Why no spinoffs under moffat?
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What would Doctor Who do in Lord of the Rings? Take Frodo in the TARDIS to drop him off at Mount Doom?
I'm sure Mt. Doom is a fixed point in time.
What would Doctor Who do in Lord of the Rings? Take Frodo in the TARDIS to drop him off at Mount Doom?
Like RoJoHen, that's probably a fixed point. I could see the Doctor at Helm's Deep, or maybe he's skulking around Barad-Dur. Or he was in the north, keeping Sauron from summoning armies from that region. Or he's Tom Bombadil.
I have an easier time fitting the Doctor into the Second Age. I imagine he could have helped Elendil and his family escape the drowning of Numenor. He may have cautioned Ar-Pharazon to not listen to Sauron.
What would Doctor Who do in Lord of the Rings? Take Frodo in the TARDIS to drop him off at Mount Doom?
You don't think "Gandalf" was the guy's real name, do you?
The fact that he is a good wizard should have clued you in!!!
And then the whole dying and regenerating bit... come on!
What would Doctor Who do in Lord of the Rings? Take Frodo in the TARDIS to drop him off at Mount Doom?
One does not simply materialize into Mordor.
I thought the Doctor used the name "Radagast" on Middle-Earth.What would Doctor Who do in Lord of the Rings? Take Frodo in the TARDIS to drop him off at Mount Doom?
You don't think "Gandalf" was the guy's real name, do you?
The fact that he is a good wizard should have clued you in!!!
And then the whole dying and regenerating bit... come on!
Mount Doom being a fixed point wouldn't stop the Doctor from transporting them there, he could just jump ahead slightly in time and it would all correspond exactly. Fixed points don't have to be resolved in exactly the right way (see Waters of Mars).
However, I could see the TARDIS having problems transporting the ring. I'd imagine it would screw up the navigational sensors or something like that.
However, I could see the TARDIS having problems transporting the ring. I'd imagine it would screw up the navigational sensors or something like that.
The Two Doctors, maybe?I thought the Doctor used the name "Radagast" on Middle-Earth.What would Doctor Who do in Lord of the Rings? Take Frodo in the TARDIS to drop him off at Mount Doom?
You don't think "Gandalf" was the guy's real name, do you?
The fact that he is a good wizard should have clued you in!!!
And then the whole dying and regenerating bit... come on!
I have an idea which has been rattling around in my head for a while (ever since The End of Time but thought about it again after watching The Day of the Doctor) about a single, self-contained, seven-part spin off series:
Rassilon wants Gallifrey back in the main universe so he starts experimenting with ways to do so. He figures out a process of sending someone into our universe but it's extremely unstable and very few attempts are successful - so he starts sending prisoners as they're expendable.
One such prisoner - a Time Lady - successfully makes it through and sets about working to bring Gallifrey back, and teams up with a UNIT (Torchwood?) agent to help. Her methods are unorthodox and isn't afraid to break a few eggs to get what she wants. She's more like the Master than the Doctor, but knows she must - at least for now - rely on UNIT / Torchwood to survive and achieve her goal.
At the end of the first episode however she regenerates despite not being injured - then explains that she can't control them. She has a clock grafted onto her arm that will trigger at set intervals. It was put in place to ensure the prisoners simply don't try to run when they successfully make it through. The clock will be removed by Rassilon if she succeeds in restoring Gallifrey. The quick succession of regenerations is leaving her more and more unstable however. Rassilon wanted quick results and so has only given her six regenerations to work with.
Over the course of the series she discovers the rebirth of Gallifrey will result in the death of the Earth, and has to decide which is more important to her. She will also find other prisoners have also made it through and as her conscience changes must decide whose side she's really on.
Seven episodes. Seven incarnations. (I chose seven episodes because I wanted it to feel like the old seven-part stories that appeared in the Hartnell / Troughton / Pertwee eras.)
Can't decide whether to kill her off at the end of the show or she somehow acquires another 12 regenerations and sods off into hiding. Might work a fanfic out of it someday.
Rassilon wants Gallifrey back in the main universe so he starts experimenting with ways to do so. He figures out a process of sending someone into our universe but it's extremely unstable and very few attempts are successful - so he starts sending prisoners as they're expendable.
One such prisoner - a Time Lady - successfully makes it through and sets about working to bring Gallifrey back, and teams up with a UNIT (Torchwood?) agent to help. Her methods are unorthodox and isn't afraid to break a few eggs to get what she wants. She's more like the Master than the Doctor, but knows she must - at least for now - rely on UNIT / Torchwood to survive and achieve her goal.
At the end of the first episode however she regenerates despite not being injured - then explains that she can't control them. She has a clock grafted onto her arm that will trigger at set intervals. It was put in place to ensure the prisoners simply don't try to run when they successfully make it through. The clock will be removed by Rassilon if she succeeds in restoring Gallifrey. The quick succession of regenerations is leaving her more and more unstable however. Rassilon wanted quick results and so has only given her six regenerations to work with.
Over the course of the series she discovers the rebirth of Gallifrey will result in the death of the Earth, and has to decide which is more important to her. She will also find other prisoners have also made it through and as her conscience changes must decide whose side she's really on.
Seven episodes. Seven incarnations. (I chose seven episodes because I wanted it to feel like the old seven-part stories that appeared in the Hartnell / Troughton / Pertwee eras.)
Can't decide whether to kill her off at the end of the show or she somehow acquires another 12 regenerations and sods off into hiding. Might work a fanfic out of it someday.
Came here to say this,
Defend just England!?
Victoria would've been giving Torchwood Institute a small remit given she was Queen of the United Kingdom (of which England is just a part of) As well as Empress of the entire British Empire.
Also, wasn't she in Scotland (another constituent country of the the UK) at the time? Would be a bit weird to make it just for England.
Not to mention Torchwood has branches in Scotland and Wales, making it very clear their mandate is to defend the entire United Kingdom, not just England.
Yes. In one of the audio dramas that Radio 4 did to tie into Children of Earth, Jack and team go to India to work with the Torchwood branch there.
Don't we have enough Who spin offs already?
That's like asking "Isn't 50 years of Who enough?".
I think the people who want to see a Who spin-off or two are looking at the television landscape as it is now, where there's a dozen episodes of Doctor Who product at most per year and comparing to five years ago when there was more than double the amount of televised Doctor Who product. They would say, "No, we don't have enough, because right now we have only zero spin-offs on the air." They're looking for something to fill the gap in the times when the mothership proper isn't running.
If you had asked me that during the first series of Torchwood, I'd have said that we have too many spin-offs!
Mr Awe
Man I miss SJA in the worst way. Yeah it was a standard kiddie-show in the early series, and a bit hard to watch, but the last couple had some really good story-telling. Ever better than Who at times.
Now as for the subject at hand, I'd be happy with an occasional one-off Special, just to help pass those long months between series. Surely they'd be cheaper to produce then an entire series.
Now as for the subject at hand, I'd be happy with an occasional one-off Special, just to help pass those long months between series. Surely they'd be cheaper to produce then an entire series.
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You are aware that Lis Sladen (Sarah Jane) passed away, right?
Yeah, I think I heard something about that. :P
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