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Moffat gives hints about Series 7+ (spoilers)
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The cuts will have been taken in to account, the "Delivering Quality First" review has been under way for 9 months, they have known for a year 20% needed to be shaved from the budget, so planning will have been going under the assumption of budget cuts taking place, perhaps even bigging cuts to BBC One's budget than it has turned out to be.
Well if original rumours are to be believed they were offering Tennant for one year the same amount they'll have paid Smith in total by the end of year 4.Hell they probably saved 20% in wages with Smith/Gillian over Tennant/Tate
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Yeah, I don't know about Tate, but I couldn't see David holding out for more money. He honestly seemed to enjoy playing the part just for the fun of it.
That he did, but I somehow doubt he'd have done it for free. He's a working stiff like anyone else at the end of the day, plus however much he might want to be reasonable, I'm guessing his agent would have ensured he was v well paid (wasn't he supposed to be the 3rd best paid actor at the Beeb at the time he left? I know Eve was top, not sure who was second!)
Wouldn't susprise me if he'd been paid less than Eccleston to begin with though.
The reason Tannant left, according to what he said in interviews, was the job was too comfortable, if he didn't leave then he never would and as much as he loved it he didn't want it to be the only thing he ever did and it turn in to just another job. And it was the BBC trying to keep him by offering him more money.
Money/agent matters aside, RTD's "The Writer's Tale" revealed that if instead of the 2009 specials there would have been a Series 5 with Tennant, Tate would have wanted to come back for that series.
It's about time.
Another year with Tennant/Tate would have been awesome.
Another year with Tennant/Tate would have been awesome.
Be careful of what you think is awesome. Assuming Tennant and Tate came back, and RTD still departed, Moffat would have had River being the Doctor and Donna's daughter.
Another year with Tennant/Tate would have been awesome.
Be careful of what you think is awesome. Assuming Tennant and Tate came back, and RTD still departed, Moffat would have had River being the Doctor and Donna's daughter.
The Doctor/Donna/Daughter *goes for the aspirin
Another year with Tennant/Tate would have been awesome.
Be careful of what you think is awesome. Assuming Tennant and Tate came back, and RTD still departed, Moffat would have had River being the Doctor and Donna's daughter.
The Doctor/Donna/Daughter *goes for the aspirin
Except, there would've still had to have been a biological father, Donna and the Doctor were just buds.
^ Yes. the Doctor just wanted "a mate".
i thought he wanted to mate?
Another year with Tennant/Tate would have been awesome.
Be careful of what you think is awesome. Assuming Tennant and Tate came back, and RTD still departed, Moffat would have had River being the Doctor and Donna's daughter.
I still think Donna was the Doctor's mother. Hey, if people can still argue for the Morbius Doctors...
Another year with Tennant/Tate would have been awesome.
Be careful of what you think is awesome. Assuming Tennant and Tate came back, and RTD still departed, Moffat would have had River being the Doctor and Donna's daughter.
I still think Donna was the Doctor's mother. Hey, if people can still argue for the Morbius Doctors...
Unless Donna somehow over came the effects of the meta-crises then broke the time lock then it doesn't really work. I'd like to believe that she is somehow related to The Doctor but I can't figure out how.
It was a a somewhat elaborate process, involving her naturally into a period of time in the "causal nexus" that was from way before the War. The Doctor's father would've come to Earth, fall in love with Donna, and eventually taken her back home with him to Gallifrey. She'd give birth to a son who, at a young, impressionable age, would inadvertently remind her of the Doctor, so her brain melted. He'd feel responsible, and be psychologically scarred by this (and society would be of no help at all, given that on Gallifrey, no one dies, so he'd probably be ostracized rather than given sympathy), eventually prompting him to abandon his family after trying to live a normal, respectable life, steal a TARDIS and go out into the universe, eventually deciding to do what he could to help people to atone for the sin he hardly understands. That'd explain why he's so secretive about his identity, he was guilty about killing his mother. I also drew on "The Doctor Dances," where his understanding of the little kid wanting his mommy seemed to be from personal experience, the much-hated half-human stuff in the TV movie, and his and Donna's almost familial rapport.
It's a pity, though, that the guy they cast as her husband doesn't really look anything like William Hartnell. Maybe he regenerates before taking her home to meet the folks, or maybe it's just a weird crackpot fanwank theory (it's the second one).
It's a pity, though, that the guy they cast as her husband doesn't really look anything like William Hartnell. Maybe he regenerates before taking her home to meet the folks, or maybe it's just a weird crackpot fanwank theory (it's the second one).
