It's sad to say but I couldn't really be excited even for Eccleston coming back given the writing quality, it would be wasted on this.
They brought Rassilon back, who was in 25th anniversary, 5 doctors. Cheating but I think the Dreamlord was Valeyard.Kidding aside, this season would be a lot more coherent if the Doctor did try and find any remaining Time Lords that we've seen over the years. I'm still surprised none of the nuWho producers have bothered to bring back anyone besides the Master.
Kidding aside, this season would be a lot more coherent if the Doctor did try and find any remaining Time Lords that we've seen over the years. I'm still surprised none of the nuWho producers have bothered to bring back anyone besides the Master.
In real terms it's because practically every other time lord in the classic series bar the Master was a terrible drag on the show, except for Romana - but then because Romana was a companion who therefore needed to constantly prompt the doctor for exposition she was made into a 'junior', learning time lord... Which didn't make her much different to any human companion.
Only if the plot twist is that Lynda with a Y is alive and well.Is now the time for them to bring back Adam from series one?! At last, the follow up to The Long Game...!!!
Hasn't it been thousands of years since the Doctor last met Romana?
Eccelston is more of a headline though. There isn't as much as a novelty at seeing Tennant again, as popular as he was, since he was in the 50th. I would just offer to Ecclelston the choice of director, whatever, hopefully they could successfully pander to him. Both would be ideal.I think Tennant is the most likely one, honestly. It's "too soon" for Capaldi, Eccleston still has an iffy relationship with the show, and Smith seems to still be focused on trying to break Hollywood where Tennant has given up on that and come back to UK TV, probably because he has young UK-based children.
Plus, Tennant ticks all the boxes - Chibnall wrote for him in the RTD era, they are mates from broadchurch, and while they all pretty much know each other, he's the one that's closest to Whittaker. Who did she phone when she got the role to talk about it? Tennant. And, of course, he's the most popular modern Doctor, so if they do want to smash the multi-doctor emergency glass for ratings, Tennant is the one you'd grab.
Eccelston is more of a headline though. There isn't as much as a novelty at seeing Tennant again, as popular as he was, since he was in the 50th. I would just offer to Ecclelston the choice of director, whatever, hopefully they could successfully pander to him. Both would be ideal.
I think Eccleston is only "more of a headline" in certain online circles. Tennant I think is still the most popular modern Doctor (they just did a whole theatrical screening for The End of Time last summer to mark the 10-year anniversary of his leaving the show). There will always be a huge amount of novelty to seeing Tennant on screen again. It's not like the 50th just happened. If Tennant were to return for a guest spot the earliest it would happen is next year, a full 8 years after the 50th — twice as much time as there'd been between his regeneration and the 50th.Eccelston is more of a headline though. There isn't as much as a novelty at seeing Tennant again, as popular as he was, since he was in the 50th. I would just offer to Ecclelston the choice of director, whatever, hopefully they could successfully pander to him. Both would be ideal.
I think you shouldn't too easily use the Tennant card, make it an event and it's hard to do another day of the doctor.I think Eccleston is only "more of a headline" in certain online circles. Tennant I think is still the most popular modern Doctor (they just did a whole theatrical screening for The End of Time last summer to mark the 10-year anniversary of his leaving the show). There will always be a huge amount of novelty to seeing Tennant on screen again. It's not like the 50th just happened. If Tennant were to return for a guest spot the earliest it would happen is next year, a full 8 years after the 50th — twice as much time as there'd been between his regeneration and the 50th.
Tennant also, for multiple reasons, would be way more agreeable to return if given the offer. Eccleston wouldn't be a sure thing and would probably take a lot of cajoling. Tennant would say yes in a heartbeat if Chibnall or Jodie texted him and asked if he'd play an episode.
I think you shouldn't too easily use the Tennant card, make it an event and it's hard to do another day of the doctor.
Day of the Doctor was effectively a two Doctor team-up (I loved Hurt in it but he was functionally a new character). They could one-up that easily with three or four or five Doctors for the next anniversary. There's also no guarantee that there will be a multi-Doctor anniversary for the 60th either! In fact, depending on production schedules and whether or not the BBC passes the showrunner baton to someone else around then (Chibs has talked about having a five year plan, which would peg the end of his tenure at 2022), there's no guarantee any Doctor Who will even be on tv in 2023...I think you shouldn't too easily use the Tennant card, make it an event and it's hard to do another day of the doctor.
I think they should use Tennant to help transition the next reboot, and hope people remember the show is on.An interesting touch to note, btw - Toisin (Ryan) has been cast in a big US TV thing, a 'two season event' - 8 episodes per season. He's one of the leads. It's not a small role. So I wonder if he'll be sticking around into next year. Obviously schedules can be worked around, especially with only 8 episodes, but this is going to be him filming an 11 hour flight away for a significant portion of time...
The show has done this before, just not in the modern series. In classic over time multi-doctor became less of an 'event', and the more years we go the more likely this will happen again. In truth, I think the first step towards that was multi-master, with the return of one of UK TV's most well-liked actors, being played quite quietly with little fanfare.
It's time to get a new TARDIS team anywayAn interesting touch to note, btw - Toisin (Ryan) has been cast in a big US TV thing, a 'two season event' - 8 episodes per season. He's one of the leads. It's not a small role. So I wonder if he'll be sticking around into next year. Obviously schedules can be worked around, especially with only 8 episodes, but this is going to be him filming an 11 hour flight away for a significant portion of time...
23 year old Sam Walker, a teaching assistant from London whose marriage has fallen apart and needs a getaway. Played by David Tennant.
Gonna need some real life time travel to have Tennant playing a 23 year old lol23 year old Sam Walker, a teaching assistant from London whose marriage has fallen apart and needs a getaway. Played by David Tennant.
DeepFake his face!Gonna need some real life time travel to have Tennant playing a 23 year old lol
Did I mention his character was going through a rough divorce?Gonna need some real life time travel to have Tennant playing a 23 year old lol
Realistically they'll do their best with makeup then just not address it. Tennant looks really young for his age, but dude is pushing 50 now.DeepFake his face!
It's gonna be necessary for future multi-doctor specials anyway.
The roughest divorce lolDid I mention his character was going through a rough divorce?
It's probably the damn Cybermen. They always seem to think the Cybermen are way more hype than they are.
I would like to see a regeneration kept under wraps for once, that people only find out about during the ep, and that's how they're introduced to a new Doctor.
People have been asking this for pretty much every season since the reboot started, but it would be an absolute logistical nightmare unless it was done in a secret scene in the season finale. Doing it in the middle of a season is functionally impossible.
The only way you could make it work is by Trojan Horsing the actor in the way they did Jenna in S7 - bring them in as a seemingly unrelated character and then reveal they're a future Doctor incarnation in a later episode when the current Doctor regenerates unexpectedly.
Doctor Who has a habit of bringing in guests stars, so wouldn't it be possible to have him/her just in the regeneration ep, and let people wrongly assume that they'll be a guest star?
Also, afaik, no one knew that Sacha Dhawan was playing the Master, or have I got that wrong?
I was gonna say that the problem is still there as they'd probably have to start filming the new Doctor's series before the finale airs, but then remembered that with Chibnall's one series every two years, it's no problem at all.What about the episodes after the regeneration? How would you explain around filming a show without its primary actor for weeks at a time? People would figure out the Doctor has been replaced pretty quickly.
This is why it would have to be the season finale. No episodes after the regeneration to blow the surprise.
Jenna had already been announced when she appeared in the episode though - people just weren't expecting her to be in it that early as she was supposed to be taking over from Karen and Arthur.The only way you could make it work is by Trojan Horsing the actor in the way they did Jenna in S7 - bring them in as a seemingly unrelated character and then reveal they're a future Doctor incarnation in a later episode when the current Doctor regenerates unexpectedly.
What about the episodes after the regeneration? How would you explain around filming a show without its primary actor for weeks at a time? People would figure out the Doctor has been replaced pretty quickly.
This is why it would have to be the season finale. No episodes after the regeneration to blow the surprise.
Yeah sorry, my mistake: I should've clarified that I did mean series finale.
Yeah. That would be the only way to do it and as the BBC proved with the John Simm thing, they're not great at keeping secrets.
Doctor Who has a habit of bringing in guests stars, so wouldn't it be possible to have him/her just in the regeneration ep, and let people wrongly assume that they'll be a guest star?
Also, afaik, no one knew that Sacha Dhawan was playing the Master, or have I got that wrong?