50TH Anniversary rumor

[Butters]

Allyn Gibson wrote:

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For technical reasons that won't work. The video resolution of the old series would look like crap at high-def, especially when they digitally edited the eleventh Doctor into the proceedings.

The Cushing movies were shot on film...

TBH I'd settle for a few good scene in the classic console room.

[Lonemagpie]

Remaking one of the missing stories would work for me also... Or animating one

[The Borgified Corpse]

The Mirrorball Man wrote:

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I hope they do a multi-Doctor story, and I hope they do it as a comedy. No Time War, no Omega, no villain who threatens to destroy the universe. That kind of thing can only work if it's done with tongue firmly planted in cheek.

I suddenly had another idea: A comic relief special where the Doctor finds himself at some kind of crossroads where he doesn't know what to do, so he goes inside his own mind to ask advice from his previous incarnations.

The Mirrorball Man wrote:

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To be slightly more realistic, I'm thinking Harry Treadaway or Douglas Booth.

Harry Treadaway I could see. However, I don't think that Douglas Booth has the right look. I also thought he was awful in that recent version of Great Expectations.

Allyn Gibson wrote:

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For technical reasons that won't work. The video resolution of the old series would look like crap at high-def, especially when they digitally edited the eleventh Doctor into the proceedings.

The video resolution of the old series does look like crap at hi-def. However, they could easily degrade the new Matt Smith footage to match. I even think this could be a good opening teaser: After a quick cold opener, the TARDIS begins to shudder and the 11th Doctor is knocked to the floor, unconscious. We see a close-up of the Doctor as he and all of his surroundings turn into a low-resolution, black & white haze, ominously leading into the opening credits. (The Doctor could even add some line later about how the temporal distortions make the images hazier the further back he goes in his own timeline.)

Or maybe they could just do a season of episodes that try to match the tone & style of old episodes. Like, they could do a pure historical to represent the Hartnell years, a scientific research station under siege story to represent the Troughton years (perhaps with the Cybermen), a UNIT story for Pertwee, something wacky for the Tom Baker years (perhaps while bringing back the Zygons or the Rutans), etc. (What would be a good style for representing Peter Davison or Colin Baker? All I can really remember from that era is the incessant screeching of Tegan & Peri.)

Another thing I'd like to see is a multi-Doctor special where the Doctor meets a future incarnation, like "The Next Doctor" but for real. Like, I imagine Matt Smith announcing that he wants to leave the show. They decide that his departure will be in the middle of the season instead of at the end. This way, they would have to cast the replacement somewhat in advance. Early in the season (like episode 1 or 3), they show the 11th Doctor meet the 12th Doctor. Then you'd have the regeneration sometime around episode 7. Then, after some other adventures, towards the end of the season, you see the multi-Doctor story again but this time from the 12th Doctor's perspective.

[Candlelight]

The Borgified Corpse wrote:

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The video resolution of the old series does look like crap at hi-def.

Not... if you put the Doctor into a story like The Power of the Daleks for example and recreate the entire thing - with the original audio and animation to assist.

[The Mirrorball Man]

The Borgified Corpse wrote:

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I suddenly had another idea: A comic relief special where the Doctor finds himself at some kind of crossroads where he doesn't know what to do, so he goes inside his own mind to ask advice from his previous incarnations.

Hmmm... That could work, but I guess only if you make it a crossover with a famous soap opera.

[DWF]

The Borgified Corpse wrote:

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Another thing I'd like to see is a multi-Doctor special where the Doctor meets a future incarnation, like "The Next Doctor" but for real. Like, I imagine Matt Smith announcing that he wants to leave the show. They decide that his departure will be in the middle of the season instead of at the end. This way, they would have to cast the replacement somewhat in advance. Early in the season (like episode 1 or 3), they show the 11th Doctor meet the 12th Doctor. Then you'd have the regeneration sometime around episode 7. Then, after some other adventures, towards the end of the season, you see the multi-Doctor story again but this time from the 12th Doctor's perspective.

That's not going to happen, the tallk at the start of filming was that they were going to film for a year, filming two seasons and there's been no official talk of Matt Smith leaving the show.

[MacLeod]

I suspect Matt Smith will leave sometime after the 50th Anniversary. Which will be almost 4 years in the role.

[Mark_Nguyen]

Well, that's pretty much a given, no? The only question is WHEN.

Personally I hope he stays a full year after the 50th, or at least regenerate as a mid-season finale. I think the 50th anniversary is too special to be all about one Doctor changing into another while (probably) having some other Doctors to share the spotlight during his exit.

Mark

[Tom]

They could have done a future incarnation story where something happens to the current Doctor at the end that makes it uncertain if he would regenerate into the future Doctor he had an adventure with. Like TNG's 'All Good Things", where they told us the future we saw may not happen like that after all.

[The Borgified Corpse]

DWF wrote:

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That's not going to happen, the tallk at the start of filming was that they were going to film for a year, filming two seasons and there's been no official talk of Matt Smith leaving the show.

Don't get me wrong. I love Matt Smith and I don't want him to leave ever! (Of course, 5 years ago, I said the same thing about David Tennant. 3 years ago, not so much.) I'm just saying that, when he does leave, whenever that is, I think they should do it like that.

[Brendan Moody]

They're never going to muddle the publicity value of a new Doctor's first appearance by offhandedly sticking it in the middle of the previous Doctor's final lap; that would detract from the event feel of each.

[Cutter John]

Butters wrote:

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TBH I'd settle for a few good scene in the classic console room.

This.

How about a story where Eleven somehome starts being drawn back through his own timeline, basically switching places briefly with each incarnation (with the old Doctors being pulled forward to the modern console room), not finding a solution until he arrives back at his beginning. Naturally the scenes with actors who've passed away would happen offscreen.

With some creative writing, it could explain that his companions suffer from the aging effect we saw in Time Crash.

[Photoman15]

Here's my idea... (not all thought out yet, but basic):
The TARDIS accidently goes to future at the point the universe has expended all it's energy (it is bounced back to an earlier time). This causes the start of the Big Crunch, only because the TARDIS was present, it is accelerated. Multiple universes are combining, including universes where 4 didn't "die" when he did in ours (explains Tom Baker's age) and (whatever doctors are returning didn't "die" and regen when they did in our universe). Any companions can be brought back with the same explanation. I'll hold my solution to myself for now.... just in case SM hears of this and wants to make me an offer

[Ar-Pharazon]

^^^ Both really good ideas, though Photoman15's sounds a little like something DC would/did do in one or more of the Crisis storylines

I once posted something like, if the TARDIS had the flu and kept changing console rooms or generally rearranging itself in it's fever state, at least we could see some of the old ones.

I'd love to see #4's Victorian console room in the episode where Matt & Jenna are dressed for that period. Maybe the TARDIS decides to dress up for the occasion too.

[Photoman15]

Ar-Pharazon wrote:

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^^^ Both really good ideas, though Photoman15's sounds a little like something DC would/did do in one or more of the Crisis storylines

I once posted something like, if the TARDIS had the flu and kept changing console rooms or generally rearranging itself in it's fever state, at least we could see some of the old ones.

I'd love to see #4's Victorian console room in the episode where Matt & Jenna are dressed for that period. Maybe the TARDIS decides to dress up for the occasion too.

Funny thing is I never read the DC Crisis stuff. I came up with mine because when my 3 year old niece was little I used to ask her:
"At the end of the universe, when it expends all its energy and starts collapsing into a singularity known as the Big Crunch, will time go backward or forward?"

And she would make me repeat it everytime I saw her. The othe day she asked me if I remembered the question and to post it on her facebook. (She's 23 now). That's how I came up with my premise.