Hi, I have a question about..,
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Yes. A new one just came out, and is waiting for me at my neighborhood comic book store. I don't see the magazine going away any time soon. If they could continue for all those years with no new on-screen Who, why would they stop now?
I got issue 400 yesterday. However, issue 399 never came. Anyway, I'm enjoying it, but one article (The Sheer Brilliance of Doctor Who) suggested that to increase Doctor Who's viewing audience that an American version should be made of it (much like Life on Mars and Worst Week). However, I'm not that keen on that, because I really like David Tennent as the 10th doctor. What does everyone think?
No.
Most US fans would agree that its the British setting that makes the show so much fun.
I'm sure if DWM were in danger of closing down we'd have heard about it long before now. Sounds like the OP's local distributor is slackin'.
I'm sure if DWM were in danger of closing down we'd have heard about it long before now. Sounds like the OP's local distributor is slackin'.
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No, thanks. The Doc is fine as he is.
Remaking Doctor Who for America is a horrible idea. Doctor Who is too quintessentially British -- if you remake it for America, it's like having Superman land in Cardiff as a baby and raised by Welsh farmers, or making Jed Bartlet the President of the French Republic in a French West Wing: You might as well not even bother.
i take it you've never heard of Superman: Red Son or Superman: True Brit then?
in the former Kal-El lands in Soviet Ukraine, while in the latter he lands in Weston-super-Mare in England. Red Son is serious, while True Brit - co-written by John Cleese - is not.
in the former Kal-El lands in Soviet Ukraine, while in the latter he lands in Weston-super-Mare in England. Red Son is serious, while True Brit - co-written by John Cleese - is not.
I have. But they're Elseworlds one-shots, not ongoing series -- DC would certainly never have, for instance, allowed John Byrne to reboot Superman post-Crisis by having him land in Cheswick.
yeah, but the point is they made Superman a Russian and a Brit.
remaking Who as an American show would be like that. an 'Elseworlds' story. no different to the US and Spanish versions of Life on Mars.
remaking Who as an American show would be like that. an 'Elseworlds' story. no different to the US and Spanish versions of Life on Mars.
Except that having a continuing series that runs alongside the original, by definition, creates a competing character.
Like I said, the essence of the Superman character is deeply American. If you set him in Britain or the Soviet Union, you lose the Superman character and create a new one in its place. It might make for an illuminating temporary story, but what's the point of doing a continuing series that way? It adds nothing to the character or the mythos at the end of the day.
In one off "what ifs", not permanently.
I agree with this. While I would personally choose to have them air the original series in prime-time on NBC or something, I see nothing wrong with having a US counterpart that has no connection to the original series. It would in no way harm the original series, and would indeed give the BBC a new franchise to play around with, a new source of income and profit (think of the new merchandising), and greater incentive to not screw around with the original for purely commercial intents.
And let's not instantly assume The Doctor would be an American actor. They could easily cast a British actor, with the universe around him digestible for the common American audience. Get a famous, hot American actress for the companion(someone with acting skills, preferably), make sure the "Quantum Leap-style fun and action" is balanced with an "X-Files: The Next Generation"-kind-of-darkness, and a "Lost"-level of mystery and intrigue, and you've got yourself an American Doctor Who series...
wow you get the magazine in virginia? i live in california and i've never seen it. >_<
I don't think there should be a separate American Doctor Who series.
However, I think that a Doctor Who spin-off geared for American audiences would be ideal. Perhaps the Sci-Fi Channel could work with Steve Moore and the Terry Nation estate for an Abslom Daak: Dalek Killer series. Lots of Daleks, lots of space opera, lots of chainsword action, lots of 'splosions.
no, if the US was going to do a miniseries, they should do a UNIT series. do like 'The Unit' the Spec Ops show and use the California countryside as foreign lands for an international flavour...
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