Hurt's incarnation confirmed (SPOILER)
Digital Sid
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Between McGann and Eccleston according to the show's costume designer when speaking to Prince Charles, so as initially rumoured:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/prince-charles/10157321/Doctor-Whos-new-adversary-the-Prince-of-Wales.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/prince-charles/10157321/Doctor-Whos-new-adversary-the-Prince-of-Wales.html
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Still very disappointed Eccleston isn't involved, especially after this
Especially if it means McGann has to come back and do some linking material...
Oh dear.....a Doctor between 8 and 9. Oh dear...
Will be interesting to see in November.
They mean confirmed as number 9. He could have been the first doctor, between Troughton and Pertwee, the Valeyard etc etc etc.
Yeah. Imagine a talented writer being brave enough to add to the folklore of the show rather than being a slave to the past. Because Doctor Who was exactly the same show from Hartnell through to Smith with no changes or additions to the mythology. Oh dear indeed.
I also feel it gives things a bit of a shake but without messing with the past/classic who too much.
...okay, they obviously aren't going to cancel the show because of something mentioned a few times since The Deadly Assassin, but it means that the explanation of how the Doctor can regenerate more than twelve times will have to come sooner than we previously thought.
This also means the Valeyard is destined to rear his ugly pantomime head soon...hopefully they'll have the sense to ignores its existence (although Moffat did mention its name in the last episode...).
Even better would be if there's some resolution to the whole thing which means the number of Doctors isn't screwed with.
Nobody ever counts The Watcher as an incarnation of the Doctor yet he basically had an adventure of his own in Logopolis, flying the TARDIS picking up Nyssa from Traken etc...
So Mcgann becomes Hurt (ha) changes into Hurt who does his Thing before changing into Ecclescake.
Likely yet unlikely to be seen onscreen.
There will be no bumping of numbers, it will leave a mess. Remember Hurt wouldnt be in this were it not for Ecclestone not wanting to be involved.
Simply not true.
Indeed. If anything, Billie is covering for Eccles' absence.
I believe Eccleston's role was going to be rather small, and he himself said that it didn't add anything anything to his character, so he declined (don't have any sources for the mo, but I'm sure other people could back me up). You'd have thought that playing a part similar to Hurt's would certainly add depth to the character, which goes against Eccleston's reasoning.
I assume there was a catch 22 with Eccleston, in that there was no point writing him a substantial part before he agreed to take part, but he wouldn't say yes without a substantial role.
And perhaps erased from history itself. Remember that 11 and Clara are currently messing about in the Doctor's very timeline itself and could theoretically alter many things whilst they're there.
We've not had anything more spoiled than we already knew, surely? But I would like a glimpse of the Time War.
As with all things Eccleston, the events have been timelocked.
While I am sure he meant/did not mean to do the small/large/insignificant/comedic/tragic part in the 50th, he both regrets/looks forward to being/not being in the anniversary episode.
Bored with all that, staff went and hired Hurt. He will play the Doctor.
I'm pleased Eccles isn't in it, he's a prissy little thing, I'm sure it will do far better without his input, and I look forward to Chris sitting behind a wallpaper pasting table fligging his signature for twenty quid, and his photo for forty in a few years time when the work dries up