What if the Sixth Doctor's Type 40 TARDIS was destroyed, along with the Sixth Doctor with it, by an unidentified spacecraft, after the events of "Trial of the Time Lord"?
What if the TARDIS was destroyed?
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The series would've ended (and Michael Grade rejoiced).
What would sci-fi be like?
The BBC might then have revived that old “Son Of Doctor Who” idea, or rebooted the show, or had some in-mythology force such as the Master restore the Doctor and/or TARDIS, or just ignored/retconned the conclusion.
It would have blown a hole in the space-time continuum the exact size of....Belgium.
And I wouldn't have met Sylvester McCoy in Spokane when he was on his cross-USA tour of PBS stations, promoting the premiere of the Seventh Doctor's stories.
For some reason, the less contrived the better, he'd get another space/time machine. The Doctor's been sought out before by Gallifrey, the issue is to find him again without it feeling contrived or easy.
Indeed, pardon the tangent, they might have had an opportunity early on in series 11 to have gone that route given series 10 having gone out with a bang, but the basic idea of being led to it via a quest between episodes wasn't bad. And with autorepair, the chances of it being destroyed are somewhat remote.
Indeed, pardon the tangent, they might have had an opportunity early on in series 11 to have gone that route given series 10 having gone out with a bang, but the basic idea of being led to it via a quest between episodes wasn't bad. And with autorepair, the chances of it being destroyed are somewhat remote.
Then we would have gotten The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang twenty years early.
Now that's one hell of a "What if...?" scenario.
How would he retool the series to appeal to modern audiences?
Would he just retell the series like Battlestar Galactica or do a continuation with the old gang lifted to the status of folk heroes, leaving open the possibility of one of them surviving (as Big Finish has done)?
Would the show have the same cultural impact and reach audiences across the world, particularly America, like Doctor Who has now?
Would the series still be on now with rotating casts and production teams?
I wonder...
How would he retool the series to appeal to modern audiences?
Would he just retell the series like Battlestar Galactica or do a continuation with the old gang lifted to the status of folk heroes, leaving open the possibility of one of them surviving (as Big Finish has done)?
Would the show have the same cultural impact and reach audiences across the world, particularly America, like Doctor Who has now?
Would the series still be on now with rotating casts and production teams?
I wonder...
^ Would James Callis have played Avon?
