40-1 odds for Eccleston's return

[Worf2DS9]

In DWM #402, they show the odds of bookie favorites to pick up the mantle of the Doctor. Christopher Eccleston is shown as having 40-1 odds. I suppose that also translates to "not a chance in hell", but wouldn't that be cool if a new season of Doctor Who went back for more adventures of a past Doctor? Imagine, a new season of 9/Rose adventures! Or, if Billie's still busy being a Call Girl, you could have 9 on his own or with a pre-Rose companion. Dare I suggest a Time War series with 9?

I guess it would be a bit tricky when it comes to the point where Eccleston wants to leave (again) and it's time to finally jump ahead to the 11th Doctor. You'd probably have to have a stand-alone Tennant episode so he could finally regenerate into 11.

Ah, one can dream, but it would still be "fantastic!".

(While we're having fanciful dreams, even though Paul McGann wasn't among the actors listed, we could go further back and have an 8th Doctor series! Why rush 11!)

 

[OmahaStar]

In DWM #402, they show the odds of bookie favorites to pick up the mantle of the Doctor. Christopher Eccleston is shown as having 40-1 odds. I suppose that also translates to "not a chance in hell", but wouldn't that be cool if a new season of Doctor Who went back for more adventures of a past Doctor? Imagine, a new season of 9/Rose adventures! Or, if Billie's still busy being a Call Girl, you could have 9 on his own or with a pre-Rose companion. Dare I suggest a Time War series with 9?

There's still those missing hundred plus years at the end of "Rose" ... You know, when the Doctor goes off and then comes back centuries later to say "It's a time machine".

 

[timelord1010]

Or you could do a few stories with Paul McGann and then have him regenerate into Christopher Eccleston for more stories....

 

[Bacl]

Or you could do a few stories with Paul McGann and then have him regenerate into Christopher Eccleston for more stories....

I always thought this would be a very clever kind of "Doctor Who Mini-Season." Doctors 8 and 9 have a lot of untold stories, and having a crossover from one to the other would be very neat.

 

[Mr Awe]

I would say 40-1 for Ecclestone's return is overly optimistic.

Mr Awe

 

[TigerOfDarkness]

In DWM #402, they show the odds of bookie favorites to pick up the mantle of the Doctor. Christopher Eccleston is shown as having 40-1 odds.

So, if they make 40 epsiodes, one of them will have Christopher Eccleston in it then?

 

[wamdue]

(While we're having fanciful dreams, even though Paul McGann wasn't among the actors listed, we could go further back and have an 8th Doctor series! Why rush 11!)

why bothering going back, why not have Paul McGann be the next Doctor?

actually this thread seems like a good place to do this, is the next Doctor not the 12th Doctor?

sure after his second regeneration he did not have a new personality, but he did use up a regeneration.

So is David Tennant not both Doctor 10 & 11? the next Doctor being 12, a regeneration (of which he has a limited number of) after all?

TBH I am surprised this has not been discussed more.

 

[bigdaddy]

(While we're having fanciful dreams, even though Paul McGann wasn't among the actors listed, we could go further back and have an 8th Doctor series! Why rush 11!)

why bothering going back, why not have Paul McGann be the next Doctor?

actually this thread seems like a good place to do this, is the next Doctor not the 12th Doctor?

sure after his second regeneration he did not have a new personality, but he did use up a regeneration.

So is David Tennant not both Doctor 10 & 11? the next Doctor being 12, a regeneration (of which he has a limited number of) after all?

TBH I am surprised this has not been discussed more.

You are may favor DW fan. When I was watching that episode, which I enjoyed besides the lame shooting part, I thought the same thing! He used up at least part of one and it never seemed to be covered!

 

[wamdue]

(While we're having fanciful dreams, even though Paul McGann wasn't among the actors listed, we could go further back and have an 8th Doctor series! Why rush 11!)

why bothering going back, why not have Paul McGann be the next Doctor?

actually this thread seems like a good place to do this, is the next Doctor not the 12th Doctor?

sure after his second regeneration he did not have a new personality, but he did use up a regeneration.

So is David Tennant not both Doctor 10 & 11? the next Doctor being 12, a regeneration (of which he has a limited number of) after all?

TBH I am surprised this has not been discussed more.

You are may favorite DW fan. When I was watching that episode, which I enjoyed besides the lame shooting part, I thought the same thing! He used up at least part of one and it never seemed to be covered!

he certianly used up a full regeneration, he only used half of it, on himself, but the other half went into the hand (which became the human Doctor)

its not hard to see why the press & the public would call the next Doctor, Doctor 11, but the Whovian fans should know better, the next Doctor really is the 12th in terms of regenerations used. Both Doctors in Journeys End are really the 11th Doctor, the HumanDoctor, got his human side from Donna, and looked like the 10th, since the part of it was the hand.

TBH I would like to see the personality of the 11th Doctor come out in the Doctor in the specials, before the regeneration into the 12th.

 

[The Wormhole]

Since I'm of the opinion that even if the ever get to a 13th Doctor, they're going to pull some trick that will allow more regenerations anyway, I don't bother thinking up headaches figuring out how the non-regeneration in the finale factors in at all.

And since we're discussing bringing back previous actors, how about making this upcoming regeneration a sort of reverse regeneration? Meaning the Doctor would revert to one of his previous incarnations.

Hey, I'm sure someone else has thought it up.

 

[wamdue]

And since we're discussing bringing back previous actors, how about making this upcoming regeneration a sort of reverse regeneration? Meaning the Doctor would revert to one of his previous incarnations.

Hey, I'm sure someone else has thought it up.

well lets see

a) I suggest it in my post

b) it was apparntly considered at one point on Classic Who history as a way to bring back Tom Baker. I dont know how they would explain that, they would have an easier time explaining a female Doctor than this.

as for once the Doctor reaches his regeneration limit, they are clearly going to have a get out clause, I dont know what it would be, and im not going to speculate in this post, but im sure they will come up with something.

 

[CommodoreKong]

I would love to see Eccleston and Tennant return for a Three Doctor story, but I'm not holding my breath for Eccleston. I wouldn't be surprised if Tennant returned to do an episode or two with the new Doctor in his second or third series though.

 

[wamdue]

^ I would not be at all suprised to see that, really that is something the new series does need to do once, a true full length multi Doctor story

 

[Samurai8472]

Or you could do a few stories with Paul McGann and then have him regenerate into Christopher Eccleston for more stories....

I always thought this would be a very clever kind of "Doctor Who Mini-Season." Doctors 8 and 9 have a lot of untold stories, and having a crossover from one to the other would be very neat.

I could see RTD pulling some "The Three Doctor's" stunt. T

Then we see the episode it will involve Doctor 10 reminiscing about the time he was Doctor 8. Only at the end do we see Eccleston.

So there "The Three Doctor's"

 

[David cgc]

actually this thread seems like a good place to do this, is the next Doctor not the 12th Doctor?

sure after his second regeneration he did not have a new personality, but he did use up a regeneration.

So is David Tennant not both Doctor 10 & 11? the next Doctor being 12, a regeneration (of which he has a limited number of) after all?

TBH I am surprised this has not been discussed more.

Well, it depends on why a Time Lord can only regenerate twelve times. If it's because he has an internal battery with a limited amount of regeneration energy, then, yeah, he used one up. However, it could be because each regeneration stresses his body more and more, and after twelve times, his cells can't survive another rearrangement. In that case, since he only stole just enough regeneration energy to heal himself (as he did in "The Christmas Invasion") and didn't put his body through the whole process of becoming an all-new man, he's still got all three left.

Personally, I go with the stress theory. I seem to remember some evidence that there are physical traces of prior regenerations in his cells (I think there was a cut line from "Dalek" where van Statten finds he has nine different DNA patterns, and it would explain why Jenny's physical resemblance was five bodies out of date). Also, the idea of a sort of "regeneration battery" just seems a bit sillier to me than the notion that a regeneration is an exhausting and traumatic process that you can't do over and over again without incurring some physical cost.

 

[FalTorPan]

The writers will create a loophole when the time is right.

 

[26138]

The writers will create a loophole when the time is right.

Exactly, if they want more than 13 doctors, they'll find a way to have more than 13.

 

[captcalhoun]

i'll bet a pound to a plugged nickel Ten comes back for a multi-Doctor special in 2013 for the 50th anniversary.

 

[Starkers]

(While we're having fanciful dreams, even though Paul McGann wasn't among the actors listed, we could go further back and have an 8th Doctor series! Why rush 11!)

why bothering going back, why not have Paul McGann be the next Doctor?

actually this thread seems like a good place to do this, is the next Doctor not the 12th Doctor?

sure after his second regeneration he did not have a new personality, but he did use up a regeneration.

So is David Tennant not both Doctor 10 & 11? the next Doctor being 12, a regeneration (of which he has a limited number of) after all?

TBH I am surprised this has not been discussed more.

since he channeled the entergy elsewhere, and didn't actually physically change then I'm assuming the lame event that happened in Journey's End was NOT a regeneration.

 

[Ward Fowler]

It would be an easy matter for the writers to bring Eccleston back if they so desired. Either show previous adventures of The Doctor or have some extraordinary event reverse his regenerations, which would be an interesting concept. I would love to see Eccleston come back, but something tells me that it's not in the cards.