Heh. You and I manage to circutiously agree about 99% of the time. I think its our initials.

Is RTD really correct in assuming that future writers and showrunners won't want to use any of the old cast?

Did he say that?

Yes, in the Confidential.

Actually, he said something like: he doesn't know whether or not they'll be used again, but has no reason to assume they will; new crew, new stories, and all that. Unfortunately I've already deleted the Confidential from my PVR or I'd go and write up the quote verbatim.

I don't think it really matters whether or not we'll see these characters again, it was DT and RTD saying goodbye through the Doctor.

The rest of the cast can act;

But not necessarily do accents (yes, still stuck on that).

I'm personally still holding out for Ace to return.

I'd love to see what Ace is doing twenty years on! And since we never saw her leave the show, we have no idea where she might be.

ETA: I always liked her--she was so impulsive. Like Leela, only with explosives!

David Tennant's farewell speech on set.

Sighhh.....

Reason 4,691 I should be Trudy Tennant.

I thought that Mickey/Martha showed just how much character growth Mickey had gone through.

I mean we are a long way from "I'm the tin dog!" realization. He has built up to the potential he showed in the alternate reality (boyfriend notwithstanding).

Also, we don't know where in their time lines that scene was IRT Martha and Mickey, could be a couple years hence...

Good point, that could have been a dead husband down the road or whatever.

Good point, that could have been a dead husband down the road or whatever.

Heh. Ever so cheerful.

Also, we don't know where in their time lines that scene was IRT Martha and Mickey, could be a couple years hence...

I assumed that it was several years in the future, as evidenced by the full beard on Mickey and the different hair on Martha :)