Multiple Personality Doctor Story?

[Tom]

What I would like to see is a story where the Doctor has some condition where he develops multiple personalities, those personalities being his former incarnations.

So at one point the current Doctor could act like the Fourth doctor, another time the First Doctor, etc... When the personalities come out they they are basically acting and remembering as they were right before they regenerated (since it was there last memory). For instance, the Fifth doctors personality comes out wondering what happened to the Tardis interior and where Peri is.. etc.. I think it would be a cool Idea. Tennant could have probably pulled it off, not sure about Smith, it would have to take an actor with a broad range to do it right.

Actually when Ten's personality comes out he could be like 'I back!' and try to think of a way to stay. Of course, they would have to be in the middle of some crisis and need fix it. You would have to have a companion try and coordinate what each Doctor personality is doing before another Doctor surfaces. One Doctor won't remember what the last one did or said.


Thoughts?

 

[davejames]

Interesting idea, but it would be hard to pull off. Only the most diehard fans are going to be able to recognize which personality represents which Doctor. And references to past companions would fly over the heads of new viewers.

Unless you had Smith or whoever actually walking around in the old Doctor's outfits at the time (which, I have to admit, would be pretty fun to see all on it's own).

 

[Bacl]

Interesting idea, but it would be hard to pull off. Only the most diehard fans are going to be able to recognize which personality represents which Doctor. And references to past companions would fly over the heads of new viewers.

Unless you had Smith or whoever actually walking around in the old Doctor's outfits at the time (which, I have to admit, would be pretty fun to see all on it's own).

Or you could get the former actors to play themselves again. The rest of the world sees one Doctor, acting out multiple personalities, we see those personalities as each different Doctor.

Expensive as hell, but you could have Doctors 5, 7, 8, 9, 10...and maybe 4 and 6 if they agreed to behave, wear a wig, and lose a little weight.

 

[Tom]

Or just use there voices when the doctor speaks, you can find 3 people that sound like Hartnell, Troughton and Pertwee. Most modern productions ADR dialouge anyways, so no big deal. Oh heck.. make it a big finish audio production.

 

[Captain Dago]

Has no one watched "Castrovalva?" Five walks around for about half the story popping in and out of his past personnas. No SFX, just some nice acting by Davison.

 

[The]

.....or they could just do a multi-Doctor crossover episode...

 

[Tom]

.. would have to recast 1,2 and 3 to get all 10 of them. It worked out well with 1 int he five doctors IMO.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Has no one watched "Castrovalva?" Five walks around for about half the story popping in and out of his past personnas. No SFX, just some nice acting by Davison.

I knew there was an episode like that. Just could recall the episode or Doctor.

 

[DWF]

From what I understand this is supposedly the idea that RTD has for the 50th anniversary special.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Reminds me (a little) of the DS9 episode where all the former Dax hosts come out to play.

Of course, they got to be in other bodies.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Has no one watched "Castrovalva?" Five walks around for about half the story popping in and out of his past personnas. No SFX, just some nice acting by Davison.

I love that sequence. It was a wonderful tribute and I would love to see it again.

 

[Starkers]

Has no one watched "Castrovalva?" Five walks around for about half the story popping in and out of his past personnas. No SFX, just some nice acting by Davison.

I love that sequence. It was a wonderful tribute and I would love to see it again.

Yeah it is great. If I remember rightly the one Doctor he doesn't immitate is Baker, which I guess makes sense as he was the most recent one.

 

[Tom]

Reminds me (a little) of the DS9 episode where all the former Dax hosts come out to play.

Of course, they got to be in other bodies.

I thought of that too, could be possible to do. Could be something along the lines of what the Imortality Gate did with the Master but only with thought, where it would have accidentaly sent the template of the 10 previous Doctors personalities to 10 different people in the area or something like that.

I guess the bottom line is, to do something where we can revisit the previous doctors with out having to cast them.

 

[23skidoo]

Reminds me (a little) of the DS9 episode where all the former Dax hosts come out to play.

Of course, they got to be in other bodies.

I suppose that's one way of getting around things. And it might be cool to see Lis Sladen doing Tom Baker or Jon Pertwee.

Problem is, as stated, Star Trek has already done this sort of story. And Castrovalva already hit the "Doctor relapse" button (and, no, 30 years does not constitute a statute of limitations - just ask Trek fans who harped whenever Enterprise came close to rehashing a TOS plotline). I suppose it's always possible Matt Smith might spend some time in schizo mode in his first episode, too, but unlikely.

Alex

 

[Starkers]

I didn't mind them rehashing TOS storylines, it was when they started rehashing DS9 and Voyager stories that I got annoyed.

Would be an interesting concept to have the Doctor's personalities in other people...I wonder is Sean can do a good impression of his Dad?

 

[Allyn Gibson]

What I would like to see is a story where the Doctor has some condition where he develops multiple personalities, those personalities being his former incarnations.

The New Adventures used this to some extent, the idea that the Doctor's past personalities were alive in his mind and that, if necessary, he could channel the mind of one of his previous selves. What was interesting about this was that the sixth Doctor's personality was barricaded away, much like in "The Cask of Amontillado" (and it was this locking away of the sixth Doctor's mind that drove it mad and created the Valeyard). The personalities of future Doctors also exist within the Doctor's mind, but they're unformed.

In the EDAs, the seventh Doctor's personality guards the Matrix within the Doctor's mind. That's why the Doctor lost his memories; he had to delete himself to store the contents of the Matris.

 

[wamdue]

its an interesting idea, however I fear we would need to spend an extended period of time with each Doctor for it to be noticed, that said no reason an alien cant try and regress the Doctors mind (lets say he goes to a world wherever everybody has been regressed to childhood) but due to the Doctors age his mind only regress as far back as say the 4th Doctor, Matt Smith then spend some of the episode doing his best Tom Baker impression, before the bad guy trys again, and he ends up doing his best Hartnell impression.

 

[DimesDan]

I didn't mind them rehashing TOS storylines, it was when they started rehashing DS9 and Voyager stories that I got annoyed.

Which rehash from the Original series was it?

 

[davejames]

Honestly, the previous actors displayed such a WIDE range of emotion during their times as the Doctor that I don't know how you could ever tell the difference.

If, say, Smith starts acting all grumpy all of a sudden, would he be channeling Hartnell, Troughton, the two Bakers, or McCoy? They all could be incredibly grumpy at times.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Would be an interesting concept to have the Doctor's personalities in other people...I wonder is Sean can do a good impression of his Dad?

I don't know if he can, but I do know he has said he won't play his father in Doctor Who.