I really hope it isn’t true that she is leaving. I want a nice long run from a Doctor. Maybe not Tom Baker length but longer than 3 years.

Meanwhile, Murphy’s Multiverse reports Elijah Richardson will appear in two episodes of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier as Eli “The Patriot” Bradley, grandson of Isaiah Bradley and former leader of the Young Avengers.

I actually just did the math for myself. In terms of screen time, McCoy, Baker, and Eccleston will be the only ones with less total screen time. But this next season will be running only 8 episodes, so that’s causing the placement.

That Doctor Who rumour doesn’t surprise me at all, and isn’t nearly as controversial as people are making it out to be elsewhere on the net. Three seasons is a pretty standard tenure for the Doctor, and while we often wish they’d stay longer, it tends to work out.

I think Jodie has been the most underserved Doctor we’ve ever had (at least in nu-Who). Chibnall simple doesn’t have the vision to run this show - he doesn’t know who he wants the Doctor to be, can’t wrap his head around how to tell a good sci-fi story, and had no idea what to do with Jodie as an actor (she is…

Sadly, the article indicates Chibnall is sticking with the show. It should be the other way around.

To me, it feels like they’re rushing on set, all the time, and that makes me think that there’s no plan. There have been episodes where they’ve clearly missed coverage and they piece it together in the editing room. I mean, hell, for that group-hug sequence, they clearly never shot a master. So all they could do is…

It’s such a basic trope! HOW DO YOU MESS IT UP? Possessed guy goes into the room, gets bathed in green light, and the Dalek says, “This has been MY project.” CUT. AND THE SCENE ENDS THERE. You cut to the next scene. NEXT SCENE.

It would give them a chance to retcon the ludicrous mess they made of the end of the last season - have her regenerate into Jo Martin’s Doctor and have it turn out that the whole thing was a lie she had to tell Jodie’s Doc for some reason or other to protect her from something bigger.

...“it’s going to be a mad sprint to the finish line” to complete post-production on WandaVision before its January 15 release date.

At this point I’ve resigned myself to waiting for Big Finish to do right by Thirteen the way they did for Colin Baker.

Agreed. I’d like to see what Jodie can do with a competent showrunner. 

LOL. And people actually thought Jodie would break the mold and get a 4th series.

Keep Whittaker, dump Chibnall.

It’s my hope that the next Doctor is a redhead, and when they regenerate and see their hair they say “Finally!”

Jodie’s first season was overall pretty strong but the last one was incredibly weak. Chibnall seems to have figured the worst excesses of Shyamalan were something to strive for. I kept waiting for each episode to end with “what a twist!” being screamed at the audience.

I’d rather keep Jodie and ditch everyone working behind the camera instead.

I’d rather keep Jodie and ditch everyone working behind the camera instead. There are just so many mistakes, poor choices, clearly rushed filming, and I’m starting to think that they sometimes just let the actors make up their blocking instead of directing them.

The Doctor gets 3 seasons now. That’s how it works. That’s what the last 3 got and Eccleston quit after one or he would have had 3 as well. The show runner gets 6 seasons and 2 doctors. The pattern is very clear. This isn’t big or unexpected news. This is what was expected. Her staying on another year would be the…

Everybody’s tiptoeing around these rumors about Jodie Whittaker leaving Doctor Who after three seasons...when every single new Doctor since Eccleston has left after three seasons. Pretty sure it’s customary at this point.