David Tennant, Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner and Euros Lyn are currently attending the Comic-Con in San Diego this weekened, and, naturally, the question on everybody’s lips is… just what can we expect to see in the Tenth Doctor’s final outing!?

Luckily, the Time Lord himself was on hand to tease fans about the nature of his last adventure; read on for quotes from David - as well as head writer Russell, executive producer Julie and director Euros - regarding what’s probably the most eagerly-anticipated episode of all time… but watch out for *spoilers aplenty*!

Since the new series began, the Doctor has been shrouded in guilt following the destruction of his home planet, Gallifrey, and Tennant promises that, in the last two specials, we’ll learn a bit more about those faithful events of the Time War, and why oh why he so’s sorry…

“I think he feels guilty. I think he’s in a very difficult position,” Tennant told io9.com ”He has to make the hard choices, and he’s riddled with remorse for what happened to his people, and the part he played in that, which we’ll learn a little bit more about before I disappear. [Laughs] Not that much, just a little bit.”

He added: “But I think he’s tortured, and he travels time and space trying to make it better… but some of the side effects of that are not as we’d wish them to be.”

We’ve put together a round-up of what else we learn in the intriguing interview, so highlight the blank area below if you don’t mind being spoiled! However, for those of you who DO want to remain spoilerless, we recommend avoiding the rest of this post, including the comments. You have been warned…

• Julie insists that there are currently NO plans to make a Doctor Who Movie.
• David at long last confirmed that John Simm WILL be back as the Master.
• He also confirmed Timothy Dalton’s leaked casting in the episode (”Bloody hell, Timothy Dalton!”).
• According to David, the fact that the Doctor is the last of his kind, “or nearly the last of his kind”, will “come back in a big way in the final stories”.
• Donna’s grandad, Wilf, played by Bernard Cribbins, plays a “huge and fundamental part” in the last episodes.
• The crew promise that the last two specials contain some of the show’s finest moments to date.
• Euros recently showed the regeneration sequence to composer Murray Gold, who bawled like a baby.
• David promises that the final episodes are very emotional: “The story takes you to places that the Doctor can’t go on a regular basis. It affords an opportunity to confront this immutable character with new challenges and places you can only take him when that man is going to die, that version of that man is going to die. And that’s, for an actor’s point of view, hugely challenging and liberating and exciting… It’s thrilling that we get to make people cry a bit.”
• Russell says that fans shouldn’t expect to see any companions from the last four years in Series 5, because, as far as he knows, new showrunner Steven Moffat is “going to build his own”. But Russell added, “Of course, for all I know, he could phoning them all up in Cardiff right now.”

The cast and crew will shortly be taking part in a Doctor Who panel, which will no doubt result in more news and teasers sliping out… we’ll keep you updated!

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