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Post by whiskeybrewer on Feb 8, 2019 12:15:55 GMT
That was very nicely done actually
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2019 20:47:52 GMT
I think that it would work well within an extended story - a War Games, Daleks Masterplan style epic. It gives an instant opportunity to make comparison between old and new in the same setting. New Doctors tend to get an easy ride by being placed in a tonally different story to their predecessors outgoing stories to say the least.
The big one for me has always been that they might one day manage to keep quiet the lead actors intention to leave, so that we get a new unexpected change mid season. Hard to pull off, as I appreciate many viewers reaction would be to reject a change they had not been given time to anticipate and prime themselves for. Though for many viewers, the arrival of the Second Doctor would have been unexpected, given the lack of media coverage to such matters back in the day, unless you read the likes of Radio Times. Certainly I don't imagine it was hyped the way later changeovers have become, as the series became an institution.
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Feb 8, 2019 23:12:19 GMT
Warning..... new story in coming from SWoH.....
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Post by shutupbanks on Feb 8, 2019 23:18:05 GMT
Did you see the Catherine Tate interview on Graham Norton that happened in the time between the first and second episode? Everyone was in a panic. Graham asked Catherine Tate whether the Doctor was regenerating, to which she replied that she was permitted to say "yes" but couldn't reveal more. Epic "the-Doctor-is-regenerating" cliffhanger before the next episode of the story.
No, I didn't see the Catherine Tate interview but I did remember thinking, WTF?!!! Is David Tennant going?! I hadn't a clue what was going to happen. So yeah, an epic cliffhanger to that episode ( The Stolen Earth) for sure. An epic cliffhanger that doesn't count...? 😂
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2019 7:00:06 GMT
Oh, I understand the production side of things, but I'm curious -- from a narrative perspective -- why this hasn't been attempted in main canon Who before. What do people think could be the potential merits or drawbacks of swapping out your main lead before the story is done? What opportunities does it unlock and what limits does it impose? Good question. I read something years ago that when Virgin thought about regenerating the Dr they thought about doing it this way. Never happened because the beeb wouldn't allow them. Very true. There were plans afoot to regenerate Sylvester McCoy into David Troughton, but it never got any further than the drawing board at Virgin unfortunately ( although I will plug Unbound Imaginings here for a story that did use that idea, "Inheritance"). The BBC had their own shortlist of actors in place and I think this was roughly the time when the TV Movie was getting off the ground (pre-McGann at this point, I think). Writer Paul Cornell's interpretation of him would've been a physically imposing man with a very gentle personality. A kindly giant, brimming with contradiction.
I had this idea a while back of the Doctor being fatally wounded in the first ten minutes or so and spending the rest of the story regenerating. Not in the NuWho sense of holding it back, but a full, physical body horror transformation. Decomposing and renewing. Like The Elephant Man in its worst moments. Really grotesque. He wouldn't be able to see, so he'd be guided by sound. When he couldn't speak, he'd communicate by carving words into things. All while trying to best the adversary of the story, so when you got to the end, the new face would seem a relief.
A regenerating body is implied to absorb material from its surrounding environment as well, so there's also potentially the Doctor assuming and rejecting characteristics from everything around him. If he gets it wrong, he's in serious danger of regenerating into a tree, for example, or a lump of rock.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2019 7:36:19 GMT
No, I didn't see the Catherine Tate interview but I did remember thinking, WTF?!!! Is David Tennant going?! I hadn't a clue what was going to happen. So yeah, an epic cliffhanger to that episode ( The Stolen Earth) for sure. An epic cliffhanger that doesn't count...? 😂 ... as they didn't go through with it. The hand thing was a bit of a cheat after that build up!
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Post by shutupbanks on Feb 9, 2019 7:51:38 GMT
An epic cliffhanger that doesn't count...? 😂 ... as they didn't go through with it. The hand thing was a bit of a cheat after that build up! It was an ok solution: let's face it, the Doctor never metacrisis that he couldn't solve.
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