Yeah I agree, his own take on the 12th or 13th Doctor would be great, I don't want to see him do the Third though.
David Troughton and Sean Pertwee as the second and third Doctors
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Yeah I agree, his own take on the 12th or 13th Doctor would be great, I don't want to see him do the Third though.
Just keep the Americans away from that "prequel" idea. Before you know it there'll be a "no TARDIS, no screwdriver" rule in place, The Doctor and The Master will be best friends, and it'll take 10 years to get him into a badly CGI'd TARDIS.
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, there was no reason to aim that joke at America in general, a specific poke at CW would've been just fine.
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It's an off-the-cuff joke, get over it.
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It's an off-the-cuff joke, get over it.
Every week someone has to pop off an Anti-American joke, it gets old, you don't see anti-any other country jokes
Anyways, back on topic, yea, Pertwee and Troughton the youngers don'r feel right about playing their dads' Doctors, so, they're the best judges.
I have to agree with Servo to some extent, it's not just the CW that would screw up an idea like that.
SyFy or Fox could do just as bad a job of it.
SyFy or Fox could do just as bad a job of it.
You'd need a lot of rules in place. No Daleks, The Doctor and Master were friends, no Police Box, and he didn't really discover his humanity till he started travelling with humans.
I'd sooner they never did it.
It's actually harder to think of someone with a more drastically different acting style to Jon Pertwee than Sean. The later specialises in hardcore nutters on the verge of being psychopaths, which he does brilliantly (best bit of The Tudors was his brief showing in the first episode where he turns up for a big fight and nasty death), but if not the related thing he probably be last on most peoples list of "actors who might be able to do the pompous mother hen dandy thing".
Not a Smallville fan I take it?
Actually while Pertwee best known for those kinds of roles, I once saw in in a Marple playing a doddery professor type. Of course I think he turned out to be the murderer but still
Actually while Pertwee best known for those kinds of roles, I once saw in in a Marple playing a doddery professor type. Of course I think he turned out to be the murderer but still
But then he was also Hugh Beringer in the first series of Cadfael opposite Sir Derek Jacobi which was even more of a challenge because he hadn't ridden a horse previously.
RE: a "young first Doctor" recasting -
I could see a one-time special, or maybe a couple of arc appearances over a season's time to show some significant event in his youth, but as you noted, there'd be too many restrictions that it wouldn't feel enough like Doctor Who to sustain an entire show on it's own.
Never tried it, so no opinion either way.
My desire that I'd sooner it was never done was because of what you said about an American show with rules you didn't like - most of them would be needed. So its clear it could never be a show that pleased everyone.
I dislike prequels that have zero involvement from the original's creator. That excuses me to like Star Wars'
On a side note, I just got The Airzone Solution and all 6 The Stranger DVD's in the mail today.
David Troughton is in some of the Stranger ones, should be interesting.
As soon as power is restored I'll get to watching them.
David Troughton is in some of the Stranger ones, should be interesting.
As soon as power is restored I'll get to watching them.
