Dr Who casting and rumour-mongering - possible spoiler

[wamdue]

the S3 SJA finale The Gift featured another family from Raxacoricofallapatorius the Blathereen, they were orange, I cant decide if its good that an alien race has some variation in colour like us, or that its too earth like that another alien race can vary in colour. I hate it when all the aliens from the same planet look very alike Star Trek: TNG had some fun with the Klingons, I would like to see more of that in sci-fi. At this point for example one Judoon pretty much looks exactly like another one.

what I find interesting about Time Lords and regeneration, is that would the 10th Doctor have always looked like Tennant if 9 had regenerated at another point in time, how predetermined are the faces of a Time Lord.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

what I find interesting about Time Lords and regeneration, is that would the 10th Doctor have always looked like Tennant if 9 had regenerated at another point in time, how predetermined are the faces of a Time Lord.

There's an argument to be made that the bodies aren't pre-determined.

Besides the three different ninth Doctors we've seen (Atkinson, REG, Eccleston) and one we might have seen (Nick Briggs in "Party Animals," which could be why the eighth Doctor chose that "look" for "Wormwood"), Big Finish has "shown" us two different not-Pertwee third Doctors -- David Warner and Arabella Weir.

If you can accept the premise that there can be alternate-Doctors, which the BBC did at one time when they approved Unbound, then it stands to reason that there's nothing pre-set in what a given body will look like after regeneration.

 

[wamdue]

what I find interesting about Time Lords and regeneration, is that would the 10th Doctor have always looked like Tennant if 9 had regenerated at another point in time, how predetermined are the faces of a Time Lord.

There's an argument to be made that the bodies aren't pre-determined.

Besides the three different ninth Doctors we've seen (Atkinson, REG, Eccleston) and one we might have seen (Nick Briggs in "Party Animals," which could be why the eighth Doctor chose that "look" for "Wormwood"), Big Finish has "shown" us two different not-Pertwee third Doctors -- David Warner and Arabella Weir.

If you can accept the premise that there can be alternate-Doctors, which the BBC did at one time when they approved Unbound, then it stands to reason that there's nothing pre-set in what a given body will look like after regeneration.

thanks for that reply.

 

[Captain Pike]

Not the bloody female doctor debate again.

 

[wamdue]

Not the bloody female doctor debate again.

did you not see Curse of the Fatal Death, there has already been a female Doctor

TBH I would not object to the next comic relief having a sketch with the female Doctor, I said it before the last one, and didnt get my wish, we got that SJA mini instead, not like it would be hard to film, just use the Matt Smith TARDIS and Bobs you uncle, or in this case Bots your auntie

 

[Worf2DS9]

I like Curran. He was good as Marcus in Underworld: Evolution, and he was good as the bad guy in that two-part episode of Medium this season (or was that last season). He was also quite creepy in an episode of the short-lived Night Stalker.

 

[StCoop]

Might get some photos of Curran soon as they're doing some location shooting for the episode in Cardiff today.

Then they're off to Croatia next week, aparently and a second-unit crew were shooting in Venice earlier in the month (sans any cast) too.

It's all go!

 

[TerriO]

I think until its proven that Time Lords can change race, we should not worry about it too much.

Um, Romana's regeneration? She didn't just change race, one of the bodies she "tried on" was a different species entirely, no?

 

[Lonemagpie]

Then a thread on GB has reported that TV Cream tweeted that Adrian Lester from Hustle will be the new Master.

If it turns out to be true, the "RTD is a racist" nutjobs on LJ will go into a feeding frenzy, claiming that it's all some big racist plot to equate black with evil.

Shouldn't that be "Steven Moffat is a racist"?

No, you haven't seen these loonies. The mere fact that series 5/1/31/11.1 has a different producer will not make a difference.

(I'd hardly call TV Cream a wellspring of accurate information, though.)

And hasn't Lester said more than once that he wants to play the Doctor at some point? Which wouldn't be out of the realms of possibility if he played the Master but it would make it far less likely to happen.

Dunno about that, but I know he's committed to a play the runs throughout the filming dates, so I still wouldn't take it that seriously...

 

[Jax]

Not the bloody female doctor debate again.

I thought up of a story that involved Jenny/11th Doctor & Master explaining that Jenny had the ability to regenerate her body without changing it 6 times (half the normal time lord amount) and that terra forming device from the "doctors daughter" episode activated her dormant time lord dna that controlled the process of regenerating. The Master wanting her lifes for his self attempts to steal them from her only for the Doctor to stop him but not before Jenny entire regeneration cycle is activated again (all the energy for her last 5 regens) so in her final act she gives them to The Doctor to prolong his life. However after his original 12 regenerations the extra lives coming from her gives the ability for the Doctors gender to switch allowing him to possibly be a women for any of his extra regnerations.

My thinking was it solves the problems of getting near to his perma death and allows for gender change in future. Just something I cooked up in 15 minutes when I was bored one day

 

[wamdue]

is it possible that we sci-fi fans think about these things a little too much?

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Never! What an absurd notion. How could you possibly think that?

 

[wamdue]

a random musing, that is all

 

[Jax]

is it possible that we sci-fi fans think about these things a little too much?

Well I need to think of something when I am sitting on the loo

 

[Guy Gardener]

Thiking about these things shortens loo sittings which contributes to the greater good.

Grey's Anatomy and all triva to do with Grey's Anatomy extends loo sittings greatly.

I was corked for a week when I realized that Izzy poisoned her kid with her cancerous bone marrow.

 

[Lonemagpie]

I was corked for a week when I realized that Izzy poisoned her kid with her cancerous bone marrow.

they nicked that from an episode of Bones...

 

[wamdue]

I was corked for a week when I realized that Izzy poisoned her kid with her cancerous bone marrow.

im sorry but I know not of Izzy, her kid, or her cancerous bone marrow, the fact you do suggests that you actually watch it.

 

[ClayinCA]

Re: Richard Curtis names VanGogh actor.

I loved him as the Invisible Man in The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen

ARGH! That's what I remember him from! I couldn't place it, and it's been bugging me - thank you!*

And yeah, I liked him in that. Should be interesting to see him as van Gogh.




* - Yeah, I know I could have just Googled him or looked him up on IMDb - leave me alone!