Because your original statement is usually reserved by the younger generation that perceives Capaldi's age to be positively ancient or in some extremes anyone over the age of 30. No offence intended btw.

No offense taken.

I have no shame and I can be very brash. I am just that way. (It was probably my New Orleans upbringing. I don't know of anybody from there with any shame at all.)

I suppose statistically every year you are closer to death than far away, but even so the idea that he 'might not be alive' didn't even come into my mind when considering whether he might return as it would be very unusual in this day and age in any developed country for someone to die of old age before 65 (the age he would be in 2023). Granted he could have an accident or disease, but then that's just as likely a possibility as any of the others.

I feel that he is actually the most likely to return, even maybe slightly more than Tennant, because for one I certainly expect him to still be with us, and given his enthusiasm for the role, you never know, he may even still be the current doctor then. Otherwise, given the 60th is only 8 years now, if he were to stay another 2 or 3 years at least it would have only been 5-6 years since he last was in the role.


I'm under 30 and I'm the one pointing out that 57 isn't exactly ancient so don't judge all us youngsters . Granted I struggle to imagine myself at that age but I know relatively speaking it isnt old old. In fact as age expectancy has risen I think that sort of age is more seen as practically upper middle age these days.

Here's what Peter Capaldi looks like to some people:

http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2...llForetold.jpg

It is upper middle age. This is my view on ages:

1-30: Youth: Your Spring, when you play and you sew your seeds for later harvesting.
31-60: Middle Age: Summer, when you do most of the work and see the longest days.
61-90: Old Age: Autumn, when you enjoy your harvest and things start to get colder.
91-120: Ancient and Lucky: Winter, when everything is cold and harsh.

Being 46, I am smack dab in the middle of Middle Age. Give me another decade and a half and I will be Old.

I obviously correspond the twelve decades of life to the twelve months of the year, and, hence, each quarter of that to one of the seasons. It just makes sense to me.

Anyways, that is just how I look at age and aging.

Davison would 100% return if they asked him (he made some angry comments at cons about losing out on the extra revenue he'd have got from being in the 50th).

Tennant I reckon would return again since he's such a huge fan. Ditto Capaldi, if he's not still in the role which he might be!

Eccleston, an outside chance. He'd consider it if it was a good script and director.

Smith, no idea.

Colin Baker and McGann, 50/50 whether they'd want to.

I doubt they would ask any Classic who doctors as they simply don't look anything like they did. I know they had a clever little explanation to get around that in time crash, but that was just because it was a little jokey sketch rather than a full anniversary episode they would want to be taken seriously.

Given the plot of the 50th and how they tried to imply all the doctors got involved, if they had thought it was a viable option to bring back classic doctors they would surely have done it then.

Mcgann is a maybe, because he obviously still looks the part, but again, I think if they had thought him relevant to the mainstream audience they would have put him in the 50th episode, but obviously it was their belief that his appearance would only be of Interest to die hard fans which is why he was excluded from the thing everyone would see, but for fans was put in his own little mini episode.

Similarly for davidson, Mc coy and C Baker, they still got to be in their own little thing for the interests of the die hard fans.


What I will say though, is that in what I think would be the unlikely scenario that they were asked, Given how Mc coy, both bakers, davidson and Mcgann all did their own little bit for the 50th, I'd think it likely they'd all be willing to return again if they could.

I'd say Matt Smith, David Tennant and Peter Capaldi are all certain returns. Chris is a bit more nebulous
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TBH, I think Matt holds as much love and affection for the role as Peter and David. When you see the way he interacts with fans, and hear some of the anecdotes about how he got tearey-eyed at the script reading, and passed the torch to Capaldi, its hard to imagine him not pouncing at the opportunity. Even if he's crazy busy with movies, I bet he'd set a day aside for a cameo at the very least.

As for his appearance, while its not something I take into consideration personally (no matter how altered, its the actor returning that counts) remember that he aged to death on Trenzalore, so there's that explaining already nipped in the bud.

Bar health, Davison, Baker and McCoy would definitly be game. They were waiting for the call at the 50th, and when that didn't come they started their own 50th anniversary episode... with Black Jack... and Hookers!

Paul McGann is the most in-demand on the Doctors, but he's just as enthusastic about the character as everyone else is thanks to the Big Finish work he's been doing. Same with Tom. Again, bar health, I certainly think he'd be up for it. He just LOVES being the Doctor.

Chris fretted over going back. He doesn't have as much of an emotional inclination to return as the others do, even if he does hold some affection for the role. The main gripe with the 50th was that he wanted to see a script before-hand, and since he couldn't do that, he just booked other work. Even David was only asked two weeks prior to filming*. But I wouldn't rule it out. He's just like a Hippogriff. You need to approach him with respect.

*(Feel free to correct me on any of this.)

John Hurt seemed like a one-time deal to me. He came, he Doctor'd, he death scnene'd. One-stop policy. And I'm not too sure he appreciated all focus the role drew. Kinda similar to Eccleston I think.

And while this isn't quite the same thing, I'd honestly accept David Bradley as the first Doctor. It's not a spot on impression or anything, but then neither was Richard Hurndall. Can't really think who would make a good replacement for Troughton And while asking him to play the role of his father might be insensitive, you can't deny the resemblance is uncanny - http://imgur.com/3t6cNpW

Who cares?

There's loads of explanations in the show available to explain why they look noticeably older. It is a non-issue.

It's not so much if they can issue a good explanation for their appearance as whether they actually think the Classic doctors are relevant.

You have to remember, when the show was brought back, they did as much to cater to the new audience as the old. That approach was successful and they brought in that new audience. As a result they've had to continue for every year since to cater to every fan which was brought in with Eccleston as well as getting in the classic series nod's also. Those who were brought in with new who (myself included) now make up a large part of the audience total. Obviously those of us who came on board at that time can watch Classic who (as I have watched odd stories from time to time) but from my point of view, watching old episodes, you can enjoy them for sure, but you never get the same connection with those doctors or that era as if you watched it when it was new or experienced a time when that doctor was the current incarnation.

Obviously I can't and am not pretending to speak for everyone who started with new who as I'm sure that there will be at least some out there who started with new who and class a classic doctor or two amongst their favourites. I just know that I personally, no matter how good or bad stories and doctors are, can't forge the same kind of connection with the classic doctors as the one's who era's I was around for.

Whilst I can't say that my opinion is a majority one, because I can't and wouldn't presume to know that, I will say that I believe that it is at least perceived by the people who make the show as a majority view. I say this because, blantantly Tom Baker, peter Davidson, Colin Baker, Sylvester Mc coy, and Paul Mcgann were all blantantly willing and able to appear yet doctors 5-8 weren't included in the main episode, (just some side projects for die hard fans) and Tom Baker, the most well known of all the classic doctors only got to appear in one scene and even then they wouldn't blatanly out and out say he was the doctor. All this in an episode which, given it's story could have easily found a place for all of them if it was deemed a good idea to have them in it.


I expect that some will shout down what I have written here as somehow disrespecting the classic doctors, but this is just my opinion on how I perceive the situation. I am not saying they shouldn't appear, or won't ever appear again, just that I see it as unlikely.

Not at all, you're being a realist. And this is coming from someone brought up on the original series, pestered my mum to buy me a Dr.Who scarf at the DW Exhibtion, Blackpool in 1978 and also to take me 200 miles to the Longleat celebration in 1983.

It's an issue for me.I don't want to see some barely recognisable fat old bloke stumbling round the screen pretending he is still the Doctor. No thanks

Thanks for taking the post in the spirit with which I wrote it

Indeed. Time Crash only worked as a bit of fun for charity. I wouldn't be against old Doctors reappearing in another capacity (such as the Curator), but putting them in their old costumes and pretending they're still the 4th-7th Doctors would look awful.

Dignified: http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2...ratorTDOTD.jpg

Not dignified: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ors_Reboot.jpg

But they wouldn't be pretending. They ARE the Doctor and that'll never change.

Both are 'dignified' to me. I think it would be epic; like the TV Avengers Assemble.

You mean if Avengers Assemble had starred Lou Ferrigno as the Hulk, Reb Brown as Captain America and David Hasselhoff as Nick Fury?

Correction - They WERE the Doctor and that'll never change.
Peter Capaldi IS the Doctor at the moment.

I LOVE the 1963-89 series, I grew up with it, I became fan because of it, I attended umpteen conventions and met many of the stars, I've roamed the streets dressed as a Cyberman on charity collections with Colin Baker (who is one of the nicest blokes you could ever meet).

But much as I love all that I really think it would be a mistake to shoehorn ageing actors into the current series, just for the sake of it.
Doctor Who has always moved on, the cast has always been fluid and ever changing. Hell, they invented a brilliant way of even replacing the lead actor - something that would have meant the end of most series.
It's nice to look back, it's fun to see reappearances of old monsters, even of old companions once in a while, if the story is good. But getting older Doctors back? No thanks.

Some sort of cameo (along the lines of Tom Baker's Curator) would have been lovely in the 50th, but I respect the decision not to overload the story with ageing ex-Doctors.

I really think that the moment has now passed for them to make a meaningful reappearance in the show. I can't see any reason to dredge up the surviving Doctors just because they're still with us. I'm perfectly happy to remember, and watch, their stories as they were and I genuinely can't understand why some people have to constantly bang on about getting them back again.

No. It would be like Avengers Assemble with Robert Downey Jnr, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Jeremy Remmer, Scarlett Johansson and Samuel L Jackson.

Every Doctor IS always the Doctor to me and that includes Capaldi. It doesn't matter how old Tom Baker or Peter Davison or any of the classic Doctors look, they will always be the Doctor.

I don't. I think it would be the best decision the show would ever make if they were to be included before they pass away in a anniversary special. It would seem like a wasted opportunity if these actors who have yet to appear in the new series like Tom Baker and Peter Davison did don't appear before they die.

Who are all the current actors to play those roles in other films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. They are not elderly stars from 30+ years ago making comeback appearances.

It's still a epic team-up which I imagine a 13 Doctors multi-Doctor featuring all Doctor actors would be like in terms of epic-ness.

Personally I don't want to see some old men pretending to be someone who they were 30 years ago - it'd be like an embarrassing school reunion. At least the new who actors can still act and look (both are important) the same way they did when they played the role. Tbh I'd rather have an old companion.

They wouldn't be pretending. They ARE the Doctor.

They were 30 years ago. Could you imagine davjd tennant playing the 10tn doctor in the same youthful way he did in 30 years - no because he'd be a pensioner. Which is unfortunately what the classics all are and definitely will be come the 60th - they'd be old men. It would just look like a reunion party not a celebration story