Dude, it's a cold read. It's obviously a cold read. Very few actors give good cold reads. That's why these things exist called rehearsals.
McCoy does 'The Pandorica'
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Dude, it's a cold read. It's obviously a cold read. Very few actors give good cold reads. That's why these things exist called rehearsals.
Eh. I liked it.
Well, yeah, it was fun.
McCoy is very underrated and suffers sometimes from people confusing an actor with a show's tone and direction (I don't like McCoy because I don't like the McCoy episodes so much...even though he didn't write his lines, imagine the stories, or do other showrunner things. See: Martha Jones).
I would love to see more of this: New Doctor Who actors reading old speeches, and Old Doctor Who actors reading new speeches.
I'd love to see David Tennant or Matt Smith read McCoy's speech from remembrance of the Daleks. I tried to find youtube clips, but apparently we have successfully erased all two minute clips of anything copyrighted from youtube, and all that is left are children reenacting their favorite scenes, and people using action figures to write new ones. Sigh.
I refer to the clip where the Doctor discusses choices and life over tea with the coffeeshop owner. Matt Smith or David Tennant reading that would be awesome.
Also, McCoy's speech to the last Dalek at the very end with be cool by Eccleston or Tennant.
ALong these lines, I always thought Peter Davison and Adric would have done a more or less great job with the script "Silence in the Library". The fragility of Davison's Doctor would have gone great with that two-parter, and Adric's eventual death would work well with River's foreknowledge. "Why? What happens to me?"
Anyway, McCoy rocks.
I would love to see more of this: New Doctor Who actors reading old speeches, and Old Doctor Who actors reading new speeches.
I'd love to see David Tennant or Matt Smith read McCoy's speech from remembrance of the Daleks. I tried to find youtube clips, but apparently we have successfully erased all two minute clips of anything copyrighted from youtube, and all that is left are children reenacting their favorite scenes, and people using action figures to write new ones. Sigh.
I refer to the clip where the Doctor discusses choices and life over tea with the coffeeshop owner. Matt Smith or David Tennant reading that would be awesome.
Also, McCoy's speech to the last Dalek at the very end with be cool by Eccleston or Tennant.
ALong these lines, I always thought Peter Davison and Adric would have done a more or less great job with the script "Silence in the Library". The fragility of Davison's Doctor would have gone great with that two-parter, and Adric's eventual death would work well with River's foreknowledge. "Why? What happens to me?"
Anyway, McCoy rocks.
Youtube of that anywhere?
Sorry to contradict you, but ... no, you weren't.
This reading was during his panel on Friday. He had four panels through the con. He didn't do any readings during the Saturday, pre-Night Terrors panel.
Eh. The speech is inherently cheesetastic. The more BRIAN BLESSED-y you get for a speech like that, the better.
Oh, whoops!
Then I was still running a credit card machine over at onsite registration when this was going on.
It's funny - I'm not really a McCoy fan, so I'm not really neutral. And I know this is a cold reading. But I think the 20-something Smith sounds way more worldly and authoritative than the 60-something McCoy.
C'MON!.....LookAtMe!"
I like the way he reads that part.
I like the way he reads that part.
I love McCoy's Doctor, but in my mind this just further cements how perfect and iconic Smith's portrayal has already become. It's not just the line delivery that sells this speech, it's the way Smith moves and all his quirkly little mannerisms while giving the speech that really makes it so amazing to watch.
It's hard to know exactly how McCoy would have delivered this on screen, but I can't imagine it being nearly as interesting as what Smith did.
It's hard to know exactly how McCoy would have delivered this on screen, but I can't imagine it being nearly as interesting as what Smith did.
In addition to the cold read, let's also remember that McCoy doesn't have a gigantic orchestra behind him to reinforce the speech. If Matt Smith delivered the same speech the same way he did it in the episode but we remove the music, it'll sound drastically different, too.
I say that not to remove anything from McCoy or Smith's delivery, but music is a big factor in presentation.
Be that as it may, the moderator was talking about the public's perception of those seasons, about how the public was giving those seasons flak, not their true quality or an critique of it. Rather, it seems in addition to having one Doctor recite another Doctor's lines, it was also an effort to reaffirm McCoy's rightful place in the public's mind as an integral part of the show's history.
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