Why does there seem to be a bias against Sean Pertwee?

[Captaindemotion]

Their voices are utterly different. Jon had a soft voice, almost lisping, Sean's is quite raspy.

 

[starsuperion]

Still, I think Sean would make a great 13th/14th doctor and I don't and would not expect him to play his father, just be his own doctor..I don't know why anyone, including Sean would expect he would have to play a retread of his father anyways? I mean just because he is his son, and looks a lot like him, though not exactly, why is there this inherent and automatic assumption that he would have to reprise his father's role? That is part of the Bias I was thinking about as well. So maybe there is no bias against him being the doctor by the BBC, but what about assumed bias that if he did play the role, that he would automatically have to do it the way his father did before him? Yes, of course there would be some comparisons done through the media and with Fans, but honestly they are two different people, and they are different in their acting styles, so why the automatic assumption that he would have to necessarily play his father's Doctor? One just needs reread the comments in this thread to see that line of thinking automatically take hold and follow a straight line.

I mean, I could be wrong, but do any of you see the bias in that at all?? Why is it automatically assumed he would play a doctor like his father?

 

[Captaindemotion]

I'm not really sure I understand your question any more. Is the bias that they've refused to cast him as the Doctor or is that people expect him to just reprise the Third Doctor?

Either way, I don't view it as 'bias.' He just isn't what they seem to be looking for or at least hasn't been what they've looked for to date. We all have people we imagine would he good as The Doctor. But there are many actors and only so many can play the role.

 

[DWF]

I can't see any bias either, he doesn't want the part and they simply hasn't asked him again if they've asked him in the first place.

 

[Doctorwhovian]

I actually think David Troughton bears a greater resemblance (Although bald) to his father than Sean does to his. At least now he does-he looked very different in War Games and Curse Of Peladon.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I mean, I could be wrong, but do any of you see the bias in that at all?? Why is it automatically assumed he would play a doctor like his father?

I don't think anyone assumes he would play a Doctor like his father. Why should he be the Doctor, though? It sounds like you think he should receive special treatment, not that he's receiving unfair treatment.

 

[diankra]

Yes, Cap Dem has it there. Aside from the general reluctance many of us feel about recasting the earlier Doctors full-stop (it would be like telling the next James Bond or Sherlock Holmes that as they're remaking Thunderball or Baskervilles they have to imitate Connery or Rathbone/Cushing rather than playing the role their own way: some would say that The Five Doctors is proof of why this is a bad idea, as Hurndall is far more like Hartnell in The Power Game and Blake's 7 than he is in that; in the same vein, the weakest moments of David Troughton's audio 2nd Doctor are when he's trying to do a direct imitation 'Oh my giddy aunt' and all that, he's far better when he sounds less like his father, but somehow captures the style better), the biggest resemblance between Sean and Jon Pertwee is their surname; they are very very different as actors.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

I actually think David Troughton bears a greater resemblance (Although bald) to his father than Sean does to his. At least now he does-he looked very different in War Games and Curse Of Peladon.

Yes. And now Sam looks a lot like David did back in "The Curse of Peladon." I keep hoping they'll do a new Peladon story with Sam as the new king.

But those Troughtons sure seem to make an odd transformation as they age.

Sean Pertwee kinda has the same twinkle in his eye when he smiles but gives off very different vibes. Sean seems like a harder man than Jon. Honestly, I can't see him as the Doctor but I think it would be great if they cast him as the new Brigadier.

 

[Joel_Kirk]

Based on the roles I've seen him in, I see Sean Pertwee portraying a darker Doctor....and I know that term 'dark' has been thrown around a lot when new or hypothetical actors are talked about. For me, it's a Doctor who is more serious than the Chris Eccleston version - the darkest Doctor, I think we've had - and more dramatic.

 

[Sindatur]

Based on the roles I've seen him in, I see Sean Pertwee portraying a darker Doctor....and I know that term 'dark' has been thrown around a lot when new or hypothetical actors are talked about. For me, it's a Doctor who is more serious than the Chris Eccleston version - the darkest Doctor, I think we've had - and more dramatic.

Nah, Eccelston isn't the darkest. Check out Hartnell first Serial or McCoy's 2nd and 3rd Series. Eccelston gave off a gruff vibe, but, was really a pussycat. Hartnell, kidnapped Barbara and Ian, iknowing he had no way to return them to their own time, and was about to smash a cave man's head in with a rock, before he was stopped. McCoy was a master manipulator and did some pretty messed up stuff, including to Ace. For that matter, even though Smith was all Unicorns and rainbows on the surface, he took some very dark actions

 

[Starkers]

For all the gruff geezer tough guy roles he plays, I've seen Pertwee play wussy and effete before now.

That said, I think there's more chance of the person he was talking to at the start of The Fiveish Doctors playing the Doctor before Sean does