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Post by martinw8686 on May 8, 2022 13:17:26 GMT
Really excited to see Ncuti as the Doctor. I'm not familiar with his work but will check out his performance in Sex Education.
I've not been keen on Jodie's Doctor but this is down to personal taste, I feel her Doctor has been too light and the characters age and genius not explored effectively. I think it's great that many have really embraced Jodie, for me I love the balance of light and dark in the Doctor, I adored early Tom Baker and Peter Capaldi, Paul Mcgann is sensational when showcasing the tragic moments of the eighth Doctor, for example Dark Eyes and Night of the Doctor.
I wish Ncuti all the best and hope he's a huge success, I'd be really interested to here others hopes for a new Doctor, what do we feel is essential for the character?
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Post by thewatcher on May 8, 2022 13:35:53 GMT
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Post by Timelord007 on May 8, 2022 21:07:53 GMT
Haven't seen him in anything but hopefully he'll be good in the role.
Congratulations Ncuti.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2022 21:15:43 GMT
Good luck to the new team taking Doctor Who beyond it's 60th year!
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Post by mark687 on May 9, 2022 14:14:50 GMT
Missed this Yesterday
“I may only have one heart but I am giving it all to this show.”
- Ncuti Gatwa
Nice strong sentiment
Regards
mark687
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Post by Tim Bradley on May 11, 2022 7:25:58 GMT
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Post by bonehead on May 11, 2022 13:05:15 GMT
I like him.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on May 11, 2022 16:53:44 GMT
But is he the 14th Doctor? The BBC press release doesn’t refer to him as the 14th Doctor nor anything I’ve seen from RTD or Gatwa use that number either. Press outlets seem to have made that assumption. Makes me wonder if moving forward they drop the numerical designation to make the show more accessible to people just catching up to it. The wild card in this remains the Sony money that has flowed into Bad Wolf and I have to think both those parties are looking towards expanding their global market as well the building of connected properties. Or I could be totally off.
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Post by mrperson on May 11, 2022 19:14:58 GMT
But is he the 14th Doctor? The BBC press release doesn’t refer to him as the 14th Doctor nor anything I’ve seen from RTD or Gatwa use that number either. Press outlets seem to have made that assumption. Makes me wonder if moving forward they drop the numerical designation to make the show more accessible to people just catching up to it. The wild card in this remains the Sony money that has flowed into Bad Wolf and I have to think both those parties are looking towards expanding their global market as well the building of connected properties. Or I could be totally off. I'd hope so. The numbering at least refers to something concrete: the order in which the Doctor appeared on TV in terms of their own series (that is, excluding War and Fugitive from the count). It's just that we know that the actual number of incarnations is different.
I don't think much of anything would be gained if they scrapped that for some other system. Referring to them by name would have the same function as number, and anything else... well, they'd have to define exactly how many incarnations there have been.
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Post by Kestrel on May 16, 2022 0:11:49 GMT
But is he the 14th Doctor? The BBC press release doesn’t refer to him as the 14th Doctor nor anything I’ve seen from RTD or Gatwa use that number either. Press outlets seem to have made that assumption. Makes me wonder if moving forward they drop the numerical designation to make the show more accessible to people just catching up to it. The wild card in this remains the Sony money that has flowed into Bad Wolf and I have to think both those parties are looking towards expanding their global market as well the building of connected properties. Or I could be totally off. I'd hope so. The numbering at least refers to something concrete: the order in which the Doctor appeared on TV in terms of their own series (that is, excluding War and Fugitive from the count). It's just that we know that the actual number of incarnations is different.
I don't think much of anything would be gained if they scrapped that for some other system. Referring to them by name would have the same function as number, and anything else... well, they'd have to define exactly how many incarnations there have been.
It really annoys me that, for whatever reason, the fandom never adopted similar sorting for the Master's incarnations. But, yeah, # = order of appearance for title characters is really the best and only way to go about sorting Doctors. No one wants to adjust the sequence every time something gets retconned. EDIT: Or start using decimals. |
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Post by mrperson on May 21, 2022 22:42:16 GMT
I'd hope so. The numbering at least refers to something concrete: the order in which the Doctor appeared on TV in terms of their own series (that is, excluding War and Fugitive from the count). It's just that we know that the actual number of incarnations is different.
I don't think much of anything would be gained if they scrapped that for some other system. Referring to them by name would have the same function as number, and anything else... well, they'd have to define exactly how many incarnations there have been.
It really annoys me that, for whatever reason, the fandom never adopted similar sorting for the Master's incarnations. But, yeah, # = order of appearance for title characters is really the best and only way to go about sorting Doctors. No one wants to adjust the sequence every time something gets retconned. EDIT: Or start using decimals.
I think the boat already sailed on the Master. They could do it by boring exposition. "And this is the Xth incarnation of . . . " as the Doctor shows some companion some holographs.
It'd have been nice and convenient. But on the other hand, the show is what the Doctor does and does not know, as he has reason to know. Perhaps he never paid much attention to which incarnation the Master had, other than before/after... after all they were both given a new cycle(s).
The Doctors are already numbered. I'd hope they stick to it.
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Post by Digi on May 22, 2022 1:42:36 GMT
I'd hope so. The numbering at least refers to something concrete: the order in which the Doctor appeared on TV in terms of their own series (that is, excluding War and Fugitive from the count). It's just that we know that the actual number of incarnations is different.
I don't think much of anything would be gained if they scrapped that for some other system. Referring to them by name would have the same function as number, and anything else... well, they'd have to define exactly how many incarnations there have been.
But, yeah, # = order of appearance for title characters is really the best and only way to go about sorting Doctors. No one wants to adjust the sequence every time something gets retconned. EDIT: Or start using decimals. It's funny/weird. I really don't give the slightest of craps about what number the Doctor is and would be perfectly fine if they've decided to ditch it....but the lack of numbering for the Master annoys me too  |
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Post by Kestrel on May 22, 2022 2:12:14 GMT
I think the boat already sailed on the Master..
Definitely. Prescriptivism never works... these conventions are always emergent, and often arbitrary. But, yeesh, it makes looking stuff up so annoying. The TARDIS wiki gets a separate page for every incarnation of the Doctor, but every single Master is crammed into just the one. |
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Post by sherlock on May 22, 2022 6:41:12 GMT
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on May 22, 2022 10:03:48 GMT
But is he the 14th Doctor? The BBC press release doesn’t refer to him as the 14th Doctor nor anything I’ve seen from RTD or Gatwa use that number either. Press outlets seem to have made that assumption. Makes me wonder if moving forward they drop the numerical designation to make the show more accessible to people just catching up to it. The wild card in this remains the Sony money that has flowed into Bad Wolf and I have to think both those parties are looking towards expanding their global market as well the building of connected properties. Or I could be totally off. There is a suggestion that Gutwa’s the full-Time, ongoing Doctor after Whittaker BUT between now and then we’ll see a short succession of “cameo Doctors”, potentially because of some regenerative injury or simply the Doctor playing with the fact they have infinite regenerations now. The idea being the Doctor will be going around fixing some errors of their past, wearing the face of the Doctor that caused those errors |
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Post by Kestrel on May 23, 2022 19:53:33 GMT
I hadn't heard *that* rumor.
So what you're saying is there's a chance we'll see Colin Baker, right?
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on May 24, 2022 7:03:30 GMT
I hadn't heard *that* rumor. So what you're saying is there's a chance we'll see Colin Baker, right? We can but hope. |
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