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From: Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org>
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Subject: Re: Why Billie Piper Was Cast... [article]
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2025 21:50:20 +1000
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On 6/06/2025 7:23 pm, Blueshirt wrote:
> The True Doctor wrote:
>> On 05/06/2025 16:08, Blueshirt wrote:
>>> 
>>> I have to agree with you that Billie Piper's casting was a
>>> gimmick, but it's done now and she's there... in whatever role
>>> RTD has planned for her.
>>> 
>>> Is she the 16th Doctor? The Bad Wolf? Or Rose Tyler leaking 
>>> through the reality glitches from the alternate universe? There's
>>> only one way to find out... stay tuned.
>> 
>> Let's make it easier. Retcon it as a bad dream and start again from
>> Paul McGann giving him the full series he deserved.
> 
> Big Finish gave Paul McGann plenty of stories, so there's no point in
> going back to him. It's easier for you to just put everything since
> 1996 down to a bad dream from your point of view and go forward with
> the 16th Doctor

Surely that would then be "The New Ninth Doctor"!!

> ... it's your head-canon after all.
> 
-- 
Daniel70