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WHAT?!! OMG nooooo! What the hell! No, oh my god, he can't leave! Oh jesus, I'm actually quite upset about this. Yes, we all know I'm a rabid David Tennant fangirl, but besides that, how can they let him leave? Crissake, you can't change head writer and star both at the same time! Shit, are they purposely trying to alienate fans? I know David doesn't want to get stuck, and I totally respect what must have been a _really_ hard choice for him. But come on, at least one season. Keep "something old" - if you will - around until we get used to the new guy at the wheel. I've heard enough people grumbling about Moffatt as it is. Without having something familiar to cling to I'm afraid a lot of people won't bother hanging around. I'm not sure if _I'll_ bother hanging around, honestly. Oh christ.

All you Old Skool fans out there are probably laughing at me and the rest of the newbies wailing about this. It's old hat to you. But Ten was my first Doctor (incidentally, in a Moffatt episode), and even after I went back and met Nine, Ten was _my_ Doctor. Oh god I'm not ready for a new Doctor. *wails*

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It will be alright.

Doctors come and Doctors go, like the tides and punctuation mistakes. The next one will have lovable qualities too, I swear.

(Though I sorely miss Eccleston.)

I know, but... but it won't be _my_ Doctor anymore...

No, I'm NOT happy about this either. I mean MID-SEASON?! After we JUST escaped a near "OMG they killed him!" moment at the end of last season? AFTER we just lost the companion we all loved so much?!

And yeah, I get that he doesn't want to get stuck in the role, but it's only been THREE years!!!! THREE years doesn't even make a "it's been too long" TV career! UGH!

There's just no wear in Doctors, these days. Now Tom Baker, there was a Doctor...

I read somewhere that someone was trying to claim Tennant has more episodes under his belt than Tom Baker. I don't think that's right... I know they did things differently back in the day, with multi-part stories instead of standalone episodes, but each of those parts was a full what we consider today an episode, right? Forty minutes or whatever they run?

The standard was four half-hour-time-slot episodes per story arc.

Ah, now I'm remembering Tom Baker's Victorian episode. See, he'd just picked up a half-savage young lady who didn't take well to corsetry and dresses (only explanation for why she kept getting nobbled in fights) and there was a Doctor Watson analogue, and then there was the Chinese guy with the cursed puppet (it looked like it was a puppet but it could walk on its own) only the puppet wasn't cursed at all. Far from it - it was the Manchurian Homunculus from a thousand years in the future, made of high technology and the bestial brain of a pig. Oh, the unfolding creepiness!

And the Mara! For a monster that only turned up twice, I had many hours of being scared out of my noggin. Because it was scary! Very much scary! Eeee!

This makes me very sad. Although, I finally know what people mean when they sad "my Doctor." Tennant will be that for me. I watched Nine but my heart fluttters for Ten.