Ncuti Gatwa is leaving Doctor Who after just two seasons
After only two short seasons, Ncuti Gatwa's time as Doctor Who has come to a (rather disappointing) end.
Note: this post contains spoilers for this past weekend's Doctor Who season finale.
In the final moments of "The Reality War," the Fifteenth Doctor (Gatwa) sacrificed his current form to save the life of a child, and in classic Doctor Who fashion, the Time Lord's regeneration process ended with him getting a (sort of) new face. It's not exactly clear how or why, but the Doctor regenerated into a form that looks a lot like Rose Tyler (Billie Piper), the human companion to the Ninth (Christopher Eccleston) and Tenth Doctor (David Tennant).
This is the second time in recent Doctor Who history that the titular character has regenerated into a body portrayed by a series veteran. Previously, Tennant returned to become the Fourteenth Doctor after the Thirteenth (Jodie Whittaker) regenerated. "The Reality War" strongly implies that the Sixteenth Doctor might have transformed into a Rose Tyler facsimile for emotional reasons. But, notably, the episode's credits do not specify who her new character is.
In a statement about her Who reveal, Piper noted how she has "always said I would …