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Post by liam on Apr 7, 2016 22:27:40 GMT
I'm currently reading the Titan comics and came across a really interesting point where The tenth Doctor is shot with some alien tech and Retro-regenerates back into his ninth incarnation. It just got me wondering if they could ever incorporate this into the show and have older Doctors return? How good would it be if Capaldi retro-regenerated into Paul McGann?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2016 16:13:47 GMT
I'm currently reading the Titan comics and came across a really interesting point where The tenth Doctor is shot with some alien tech and Retro-regenerates back into his ninth incarnation. It just got me wondering if they could ever incorporate this into the show and have older Doctors return? How good would it be if Capaldi retro-regenerated into Paul McGann? It's something that was also done many years ago in a Fourth Doctor comic strip, but it's not something that would work with every past Doctor in the TV show. As in some cases the actor playing the Doctor would not look like they did during their first stint as The Doctor; which would in essence be the body that they were supposedly retro-regenerating in to... Peter Capaldi to Colin Baker for instance! Although Peter Capaldi retro-regenerating in to Paul McGann would be great all right.
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Post by agentten on Apr 8, 2016 16:13:49 GMT
I've often thought this would be a cool idea with a number of interesting ways to implement it. It could even serve as the means of a multi Doctor anniversary story, with the Doctor bouncing around through various regenerations. It would be easy enough to explain why they don't all look exactly as they once did - the chaotic regressions are causing fluctuations in the Doctor's personal timeline. Has potential to be really clever if done right.
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Post by charlesuirdhein on Apr 8, 2016 17:35:18 GMT
Well, slightly derailing things here, with the return of Gallifrey I wouldn't be averse to seeing former Doctors also playing relatives of the Doctor. Or Maxil!!
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Post by paulmorris7777 on Apr 8, 2016 23:21:34 GMT
Well, slightly derailing things here, with the return of Gallifrey I wouldn't be averse to seeing former Doctors also playing relatives of the Doctor. Or Maxil!! Former Doctors could appear in the matrix using old footage and new dialogue.
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Post by icecreamdf on Apr 9, 2016 12:21:07 GMT
Isn't this implied to be more or less what the Curator is?
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Post by 024mcleodj on Apr 9, 2016 13:39:40 GMT
I always thought the Curator was a future Doctor who chose his regeneration.
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Post by icecreamdf on Apr 9, 2016 15:15:26 GMT
I always thought the Curator was a future Doctor who chose his regeneration. Yeah, so he chose to regenerate into one of his previous incarnations. That seems to be more or less the same thing.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2016 15:31:12 GMT
Well, a very older looking version of his previous incarnation!
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Post by aztec on Apr 9, 2016 17:25:38 GMT
I'm currently reading the Titan comics and came across a really interesting point where The tenth Doctor is shot with some alien tech and Retro-regenerates back into his ninth incarnation. It just got me wondering if they could ever incorporate this into the show and have older Doctors return? How good would it be if Capaldi retro-regenerated into Paul McGann? I don't think this would ever be something that would happen in the show (it would alienate casual and new viewers alike and risk detracting attention from the current doctor), but it could work in an audio story, maybe the war doctor gets injured in battle and temporarily assumes his previous more persona etc. It's an interesting idea but I don't think it would appeal to the general public.
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Post by icecreamdf on Apr 10, 2016 5:47:29 GMT
I'm currently reading the Titan comics and came across a really interesting point where The tenth Doctor is shot with some alien tech and Retro-regenerates back into his ninth incarnation. It just got me wondering if they could ever incorporate this into the show and have older Doctors return? How good would it be if Capaldi retro-regenerated into Paul McGann? I don't think this would ever be something that would happen in the show (it would alienate casual and new viewers alike and risk detracting attention from the current doctor), but it could work in an audio story, maybe the war doctor gets injured in battle and temporarily assumes his previous more persona etc. It's an interesting idea but I don't think it would appeal to the general public. The general public might be cool with David Tennant or Matt Smith coming back for an episode.
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Post by icecreamdf on Apr 10, 2016 5:48:21 GMT
Well, a very older looking version of his previous incarnation! Well, we don't know how long the Curator had that body. He might have initially looked just like Four did in Robot, but he kept aging for a few centuries.
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Apr 10, 2016 12:54:54 GMT
I think it's okay for comics to look backwards but if it was done on TV outside of an anniversary year, it may be too much for the casual audience. It would probably lead them to think the Doctor has regenerated into *Insert past Doctor here* again rather than call it a 'retro regeneration'.
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Post by aztec on Apr 10, 2016 13:02:48 GMT
I don't think this would ever be something that would happen in the show (it would alienate casual and new viewers alike and risk detracting attention from the current doctor), but it could work in an audio story, maybe the war doctor gets injured in battle and temporarily assumes his previous more persona etc. It's an interesting idea but I don't think it would appeal to the general public. The general public might be cool with David Tennant or Matt Smith coming back for an episode. Bah, bring back Colin I say!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2016 14:56:08 GMT
The general public might be cool with David Tennant or Matt Smith coming back for an episode. Bah, bring back Colin I say! ... as an older Commander Maxil preferably.
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Post by aztec on Apr 10, 2016 15:03:03 GMT
Bah, bring back Colin I say! ... as an older Commander Maxil preferably. Funnily enough that was related to my idea to get the classic doctors into the 50th without dramatically changing the script (or the breaking illusion of the classic doctors in their prime in the archive footage) -I'd have Davison and Mcoy and possibly McGann as the Moment's interface interacting with the war doctor as manifestations of the Doctor's war ravaged conscience and or time leaking, Maxil promoted to a general or something in the war room with the other timelord leadership, I'd have slighty extended NOTD as a pre-credits sequence (and maybe shot some new footage with McGann interacting with the tardis for the all 13 sequence) and maybe shot a blurry glimpse of David Bradely made up as the 1st Doctor wandering around the tardis when it temporarily glitched back to it's original form...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2016 0:09:43 GMT
... as an older Commander Maxil preferably. Funnily enough that was related to my idea to get the classic doctors into the 50th without dramatically changing the script (or the breaking illusion of the classic doctors in their prime in the archive footage) -I'd have Davison and Mcoy and possibly McGann as the Moment's interface interacting with the war doctor as manifestations of the Doctor's war ravaged conscience and or time leaking, Maxil promoted to a general or something in the war room with the other timelord leadership, I'd have slighty extended NOTD as a pre-credits sequence (and maybe shot some new footage with McGann interacting with the tardis for the all 13 sequence) and maybe shot a blurry glimpse of David Bradely made up as the 1st Doctor wandering around the tardis when it temporarily glitched back to it's original form... Ooh, I like that. You could have McGann as the Id, McCoy as the Ego and Davison as the Superego, the instinctual, the intellectual and the moral sides of the Renegade's psyche. I always thought they missed a trick by not including Bradley in some capacity for the special. Wouldn't it have been incredible to see them intersperse recreations of the old black-and-white serials (seen and unseen) as affected by the Time War? The whole thing would probably have to be two-hours long with everything chucked into it though...
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Post by aztec on Apr 12, 2016 16:36:21 GMT
Funnily enough that was related to my idea to get the classic doctors into the 50th without dramatically changing the script (or the breaking illusion of the classic doctors in their prime in the archive footage) -I'd have Davison and Mcoy and possibly McGann as the Moment's interface interacting with the war doctor as manifestations of the Doctor's war ravaged conscience and or time leaking, Maxil promoted to a general or something in the war room with the other timelord leadership, I'd have slighty extended NOTD as a pre-credits sequence (and maybe shot some new footage with McGann interacting with the tardis for the all 13 sequence) and maybe shot a blurry glimpse of David Bradely made up as the 1st Doctor wandering around the tardis when it temporarily glitched back to it's original form... Ooh, I like that. You could have McGann as the Id, McCoy as the Ego and Davison as the Superego, the instinctual, the intellectual and the moral sides of the Renegade's psyche. I always thought they missed a trick by not including Bradley in some capacity for the special. Wouldn't it have been incredible to see them intersperse recreations of the old black-and-white serials (seen and unseen) as affected by the Time War? The whole thing would probably have to be two-hours long with everything chucked into it though... Yeah 75 minutes wasn't enough, I sat through and enjoyed The War Games in one sitting and I'm sure even the most casual of fans would't have objected to a longer episode for the 50th. Maybe the 3d soaked up some of the budget...
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Post by mrperson on Apr 12, 2016 19:07:39 GMT
Well, slightly derailing things here, with the return of Gallifrey I wouldn't be averse to seeing former Doctors also playing relatives of the Doctor. Or Maxil!! OR....simply being later versions of the Doctor trying out bodies he liked in his future regenerations, which are now unbounded in number. At some point he spends some time being a caretaker on Earth - or at least I took that to be an intended implication rather than just an excuse to get the great Tom Baker on screen again - but maybe he does the same on Gallifrey or wherever. Bottom line being that there is at least an in-universe reason to have older Doctors appear without having to be their earlier incarnation but looking inexplicably aged....
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Post by mrperson on Apr 12, 2016 19:09:04 GMT
... as an older Commander Maxil preferably. Funnily enough that was related to my idea to get the classic doctors into the 50th without dramatically changing the script (or the breaking illusion of the classic doctors in their prime in the archive footage) -I'd have Davison and Mcoy and possibly McGann as the Moment's interface interacting with the war doctor as manifestations of the Doctor's war ravaged conscience and or time leaking, Maxil promoted to a general or something in the war room with the other timelord leadership, I'd have slighty extended NOTD as a pre-credits sequence (and maybe shot some new footage with McGann interacting with the tardis for the all 13 sequence) and maybe shot a blurry glimpse of David Bradely made up as the 1st Doctor wandering around the tardis when it temporarily glitched back to it's original form... But then we wouldn't have the funny/charming "The 5(ish) Doctors"
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