Thank goodness we no longer need to hear a Scottish accent anymore in Who, really got sick of it, good riddence i say, if i hear it wan mer time i will los the heid.
Jodie Whittaker's accent
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Okay, maybe "introduced" was the wrong word there. But every classic Doctor except Davison was older than McGann, while 60% of modern Doctors (counting Whittaker) have been younger. The average starting age of classic-series Doctors was 43, while the average age of modern-series Doctors is 38, even with Capaldi skewing the curve (it'd be 34 without him). McGann was 36 in the movie. So I stand by my point that the '96 movie set a precedent that the 2005 series seemed to follow. I'm looking at the overall picture, not any isolated detail.
But the 2005 series didn't follow that precedent initially. Had it not been for McCoy Eccleston would have been the oldest Doctor since Pertwee. 60% isn't a huge majority, if whoever becomes Doc #14 happens to be 37 the pendulum will swing back again. Obviously the show has been skewing younger for some time, but it's been doing this since Pertwee.
Again: I'm looking at the big picture, not one single detail. It's not any one thing, it's the fact that so many simultaneous things are shared by the movie and the revival series. Haters of the movie can try all they like to deny it, but it set a precedent for modern Who in a number of ways.
I actually really liked the Fox movie and wish I could buy it digitally on Google Play, Vudu or Amazon.
It had its flaws, but I liked it overall. At the time, it was unprecedented for Doctor Who -- actual, integral Doctor Who, rather than a knockoff like the Cushing movies -- to feel like this big, cinematic adventure with a lush orchestral score, so it was really striking. That's the main respect in which the movie set the precedent for the modern series. And McGann was a good Doctor, one I wish had gotten a longer turn in the role onscreen. I kept wishing the BBC would do a "flashback" season of McGann adventures, like when Tennant was taking a year off for Hamlet, but all we got was "The Night of the Doctor" (though that was a delightful surprise). I wonder if Chibnall would be willing to do a "two Doctors" story with Whittaker and McGann.
Me too. There was a rumour, whether well-founded or not, that the BBC were keen to do more stuff with McGann after NOTD but that Moff vetoed it. Of course, as he gets the blame for everything short of the bubonic plague, it might need to be taken with a pinch of salt.
I did think that they might do a multi-doctor story with Capaldi and McGann but as I remember someone pointing out, you’d have two middle aged Doctors with perhaps insufficient contrast between them (though you could make a broadly similar point about Tennant and Smith in DOTD). However, the same can’t be said of Whittaker and McGann so perhaps we shouldn’t give up hope.
Other way around. Doctor Who was taking a year off, Tennant went and did Hamlet because of it. Says so in The Writer's Tale.
Eh, I can overlook shoddy rubber masks, dodgy CGI and monsters dressed in bubble wrap, I can overlook Eric Roberts.Yeah, but...ERIC ROBERTS as the Master? Seriously?
It's not everyone's cup of tea, but the Big Finish audio dramas with McGann as the Doctor really go a long way to scratching this itch- good stories, well told with wonderful humour and intelligence. Although, come to think of it, that just makes me want a McGann season all the more.
I've heard the first several, and I'd like to hear more, but it would still be good to get more onscreen Eighth Doctor.
If only BBC would unclench and either do some #8 adventures or allow some other entity like CBC/BBCA to do so.
Hell, even 3 or 4 TV movies per year like the 2009 specials.
I have no trouble at all understanding Jodie Whittaker's speech. I think her accent is charming.
I'd love some more McGann on TV. I'd really love McGann and Sheridan Smith on TV.
Her accent was so thick I couldn't make out what she was saying at the end of Twice Upon a Time. Not exactly a great first impression.
How hard is it to make out the words "Oh, brilliant?" Could it be that many Americans aren't accustomed to hearing that word used to mean "great" or "wonderful," so they don't recognize it when they hear it?
Or it might mean dialect, accent, hearing impediment... more than one possible answer, certainly.
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