I've toyed with the idea, purely for personal fun, that Merlin shows us a fob-watched future Doctor, who's hiding out from something or someone. Others have had similar thoughts.![]()
I've always interpreted the Doctor's line in "The Christmas Invasion" to the effect that he's "not ginger" (and his disappointment at that) that he hasn't yet been the Merlin Doctor, so it's still a real possibility for him. As to whether or not they would show that on-screen, I don't know.
I've toyed with the idea, purely for personal fun, that Merlin shows us a fob-watched future Doctor, who's hiding out from something or someone. Others have had similar thoughts.![]()
I've long thought that the mistake Philip Segal made in 1995 and 1996 was in not making Doctor Who Earth-based. The logical direction, coming out of the television movie, is the Doctor stays on Earth with Grace, and they get involved in X-Files or Fringe-type stuff. Segal could have had a very interesting, though not particularly Who-ish, series had the Doctor agreed to Grace's offer and stayed.For a while, I've been itching to have another extended arc on the TV series similar to Jon Pertwee's extended exile on Earth working as UNIT's scientific advisor.
A few years ago Rob Shearman (Jubilee, Dalek) was working on a mini-series for Big Finish where the Doctor (I'm not sure which one, but probably the eighth) lives a century during the Italian Renaissance. I stopped following the ins and outs of Big Finish, so I don't know when or why it was scrapped. (Maybe in the Gary Russell to Nick Briggs changeover?)Perhaps the next time he suffers a prolonged exile on Earth, it's during Arthurian times.
How is the Merlin regeneration "clearly" from another dimension? Morgaine's realm is a different dimension/universe/what-have-you, but that's no different than the TARDIS reaching E-Space or Pete's World, and doesn't preclude Merlin from being a future Doctor.Merlin Doctor is clearly from another dimension. There's no reason whatsoever that "our" Doctor will ever become the Merlin Doctor.
It was the sixth Doctor actually, but no reason was ever given for cancellation-- indeed, it was never publicly canceled, just never mentioned again. I think it actually disappeared a bit before Gary Russell moved on.A few years ago Rob Shearman (Jubilee, Dalek) was working on a mini-series for Big Finish where the Doctor (I'm not sure which one, but probably the eighth) lives a century during the Italian Renaissance. I stopped following the ins and outs of Big Finish, so I don't know when or why it was scrapped. (Maybe in the Gary Russell to Nick Briggs changeover?)
How is the Merlin regeneration "clearly" from another dimension? Morgaine's realm is a different dimension/universe/what-have-you, but that's no different than the TARDIS reaching E-Space or Pete's World, and doesn't preclude Merlin from being a future Doctor.Merlin Doctor is clearly from another dimension. There's no reason whatsoever that "our" Doctor will ever become the Merlin Doctor.
How is the Merlin regeneration "clearly" from another dimension? Morgaine's realm is a different dimension/universe/what-have-you, but that's no different than the TARDIS reaching E-Space or Pete's World, and doesn't preclude Merlin from being a future Doctor.Merlin Doctor is clearly from another dimension. There's no reason whatsoever that "our" Doctor will ever become the Merlin Doctor.
What evidence? The evidence of "Battlefield" is that Merlin is a future Doctor, not a sideways Doctor.Preponderance of the evidence.How is the Merlin regeneration "clearly" from another dimension? Morgaine's realm is a different dimension/universe/what-have-you, but that's no different than the TARDIS reaching E-Space or Pete's World, and doesn't preclude Merlin from being a future Doctor.Merlin Doctor is clearly from another dimension. There's no reason whatsoever that "our" Doctor will ever become the Merlin Doctor.
What evidence? The evidence of "Battlefield" is that Merlin is a future Doctor, not a sideways Doctor.Preponderance of the evidence.How is the Merlin regeneration "clearly" from another dimension? Morgaine's realm is a different dimension/universe/what-have-you, but that's no different than the TARDIS reaching E-Space or Pete's World, and doesn't preclude Merlin from being a future Doctor.
There's nothing "pesky" about that; we'd seen the TARDIS visit alternate universes before, and we'd see the TARDIS visit alternate worlds after.Yeah, no evidence. That's right. Except for that pesky, "all the Arthurian folks in Battlefield are from another dimension" bit of evidence, you're dead on.What evidence? The evidence of "Battlefield" is that Merlin is a future Doctor, not a sideways Doctor.Preponderance of the evidence.
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