Doctor Who Christmas Special: Pearl Mackie teases big farewell

The Doctor Who Christmas Special coming next week is one featuring a number farewells — including the end of the road for Pearl Mackie. We know that the departures of Peter Capaldi and showrunner Steven Moffat are the ones getting the majority of the press but let’s not diminish the role of Pearl, shall we? Through just one year as Bill Potts she brought so much to the show, whether it be near-constant enthusiasm to energy to a different perspective we haven’t had on the show before. She was a nice breath of fresh air before getting another breath of fresh air: The debut of Jodie Whittaker as The Doctor.

So how will Mackie’s time as this character end? She set some of that up in a new interview with the Radio Times, while also discussing the appearance of David Bradley as the First Doctor:

“What kind of journey does Bill go through in her last adventure? Well it’s a very exciting one, and it’s a very snowy one! It’s Christmassy, which is very fun and there being two Doctors, and meeting the Doctor at the point of him not wanting to regenerate is quite exciting.

“And you know, seeing his dynamic with the First Doctor is great. When do you get to see Two Doctors together? That’s fantastic. And when, as a companion, do you get to experience two incarnations of the same person that you know?

“It’s a wonderful kind of finale, for the Twelfth Doctor and for Steven [Moffat] as a[departing] showrunner.”

Bill presumably will have a chance to spend a little bit of time with Capaldi’s Doctor in this last episode; she’ll be coming back after what appeared at first to be a heartwarming farewell and we’re absolutely curious to see what she learned about the universe on some of her travels.

Following this special, we presume that it’s always possible that Mackie will be back on the show in due time — we just don’t foresee it as an immediate priority since there are so many other things that the series needs to address.

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