He said the thing at the end! I'm sad he doesn't have the leather jacket and doesn't know what happened to it. I think I remember seeing it at the Doctor Who Experience (but my memory might be off) but who knows where it is now?
Based on that, he's definitely a jobbing actor who needed money like he says. And that's fine, not every Doctor actor can be a fanboy nerd like Tennant and Capaldi. But it sounded like he didn't even know who the Master was - I can understand him not knowing River Song but surely the Master is fairly well known even to non-nerds. I don't think the Ninth Doctor could meet the Master anyway, not without screwing up continuity, unless they do what they usually do with River and pre-Tennant Doctors - either they don't realise who the other is or they somehow forget it all at the end. .
I would be more than fine if he'd met with either Jacobi or Beevers Masters. Story-wise, it could give the Doctor the opportunity to see a rare pre-Time War Time Lord and resist the impulse of telling them about the war.
You'd be surprised how many things that sci-fi nerds take for granted are totally unknown to the general public. When Smallville was on, there were people who were big fans of the show but had no idea that its main character Clark Kent was supposed to grow up to become Superman. They'd heard of Superman but didn't know his civilian name or his backstory. Back in the '90s, I got to fly out to Hollywood to pitch story ideas to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. I stayed with a cousin who was actually in the film industry, and when I talked to him about my previous attempt to submit a spec script to The Next Generation and my hopes of pitching to Voyager, I gradually realized that he had no idea those shows were connected to each other in any way.
Canon/Continuity doesn't really interest him https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a3617...topher-eccleston-crossover-master-river-song/
I know that'll drive some people crazy but I actually like it. Doctor Who canon doesn't really exist anyways so I'm glad he's not worried about it.
That was one of the refreshing -- and strange -- things about the "interview." I loved Eccleston's blunt honesty -- like, "That's your opinion. Not mine." -- but at the same time he wasn't really putting Big Finish and the work in the best light. His passion for the Scottish Play? Undeniable. His passion for Big Finish? It depends on the script and the paycheck. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. It's just not the sort of thing you expect to hear in a Big Finish promotional video. This reminds me I keep meaning to order Eccleston's memoir, I Love the Bones of You. As an Elbow fan, I can also say, I love "The Bones of You." (A song off their fourth album, The Seldom Seen Kid.) Alright, ordered!
Big Finish have started one of their “[X] Days to Go” social media countdowns for Ravagers. Today is “Four Days to Go,” so it should be out on Thursday.
Quoting myself here just to LOL at this particular paragraph and how this is so very very unlikely to happen now...
Listening to the set very much right now. Eccleston does sound a little different, which makes sense, its been sometime since... on the other hand, he's as good as ever, and I love it. Bloody hell, CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON IS BACK AS THE DOCTOR!
I listened to the first episode on my lunch break today. Eccleston sometimes sounds a bit subdued compared to his TV appearances, as he did in the trailer, and Briggs’ script is structurally messy, but both the dialogue and the performance fundamentally nail the way in which the Ninth Doctor bounces from caustic to gung-ho to whimsical, which is the main thing I’m looking for right now.
Im in the middle of episode three right now. He is the ninth doctor yes, but something is missing. I think he´s the doctor who suffers the most from beeing "audio only". He just doesn´t "translate" to audio that well for some reason. Or maybe it´s because the new companion Nova is pretty "blah" for my taste. They should have brought back Rose.
Its way too early to tell, though. I just hope that he'll have the benefit of storytelling generosity that the Eighth has had. We'll see.
Seems he´s really getting back into the role during the second half of the third episode. I just think they should have chosen a story with MUCH less jumping around in its own timeline, for his first box.