So far the show has been on for four seasons and six (pretty soon seven) specials. How many more seasons do you think it has left before ending on a Doctor Who worthy high note? Do it'll last as long as the original show?
How many more seasons do this show have left?
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I think it'll run strong for at least another five years. My personal hope is that whoever is running the show when The Doctor is on his final regeneration will seriously consider ending the show upon his death. I want to see them explore The Doctor facing his own mortality and actually have the guts to end the show with his death instead of finding some gobblegook explanation around the 13 regeneration limit.
I think it will continue for the foreseeable future, perhaps not always with 13 episodes a year. I think it will take a break now and again with perhaps Christmas specials, and then come back with a full series. As long as it gets lots of viewers, there's no reason to stop it. Matt Smith is young, and could go on for some time if he is a hit.
It'd be nice, wouldn't it? But there's no profit in that.
I think things could go either way next year with the new Moffat/Smith combination. Tennant was a popular Doctor, and I think the future of the show depends heavily on whether people warm to Matt Smith. Tennant may be the apex of the new show, or it may still be getting started.
So long as I get to play the 12th or 13th, I don't mind.
A long time if it doesn't descend into fan wankery plots and celebrity cameos. Thankfully, Steven Moffat is a lot less likely to do either of those than RTD.
True that. Well, hopefully he'll have learned his lesson by now. He's not the Messiah...And what do you base that statement on?
His first two-parter features both River Song and the Weeping Angels* (Together For The First Time In A Titanic Team-Up!!) and Mike Skinner from The Streets is cropping up in a cameo.
*And if she wasn't making a big Hollywood career for herself, he'd no doubt be crowbaring Sally frigging Sparrow in there too.
Publicly confirmed in an interview by Moffat last night.
To me, fan wank means dredging up obscure stuff from the classic series. At least, those characters are Moffat's own creation.
If Mike Skinner appears as himself and the story revolves around rap music then you may have a point. However, I suspect that hardly anyone has heard of him so he's not really a celebrity, is he.
Which in RTDs five years amounts to a brief cameo by the Macra in one episode. Hardly excessive?
Money speaks volumes, doesn't it? Ah, well, a guy can hope.
I'm not worried about this at all. Many feared the end of the show when Tom Baker left after seven years. Granted that was before the Internet Era, but I really think the show will do fine with Matt Smith and Steven Moffat and I'm not just saying that because I love Moffat's work.
Yes I've just read it on the SFX website...of course they added a spoiler warning. Seriously it takes a few seconds and not everybody wants to know everything that's going to happen. I know thats easier said than done given the net and the paper, but people could at least try.
I said "more likely to". I admit that I admire Moffat's imagination and writing much more than RTD's efforts.
I have great hopes that we won't see episodes where everything except the kitchen sink is thrown into the plot, much less use of the sonic magic wand, and no more farting aliens.
Even if it fails, Doctor Who will come back eventually. As RTD once said in one of the commentaries, the series has now been successful twice, so it's a pretty safe bet that someone will try to bring it back again one day.
The farting aliens who haven't appeared (outside of the children's series TSJA) since 2005?
And while I don't have have the exact quote to hand Moffat has pointed out in the past the he has given the SS far less plausible functions than anything Davies did and has no plans to stop.
