Jodie Whittaker's accent
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Any chance she can do a American accent so we can get that American Doctor we have all been wanting?
Jason
Who the hell is this "we" you speak of?
Canada before America, afaic. We're still part of the Commonwealth, after all.
Well there is me and a few other people scattered across the states,the actor who would be hired and his/her agent and the family and friends of the actor and agent.
Jason
I'm sure there is a special place in hell reserved for those who want an American Doctor
I'm sure there is a special place in hell reserved for those who want an American Doctor
Can we least have a American Tardis? Instead of police box maybe it can start looking like a American Diner!
The Doctor finally decides to honor her/his greatest companion in Clara!Jason
Can we least have a American Tardis? Instead of police box maybe it can start looking like a American Diner!
Jason
nope.
As pointed out by Colin Baker in More than 25 Years In The Tardis, one of the things about Doctor Who is it's "quintessential Britishness".
No American Doctors
No American Diners for the TARDIS (which is a stupid idea at many levels).
They tried an Americanisation with the tv movie. It stunk like last week's fish.
Makes you wonder though if that 90's American version had been allowed to make more episodes what the end product would have been. Would it be seen as something separate if it was good like how we got the British version of "The Office" and the American version of "The Office" and both are beloved.
Jason
Why should we want an American Doctor, American TARDIS, or American anything else on Doctor Who? This is a British show. Why can't it just be a British show?
Actually, what I liked about the TV movie was that it didn't Americanize the Doctor. Yes, it was set in San Francisco and had an American actor as the Master, but it made a point of keeping the Doctor the same person he'd always been, a very British alien in a TARDIS shaped like a British police box. I think that when it was first in development, my fear was that they'd reboot the Doctor as an American, so I was relieved that they made it an in-continuity sequel that acknowledged the character's history. If anything, its largest fault was that it was too dependent on series history, with an opening sequence so mired in continuity that it was confusing as hell to new viewers.
Don't forget that the TV movie introduced a lot of things that the modern series followed suit on: A younger Doctor, romantic tension with the companion, a more cinematic and action-driven approach, rich orchestral scoring, a massive console room with a retro design, and a main title sequence involving the TARDIS spinning through the time vortex. Not to mention that the new series has used American settings a number of times, more often than the classic series did.
Her accent is lovely and brilliant and I love her
There's a huge difference between "an American remake of Doctor Who" and "an American-accented lead actor in the BBC Doctor Who." Those are two entirely different subjects that people are conflating into one. I think the original suggestion was that if the BBC's Doctor could regenerate into someone with a Scottish or Yorkshire accent, there's theoretically no reason he or she couldn't regenerate into someone with an Australian or Canadian or American accent, or maybe even a Nigerian or Pakistani or Hong Kong accent.
Anyway, any given category of things is going to have bad examples, but that doesn't mean there can never be a good one. There have been good (or at least successful) American versions of British shows, like All in the Family, Max Headroom, The Office, or House of Cards. Certainly the majority have failed, but that's true of every category of shows or films. Sturgeon's Law says that 90% of everything is garbage, but that means there's always going to be the other 10% that's worthwhile.
As for the 1996 movie, that was actually a British-Canadian-American co-production, and its writer and director were English while its producer was an English-born emigre to America. So it was hardly an "Americanization."
You could argue that a lot of this WAS done in the classic series, but that the renewed show really took it to the hilt. Notably, the very first TARDIS set was fairly expansive and featured a number of rooms beyond the (rather large and then progressively smaller over the first few years) main console room. Also, the Seventh Doctor's opening sequences did feature a TARDIS spinning in what is generally assumed to be the time vortex, and in full CGI at that; it's arguably where that trend really started, even though Pertwee and Baker I also had the police box in their sequences in what is also assumed to be the vortex.
Mark
That's not in any way a refutation of what I said. I said "a massive console room," not "a small console room as part of a larger set of rooms," and I said it had a retro design, a feature that the original series only used in Tom Baker's third season.
I think anyone who interprets the Seventh Doctor title sequence to involve the "time vortex" in any way is desperately trying to fit it into the later pattern. What that title sequence shows is the TARDIS inside some kind of energy bubble as it moves toward a crude CGI rendering of a spiral galaxy. And while the movie's vortex is basically an elaboration upon the slit-scan vortex effect in the Pertwee/Baker titles, it's the first to combine it with a spinning TARDIS, the first to have the camera pan 180 degrees to follow the TARDIS as it moves past, and the first to include cast credits in the opening titles -- all innovations which were carried forward into the Eccleston and Tennant title sequences. The McGann and Eccleston/Tennant sequences also both had the credits spin and swoop into place, although that debuted with the McCoy-era logo. If you watch the two sequences back to back, they're remarkably similar.
Obviously the 1996 movie was building on elements that existed earlier in Doctor Who; that goes without saying. But it interpreted them in a way that was distinctive at the time and was subsequently echoed by the revival series.
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