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Post by barnabaslives on Aug 14, 2017 1:24:05 GMT
I think the Sixth Doctor did mellow considerably during his TV tenure (in fact most of that seems mellow to me compared to some of his earliest scenes with Peri where I think he may have actually been abusive by today's standards). I think Big Finish have generally done a tremendous job keeping a good balance with different aspects of the Sixth Doctor's character so that he is a complex, interesting character without being too this or that too often. I definitely think they've improved greatly on the way the Sixth Doctor is portrayed - and on my opinion of him, even though I liked him well enough during his TV run. Most of the time I find myself looking forward to future Sixth Doctor stories even more than upcoming Fourth Doctor stories (for me, that's really saying something about the excellent work that Big Finish have done with Ol' Sixie).
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Post by aztec on Aug 14, 2017 8:58:52 GMT
On a related note, if/when BF get the rights to the 12th Doctor and persuade Capaldi to return (he's confirmed he's interested in doing so eventually) they've got another chance to explore and mellow out a changing Doctor, from the abrasive, emotional detached alien of Series 8, through to the ageing rockstar of Series 9, the wistful romantic of The Husbands Of River Song and the more paternal, but slightly mad university lecturer of Series 10, there's a clear in character line of progression over the series, but some of it is a little abrupt and much happens off screen between arcs, BF could have a lot of fun smoothing over the softening of the 12th Doctor and filling in those gaps with new arcs and companions...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2017 9:29:38 GMT
On a related note, if/when BF get the rights to the 12th Doctor and persuade Capaldi to return (he's confirmed he's interested in doing so eventually) they've got another chance to explore and mellow out a changing Doctor, from the abrasive, emotional detached alien of Series 8, through to the ageing rockstar of Series 9, the wistful romantic of The Husbands Of River Song and the more paternal, but slightly mad university lecturer of Series 10, there's a clear in character line of progression over the series, but some of it is a little abrupt and much happens off screen between arcs, BF could have a lot of fun smoothing over the softening of the 12th Doctor and filling in those gaps with new arcs and companions... I have a very strong suspicion that all the gaps throughout the Eleventh and Twelfth Doctor's lives were specifically designed for Big Finish. Something very similar happened already with Nick Briggs's The Dalek Generation placed just before The Snowmen where the Doctor very explicitly gives up. |
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Post by aztec on Aug 15, 2017 13:47:23 GMT
On a related note, if/when BF get the rights to the 12th Doctor and persuade Capaldi to return (he's confirmed he's interested in doing so eventually) they've got another chance to explore and mellow out a changing Doctor, from the abrasive, emotional detached alien of Series 8, through to the ageing rockstar of Series 9, the wistful romantic of The Husbands Of River Song and the more paternal, but slightly mad university lecturer of Series 10, there's a clear in character line of progression over the series, but some of it is a little abrupt and much happens off screen between arcs, BF could have a lot of fun smoothing over the softening of the 12th Doctor and filling in those gaps with new arcs and companions... I have a very strong suspicion that all the gaps throughout the Eleventh and Twelfth Doctor's lives were specifically designed for Big Finish. Something very similar happened already with Nick Briggs's The Dalek Generation placed just before The Snowmen where the Doctor very explicitly gives up. Yeah Moffat's admitted as much, and if if he hadn't it would seem odd to write in decade/century long gaps and not expect Expanded Universe writers to fill them in, find it very unlikely the 11th Doctor spent that 200 year fairwell tour lounging around knitting or something... |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2017 13:53:28 GMT
I have a very strong suspicion that all the gaps throughout the Eleventh and Twelfth Doctor's lives were specifically designed for Big Finish. Something very similar happened already with Nick Briggs's The Dalek Generation placed just before The Snowmen where the Doctor very explicitly gives up. Yeah Moffat's admitted as much, and if if he hadn't it would seem odd to write in decade/century long gaps and not expect Expanded Universe writers to fill them in, find it very unlikely the 11th Doctor spent that 200 year fairwell tour lounging around knitting or something... Unless it was something ridiculous like knitting a Nestene-sized beanie out of thread from each of Earth's centuries. I wonder what he was up to? Twelve I'm willing to bet spent some time searching for Gallifrey before giving up, but Eleven is a lot more difficult to pin down. Maybe he bumped into the Paradigm a couple times, spent some time in Hollywoodland having a go at sleuthing, trapped in an MMORPG (as was suggested elsewhere), on a floating island only navigable by hot air balloon... The possibilities could be well out there. |
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