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David Tennant leaves DW after the specials

Ya know, something just occurred to me. We've heard the rumors about Patrick Stewart gaining an interest in Doctor Who due to his time spent with Tennant on stage; the rumors have been that Stewart may jump into the role of the time lord known as the Meddling Monk. Could it be that the rumor mongers leapt to an assumption when they heard Patrick Stewart and time lord? Maybe that was a bit hasty.

What if Patrick Stewart was the 11th Doctor? It's not incredibly far fetched to believe given the circumstances (especially with Stewart loving to play crazy characters). Would Moffat really turn Stewart down if it was possible to have him?

And after MacGyver successfully managed to become Jack O'Neill in my mind, I believe that Stewart could even defeat any Picard typecasting that may haunt him.
 
Given that Moffat has said he imagines the Doctor will continue to be roughly in his forties, I don't see him casting Stewart, who would be nearly 69 by the time he started filming.

There were bound to be rumors that Stewart would have some role in Who once Hamlet generated a bunch of Tennant/Stewart publicity. While anything's possible, I wouldn't put too much stock in it yet.

(By the way, it's the Meddling Monk; the Mad Monk is the Batman villain or Rasputin.)
 
Brendan Moody said:
(By the way, it's the Meddling Monk; the Mad Monk is the Batman villain or Rasputin.)
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Hehehe I caught it almost immediately after I wrote it up there; I guess that's why there's no time stamp on the edit.

The age factor is definitely there; I just can't really imagine Stewart running as much as Eccleston and Tennant did. However, they could play Stewart's Doctor as a kind of suave, bad ass who doesn't need to run because he's always got everything under control.

In any case, there's probably nothing to the thought; but I have to admit it was interesting to imagine once it occurred to me.
 
TemporalFlux said:
Hehehe I caught it almost immediately after I wrote it up there; I guess that's why there's no time stamp on the edit.
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Yeah, I've noticed that very quick edits where you don't list a reason for the change don't leave a time stamp.
However, they could play Stewart's Doctor as a kind of suave, bad ass who doesn't need to run because he's always got everything under control.
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Potentially, but I think the problem there is that, modern Doctor Who being what it is, someone has to do the running, and you risk making that person (the companion(s), say) more dynamic and important to the show, in the way Ian is more recognizably the hero figure in the earliest Hartnell stories.
In any case, there's probably nothing to the thought; but I have to admit it was interesting to imagine once it occurred to me.
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It is a nice thought. As it happens, Stewart is following his performance in Hamlet with a run alongside Ian McKellan in Waiting for Godot, which barring transfers or extensions will end late June 2009, just in time for the start of series five filming that July. Coincidence, of course, but still...
 
I really don't see them casting a 69 year old, even one as awesome as Patrick Stewart.

BUT A 64 YEAR OLD TIMOTHY DALTON, ON THE OTHER HAND...
 
The trouble with Patrick Stewart is that personally I find it hard to see him as anyone other than Picard--even Professor X feels like Picard in a wheelchair)

Dalton...actually I don't see Dalton as Who, but as a Meddling Monk/Master type character I think he'd be fabulous.
 
TemporalFlux said:
Ya know, something just occurred to me. We've heard the rumors about Patrick Stewart gaining an interest in Doctor Who due to his time spent with Tennant on stage; the rumors have been that Stewart may jump into the role of the time lord known as the Meddling Monk. Could it be that the rumor mongers leapt to an assumption when they heard Patrick Stewart and time lord? Maybe that was a bit hasty.
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Yeah. Thing is those rumours were invented by a thoroughly discredited looney.
 
DWF said:
JKTim said:
All this said, I kind of hate Eccleston for leaving after one year, claiming he was afraid of being typcast ... and then he goes and does a terrible show like Heroes, and follows it up with G. I. Joe. :p
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Eccleston made no such claim and there's still no official reason for his departure from the series.
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And Heroes is a much better show that Doctor Who!

Note to self: don't say stupid things when surrounded by passionate people.
 
Stalkers said:
The trouble with Patrick Stewart is that personally I find it hard to see him as anyone other than Picard--even Professor X feels like Picard in a wheelchair)
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A bald doctor would be great considering Ten kept worshiping it. Although I see what you mean, Stewart's too big of a star to be the doctor plus everytime he's on screen i'd keep making fun of him :)

"And I'll make those Daleks PAY FOR WHAT THEY"VE DONE!"
 
TemporalFlux said:
Ya know, something just occurred to me. We've heard the rumors about Patrick Stewart gaining an interest in Doctor Who due to his time spent with Tennant on stage; the rumors have been that Stewart may jump into the role of the time lord known as the Meddling Monk. Could it be that the rumor mongers leapt to an assumption when they heard Patrick Stewart and time lord? Maybe that was a bit hasty.

What if Patrick Stewart was the 11th Doctor? It's not incredibly far fetched to believe given the circumstances (especially with Stewart loving to play crazy characters). Would Moffat really turn Stewart down if it was possible to have him?

And after MacGyver successfully managed to become Jack O'Neill in my mind, I believe that Stewart could even defeat any Picard typecasting that may haunt him.
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Patrick Stewart would make a wonderful Doctor. I think an older actor would be great.
 
Allyn Gibson said:
Or, barring that, simply start the eleventh Doctor's era without a regeneration, leaving the tenth Doctor's era open-ended.
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No thanks! We've already got one open-ended Doctor on the books (McGann), and two if you count the Colin Baker era (though we at least sort of see the regeneration in that case.

Allyn Gibson said:
I admit, I don't understand the hang-up people have about the Doctor and romantic entanglements. What's the very first thing we learn about the Doctor, way back in 1963? He has a granddaughter. Which means he has children.
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Yeah, if you want to get technical, we even learn that he's a grandfather before Ian ever says, "He's a doctor, isn't he?" :) I've never understood this hang-up either. Why shouldn't the Doctor be a granddad (and therefore, a dad)?

Allyn Gibson said:
I think, for the Doctor, some of the relationships he had with his companions gave him the emotional component of a romantic entanglement without the physical component. And sometimes, I imagine that some of them gave him the physical component as well.
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Again, I agree. Watching the Fourth Doctor and Romana in particular, there's no way there was nothing going on there. ;) But the emotional component was equally strong in many cases: the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane, the Third and Jo Grant, and in many ways even the Fifth Doctor and Tegan.

wamdue said:
I hope the show is not going to abuse wibbly wobbly timey wimey in S5 (even more so than they already do)
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The show doesn't abuse that phrase anywhere near as much as its fans do. :lol:
 
That stinks. I really liked him as the Doctor. Well, good luck to him with whatever direction he decides to take his career!
 
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