Doctor Who Fans Think This Year's Climactic Christmas Special is a Sequel to One of the Series' Most Beloved Episodes, Following Official Rose Tyler Tease

An authoritative teaser connected the Doctor Who website has sparked instrumentality speculation that the series' upcoming climactic Christmas peculiar volition beryllium a sequel to Doomsday, the iconic occurrence wherever David Tennant's Doctor primitively bid farewell to his companion Rose Tyler.

A caller in-universe blog station from UNIT, disposable connected the Doctor Who website to logged successful users, serves arsenic a reminder of the "Rose Tyler (2006 Cold case)" incidental — essentially, the events of Doomsday, wherever Rose Tyler crossed implicit into a parallel universe, parting her from Tennant's Time Lord, earlier she concisely returned to prevention the time erstwhile more.

"As Rose Tyler is presently some missing from this beingness and flagged arsenic a analyzable space-time event, possibly support an oculus out," the blog reads. "I've got the Vlinx scanning each media channels and the subwave network," the enactment continues, referencing UNIT's nonmigratory robot assistant. Maybe idiosyncratic should archer it to cheque BBC1 connected Christmas Day?

Of course, the last occurrence of past year's Doctor Who play saw the evident instrumentality of Rose Tyler yet again, oregon astatine slightest idiosyncratic besides played by histrion Billie Piper. The amusement dropped her latest instrumentality arsenic a last-second daze reveal, arsenic outgoing Doctor Ncuti Gatwa seemingly regenerated into her, somehow.

One mentation for each this was that Billie Piper had really been formed arsenic the adjacent incarnation of the series' hero, but the episode's credits deliberately kept her relation vague, portion fans powerfully suspected yet different headscratching fakeout by existent showrunner and writer Russell T. Davies.

Now, successful the aftermath of Gatwa's abrupt departure and Disney's determination not to proceed backing the show, this year's upcoming Christmas Special is expected to wrapper up this bizarre cliffhanger, and apt supply different dose of nostalgia for fans of Davis' acclaimed archetypal tally arsenic showrunner backmost successful the aboriginal 2000s.

Rumors person persisted that Davies volition adjacent excavation Doomsday, the affectional decision to Piper's archetypal play arsenic a bid regular, for worldly connected which to basal his adjacent occurrence (which galore fans person speculated volition apt besides beryllium Davies' past hurrah arsenic showrunner for the series, pursuing a mixed effect to his enactment implicit the past fewer years).

The signifier is surely acceptable for immoderate benignant of Doomsday sequel, too, with Billie Piper present someway back, and the 2nd incarnation of The Doctor played by David Tennant besides backmost (and parked surviving an evident suburban life, for now).

As ever, absorption to the blog from Doctor Who fans has been mixed.

"You guys are gonna hatred me, but nostalgia is my weakness, and I started watching Doctor Who during Season 2," wrote Listen-5980 successful a agelong thread connected reddit. "I'm hyped."

"Russell, you already undid that iconic farewell country 2 years aft it happened," wrote Clara_Finn. "You don't request to spell backmost to it again boo. Original ideas that don’t fawn implicit the show's history, I beg."

"There was nary world wherever this peculiar wasn't going to beryllium a Tennant and Piper nostalgia fest," concluded SuicideSkwad.

Doomsday, primitively broadcast 20 years agone this summer, earned Doctor Who its archetypal cleanable 10/10 occurrence people from IGN. "This enactment packed occurrence 1 of the astir emotionally moving and poignant stories astir nonaccomplishment and refusing to fto go," we wrote astatine the time. But, 2 decades on, is the amusement yet acceptable to fto spell of Tennant and Piper?

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