{"id":5136,"date":"2025-06-01T08:13:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T15:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/?p=5136"},"modified":"2025-06-01T08:16:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T15:16:02","slug":"finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welp.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, we had a regeneration.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, Billie Piper is (possibly?) the 16th Doctor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/jodie-whittaker-ncuti-gatwa-doctor-who-dc6c4f7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5137 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/jodie-whittaker-ncuti-gatwa-doctor-who-dc6c4f7-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/jodie-whittaker-ncuti-gatwa-doctor-who-dc6c4f7-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/jodie-whittaker-ncuti-gatwa-doctor-who-dc6c4f7-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/jodie-whittaker-ncuti-gatwa-doctor-who-dc6c4f7-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/jodie-whittaker-ncuti-gatwa-doctor-who-dc6c4f7-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/jodie-whittaker-ncuti-gatwa-doctor-who-dc6c4f7.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bigger surprise to me, and one of my favorite moments of the Doctor Who finale, was the return of Jodie Whittaker as the 13th Doctor.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest problem I&#8217;ve had with this series as a whole is the writing.<\/p>\n<p>Every actor who&#8217;s played the Doctor in nuWho have been brilliant IMHO, as have most of the companions.<\/p>\n<p>Eccleston, Tennant and most of Smith&#8217;s runs had, for the most part, overall better written stories than Capaldi, Whittaker and Gatwa&#8217;s runs.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Impossible Girl storyline just went on too long, and the whole Danny Pink plot felt too forced for us as fans to care.<\/li>\n<li>The Flux storyline and the Timeless Child idea seemed not fleshed out enough, as did the Fugitive Doctor.<\/li>\n<li>Space Babies.\u00a0 &#8217;nuff said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bringing back Jodie actually made me smile and tear up, she was wonderful in this short appearance.\u00a0 That one exchange:<\/p>\n<p>Thirteen: I should say that to Yaz.<br \/>\nFifteen:\u00a0 You never do.\u00a0 But she knows.<\/p>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n<p>As for the Billie Piper thing, the credits simply said:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/introducingbilliepiper.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5138\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/introducingbilliepiper.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"693\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/introducingbilliepiper.png 693w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/introducingbilliepiper-300x182.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not &#8216;as The Doctor&#8217; as they usually do.\u00a0 Is this a fake out?\u00a0 Will she go by another name, like&#8230; Bad Wolf?<\/p>\n<p>Of course the other question is how long until the next series, or if we&#8217;re even getting another series?<\/p>\n<p>In any case, this finale, to me, was the perfect end to Gatwa&#8217;s short run as the Doctor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welp. Yeah, we had a regeneration. Yeah, Billie Piper is (possibly?) the 16th Doctor. The bigger surprise to me, and one of my favorite moments of the Doctor Who finale, was the return of Jodie Whittaker as the 13th Doctor. The biggest problem I&#8217;ve had with this series as a whole is the writing. Every &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/finale\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Finale&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-5136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-doctor-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5140,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136\/revisions\/5140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}