Dark Eyes Big Finish Biggest wish ever!

[starsuperion]

With the Paul McGann Performance in the Audio Drama from big Finish, and the story concept behind the audio, I am just enamored with the concept to the point that I wish there was some way the Big Finish people and BBC could get together and produce a one off of that Audio as a direct to DVD 4 part 1 hour each live action production. I mean, the characters, their looks, and styles, the Master, the Daleks with their classic looks.. the actors involved. it would be a smash hit to actually see the action unfolding for that, and to see McGann in action once more outside of the TV Movie, and the minisode for the 50th. I think Paul makes a great Doctor, and he truly loves the show, and his role as the 8th incarnation. If there was ever a one off shot to do a McGann and really give fans the 8th Doctor a great taste of his series, the Dark Eyes 4 part story is the perfect way to go. it has so much richness to the plot, and the way the characters are portrayed is fantastic. Paul would get to sport his leather look, and we would get to see a great show, something to cherish for the 8th Doctor going forward.

I also would like to see Capaldi opposite McGann in the new series. what say you fellow Whovians?

 

[Robert D. Robot]

I would love to see a 'surprise' episode thrown in where McGann's Doctor is featured. Perhaps Twelve sits down and reminisces to Clara(?) about a past adventure and then the episode jumps back into a flashback.

 

[sttngfan1701d]

I've never listened to any of his audio adventures, but just by watching 7 minutes of him in the Night of the Doctor vignette, Paul McGann just nails it. He's effortless. I actually I like him better than Capaldi if I'm honest. So of course I'd love to see more of him on the actual show, but they'd never do it...not even flashback.

I remember when 10 told Martha (was it Martha?) some of his past. It was very brief, but I could see them doing something like that with 12/Clara and leading to a brief flashback sequence featuring McGann. Wishful thinking, though.

 

[starsuperion]

I would love to see a 'surprise' episode thrown in where McGann's Doctor is featured. Perhaps Twelve sits down and reminisces to Clara(?) about a past adventure and then the episode jumps back into a flashback.

I think it would be magnificent to see a bit more of McGann, but as Moffatt has said, there is only one Doctor featured at any one time.. he is one man, and not a collection of different hair styles competing in the series. However, to keep Moffatt happy, and still give the fans a spectacular show, the Dark Eyes series of audios if converted into a brilliant screenplay for a Direct to DVD release, with a possible showing on the BBC sometime after the Main series is in Hiatus for production for season 10, would make a great buffer as a bonus and really drive some fan demand for that special series of DVD's. It is a goldmine both for the BBC and Bigfinish if they can work out an equitable licensing issue, and make it work. I can definitely see all the voice actors coming back to do a live action of the Dark Eyes Audio.. and in addition it wouldn't detract from the Dark Eyes Series in the slightest, the audio would be like the novel version in audio, while the abridged and yet fabulously produced DVD show would be an excellent live action rendition for us visual fans! It has the potential for win-win all around.. it just takes some people getting their egos and contracts correct to have it done.

I've never listened to any of his audio adventures, but just by watching 7 minutes of him in the Night of the Doctor vignette, Paul McGann just nails it. He's effortless. I actually I like him better than Capaldi if I'm honest. So of course I'd love to see more of him on the actual show, but they'd never do it...not even flashback.

I remember when 10 told Martha (was it Martha?) some of his past. It was very brief, but I could see them doing something like that with 12/Clara and leading to a brief flashback sequence featuring McGann. Wishful thinking, though.

well, that is something Moffatt has already commented on.. however there was a fan strong petition of over 10,000 who signed it asking for McGann to return to a series of direct to DVD as a mini season.. however Moffatt was still against that.. but my assertion is okay, do away with the Mini-season and just go for a series of DVD's based solely on the Dark Eyes story. It has everything that would make a fan happy, and satisfy the McGann need.. Daleks, the Master, companions, Sontarans, Time lords, its perfect for a direct to DVD series.. if nothing else 4 DVD's with 2 hours each.. and they could add in the TV movie as a special feature, the Minisode for the 50th, and the 50th on the dvd, or behind the scenes of the Big Finish studios recordings, interviews with the writers, the cast, the screenplay rewrite, and so on.. they could also include McGann at the cons with his new look, satchel and sonic.. and much more. it would be the ultimate McGann Fan series DVD production, and then they could go back to concentrating on the TV series, while bringing in Big Finish in a big way as an endorsement.

It solves the fan deman, while also keeping current show integrity to the standard Moffatt wants to enjoy.

 

[Photoman15]

Here's the thing. If Moffatt is in charge of Doctor Who, the only way you'd get a one-off, direct-to-dvd story is if Moffatt wrote it. I don't think he'd produce (and he would be the producer) something out of the current doctor without 1, him writing it and 2, somehow tying into his next series/season.

 

[Thebes News]

I always thought the 'Doctor-lite' episodes would have been a great place for a previous Doctor to make an appearance. And I would really love to see them appear... maybe something akin to Paul Cornell's 'Revelation' where the Doctor meets his previous selves inside his own mind... that'd fudge their change in appearance - but without Five's crucifixion from Revelation, obviously.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Or, Clara could tell an impossible story, she has many obviously, about herself meeting 8.

 

[Pindar]

I always thought the 'Doctor-lite' episodes would have been a great place for a previous Doctor to make an appearance.

That's an excellent idea, I'd certainly love to see 8 get more screen time.

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

Really, anything can happen. A single Eighth Doctor adventure featuring a bit player from the Capaldi era or a Twelve/Eighth "Two Doctors" type crossover, is something I think most fans would like to see. I know I would.

 

[sttngfan1701d]

I always advocated a series of 7-minute mini episodes like Night of the Doctor. Six of them could make up one full 42 minute TV episode adventure. But I guess they'd have to build a new TARDIS set for McGann and I don't know if there's enough budget left over from the main show for that.

 

[Guy Gardener]

If his TARDIS was %100 blue screen.

We could observe 8 rolling through a few desk top settings.

 

[Thebes News]

I always advocated a series of 7-minute mini episodes like Night of the Doctor. Six of them could make up one full 42 minute TV episode adventure. But I guess they'd have to build a new TARDIS set for McGann and I don't know if there's enough budget left over from the main show for that.

SCENE 1. EXT - LONDON STREET - DAY
TARDIS materialises. Door opens. 8th DOCTOR steps out.

Write around it - don't have a scene inside the TARDIS. Budget saved, producer happy.

 

[Ithekro]

Or use the cobbled together looking one they used for the War Doctor's TARDIS. A bit of the 9th Doctor's and a bit of the Fifth Doctor's sets ("look, the round things").

 

[Turtletrekker]

Or just re-dress the existing set. They certainly didn't use three different TARDIS sets in DotD, but they all looked distictive enough.

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

Or just re-dress the existing set. They certainly didn't use three different TARDIS sets in DotD, but they all looked distictive enough.

Actually, I think those sets existed already. The Warrior might've been a redressed set of the original's recreation in Adventure in Space and Time, and the Tenth's set was I think shot on location in the Doctor Who Experience exhibit... right?

In any case... Moffat had said at the time, that the Eleventh really looked up on Eighth, maybe the latter was even his Doctor, so a redressed TARDIS of 11/12's could signal how 11 redressed his TARDIS after his favorite Doctor's, retroactively speaking.

Does this make sense?

SCENE 1. EXT - LONDON STREET - DAY
TARDIS materialises. Door opens. 8th DOCTOR steps out.

Write around it - don't have a scene inside the TARDIS. Budget saved, producer happy.

Might just be the best solution.

Could even mention that the TARDIS is regenerating itself, like it was in The Eleventh Hour, thus his TARDIS could be changing from the TV Movie one to the Warrior's during the adventure's time.

 

[Ithekro]

If they encountered each other, the earlier Doctor "usually" forgets about the encounter, at least partially. At least until he runs into himself again like the Second and Third Doctors in The Five Doctors.

Now a "Doctor-lite" episode that does feature his current companion? If done with the Likes of Clara (or even River Song for that matter), have her away from the Doctor and TARDIS for reasons (not hard to do with either of these part-timer companions) then have the TARDIS arrive, or they see it around a corner and just go to it like they always do...only to have the inside slightly different and when the Doctor comes out of wherever he is, its the Eighth Doctor.

Or worse, have it be a real "Doctor-lite" episode, but with the current companion encounter the TARDIS like above, but inside is another companion trying to solve a problem that is keeping the Doctor in danger or just away. The two companions eventually save the Doctor, and the current one leaves only to run into the TARDIS again, but this time with Capaldi giving a "So it was you back then" kind of line. The other Doctor might never be seen, just implied by who the companion is at the time.

 

[Doctorwhovian]

I wonder if at any point, the Big Finish art crew will use the Eighth's Night of the Doctor look in the covers and stuff (Unless they already have). It's more traditional (and somewhat less transitional) than the leather jacket look, as it's pretty much a more worn-out version of the TV movie look (although with quite a few changes). Having some John Hurt stuff with perhaps the covers utilizing the younger version seen in "Night" might work out too, although with Hurt's health problems I'm not sure that would work.

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

I wonder if at any point, the Big Finish art crew will use the Eighth's Night of the Doctor look in the covers and stuff (Unless they already have). It's more traditional (and somewhat less transitional) than the leather jacket look, as it's pretty much a more worn-out version of the TV movie look (although with quite a few changes). Having some John Hurt stuff with perhaps the covers utilizing the younger version seen in "Night" might work out too, although with Hurt's health problems I'm not sure that would work.