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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Apr 12, 2016 19:12:42 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.... The Curator is largely left up to individual interpretation though, so he CAN be an aged 4th Doctor if you want him to be. |
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Post by icecreamdf on Apr 12, 2016 20:03:38 GMT
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.... The Curator is largely left up to individual interpretation though, so he CAN be an aged 4th Doctor if you want him to be. Not really, since we know that the Fourth Doctor regenerated before he had a chance to age that much. Besides, the dialogue strongly hints that he is a future incarnation revisiting his facorite old faces. |
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Apr 12, 2016 20:40:09 GMT
The Curator is largely left up to individual interpretation though, so he CAN be an aged 4th Doctor if you want him to be. Not really, since we know that the Fourth Doctor regenerated before he had a chance to age that much. Are we forgetting about time differential? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2016 20:46:07 GMT
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.... The Curator is largely left up to individual interpretation though, so he CAN be an aged 4th Doctor if you want him to be. I really don't see how he can. the dialogue wasn't that ambiguous. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2016 0:35:13 GMT
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... It's certainly a possibility. Still, if they'd extended the duration, they would have had even more reason to stick it in cinemas.  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" Oh, that was so much fun, I really enjoyed that. Props to Peter Davison for coming up with the idea in the first place. That really made the anniversary for me. |
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Apr 13, 2016 20:55:33 GMT
The Curator is largely left up to individual interpretation though, so he CAN be an aged 4th Doctor if you want him to be. I really don't see how he can. the dialogue wasn't that ambiguous. It's never explicitly stated he's a future incarnation. There's enough wriggle room to say he's an aged 4th Doctor via time differential. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2016 20:57:15 GMT
I really don't see how he can. the dialogue wasn't that ambiguous. It's never explicitly stated he's a future incarnation. There's enough wriggle room to say he's an aged 4th Doctor via time differential. Who's just deciding to inexplicably act as though he is a future incarnation? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2016 21:22:33 GMT
It's never explicitly stated he's a future incarnation. There's enough wriggle room to say he's an aged 4th Doctor via time differential. Who's just deciding to inexplicably act as though he is a future incarnation? Whoever wrote The Then and Now for Titan Comics. There he appears as an incarnation of the Doctor, no question. Apparently, he's also credited as playing the Doctor along with Smith, Tennant and Hurt at the end of The Day of the Doctor. Personally, I think there's a much more interesting explanation than him going back to old faces. Who knows, he may actually be Tom Baker. The Sixth Doctor was buddies with Douglas Adams after all. |
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Post by icecreamdf on Apr 13, 2016 22:55:41 GMT
Who's just deciding to inexplicably act as though he is a future incarnation? Apparently, he's also credited as playing the Doctor along with Smith, Tennant and Hurt at the end of The Day of the Doctor. All twelve of them (not Capaldi) were credited, since they all appeared at the end. Tom Baker didn't get any sort of special credit. His name was right in between Jon Pertwee's and Peter Davison's. |
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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Apr 14, 2016 9:17:43 GMT
It's never explicitly stated he's a future incarnation. There's enough wriggle room to say he's an aged 4th Doctor via time differential. Who's just deciding to inexplicably act as though he is a future incarnation? I think he's deliberately acting ambiguous. He never says 'I am the one thousandth incarnation of the Doctor'. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2016 11:22:06 GMT
Who's just deciding to inexplicably act as though he is a future incarnation? I think he's deliberately acting ambiguous. He never says 'I am the one thousandth incarnation of the Doctor'. I honestly think that at some point he just loses count of how many incarnations he has. That and the Curator would be transgressing the First Law of Time. |
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