2023: 60th Anniversary speculation
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To be fair, we did get a lot of content for the 50th anniversary, the biggest ones including:
The Day of the Doctor
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
The Night of the Doctor
An Adventure in Space and Time
The Light at the End (Big Finish)
Along with numerous other short videos and side content from Big Finish, books, comics, and the official magazine. There was so much of it I did a poll on all of it and I remember quite a few people saying they weren't familiar with everything that had been released.
Yeah, that's not quite the same as lots of big production events, but that's not going to be terribly practicable or affordable (especially on the BBC's budget). I was thrilled with what we got for the 50th and I'm sure I'll be happy with whatever we get for the 60th.
But like I said last year, it's way too early to start pulling our hair out about it.
The Day of the Doctor
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
The Night of the Doctor
An Adventure in Space and Time
The Light at the End (Big Finish)
Along with numerous other short videos and side content from Big Finish, books, comics, and the official magazine. There was so much of it I did a poll on all of it and I remember quite a few people saying they weren't familiar with everything that had been released.
Yeah, that's not quite the same as lots of big production events, but that's not going to be terribly practicable or affordable (especially on the BBC's budget). I was thrilled with what we got for the 50th and I'm sure I'll be happy with whatever we get for the 60th.
But like I said last year, it's way too early to start pulling our hair out about it.
Honestly I'd love Jodie to still be the doctor for the 60th anniversary.
I only wish the current timeframe of three seasons and a couple of specials was just a tad longer. I'd love to have an actor stick around to play the Doctor for mabye 5 seasons (which I know is difficult when we basically only get a new series every two years) with a broad changeover of companions (including some mid-season replacements). Of course I'd like some Tegan or Martha-sytle leaving ("I'm Done, I'm Oughtta Here!") as opposed to these hugely overwraught things Moffat loved to give up (granted Davies was hardly better).
I only wish the current timeframe of three seasons and a couple of specials was just a tad longer. I'd love to have an actor stick around to play the Doctor for mabye 5 seasons (which I know is difficult when we basically only get a new series every two years) with a broad changeover of companions (including some mid-season replacements). Of course I'd like some Tegan or Martha-sytle leaving ("I'm Done, I'm Oughtta Here!") as opposed to these hugely overwraught things Moffat loved to give up (granted Davies was hardly better).
I'd like her to stay on as the Doctor, too, just so she can finally get to BE the Doctor by that point. I'm hoping that Chibnail will stop writing any episodes (since he's decidedly mediocre) and stronger writers can come in and flesh the group more/better.
I hope Jack is back for a 60th anniversary
Isn't that basically the later years of the John Nathan-Turner era?
They need to do an episode introducing the Dog Police!
Seriously, when are we going to get another pure historical!?!??
Amen!
JNT didn't have to work on Doctor Who. If he didn't though they would've cancelled it. Which they did anyway. He just pushed back the inevitable, I think.
Bit of all really, it was made clear to him that if he insisted on leaving Who there wouldn't be a new staff job for him at the BBC, and that the series wouldn't continue either.
In other words, Michael Grade was a giant dick (nothing new).
A Grade A dick, one might say.
There will never be an American Doctor.60th anniversary seems like a good place for Jodie to regenerate into the first American Doctor. Staring on HBO Max. Sundays at 9:00.
Jason
This modern era of Who does feels like a revolving door of Doctors to me. Yes, I agree, let's hope Jodie gets a chance to be here a while.
That‘s just a biased perception.
The Doctors changes at the same rate they have always done.
On average every 3-4 years.
The greatest outliers are Eccleston with just one year and Tom Baker with seven years, but they perfectly cancel each other out.
Which just means we're due for another long-term Doctor.
I gather that it was also not meant to be a cancellation. Given the decline in DW's prestige at that time, there weren't any producers willing to take over if JNT left. No one was willing to give a difficult to produce program the time and energy it would require to revitalize it after a period of decline. Therefore, if JNT left, there'd be a hiatus until a new producer was found. It wasn't intended at that time to be the long gap that occurred! I don't believe it was a Michael Grade thing (whereas the previous hiatus and firing of Colin were).
Well, Grade left the BBC in early 88 so he was out of the loop well before then. But I tend to think that even in 85 it was more him oking a suggestion from Powell.
Capaldi should've been that one, though.
Honestly, I doubt any of the modern Doctors are going to last much longer than the "standard" three seasons. Even Tennant and Capaldi, life-long fans who considered being the Doctor to be their childhood dream (and in the case of Tennant, the whole reason he became an actor in the first place) were ready to move on when their third season was finished.
