{"id":13637,"date":"2022-04-11T12:41:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T10:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1624557"},"modified":"2022-04-11T12:59:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T10:59:14","slug":"something-is-coming-for-jodie-whittaker-as-doctor-who-approaches-regeneration","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/something-is-coming-for-jodie-whittaker-as-doctor-who-approaches-regeneration\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSomething is coming\u201d for Jodie Whittaker as Doctor Who approaches regeneration"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Huw Fullerton\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 11 April 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Upcoming Doctor Who<\/a> special Legend of the Sea Devils has been marketed as a fun, standalone action-adventure \u2013 but with the next episode set to mark the regeneration of Jodie Whittaker\u2019s Doctor, there may be more at stake than first appears.<\/p>\n

Certainly, the series\u2019 lead cast have noted that the looming presence of Whittaker\u2019s exit is felt in the episode, ahead of the actor\u2019s final appearance in the show this autumn in a special centenary episode.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know there\u2019s something big about to happen,\u201d series star John Bishop said in a new BBC interview about Legend of the Sea Devils.<\/p>

\u201cYou can see the change in the Doctor and change in the dynamic and you just know there\u2019s something big around the corner.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe definitely get a sense that something is coming because there always is something coming when the Doctor is around!\u201d agreed co-star Mandip Gill, who noted that the episode also leaves the romantic tension between her character Yaz and the Doctor unresolved before heading into the regeneration episode.<\/p>\n

\u201cThings have not been resolved by the end of the episode and I think that can be said for the relationship between Yaz and the Doctor \u2013 but also the Doctor\u2019s history and future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whittaker herself was more circumspect, noting that with such a long gap between Legend of the Sea Devils and her regeneration, they hadn\u2019t been able to go too hard on ominous teases for her exit.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s interesting because time wise, it\u2019s such a long time off [before they air],\u201d she told the BBC.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s great about the standalone episodes are that if you do watch it now and then you watch another episode in autumn, you don\u2019t need to rewatch it to understand what\u2019s happening in the next one. They are great standalone individual stories, that obviously marry all of my seasons together, build on relationships and things like that.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut they are also these individual set pieces that can be dipped into and watched without the context of the rest of the show, which I think is really important. It shouldn\u2019t exclude viewers and or make you feel like you need to go back and do homework to watch something!\u201d<\/p>\n