can see them getting all the living actors back with the possible exception of Eccleston. Wee Steven showed us his wish list at the end of The Eleventh Hour, and I'd assume McGann wouldn't be problematic.

Or as Snoopy thought when Charlie Brown ran around on grass in bare feet, "After a few years you get used to it."