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it's less that he thinks it's not gonna be renewed and more that the uncertainty means that to confirm Doctor Who he'd have to turn down big roles in America etc with no timeframe for when that ends or he'll be on screen again.


On point 4 I've seen theories that all this arc was written when Millie Gibson was going to be on for two full seasons and they transplanted it onto Belinda. It certainly feels like it - it all fits Ruby's personal and emotional arc a lot better and comes out of absolutely nowhere for Belinda. And yeah, the way they just land her with a surprise baby is all sorts of icky when you think about it.


It also all just needed more time. It needed to be a three-part finale, with Wish World more or less as it is but the mystery of the Rani revealed at the end, not before, Reality War given a full episode on her and Omega (who, yeah, might as well not have been there), and then a full episode on The Search for Spock Poppy. And realistically they needed to seed the 'he'll fight to save one person' stuff earlier in the season, and it wouldn't have been hard. The Well and the song contest both had setups where just a few extra lines of dialogue would have fed into that plot. RTD is great at writing scenes and, mostly, standalone episodes. He sucks at handling arcs.


I'm the opposite to you on Billie Piper tbh. I'd much rather it be Bad Wolf stuff than the actual Doctor- though tbh at this point it's stunt casting either way. She is a great actress, I agree, she'd handle being a Doctor fine- but so could lots of other people who wouldn't feel like a desparate plea for ratings.