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[waywardmillennial]

"Thank you Whovians for everything. All the love that you pour into the show itself is what makes it - is what has kept it alive for 60 years." -Ncuti Gatwa's Farewell to Doctor Who

Behind the Scenes of The Reality War | Doctor Who

[lonelygodinthetardis]

Christopher Eccleston & Billie Piper Behind The Scenes for S01 - Doctor Who: Unleashed, 20 Years in Wales

[rosettyller]

Behind the scenes of “Dot and Bubble”

[henley-reeves]

David Tennant and Catherine Tate being silly goofy on set of Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials

[ovenproofowl]

this screenshot is sending me . babes . they slapped a pair of reading glasses on her and called it a day .

[prettydjarinsoloinspires]

[find-me-in-hell]

oh my god. theyre putting EVERYTHING on bbc iplayer!!!! LITERALLY EVERYTHING!!!!

including. Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Class AND DW Confidential!!!!!

additionally! there is going to be an online archive! with everything from interviews with cast to written documents, long unheard audio, and behind-the-scenes photos!!!

ALL LAUNCHING OF NOVEMBER 1ST!!!

[boywhoswaiting]

Kudos to this cameraman from enemy of the world

[inhonoredglory]

y'know a big part of the pain of David Tennant leaving Doctor Who (again) is the fact that I'm projecting so much of my own fan fantasies onto him and I just want him, the biggest nerd in the world, to continue living his childhood dream of being the Doctor and fidget-spinning his way thru that console set

David Tennant’s tour of the new TARDIS [x]

[waywardmillennial]

What Lies in UNIT's Vault? Behind the Scenes of "Lucky Day" | Doctor Who

Ncuti's surprised face is everything!

[rosettyller]

Behind the scenes of “Space Babies”

[henley-reeves]

Just the usual Tate and Tennant interaction, where Catherine says something and David is losing it from laughter. Makes me think of that time David was talking about his friendship with Catherine and he said among other things that "she is one of my favorite people, she makes me laugh".

[ovenproofowl]

it was a really charming surprise to find out that the song ncuti and millie performed wasn't pre-recorded and that they literally just had to sing it on the fly while dancing around. most sequences like that would have just been lip-synced with the done up vocals being played in the background which always feels a bit inauthentic, but this just adds to the chaos of the scene and makes the stakes feel a bit more genuine, that ruby and the doctor are actually struggling to come up with this song to offer a proper distraction.

I know we talk a lot about how doctor who will always pick practical effects and costume over 'cgi-ed to a buggery', so I feel like this also deserved some acknowledgement

[londonspirit]

Behind the scenes at NEW Doctor Who with Ncuti Gatwa, Millie Gibson and Russell T Davies!

[silvereyedowl]

After sleeping on "The Reality War", I've come to a sort of verdict on it: I don't think this episode can be properly judged without acknowledging the behind-the-scenes issues that heavily impacted it.

Specifically, Gatwa's decision to step back due to the postponing of a formal renewal of the show.

This image has been kicking around. It's a promo image from "The Reality War" of a scene that isn't in the final episode.

It's known that reshoots for the S15 finale took place in February. Based on what the rumours and leaks say, the episode originally had a totally different ending, involving that dance party. I've also heard speculation that it would have set up Poppy as a plot hook for the next season, and there would have been a cameo from Susan Foreman to set up the plot about her return that RTD has been teasing from as early as "The Devil's Chord".

It's clear that RTD and co. were expecting the renewal to come much, much earlier than it did, and that waiting until after S15 had broadcast was not actually the original plan at all. Gatwa gets fed up because he doesn't want to put his career on hold like this, so RTD quickly concocts a new ending with a regeneration.

Poppy was never, ever intended to be turned into Belinda's daughter in the original ending, but whatever RTD had planned for her, he clearly felt it would only work with Gatwa, and so he hastily wrapped that up while also setting up a regeneration. (Incidentally, this also may have left answers to the Belinda/Mundy resemblance hanging.)

As for the Billie Piper of it all? The reshoots being almost last-minute meant RTD didn't really have time to do a full-blown casting for a new Doctor, and he clearly decided to go for shock and spectacle (for reasons that have yet to be determined). I suspect he decided on this rather than a mid-regeneration cliffhanger as a way to have a more decisive cliffhanger, hoping that people will want to know why this happened.

I will also add that Piper probably isn't playing the Doctor: no official source up to and including the episode credits have referred to her as such, and the regeneration itself also looks off.

Although RTD bears some of the responsibility for the messy way things went down, he doesn't own all of it since the lack of decision on a renewal was clearly the inciting incident here. I do hope that someday we learn what the original ending was – it doubtless would have fit the story better. And it would have fit Belinda better as well.

At least we got Jodie Whittaker in a scene not written by Chris Chibnall. The way Thirteen is written there tells me that RTD hasn't completely lost his touch.