Doctor Who WHAT????
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Such a fucking princess.
When I was young actors used to work for food, and the food was garbage.
Lad should just be glad not be making panto.
When I was young actors used to work for food, and the food was garbage.
Lad should just be glad not be making panto.
This is second or third hand regurgitation of a report from The Sun that took speculation that had been out there for months and added one of their pointless, probably made-up "insider" quotes. There might be a movie some years from now, but you're not going to learn about from the tabloids.
And I assure you that there are plenty of actors to this day who work for next to nothing and that Tennant used to be one of them.
But if you have a career demand, do YOU just roll over and give your employer whatever he wants? I sure wouldn't. If I'm working at Microsoft but want to work at Apple and have the chance to do so, Microsoft had better give me a good reason to stay there. Why does Tennant have any more obligation to do a Doctor Who film or fifth series than I do to stay at Microsoft?
Whilst I'd never want an actor to be forced into work, it never ceases to amaze me how many are quite happy to bite the hand that feeds them.
Tennant seems to be stuck between two points. On the one hand he obviously loves (fanboy that he is) being the Doctor, but he clearly wants to do other things and enhance his career, and that's his right.
However, I don't think he should be able to have his cake and eat it, and I certainly don't think the BBC should go out of their way to let him/help him do that just because they're scared the next Doctor won't be as popular.
At the end of the day the longer Tennant becomes ingrained as The doctor, the harder the 11th Doctor will find it, and having a 10th Doctor film out there isn't going to help this.
I'm already a little concerned at the get out afforded by Journey's end that'll allow Tennant to come back whenever he felt like it.
Is Tennant popular? Yes. Should be be considered more important than the show? No.
Tennant seems to be stuck between two points. On the one hand he obviously loves (fanboy that he is) being the Doctor, but he clearly wants to do other things and enhance his career, and that's his right.
However, I don't think he should be able to have his cake and eat it, and I certainly don't think the BBC should go out of their way to let him/help him do that just because they're scared the next Doctor won't be as popular.
At the end of the day the longer Tennant becomes ingrained as The doctor, the harder the 11th Doctor will find it, and having a 10th Doctor film out there isn't going to help this.
I'm already a little concerned at the get out afforded by Journey's end that'll allow Tennant to come back whenever he felt like it.
Is Tennant popular? Yes. Should be be considered more important than the show? No.
Any movie would certainly be made after the eleventh Doctor had already been well-established- fan fears notwithstanding, the BBC isn't going to hurt the series for the sake of Tennant's career, and there's no way to do a movie while he's still in the show or has just left without compromising the programme's integrity.
I understand that people worry about Doctor Who's future. (I don't really understand why, since the show is literally more secure now than it's ever been before, but let that go.) But curtailing Tennant's career while he's still popular isn't going to make the transition to the next Doctor any easier. Regardless of when he leaves, he's going to cast a shadow, in the same way that Tom Baker cast one so long that many fans are given to witter on even now about how he defined the role. As long as Doctor Who is a genuinely popular show, the Doctor will be a big star and a major part of the show's appeal. (It's perhaps not coincidental that of the six transitions between Doctors in the classic series, four happened when the show's popularity was very low.) The flipside, though, is that as long as the show is genuinely popular, the BBC is going to make effort to ensure a smooth transition. They won't dump the show if the eleventh Doctor's first episode isn't a blockbuster.
I understand that people worry about Doctor Who's future. (I don't really understand why, since the show is literally more secure now than it's ever been before, but let that go.) But curtailing Tennant's career while he's still popular isn't going to make the transition to the next Doctor any easier. Regardless of when he leaves, he's going to cast a shadow, in the same way that Tom Baker cast one so long that many fans are given to witter on even now about how he defined the role. As long as Doctor Who is a genuinely popular show, the Doctor will be a big star and a major part of the show's appeal. (It's perhaps not coincidental that of the six transitions between Doctors in the classic series, four happened when the show's popularity was very low.) The flipside, though, is that as long as the show is genuinely popular, the BBC is going to make effort to ensure a smooth transition. They won't dump the show if the eleventh Doctor's first episode isn't a blockbuster.
You do realize that when they said McCoy was from the "South" that they meant Southern Ontario, don't you?
