Peter Capaldi Calls Out Huge 'Doctor Who' Canon Change

Best known in the Doctor Who franchise for playing the Twelfth Doctor, Peter Capaldi made his exit as the show's leading man in a 2017 multi-Doctor Christmas special. It's been almost a decade since he last played the Time Lord, and a recent interview on 100 Questions with Tim Simons saw him revisit his time in the TARDIS and raise a specific grievance about the show's direction.

Capaldi took over from Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor in 2014 and occupies a unique place in the canon because of when he exists within the Doctor's complex timeline. Eleven's regeneration process should, by Doctor Who's long-standing rules, have never happened, and it took some reworking of the canon by then-showrunner Steven Moffat to keep the party going.

As such, Capaldi's debut came about via a unique regeneration quirk. Speaking on 100 Questions, Capaldi said he thought "the weight of this kind of regeneration has diminished," while making clear he admires all the actors who have succeeded him.

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