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02 June 2013

A Letter to Matt Smith

Last night, Matt Smith announced that he was leaving Doctor Who after the Christmas special this year. I thought I would write an open letter to him to thank him for the time he spent on the TARDIS.

Dear Matt Smith

It is with a heavy heart that I write this to you. If David was the man who made me fall in love with the Doctor, then you are the man who made me see the Doctor as my best friend. Through your Doctor I have seen the old man with the young heart. I've felt the rage of a thousand year old Timelord and seen the kind-hearted spirit of the Doctor.

Saying goodbye is hard and, like the Doctor, I hate endings. Whenever it does come to goodbyes, I never know what to say and I usually regret everything I've said afterwards. So, I'm not going to say goodbye, I'm going to say thank you. Thank you for all the times you have made me cry and laugh and say, "What the hell just happened?" Thank you for making me feel special and for those amazing moments when you made me feel like I was part of a community of people who were just like me. Your Doctor, like everyone who has entered the TARDIS, will always hold special place in my heart. I learnt to love, forgive and treat every battle like it's my last. Through your eyes I have seen new worlds and met great people and I've grown up. Thank you, Matt Smith, for being there. For crawling into my heart and making me love you even when I was still upset about David leaving. Thank you for being my best friend.

I know that I'm just a seventeen year old girl from South Africa with big hopes for the future, but thanks to you and the entire Doctor Who community, I have learnt to fight for my dreams and one day I hope to write for Doctor Who. Speaking as myself, you are always welcome back and you will always be part of this family. Always. Twenty years from now when you've won Oscars you will still have us, rooting you on and supporting your every decision. You are always in our hearts.

Lots of two-hearted love from
Rasmika.

I understand that Doctor Who is show about change, but that doesn't mean that I don't get upset when I find out that someone is leaving the show. I highly doubt that Matt will ever see this, but I thought I would just write it show the internet how I really feel. I'm sure the next person to play the Doctor will fill his (or her) predecessors' shoes well and that the legacy of Doctor Who will still live on.

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Fixing Alex Day's TARDIS Problem

Famous Youtuber Alex Day (Nerimon to some) wrote a post about a Doctor Who episode that he wrote the post goes as follows:

A few years ago, I wrote a script for an episode of Doctor Who as a writing exercise. The episode was called The Abandoned TARDIS - it’s a bit ropey but I’m really proud of it. The concept was that, although the Time Lords are all dead, there are still old TARDISes knocking about, abandoned, and the Doctor tracks one that has become unstable and needs to be neutralised (like when a battery starts leaking acid). Unfortunately, the abandoned TARDIS has been left in the cupboard under the stairs of a ten-year-old girl called Jessica, who doesn’t want to give up what to her is the ultimate playhouse … and that’s the premise of the story.
I never wanted to share this because I thought, y’know, on the off-chance I ever get to write for Doctor Who … but sadly my ending has now been invalidated by their recent season finale. In my ending, the Doctor takes the TARDIS to a graveyard where all TARDISes must go to die … and of course finds HIS TARDIS abandoned and decaying, because at some point in the future, he’ll have to go there.
But now it’s his tomb so whatever have my story internet (also at some point he uses a Magic 8-Ball to decide what to do, which I’m very proud of)
From this short synopsis I could tell that would make a good episode, especially with Matt Smith's Doctor, but Alex said that it wouldn't happen because of events in The Name of the Doctor. I think I may have found a way around that.
The TARDIS graveyard that the Doctor finds is...Trenzalore! Little is known about the history of Trenzalore and we only know now that it is a graveyard for time travelers, but what if previously it was a TARDIS graveyard? Then sometime between the TARDIS graveyard and now it turned into a time traveler's graveyard. When the Doctor finds his TARDIS in the graveyard he doesn't realise that the planet is Trenzalore until he looks at the co-ordinates. When the Doctor dies sometime in his future the TARDIS is so distraught that she makes herself his monument and it could follow that all the other tombstones followed after him. I just thought this up and may need a whole lot explaining in proper detail, but it's a great loophole and will bring that emotional element that I think Alex wanted. 

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