I wonder who has them...fox and co couldn't get them in 96
Jodie Whittaker is the 13th Doctor
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I wonder who has them...fox and co couldn't get them in 96
Probably the BBC.
That's what I assumed until the discussion here. Maybe it's Worldwide...which is basically a separate entity.
They were apparently taking with Sony back when Sony has their emails leaked.
Universal had an option until the end of 1997, as part of the Paul McGann TVM three-way between them, the Beeb and Fox broadcasters. It reverted back to BBC Films who've had it since. Until 2004 it was thought the TV arm couldn't bring back the series, because of a film stuck in development hell but that was incorrect. They have however hung onto their rights since before the New Series began. David Yates got on Steven Moffat's nerves a few years back, talking out of turn about potentially directing a motion picture version. Moffat resolutely saying there shouldn't be a film while the TV series is an ongoing concern, and especially one not part of the same continuity.
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What ever you'd be watching it wouldn't be Doctor Who (well possible the The Gunfighters which was an abysmal Hartnel story).
As to the Doctor now being a woman - can just image the reaction from the companion the next time they are exposed the concept of regeneration "Not only did I look different, I was man"
People are saying the same thing about a female Doctor. It's nonsense. If the Doctor Who logo is on, it's Doctor Who. Whether you like it or not is up to you.
If we're going to apply Trenzalore to a 1986 episode, we must also consider that 11 was really 13...and if we take everything we know now into account, we also have to consider that the "last" incarnation is at least 12 more off after Capaldi.
The timelords, like the TARDIS don't seem to adhere to linear time, they "exist across all time & space".
It's not a big deal, if they plan to create the Valeyard, they have plenty of time now in which to address it.
The whole point of Doctor Who is that it is a British show about Britain. The Doctor is an alien who is more or less a British citizen. You can change the Doctor all you like, man, woman, black, white, even a horse, none of that matters. What matters is the actor is British. You take Britain away from Doctor Who, you lose the essence of the franchise. Even the 96 TV movie, filmed in Canada and set in the US understood the necessity of having a British Doctor.
Besides, during the Moffat era we had all that stuff you mentioned. The Doctor conferring with US Presidents, episodes set and filmed in New York, even part of an episode this past season set in the Pentagon. We still had most of this in the RTD era, including the US military pitching in during the alien invasions. So clearly we don't need a non-British Doctor to do those things.
Well, I wouldn't find it blasphemous (I'm sure there are people who would, though), but I must admit a non-British Doctor would probably be a bridge too far for me. The show's Britishness is a large part of its charm, IMO. It wouldn't be the same show without it.
This is my primary concern as well. I was unimpressed enough with the writing in this past season that I didn't watch a few episodes (I actually forgot the show was even on). It's going to have to improve sharply to keep my interest, regardless of the new Doctor or anything else.
I'm more enthusiastic about it than I was, but that's really not saying much.
I have to say as happy as I am with the casting I'm starting to find some of the comments from the pro-side to be almost as annoying as the rants from the anti people.
Not casting a female in the past wasn't part of some evil conspiracy to deny women their rightful job anymore than casting one now is part of a plot to destroy men and turn us all into neutered salves of the feminazis.
Not casting a female in the past wasn't part of some evil conspiracy to deny women their rightful job anymore than casting one now is part of a plot to destroy men and turn us all into neutered salves of the feminazis.
The Doctor, although very much not of this planet is also, contradictory, quintessentially British whether played by a Scot, a Londoner or someone from Yorkshire and if you replace The Doctor with someone outside of these fair isles, then in my opinion, it will loss some of that charm of a mad man (and now woman) in a box.
I'm sure at the upper echelons of the BBC have discussed it, discussed partnering up with a North American broadcaster full time due to the squeeze on it's budget the last few years, but if they did that, they would also insist in keeping it all in Wales with a mainly British crew working on it and the The Doctor themself, well, they would insist they come from the actors we have this side of the Pond.
In all honesty, I would not mind it at all if Chibnall went with someone else for the music. I'm one of the few who actually liked Murray Gold's loud bombastic fare, but in the last few seasons he hasn't really been delivering much that's been memorable. After a decade, maybe it's time they moved onto someone new in the music department.
No there's a difference.
Male or female there are traits that carry through that make the Doctor the Doctor.
Running around like Doc Holiday (a gunslinger and gambler) is goes against fundamental tenants of the character, starting with the fact the doctor does not like guns, and does not go around carrying guns.
Apart from having a collection (in The Gunfighters) which he loans out to people, and Three happily blowing away surprised Ogrons in Day Of The Daleks, and various other instances.
Though (collection aside) he can always do Elliot's line from Leverage: "Just because I don't like guns doesn't mean I don't know how to use them"
yeah I never said he didn't make use of then when the need arose, just that he doesn't like them or carry them. Hell the cover for the novelisation of Earthshock showed the Doctor kneeling in a firing position with gun in hand..
Also can't remember the seen from Day Of the Daleks and never seen the Gunslingers (which I am grateful for
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