It's Time - But The Moment Has Been Prepared For....

I never got over the Pertwee/Baker regeneration. Never. I'm still upset about it, remembering it now. I never forgave Tom Baker for not being Jon Pertwee. The only reason he isn't in my triumvirate of ultimate evil is that it would feel slightly treasonous to include him. No regeneration since has affected me so much. Let's face it - by the time Tom left I was much older and (ahem) wiser, and the nature of time being what it is (linear) I continued to get older as the Doctors passed by. Even the Baker/McCoy regeneration which was wrong on many levels didn't affect me so much since by then I wasn't 6.

Today's regeneration, only 18 and some hours away, looks set to affect me even more than Pertwee's. I don't want Tenny to go. I've had more than a year to come to terms with it and, basically, I've failed. I've always hated change (the legacy of the Pertwee regeneration?) and this is definitely one change too far. I keep hoping I'll wake up and it will all be a dream. But no. I'm Not Happy. Tenny has become my equal favourite Doctor, something I never thought I'd say about anyone. Of course, RTD wrote him as Pertwee, kind of, which helped. We won't just be saying goodbye to him but to his faux unit family too. And the master. All my lovely Pertwee analogues removed in one fell swoop.

It's a sad day.


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