[QUOTE=Kendra;39158833]I'm just curious how they'll work with the 1st to 3rd Doctors. The actor who played the 1st in [I]The Five Doctors[/I] did an excellent job, but can't see that working for 3.[/QUOTE]
Never recast Doctors, it was a terrible idea. The Doctor is defined by his actor.
I'd never want to see them recast any Doctor again. In another 50 years I don't want them to get some new guy to play 10 or 11.
Holograms and clever CGI has come a long way. We've seen what fans can do on Youtube, imagine what the BBC can do.
[editline]9th January 2013[/editline]
5 Doctors = 3 Doctors and a bloke in a wig
Isn't that more or less what David Tennnat said in the Five Doctors fan commentary?
[QUOTE=Dan2593;39159605] We've seen what fans can do on Youtube, imagine what the BBC can do.
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[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5oXJ7hqWmA[/media]
I quite liked the recast version of William Hartnell's Doctor in The Five Doctors. Wasn't too bad.
It was a good portrayal but it's like getting somebody to do a cover. Even if it's better than the original it's not the original. While a remaster is.
[editline]9th January 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=Grizz;39159681][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5oXJ7hqWmA[/media][/QUOTE]
This is what I was thinking of. But imagine if it had a budget, the great SFX team on Who, and wasn't designed to be live. You could easily get 1-2-3 to appear and even have 4-5-6-7-8 look young again and just get the actors to voice it and motion capture it.
[QUOTE=CoolCorky;39145359]I just had a hilarious idea that involves all returning doctors having used chameleon arches to save themselves from an enemy that was threatening to erase The Doctor from all of time, and they've all ended up living in the same street in London. The older doctors (four, five, six, seven) had all been hiding out on this street for some time (hence they've all aged considerably) and eleven turns up and realises what's happening. Being the only non-human doctor remaining, he has to get all the other doctors to remember who they are and return them to their own times, all while trying to defeat the enemy that's been hunting them (which has been brought to the street due to the presence of a time lord doctor.
But this is probably an awful idea.[/QUOTE]
A Street where everyone is called John Smith? I love it!
I want somebody to play a really old first doctor and go around with one of those ear-trumpet things to hear things, and then go around say ho-hu asking what everybody is saying.
[QUOTE=oskramorir;39160895]A Street where everyone is called John Smith? I love it![/QUOTE]
Nah, the street is called Smith Street and they've all taken the names of former companions: Ian, Jamie, Alistair, Harry, uh... Adric (he's from abroad), um... Melanie? And here's where this idea kinda breaks down.
Uh you're forgetting this isn't a Hollywood multi billion dollar movie like, say, Tron Legacy. Mo-cap would never happen for a tv show, especially not one with a budget like Doctor Who. I wouldn't mind if they recast, because yeah it's a cover, but it's a good one. And affordable.
Wasn't the whole fan speculated reason for the divide so we get some episodes this year? The second half of series 7 is still on the budget of series 7. Which means they have the budget they WOULD have had for a normal length series to spend on one special episode. Basically if they didn't divide the series we'd only have one episode this year which isn't fun. It was probably the only way to convince the BBC to spend so much on a single episode of TV. Though didn't they spend millions more than usual to Corrie or Eastenders getting to 50? One of the two. Yeah if they can give a soap a few million extra to celebrate being 50 they can do the same for Who.
That said maybe not motion capture but body doubles is NOT out of the question just like the Morecambe and Wise sketch Grizz posted. Though with the Doctor Who budget it can be better as that sketch had 0 budget and was rushed as it was for charity. Which accounts for the heads sometimes looking funny.
[editline]10th January 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=GussGriswold;39165528]I want somebody to play a really old first doctor and go around with one of those ear-trumpet things to hear things, and then go around say ho-hu asking what everybody is saying.[/QUOTE]
Oin from The Hobbit isn't The Doctor yet. Sorry.
[QUOTE=ElectronicG19;39167645]Uh you're forgetting this isn't a Hollywood multi billion dollar movie like, say, Tron Legacy. Mo-cap would never happen for a tv show, especially not one with a budget like Doctor Who. I wouldn't mind if they recast, because yeah it's a cover, but it's a good one. And affordable.[/QUOTE]
And unlike with Richard Hurndall in The Five Doctors, the crew for the 50th would be able to use subtle prosthetics to make any replacement actors look even more like the originals.
I just really hate the ideas of recasts. I'd rather have nothing. We've already recast William Hartnell. With Patrick Troughton.
To think there's 12 actors that have played The Doctor in history (counting Richard Hurndall). That's a pretty special thing to celebrate. Recasting stops Doctors being special and unique. Can you imagine somebody saying "Who's your favourite Doctor?" "Oh the tenth doctor" "Oh great. Which one?".
Those Doctors and actors are closely intertwined and as important to the people that watched them then as the Doctors we watch and love today. The whole point is to see those actors return, and celebrate the ones that can't.
That's the brilliant part about doctor who; you can replace the whole cast and it'd still be the same show.
But it's not a replacement. It's like a supply teacher. It will never be mentioned again.
[editline]10th January 2013[/editline]
This is the most interesting debate I've ever heard around Doctor Who.
People actually would want to replace an actor? That's mad to me and every fan I spoke to before. It's the only problem with The Five Doctors which you overlook as at the time they only had 5 Doctors and only 1 was missing anyway. This is a whole different story.
So I realised today I was wearing a long overcoat and scarf, so I bought a bag of jelly babies.
You can't replace the Doctors. Not unless you start all the way from 1 and revamp every one. There's a sequence and you can't replace it.
[QUOTE=CoolCorky;39172184]So I realised today I was wearing a long overcoat and scarf, so I bought a bag of jelly babies.[/QUOTE]
Speaking of scarves, I got a large yellow one at work the other day (one of my coworkers deals with clothing and whatnot). It's pretty nice, and will help keep me warm during the current cold snap.
small win for ease of watching on netflix usa:
waters of mars/end of time are now under series 4 in netflix rather than being their own show
(a christmas carol is still missing though)
Check [i]this[/i] geek out. What a dumb idea. He'll never get anywhere in life spouting rubbish like that.
[url]http://bit.ly/ZCdcrH[/url]
[sp]omg[/sp]
[editline]11th January 2013[/editline]
Quite possibly late, but I thought it was kinda cool :v:
"Quite possibly late"
There are probably people reading this thread who weren't born when that message was posted.
But that's really cool how he actually used the idea in the show sixteen years after he came up with it.
edit:
ahah one of the original replies:
[quote]Good stuff.. I really like it... If only the Doctor Who writers could be
so imaginative...[/quote]
[QUOTE=CoolCorky;39180888]"Quite possibly late"
There are probably people reading this thread who weren't born when that message was posted.
But that's really cool how he actually used the idea in the show sixteen years after he came up with it.
edit:
ahah one of the original replies:[/QUOTE]
Fandom's response now to that post:
[QUOTE]OMG STOP MAKING THE SHOW TOO COMPLICATED.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]OMG MOFFAT HAS DUMBED DOWN THE SHOW SOOOO MUCH[/QUOTE]
[quote]TOO MANY STORY ARCS[/quote]
[quote]NOT ENOUGH STORY ARCS[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Dan2593;39181963][quote]TOO MANY STORY ARCS[/quote]
[quote]NOT ENOUGH STORY ARCS[/quote][/QUOTE]
The two halves of series 6 in a nutshell.
Don't know if you have seen this - [url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1238814[/url]
Spoilerish though - you have been warned.
[QUOTE=Cabbalistic;39183386]Don't know if you have seen this - [url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1238814[/url]
Spoilerish though - you have been warned.[/QUOTE]
He seems to be assuming all the Oswins are the same and coming back to life each time- not just a repeated event.
But it's nice to know Gabe Newell likes Doctor Who.
also dumb kotaku writer
"what watch??"
"what nanogenes??"
check ur dwprivilege mate
I just realized that if that copycat creature from "Midnight" made a return saying all of the 10th Doctor's catch phrases like Allons-y and Monte Bene it would probably be one of the most terrifying things ever.
Just my two cents.
molto bene
well since whatever it is is (god i hate using double words) probably psychic
giving it someone with the the psychic ability of oswin would be very ill advised
[img]http://i.imgur.com/qover.png[/img]
that fucking face
[QUOTE=LordCrypto;39187829]molto bene
well since whatever it [B]is is [/B](god i hate using double words) probably psychic
giving it someone with the the psychic ability of oswin would be very ill advised[/QUOTE]
Curious about bolded, is that the proper way to write something like that? it feels so fucking weird when reading.
[QUOTE=Jellyman;39192914]Curious about bolded, is that the proper way to write something like that? it feels so fucking weird when reading.[/QUOTE]
It probably should have a comma.
'well since whatever it [B]is, is[/B] probably psychic'
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