Eccleston joins Big Finish (no, really)
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"Don't panic!"
I can't wait.
I can't wait.
By far my most eagerly awaited release of the year. I truly wish it'd be out already. And honestly, isn't it still a little unbelievable we're getting this anyway?
And hopefully a towel, too!
Centurion?!
A news article from BF confirms that these are pre-“Rose” adventures, and reveals that future volumes will see the Ninth Doctor meet the Cybermen and (separately) the Brigadier, via Jon Culshaw’s impression. https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/the-ninth-doctor-vs-the-cybermen
So how much time was it before Rose? Months? Years?
Eccleston talks about why he decided to return to The Ninth Doctor and specifically with Big Finish. While the whole lengthy article is well worth reading, this part stands out the most for me:
But Eccleston also made it clear that, as much passion as he has for the character, his love of the medium his Doctor is returning in is just as strong. “I love audio drama. I do quite a lot for radio. I do audio books, and I get great creative satisfaction from that. Again, it’s because I’ve always been passionate about writing and writers,” Eccleston said of his choice to return for audio—and explicitly not on TV. “There are no visuals, you know? All you have is the word and your voice. And I felt I could do something with a character that I’ve played in a visual format. I felt I could do something, and explore it, technically, in a vocal sense, as well.”
It’s a love the actor has had since he was a child. “I was born in 1964 and one of the big moments of my life—we were all there, me, my mum, my dad, Alan and Keith, my identical twin brothers—there was a power cut in the ‘70s and it was very exciting to me, because my mum and dad lit candles put them in bottles, and we had a battery run radio and I—being a not particularly technical kid—I was like, ‘How is that working? It’s the only thing that’s working...’. Of course, it was running on a battery. My mom and dad tuned into a radio drama. It would have been on BBC 3 or 4—I can’t remember what it was. But we were all transfixed. I would say we’d never listened to one before, and the candlelight and....just the audio and our imagination creating the pictures, it had a profound effect on me. I can remember exactly where I sat in our back room, so maybe the love was born there. I love audio drama. Love it.”
It’s a love the actor has had since he was a child. “I was born in 1964 and one of the big moments of my life—we were all there, me, my mum, my dad, Alan and Keith, my identical twin brothers—there was a power cut in the ‘70s and it was very exciting to me, because my mum and dad lit candles put them in bottles, and we had a battery run radio and I—being a not particularly technical kid—I was like, ‘How is that working? It’s the only thing that’s working...’. Of course, it was running on a battery. My mom and dad tuned into a radio drama. It would have been on BBC 3 or 4—I can’t remember what it was. But we were all transfixed. I would say we’d never listened to one before, and the candlelight and....just the audio and our imagination creating the pictures, it had a profound effect on me. I can remember exactly where I sat in our back room, so maybe the love was born there. I love audio drama. Love it.”
He did seem to have just gotten his new face in Rose, commenting on it while looking in a mirror and all.
That was the implication, but it was ambiguous.
Still, I'm wary of giving Nine too many adventures pre-Rose, because I got the idea that Rose was so important to him because she was the one who helped him heal from his post-Time War trauma and start enjoying life again. Though I guess "The Day of the Doctor" somewhat retconned that by having the Moment appear as Rose, suggesting that he unconsciously imprinted on her later even though he didn't remember those events.
The only thing that makes me wary of this is having the Brig show up - if anyone could shake the Doctor out of a post-War funk, it's the Brig because he knows damn well what soldiers do and also that the Doctor ISN'T one.
Based on the dialogue in the dungeon in "The Day of the Doctor," you can make the argument that the ninth Doctor is about a hundred years in that incarnation at the time of "Rose."
Oh, because Eleven is "1200 and something" and that's 400 years older than the War Doctor, and Nine claimed to be 900.
Although Eleven said he might be lying about his age. After all, Seven claimed to be a bit over 900, and he, Eight, and War all lived for a pretty long time. I never understood why RTD dropped Nine's alleged age below Seven's. I just assume they're all lying about their age, or making it up, or using different planets' calendars at different times. (Heck, Three once claimed to be several thousand years old, and that was well before Four claimed to be in his 400s.)
The Doctors could be lying about their ages in the dungeon, but then you have the calculation on the sonic screwdrivers. "Four hundred years" appears to be meaningful to the three of them, and Ten's stated age is consistent with the RTD era.
I assume Hurt's "eight hundred" dates to "Doctor, no more" in "Night of the Doctor," and subsequent Doctors kept that count. They may not have admitted the War Doctor existed, but carrying his "age" was part of their penance. At least, that's my theory.
I assume Hurt's "eight hundred" dates to "Doctor, no more" in "Night of the Doctor," and subsequent Doctors kept that count. They may not have admitted the War Doctor existed, but carrying his "age" was part of their penance. At least, that's my theory.
My explanation is, he thought he was a different age at any given incarnation, and during the Time War he either regressed, age-wise, via some Time Destructor-type technology or, simpler yet, he found out his real age via some body-age scan or something, and kept that metric in his mind ever since.
My explanation is, it's a long-running TV show (two, really) made by lots of different people who only intermittently bother to stay roughly consistent with anything their predecessors did (or sometimes even what they themselves did).
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