I'd actually love to see her be a Doctor, even if its just for one season.
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Sure you can. How many television series have ended with cliffhanger endings that were never resolved?
Skipping well beyond "The Reality Wars"' ending and not following up on it wouldn't really be different. It might be unusual, but I think it's a creative decision that can be justified by the Beeb. The question they need to ask themselves is what's best for the future of the series. Is 90 minutes with Billie Piper, because I think that's all she would do, really worth the time and the effort?
Skipping well beyond "The Reality Wars"' ending and not following up on it wouldn't really be different. It might be unusual, but I think it's a creative decision that can be justified by the Beeb. The question they need to ask themselves is what's best for the future of the series. Is 90 minutes with Billie Piper, because I think that's all she would do, really worth the time and the effort?
It looks like Marvel is finally picking up on its dangling Luke Cage plot threads after 7 years in next year's third season of Daredevil Born Again. Of course, seeing as seven years has passed, and Luke is clearly in a different place, I expect at most a little bit of exposition bridging the gap. It's not the end of the world.
Doctor Who is a different beast. Even if they don't pick up the story for 7 years, in universe it could still be the next day.
Doctor Who is a different beast. Even if they don't pick up the story for 7 years, in universe it could still be the next day.
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lol oh ya
unlese she will be the infamous bad wolf
As I proposed previously, all they could do (unlikely, and unrealistic) was bring back Ncuti for a proper regeneration special where Gatwa suffers from a unique situation where he regenerates into former companions of his and back, allowing thus to bring back his recent companions as a twentieth anniversary treat but acting as the Doctor for once. In this way, Piper's involvement would be the most minimal possible. And at the end of the special, Gatwa would resolve the situation and regenerate properly into the next Doctor.
Speaking of which, there's absolutely no discussion whatsoever on who the next Doctor will be?
Speaking of which, there's absolutely no discussion whatsoever on who the next Doctor will be?
I like this! A modern companions team up episode. Maybe even tease the next companion while the doctor is running around trying to save the universe
I don’t know if the audience would gell with the idea of let’s say 10 minutes of screen time for each modern companion
Five or 10 minutes for Billie. 10 minutes for Donna. 10 minutes for Freema. I think Karen might be busy though with Highlander
Rory, Graham, Yaz, even Ruby. Heck, Doctor-as-Rory could meta joke about it.
Honestly, I haven't given it much thought. It's usually someone I've never heard of anyway.
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We don't need Ncuti back for that, we could just start with Billie who then regenerates into Arthur who then regenerates into Pearl etc. No reason you couldn't get Janet or Sophie on board also for that classic vibe, especially if it's just a few minutes work.
Another option, if you can secure Billie for half a day's filming is to start in medias res. Start with the Tardis crashing on some planet, Billie stumbles out looking battered and dirty like she's been through hell, she drops to the ground, our new companion races up to her to ask if she's ok and she smiles and says "No, but I will be in a minute."
Cue regeneration into whoever!
Thing is if you rough Billie up enough it becomes hard to tell how old her Doctor is, this leaves her very clearly the 16th Doctor but who know how long she's been the Doctor, a few weeks, a few decades? Yes it's a cheat to suggest that all her era essentially happens off screen, but you allow her to come back for multi Doctor specials, to do Big Finish etc in perpetuity so we can still get her as the 16th Doctor, even if its just in snippets ala Jo Martin's Doctor. To be honest I'd prefer that to her immediately regenerating into someone else, and actually I'd prefer it to a 90 minute special where she regenerates at the end because that probably leaves no option for her ever to return.
Another option, if you can secure Billie for half a day's filming is to start in medias res. Start with the Tardis crashing on some planet, Billie stumbles out looking battered and dirty like she's been through hell, she drops to the ground, our new companion races up to her to ask if she's ok and she smiles and says "No, but I will be in a minute."
Cue regeneration into whoever!
Thing is if you rough Billie up enough it becomes hard to tell how old her Doctor is, this leaves her very clearly the 16th Doctor but who know how long she's been the Doctor, a few weeks, a few decades? Yes it's a cheat to suggest that all her era essentially happens off screen, but you allow her to come back for multi Doctor specials, to do Big Finish etc in perpetuity so we can still get her as the 16th Doctor, even if its just in snippets ala Jo Martin's Doctor. To be honest I'd prefer that to her immediately regenerating into someone else, and actually I'd prefer it to a 90 minute special where she regenerates at the end because that probably leaves no option for her ever to return.
Since they haven’t officially said Billie is doctor number 16 they could just say someone has tampered with the doctors regenerations for their own purposes
Or the tardis had some influence to try to tell the doctor something.
“ You must find bad wolf. To do that you must look like a former companion”
Or. Maybe someone wants to harness the powers of Rose badwolf and it got botched. Instead of getting Rose it changes the doctor instead.
Alien- We wanted the one responsible for these “badwolf” thoughts. My offspring is in a coma because of Badwolf and we tried to summon them to answer their crimes
Or the tardis had some influence to try to tell the doctor something.
“ You must find bad wolf. To do that you must look like a former companion”
Or. Maybe someone wants to harness the powers of Rose badwolf and it got botched. Instead of getting Rose it changes the doctor instead.
Alien- We wanted the one responsible for these “badwolf” thoughts. My offspring is in a coma because of Badwolf and we tried to summon them to answer their crimes
I have always thought Arthur Darvill would make a fantastic Doctor. I'd be cool with him or Santiago Cabrera. (Salvation was basically a Doctor Who audition tape.)
That...actually intrigues me.
When I look at Cabrera's run of roles in Merlin, The Musketeers, Salvation, and Picard, I feel like his career was building to the Doctor. In my mind, the only strike against him now is age; he turns 48 this year, so he's slightly older than Eccleston was in 2005 but still seven years younger than Capaldi was in 2013, and I think the Beeb would prefer someone closer to 35-40.
Arthur Darvill turns 44 this summer, and my other dream Doctor actor, Romola Garai, also turns 44 this summer.
Hey, I just learned (thanks, Wikipedia!) that Darvill and Jodie Whittaker were both born June 17, 1982. I now feel like Arthur has to play the Doctor. In a multi-Doctor story with Jodie, that also happens to film on their birthday. Because Jodie is a weirdo, and I absolutely love the birthday photo of her on the location shoot in South Africa her first year.
He basically did play the Doctor in Legends of Tomorrow.
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