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Who do you think/want to be in the 50th Anniversary Episode(s)?
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I hope the story revolves around the Doctor fighting the Daleks again - I know it's predictable but they are the Doctor's biggest enemy and it would be a great 'celebration'. However, I think Asylum of the Daleks has ruined this idea slightly as I'd envisioned the Daleks launching a full scale war against the Doctor which they can't do if they don't remember him!:p
But I get the feeling that maybe Moffat will use his idea of creating a Who universve, like in The Pandorica Opens and A Good Man Goes To War where we see a lot of different characters/villains but they are sort of cameos rather than playing a pivotal role in the plot.
In terms of the Doctor's companions, I'd love to see the Doctor, Jenna (Clara/Oswin/Whoever) and River face the enemy. Obviously the Doctor and his current companion are a given, but as much as I love River I don't know if she'd be seen as 'special' or 'important' enough to appear in the milestone episode.
I hope the story revolves around the Doctor fighting the Daleks again - I know it's predictable but they are the Doctor's biggest enemy and it would be a great 'celebration'. However, I think Asylum of the Daleks has ruined this idea slightly as I'd envisioned the Daleks launching a full scale war against the Doctor which they can't do if they don't remember him!:p
But I get the feeling that maybe Moffat will use his idea of creating a Who universve, like in The Pandorica Opens and A Good Man Goes To War where we see a lot of different characters/villains but they are sort of cameos rather than playing a pivotal role in the plot.
In terms of the Doctor's companions, I'd love to see the Doctor, Jenna (Clara/Oswin/Whoever) and River face the enemy. Obviously the Doctor and his current companion are a given, but as much as I love River I don't know if she'd be seen as 'special' or 'important' enough to appear in the milestone episode.
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I'd like to see them do it old style - half hour, several episodes, lots of cliff-hangers but put it on over one week.
So I expect clips within episodes. And references back. Maybe visiting old planets he had visited before.
Obviously I want every actor who has ever been in it to appear!!!
As we usually have 13 episodes and, if it were to return to the classic series format in which there were double the amount of episodes, I think it would be best if each Doctor got at least 1 episode, however it might become monotonous if he just kept revisiting old Doctors/stories/monsters. There'd have to be other stuff going on in which 12 can get stuck in i.e. another story going on at the time which the past Doctors had been completely unaware of. It would also be good if they had new stuff in which past Doctors are involved but we've not seen before e.g. you could get around the issue of casting two of the dead Doctor's by having a young 1, maybe he's at the acadamy, just like another stuck up Time Lord, and needs 12 to show him who he'll become. And we could meet a season 6b 2nd Doctor which would explain certain continuity errors and give us the interesting phenomenon of a halfway regenerated Doctor i.e. between 2 and 3. Also, with 8 who HAS to come back, we have to have the end of the time war with the war being timelocked, the destruction of Gallifrey and the regeneration from 8-9. There are still pressing questions involving the time war i.e. did it change history and what happened in the classic series (which would provide some wonderful story oppurtunities with classic Doctors being able to return proper), is all of Gallifrey's history erased/timelocked (whatever time the Doctor visits there is no Gallifrey, it only seems to exist for classic series Doctors, like it's in another timeline), and if so, how can the Doctor exist? Cos he's the one who did it?
I'd touch on something very similar to this.
Something like, The Meddling Monk has caused a 'Time Fracture' across 5 points in the Doctor's own Time Line. Going against everything that has ever been stated before, for the sake of the known Universes, The Doctor has NO other choice but to go back on his own timeline and recorrect his history. Thus, we get revisits to major, classic points in Who history. But with 11th.
Those familiar with Classic would love it, those familiar with Nu would still enjoy seeing 11th visiting (new to them) stories.
Kind of a 'Quantum Leap' meets 'Doctor Who' maybe.
The companion could make a devastating error, which in turn, forces an old incarnation of The Doctor to regenerate early. Thus, setting the whole of The Doctor's future timeline in jeopardy. 11th begins to exist / not exist and maybe flitters between 10th and 11th during a couple of episodes. (if done as a serial like classic)
Thoughts?
We have Stolen Earth/Journey's End as a precedent for this. While on the whole I think RTD got it right, there were lengthy scenes where characters are left standing around listening to Davros' monologues or for other narrative strands to progress.
Also, I think we need to give up on the the idea of the 1st and 2nd doctors being recast. Yes, Richard Hurndall didn't do a bad job, but I still don't still don't see the appeal - particularly with the irreplaceable Troughton. It terms of representing their respective eras we need to look for alternatives on this front.
No to the Time War. RTD said no. Moffat said no. My goldfish says no, and the list goes on. It isn't going to happen. At the very most, we can hope for a peripheral event (As the End Of Time was described).
My idea for the 50th would be to take a leaf out of comicbook crossovers. I would have the story line be centered on a massive event so huge that it goes across all platforms. What I mean by that is that the anniversary episode serves as the epicenter of the event, which then ripples out to the other media - so all the Novels, Big Finish releases, comic strips all carry the Anniversary Title as banner title. By doing this all doctors and companions can be included without necessarily having to squeeze into the TV episode.
And talking of squeezing, can you imagine future anniversaries? the 60th the 100th? Year by year the number of characters mount up and up; there has to be a point where characters just have to be left out to save time!
Ian Chersterton.
Carole Ann Ford.
Ian Chesterton.
And Totters Lane.
Eccleston
No Tennant.
Tennant's doctor (and Rose) are easily the most likely characters to turn up. Well apart from Amy & Rory if we're counting them as past characters at that point.
I would love William Russell to be in it.
I would like to see The Doctor try to meet up with his former companions (in a meaningful way - so providing there is plenty of time allotted). Including returning to the junkyard to reunite with Carole Ann Ford and William Russell (<- although, they would have to deal with the SJA reports that Ian hasn't aged).
It would also be an opportunity for The Doctor to say farewell to Sarah Jane should they choose to do so, as The Wedding of River Song did for the Brigadier.
I'm not saying lets have every surviving companion on screen at the same time. But it would be a better way to answer "The Question" than some straight up answer such as his name.
Just my thoughts.
I want Tom Baker back as the Fourth Doctor in a proper starring role!
I was doing so well up until the BIB.
Surely if anything companions are easier as presumably most of them are still alive and it can easily be explained why they've aged (like SJS or Katy Manning in SJA)
To be honest I'd just be happy with a show which harks back to the classic stories and includes an appearance by Captain Jack.
^^^^^ This...
You can make the rest up......
It just proves that there are ways to bring back the old Doctors, anyting is possible.
Equally, something that Classic Who has had (maybe too often), but NuWho has never had, is a multi-doctor story (I really don't count Children In Need). I'd love to see this, 8 (he's Nu enough for me!) 9, 10 and 11. It can be proper 10, not parallel universe DoctorDonna human 10. Because, well, it's sci-fi, so it can happen.
So then I'd like to whisk these two thoughts together, and have a NuWho multi-doctor story with classic companions. In a properly perilous situation, 10 and 11 remembering just how awful past events had been in their life, 8 and 9 screaming "you don't know man, you weren't there! Well, not like I was there!"
Oh, and Lucie Miller. Obviously Lucie Miller.
It doesn't have to be original methinks. If Christopher Eccleston came out and said: "These are my replacements? A dandy and a clown" it would probably be the greatest thing ever.
Yeah that was a want list, not a think list
I think it'd be a major shock if Tennant wasn't in it to be honest; I think most people would consider it a disappointment if he wasn't and the beeb know that. I'd guess he'll be in it and likely a major part, not a cameo.