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Doctor Who S7 Wishlist

Same thing I've wanted from new Who all along:

Use the frelling premise.

The character can go literally anywhere in time and space, yet the majority of new Who has taken place on Earth. It worked (brilliantly) for Pertwee's Who; it's boring for the entirety of new Who. Whatever flaws classic Who's detractors may trot out and use to dismiss it, it at least used the damned premise. The new show hasn't come close to doing so.
The nuWho Doctor is homeless. He destroyed Gallifrey and all his people. I imagine he sticks close to Earth these days because it's the closest thing he has to a home, even if he would never admit it to himself.

Oh, and no more Daleks. They were overdone in classic Who, and have been done to death in the new version. (Likewise no more Cybermen, the Master etc etc.) Let's have something new instead of all the retreads of the classic series.
Agreed. This series needs more of its own bad guys.

As much as I'd like to see more Weeping Angels, if they're going to be like they were in Season 5, I'm not interested.
 
-Another vote for a Jack appearance and if we can't get that then:

-Torchwood. If the organization had been in existence for centuries (and the "Torchwood Archives" are still around in the future) and if their mission is to find the Doctor and if they were such a huge, influential presence in the past (they had a hand in everything in season 2) then surely the Doctor could stumble across them again in one of his time traveling adventures.

I'm not talking about the Torchwood from the TV series as much as the different versions of the organization throughout the years.

-One (or more) of the kids from SJA. If not as a regular companion then as a guest for an episode or two. I know most people vote for Clyde and Rani but I think Luke would make a perfect companion

-No more Daleks...at least for a while

-Bring back Lady Christina

-The Doctor meets and has a fun, lighthearted adventure with a young, teenaged Oswald Danes...ok maybe not
 
What I'd like to see in Season 7...

1) A pure historical. Periods I'd like to see -- the Crusades (possibly even the Albigensian Crusade, as seen in David McIntee's Sanctuary), the Reformation, the Viking Age, or the American Revolution. (The latter especially could be interesting to the audience, as the Doctor would be inclined to side with the American rebels against the British.) Also, the Doctor at Trafalgar could be pretty bad-ass.

2) An epic high fantasy. Doctor Who has visited a lot of genres. It hasn't visited high fantasy. Imagine the TARDIS landing in Azeroth or Middle-Earth. Or possibly even Pern. Where would the story go?

3) Ice Warriors.
 
What I'd like to see in Season 7...

1) A pure historical. Periods I'd like to see -- the Crusades (possibly even the Albigensian Crusade, as seen in David McIntee's Sanctuary), the Reformation, the Viking Age, or the American Revolution. (The latter especially could be interesting to the audience, as the Doctor would be inclined to side with the American rebels against the British.) Also, the Doctor at Trafalgar could be pretty bad-ass.

I would enjoy something like this, too, if we leave aliens and mythical beings out of it. Let's just go back in time without discovering that some crazy time traveling monster (other than the Doctor, of course) was involved.
 
Less River. I like the character, but a little of her goes a long way, and we got a LOT of her last year.

And I'd love to see another great foe like the Dream Lord. Someone who really feels like a true intellectual match for the Doctor, and can really get under his skin (and who isn't just a vain, power-hungry madman like the Master).

Or hell, just find a way to bring the Dream Lord back.
 
Davros in Love.

Seriously, after the lengths the Doctor went to in the Christmas Adventure last year with his Christmas Carol, it's madness that he's never thought to round off Davros' rough edges.

All though there's plenty of women with gimp/gandaddy fetishes enough today on Earth to give the lad one hell of a lap dance.
 
oh, yeah, and I meant to say- Get rid of that bloke who does Sherlock as showrunner, and replace him with that great pro who wrote The Doctor Dances, Blink, etc, who quit after season 5...
Brilliant, amen to that! :D
 
Captain Jack, Weeping Angels and the full circle wrap up of the Moffat/Smith arc should it be the last year...Please no hanging threads.
 
Captain Jack, Weeping Angels and the full circle wrap up of the Moffat/Smith arc should it be the last year...Please no hanging threads.

Now here's a question: do you want Smith to leave as well? After three years, it'll be hard to picture him without Amy and Rory, but I definitely don't want him to leave the role.
 
There was absolutely no reason for them to show up in the Christmas adventure or in Corden's episode.

Especially if he spent 200 years knocking around before River killed him, that the Doctor went 200 years without Amy, but then suddenly he can't get enough of her.

Shit or get off the pot.
Yeah, got to agree; though maybe the occasional meeting with River reopened old wounds. Amy Pond's spectre has probably been haunting him all that time. It could be that he knew she was destined to be his mother-in-law. :lol:

Now here's a question: do you want Smith to leave as well? After three years, it'll be hard to picture him without Amy and Rory, but I definitely don't want him to leave the role.
He did say in a recent interview that he was very happy to stay (Thanks, IO9.). Smith could easily do two more years without the Ponds / Williamses.
 
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But will it be Matt's choice to stay or not? "The Fall of the Eleventh," plus the 200-year-gap (making Eleven one of the longest-lived Doctors, and guaranteeing tons of eventual Big Finish/Past Doctor "episodes") strongly implies Moffat already has Matt's departure written. The temptation to cap the 50'th Anniversary with the birth of Twelve may be too strong for Moffat/the BBC to resist.
 
The "two hundred year gap" refers to the Doctor's travels in the start of "The Impossible Astronaut". During the two months away from Amy and Rory.
 
Ah, that. Honestly, after the events of "The Wedding of River Song," I just chalked that up to Rule #1: The Doctor lies.
 
Steer clear of fanfic clichés, have actual suprise plot twists that don't have their solutions telegrapghed early on, less trying to pull on heart stings, less of Murray Gold's jarring cut n' paste music that doesn't fit half the time, and quit doing the "fan at a convention doing a bad impression of Docs 2 and 4" interpretation of the Doctor.
 
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