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Who else could have played 'The Moment'?
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Steven Moffat has said that they always wanted Billie to play the moment as she is a 'hero' of Doctor Who, but that they also had 'other options' if she declined the role.
So, who do you think they might have tried to play the role if Billie had said no? Rose was a good choice for a number of reasons: 'reunion' with 10, the Bad Wolf, her importance to the 9th Doctor, the face of the programme's revival....
But who would you guess they would have tried to play the role if Billie declined?
So, who do you think they might have tried to play the role if Billie had said no? Rose was a good choice for a number of reasons: 'reunion' with 10, the Bad Wolf, her importance to the 9th Doctor, the face of the programme's revival....
But who would you guess they would have tried to play the role if Billie declined?
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He lives in New Zealand so he could have kept Sylvester company on the flight over.
Suranne Jones. I can imagine her having a similar rapport with Hurt.
Alex Kingston might have undermined her appearance as a vision in the previous episode.
I think Rose worked perfectly though. My 'fanon' interpretation is not that The Moment spontaneously developed a conscience, but the all seeing Bad Wolf planted one within it: "I create myself". In a roundabout way, she saves the Doctor and ends the Time War in more ways than depicted in The Parting of the Ways.
THIS IS THE CORRECT ANSWER.
Catherine Tate would've been great too.
That would have been brilliant.
Get out. Get out now. Run for your life.
If it needed to be funny, a scene with Catherine Tate. If it needed to get the Doctor emotional, a scene with Carole Ann Ford. If it needed to be foreboding then a scene with Rose as the Bad Wolf. Little lines could have been delivered from appropriate companions...it could have appeared as Jo Grant when it said to the Doctor that he'd left his TARDIS very far behind, before making a reference to how far Jo Grant has gone in her life as an explorer.
It really was a missed opportunity. Billie did an absolutely fantastic job and she was a thrill to watch, but that doesn't excuse the fact that The Moment could have been something so much more emotionally and dramatically poignant. We had 75 minutes to play with...there was more than enough room for it.
But isn't it sort of the same problem as why the Classic Doctors would look out of place if they had reprised their roles. Why would the moment choose to appear as aged versions of previous companions?
I would agree with that, until the point that they had Tom Baker appear as The Curator. At the end of the day it doesn't matter if he's playing The Doctor or not, it's just a nice 50th nod to see him - and the fans loved that scene!
Having an entity that isn't playing the companions themselves was the ultimate opportunity (minor technobabble aside) to bring more on board with many former companions returning to Earth who would have aged naturally anyway. It just seemed an opportunity missed is all - I'm not even a particular fan of Tom Baker as The Doctor, but thought that the scene with him was absolutely wonderful all the same.
I would consider in an opposing argument that maybe the story didn't warrant the faces of so many former companions, but on a story-oriented basis it also didn't warrant having The Moment take the face of a companion that The Doctor hadn't even met yet. Again, Billie pulled a blinder and did it wonderfully but it could have all been so much more than it was, I think
I loved that scene too. It's a toss up between Tom Baker or Peter Capaldi's eyebrows stealing the show as far as I'm concerned but it worked because Tom was the only one. The scene would have lost all impact if they had got all of the Doctors back one after another. It also worked because Tom wasn't reprising his role as the fourth Doctor as such.
If I had to pick one aged companion, then I would go for Susan but I don't think Carole Ann Ford has even acted in years has she?
Initially I thought that it was a wasted opportunity not to have Ian Chesterton appearing in a scene with Clara at the school but then I remembered the line in Sarah Jane Adventures about Ian and Barbara not having aged since the 1960's and I thought actually it's so much nicer to think of Ian and Barbara running around somewhere eternally youthful.
That would have been a great idea.
Why Jack?
I still feel her ending was so unjust (possibly what makes her such a great over all companion) seeing her one more time being the Donna a lot of us changed our opinions on drastically, the brilliant, quick, funny and genuine character she played through her pepper series.
I like the idea of the flicking between companions, even as just a starting point, however unless they did some good usage of old footage to interlink old and new companions, having them all in the same sort of quality and color etc, it would have been blatantly missing out on Sarah Jane, so I'd rather have just had Rose as we got, or Donna I think rather than either bringing back a lot of companions but missing out such a key one or use of sub standard effects in order to include older ones in their"companion" era rather than now and aged.
.....Isn't that what actualy happened?
In fact she did