Should Tennat have been aged...?

[Morpheus 02]

Sorry to drop in as a casual fan.

But i wa swondering -- do you think Tennnant's Doctor should have been aged before he re-generated?

i am going on the theory that there will be muchmore Dr. Who in the far future....and having an older Doctor now make it easier & plausible for another Doctor gathering in the future.

Certainly, Paul McGann could be brought back at any time, and look as old as reasonable plausible/possible.

Just my thoughts...

 

[wamdue]

this was much discussed by fandom, and its an idea I liked, Story wise however it might not have worked, also its an extra cost for the make up, and time in the chair etc etc to keep fanboys happy.

 

[David cgc]

I didn't have to be anything drastic. Dyeing his hair so it was a little salt-and-pepper probably would've been plenty.

 

[Mitty]

It's almost a given that any 10/11 eps in the future will almost certainly feature 10.5 from Pete's World so that there is no "causal nexus" type problems. Also that allows for Tennant to age, so that even if he wanted to play the role again in 10-20 years, it will be perfectly believable! The idea of 10.5 was a big gift to Tennant and his career.

 

[23skidoo]

I don't think aging him was necessary, as we had return appearances by Patrick Troughton, Peter Davison and Jon Pertwee years after they left and they never bothered.

Moffat covered the aging issue off in Time Crash by suggesting "time differential" or something like that can make the Doctor look older than he really is under certain circumstances.

I do think they did hogtie the Tenth Doctor a bit by stating his age as 906, though, which means he was the Doctor for only 6 years, apparently, which makes it difficult to, say, sneak in 100 extra years of life somewhere...

Alex

 

[davejames]

Speaking of age, I was amazed at how freakin young Tennant looked in those early clips they showed in the last Confidential. I know it's only been 3 or 4 years, but I swear it looks like it's been longer than that.

Still though, he looks pretty damn good for 38. It shouldn't be that hard buying him as the Doctor in some future anniversary show.

 

[wamdue]

high stress job apparntly, its the same for PMs & Presidents

 

[Marc]

I do think they did hogtie the Tenth Doctor a bit by stating his age as 906, though, which means he was the Doctor for only 6 years, apparently, which makes it difficult to, say, sneak in 100 extra years of life somewhere...

Alex

I dunno - the Doctor's age has alwasy jumped around a bit and it's never bothered things.

 

[DimesDan]

high stress job apparntly, its the same for PMs & Presidents

Are you seriously comparing an actors job to that of a President or a Prime Minister?

 

[wamdue]

high stress job apparntly, its the same for PMs & Presidents

Are you seriously comparing an actors job to that of a President or a Prime Minister?

that is why I added "apparntly"

 

[David cgc]

high stress job apparntly, its the same for PMs & Presidents

Are you seriously comparing an actors job to that of a President or a Prime Minister?

Well, on an hourly basis, and in terms of people yelling at you at work and trying to grab your ass when you're off...

 

[DimesDan]

high stress job apparently, its the same for PMs & Presidents

Are you seriously comparing an actors job to that of a President or a Prime Minister?

that is why I added "apparently"

Yes I see and I saw earlier, yet you are comparing the two which to me is exceptionally laughable and down right stupid.

Oh and I fixed those pesky spelling errors for you.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

Perhaps not as stressful as a high-ranking official, but being the lead of a series entails long hours and is very demanding on an actor.

 

[Bones2]

I don't think aging him was necessary, as we had return appearances by Patrick Troughton, Peter Davison and Jon Pertwee years after they left and they never bothered.

Moffat covered the aging issue off in Time Crash by suggesting "time differential" or something like that can make the Doctor look older than he really is under certain circumstances.

I do think they did hogtie the Tenth Doctor a bit by stating his age as 906, though, which means he was the Doctor for only 6 years, apparently, which makes it difficult to, say, sneak in 100 extra years of life somewhere...

Alex

I've got a theory that the Doctor's been lying about his age since Eccleston. Didn't Sly McCoy give his age as over 900 in one of his eps? Maybe there's a little stigma in Time Lord society about being over 1000.

 

[The Castellan]

I don't think aging him was necessary, as we had return appearances by Patrick Troughton, Peter Davison and Jon Pertwee years after they left and they never bothered.

Moffat covered the aging issue off in Time Crash by suggesting "time differential" or something like that can make the Doctor look older than he really is under certain circumstances.

I do think they did hogtie the Tenth Doctor a bit by stating his age as 906, though, which means he was the Doctor for only 6 years, apparently, which makes it difficult to, say, sneak in 100 extra years of life somewhere...

Alex

I've got a theory that the Doctor's been lying about his age since Eccleston. Didn't Sly McCoy give his age as over 900 in one of his eps? Maybe there's a little stigma in Time Lord society about being over 1000.

He is.

In the 1986 Colin Baker story, Trial of a Timelord, the Doctor said he was 900. No way in hell did he regenerate another 3 times in one year. I think he just did not wanna feel old around Rose and 900's rather young for Timelords. In The Deadly Assassin, one Timelord said he remembered the inauguration of a President named Pandack III, who's presidentcy lasted 900 years alone. And so that aforementioned Timelord had to be probably at least 1,000, though probably alot more. And who knows how old Pandack was when he became president, but I'm guessing he could be easily pushing 2,000 or more. Therefore, I doubt there's any stigmas about being over 1,000. Who knows how old one can be to trigger regeneration from old age...if it even happens, since Doc #2 said they are immorital, baring accidents. So it's possible that there are Timelords who are well over 1,000, and still have yet to regenerate, I bet.

Anyhow, the Doc's lying about his age.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Indeed. I'm a firm believer that The Tenth Doctor has been lying about his age. I wouldn't quite put up at 2000, but I would say he's ~1200. Romana said The Doctor was 759 and piloting the TARDIS for 523 years in The Ribos Operation. Add the difference (236) to The Ninth Doctor's "Nine hundred years of phone box travel and it's the only thing left that surprises me" ("The Empty Child" when Rose wanders off and gets into trouble) and you get 1136 as of Series 1. I would say quite a bit of time has occured since then, especially between Series 2 & 3, Series 3 & 4, and during Series 4.5.