What about Mc-8TH?

[starsuperion]

I am really on the side of that McGann's 8th doctor's movie should be shelved..

I know, I know, but come on... there is so much that could be done with the Time war era Doctor, with today's CGI and such..
why not just make that movie as a first in a series of direct to DVD or TV shows, and do a small mini series with McGann during the Time War..

sure, sure, Matt commands the air waves, but why not a series of specials starring McGann, with some writing by the best of the best of the series, and the return of Timothy Dalton..

 

[Andrew_Kearley]

I say no, because they could never do justice on a tv budget (stilllesson a straight-to-DVD budget) to the wonder and magnificence of the Time War. Better to be something talked about in hushed tones and tantalizing hints of dialogue. Also because, like many fans, I believe the ninth Doctor fought the Time War - so if they were going to make something like this, they ought to get Eccleston back.

 

[starsuperion]

I say no, because they could never do justice on a tv budget (stilllesson a straight-to-DVD budget) to the wonder and magnificence of the Time War. Better to be something talked about in hushed tones and tantalizing hints of dialogue. Also because, like many fans, I believe the ninth Doctor fought the Time War - so if they were going to make something like this, they ought to get Eccleston back.

I'll buy that eccleston should be in there (not that he'd come back, at least I do not think he would).. but I just think that the Time war from the doctor's perspective would give poor old McGann another go at actually playing the doc.. instead of one solitary movie.. as far as budget, who says it needs more then the original series gets.. I mean look at the end of time story, that was pretty cool.. and the doctor could do much of his stuff from rooms and ships, and planets while battles of daleks and Tardises rage in CGI shots...

it can be done.. if star wars the clone wars CGI cartoon can do some awesome effects on their budget, the doctor who time war dvd, or miniseries could also...

 

[Captain Pike]

Won't happen.

 

[starsuperion]

.

 

[starsuperion]

Won't happen.

I know but if the BBC did do it, and did it right, it would be awesome...

 

[Captain Pike]

Agreed.

 

[Meredith]

I think they should bring McGann back for a 1/2 season Arc alongside Matt Smith. That would be cool

 

[The Nth Doctor]

While I seriously doubt it'll ever happen (no matter how awesome it would be), I'm content with following The Eighth Doctor's adventures in the Big Finish audio plays.

 

[Starkers]

No. Said it before, will say it again, a Time War story could never hope to live up to our expectations.

Plus, I mean our show is Doctor Who, a Time War series would be more like NuBSG. Where would the humour, where would the fun come from?

I have nothing against bringing McGann back for a multi Doctor story, but I just wouldn't want it to be a Time War story.

 

[Captain Pike]

How about a Big Finish audio series? No buget limitations, just the imagination of the listener.

 

[Kibbin]

Or maybe the time war simply happened to take place mainly in quarries and running up and down corridors?

I think if we were gonna get it, it would be during the RTD era, now we seem to have moved on and are content with a few name drops that I can see fading away as the series progresses.

Also put me down for Mcgann, Chris would only be needed for the regen at the end.

 

[Starkers]

How about a Big Finish audio series? No buget limitations, just the imagination of the listener.

Good idea, I think it has to be that, or more snippets like we got in The End of Time.

 

[starsuperion]

I still want McGann to have his due.. he's still young enough to look great in some cameo's, what about him coming into the current series, and what with the Moff writing, they could do some universal changes which could reverse the time war...

or remember that episode of the trouble with tribbles? and the Deep Space nine episode that went back in time and melded the current series with the past footage?

here is a great plot idea..

What if Matt Smith's doctor ended up going back in time, to Skarro, right around the time that the 4th doctor does.. and using footage form the old classic series, the genesis of the Daleks, we see Matt and Paul on a 2 part story arc reversing the damage done by his counterpart, and thus the time war never happens, and thus freeing the time Lords from their death, and their eventual spiral into the abyss of hell..
McGann Redeems the Doctor from murdering his own people, and gives us back the coolest super race of beings in science fiction ever! it could be said that the 9h incarnation was the one who pulled the trigger for them all to burn, and maybe a slight hick-up in time-space gives that knowledge to McGann's Doctor, who then decides to take it upon himself to stop what started the war, which was an event that happened back in time during his 4th incarnation on Skarro ( I remember reading rumours of something like that already happening..) with sarah Jane smith..

Oh they could bring her back too for a cameo! Sarah's return to Skarro!

 

[The Mirrorball Man]

Doctor Who works when it tells fun stories for the whole family about a brilliant and quirky alien who travels through time and space with his human friends. As soon as it starts telling stories for fans, stories about its own fictional universe, its own convoluted continuity, as soon as it starts taking itself too seriously, I'm out.

 

[ChristopherPike]

Well, I voted Yes.

Looks like I was the 8th one to do so!

All the signs on my lucky 8 ball point to no though...


Everytime I've seen references to the Time War, I always got the impression it was more McGann's gig than Eccleston's. The Ninth got to deal with the aftermath and survivor guilt (Ten too), while Eight had to make the decision for his successors to try and live with.

 

[Stevil2001]

How about a Big Finish audio series? No buget limitations, just the imagination of the listener.

Good idea, I think it has to be that, or more snippets like we got in The End of Time.

If Big Finish did it, it would just be random appearances from monsters who debuted during the 1970s.

"Oh no... Paul McGann is fighting the anti-matter monster! And it's teamed up with the space prawn!!!"

 

[ChristopherPike]

"Oh no... Paul McGann is fighting the anti-matter monster! And it's teamed up with the space prawn!!!"

"Phew... and I thought saving Gallifrey from the Daleks was tough. I even defeated the combined might of Rassilon and those Thaleks, from an alternate timeline!

I'm really screwed now though! Erato and the Vervoids have just joined forces..."

It either has to be shown... or left alone. If it could be done, it's most affordable as one or two flashbacks, in a story about the Eighth Doctor struggling to hold back his regeneration. Nine turns out to be the result of a nervous breakdown. Say a completely different person escaping an insane asylum, to that originally admitted.

The guards laughing how they've got some guy claiming to be "The Oncoming Storm" locked away. Like some nut who thinks he's Napoleon but turns out to be real deal.

 

[starsuperion]

Doctor Who works when it tells fun stories for the whole family about a brilliant and quirky alien who travels through time and space with his human friends. As soon as it starts telling stories for fans, stories about its own fictional universe, its own convoluted continuity, as soon as it starts taking itself too seriously, I'm out.

Mirror, please forgive me for disagreeing with you.. but wasn't the "end of Time" special a complete story for the fans and based on the fictional universe itself, and for that matter, it could be said that any story that doesn't overly involve light hearted fun stories are made specifically in it's fictional universe and for pure fan adulation..

I would say that the battle at canary warf with daleks vs Cyberman was a prime fan bone thrown for pure fanboy consumption..

 

[The Mirrorball Man]

but wasn't the "end of Time" special a complete story for the fans and based on the fictional universe itself

Sure.

I would say that the battle at canary warf with daleks vs Cyberman was a prime fan bone thrown for pure fanboy consumption..

Of course.

Though in both examples, at least the real meat of the story had nothing to do with fanwankery: The End of Time was about the Doctor having to face his fear of death, and Doomsday was about two people in love. Those are things I can relate to.

Unearthing the most obscure Doctor to tell a story that, for the most part, has already been told doesn't sound like something that belongs in Doctor Who, in my opinion. Or at least not on a TV screen.