If they're smart, they'd come up with a story where the doctor's should have aged...Obviously there's no way to stick a guy in a current show who last occupied the role 30 years ago. They did the E space stuff in the past, you could always pull them from a parallel universe. Cheesy? maybe, but as long as you knock that out of the way early, and the rest of the 2-3-4 (or more, i can hopeAngelus Lupus said:
) hours are a great story, fine by me.
Aged Clone perhaps?
Here's something: the 4th took the moral highground in Genesis and didn't destroy the daleks although he left a trap to let them set themselves back some. Maybe 11 is going to take a different route this season?
This. He's old. No need to hide it. Any cgi trickery is an affront to the man.cboath said:
If they're smart, they'd come up with a story where the doctor's should have aged...Obviously there's no way to stick a guy in a current show who last occupied the role 30 years ago. They did the E space stuff in the past, you could always pull them from a parallel universe. Cheesy? maybe, but as long as you knock that out of the way early, and the rest of the 2-3-4 (or more, i can hope
And definitely use McGann.
just out of curiosity: does anyone else want to chuck their computer out the window when they read the coments on youtube for a DW video and there are a bunch of fangirls taking up the top cpmments with OMGGGGG TENNNNNNANT IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOO AWESOME THEY SHOULD HAVE KEPT HIM FOREVER I WORSHIP THE VERY AIR HE BREATHES AND ONCE KILLED A MAN FOR A MICROGRAM OF HIS DNA!!!!!!!! type deal? I mean sure, he was good and all, but as the Doctor himself said in "the Flesh" storyline:"WE'VE MOVED ON FROM THAT!!!"
I just want to hunt those girls down, hand them a "personal vibrating deep muscle massager" and ask them to use it before surfing the internet so the rest of us can get some enjoyment out of it. The internet...not the other thing.
To be fair, though, Tennant is one heck of a good looking man.
On the bright side, I guess it is a good way to figure out who the fangirls are. just post a DW video,have a 2-second clip of tennant mixed in, and see who comments on/ links back to those two seconds. It's Foolproof!
I thought Gillan and Darvill were on their way out and the Doctor was getting a new companion...?
They are and he is. Jenna Louise Coleman is her name, IIRC. The Ponds are in the first batch of episodes, but I'm not sure when they're leaving...if it's the episode before the Christmas Special or the first episode of the 2nd half of the series.Solo4114 said:
Here's hoping the Angels in Manhattan is better than when the Daleks visited...
It's always weird seeing the Doctor in the US. Feels wrong to me.
Angels is the Ponds' last episode.
I was wearing a Tardis shirt the other day and the check out girl at the market said, "Oh my God, I can't watch the new season."
me: "Why?"
Her: "I heard one of the Ponds is going to die. For real. Not in an alternate universe. Really dead."
tick tock....
Arg! Spoilers!
Although who knows if it's true... Still, I'll be watching the episode with that in mind...
Good.letmebestormy said:
Seriously, it's about time a REAL companion died. Not fake dead, not alternate reality dead, but dead dead. The Doctor has faced this before, several times, and it's important that people realize that life with the Doctor is DANGEROUS.
Agreed. I even liked the "Rose stranded" thing. Would have been so much more powerful had she never returned to the series but they spoiled it.Solo4114 said:
If I thought she had real info, I wouldn't have posted it. :-)
It was a funny conversation though.
I agree with Solo. I don't see it happening, but Moffat needs to bring the scary.
Let's get some Adric action happening here!letmebestormy said:
Ha, I was 10yrs old when Earthshock aired. It definitely hit me hard.
Adric was certainly not among my most favorite companions but when the end credits rolled silently after his demise I was stunned cold. That moment still has an effect on me every time I see it.letmebestormy said:
As Doctor Who should do from time to time!letmebestormy said:
greatwazoo42 said:
When I saw that I thought a similar thing - he's really dead. I was surprised, but the more I thought about it, the more it bugged me. He didn't seem to be a major companion, kind of whiny, doctor didn't seem overly attached to him, and it was his choice and he knew he wouldn't make it. Even at that, in the proceding episodes, there was a total of maybe 15 seconds of mouring over his passing and then nothing til the 20th anniversary episode when he appears as just an image...and even then, no sorrowful response or anything.
I think it's way past time someone dies and it has a very lasting effect.
Yet when Davison's Doctor died his last word was Adric.cboath said:
They did move on pretty quickly though, it was odd. But the last episode we was in was great and the end really made it hit home with the broken star.
yeah, the doc dug Adric if for nothing else he was one of a few companions he could talk high level stuff w/o having to dumb it down.Orange_Blend said:
Writing back then was a lot less tightly controlled and the arcs were a lot less clearly defined. You had the Black Guardian thing during Davison's period, and the Key to Time during Tom Baker's but otherwise...yeah, it was just a 6-episode or 4-episode or sometimes 2-episode bit of stories (episodes being 22 min back then).
As such, I think it was a lot less likely that a companion's death or absence would be felt long-term. In addition, with Adric specifically, the production team (in DVD extras -- which are almost always good), discussed how Adric was never clearly defined. They had a character bio, but the charcter himself was never really effectively developed. The scripts for him were very erratic, so, like, in one episode he'd die rather than help the villain because he's loyal to the Doctor, and then in the next, he's all "Oh, you have a lovely idea here for ruling the universe. I'll help you out because it's logical."
It just didn't make a ton of sense.
The flipside of this is how they DIDN'T develop the Sixth Doctor who was initially supposed to just be erratic and cranky -- but because he was suffering from a wonky regeneration. Eventually, he was supposed to get darker and more calculating....but it never happened. They just kept writing him as cantankerous and snappy until the very last season with the Trial of a Time Lord. So nobody ever liked him because he never developed. He was just obnoxious (and obnoxiously dressed, instead of the black velvet he was supposed to wear or something).
JNT strikes again, I guess.
Yep. A lot of missed potential with Colin Baker...
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