Doctor Who: 20 Things You Didn’t Know About The End Of Time
1. Those Final Words Were A LONG Time Coming
"I don't want to go."
With five words, David Tennant sent millions of people around the world into fits of uncontrollable sobbing, as he bowed out of the role with incredible vulnerability.
It was humbling to watch the almighty Doctor be reduced to such a state in his final moments, and this was an idea that Davies had been holding on to for a long, long time.
Though the first draft of the Part Two script was completed in March 2009, the writer had come up with the Tenth Doctor's final words 18 months earlier, during a scripting session for Partners in Crime in September 2007.
Imagine sitting on an emotional landmine of that magnitude for so long, knowing the anguish it was going to cause when you finally set it off.
He's going to devastate us in the 60th, isn't he...
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