Good lords, this entry doesn't even fill the update box (fnarr fnarr)

[alexsarll]

After spending the morning feeling like I'd been punched in the stomach, I've been thinking about this...let's assume they do regenerate the Doctor every series. Is that really so bad? So next we get Tennant, the 11th is Nighy, the 12th is Grant, and you've got room for one more, maybe Sheen or Morrissey...that's five 13-episode series plus a few specials, which is as much as an HBO series usually gets. And TV simply isn't made the same way it used to be. Do we really want Doctor Who to run forever? It did that back when, but at the cost of cheap effects, filler scripts, rushed recordings...wouldn't it be wonderful to see how the story ends? I know they'd never go with the ending I'd do, but what the Hell, the final battle between good and evil is a pretty good TV idea too. We get to see a new Who, with a lower ratio of duds than the old series, and itself as long as many of the modern classics.

In news related only by sounding science fictional: "He can now control everyday objects by thought alone" - that's the sort of news I like to read.

Comments

[fugitivemotel.livejournal.com]

I'm unimpressed. Changing the volume on the TV is all very well but I want something which means I can think women into bed with me, without all that rubbish seduction malarkey.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Does your hotmail not get all the rohypnol spam, then?

[darkmarcpi.livejournal.com]

Could they not squeeze at least one extra regeneration in by ending a series with the Doctor waking up going "it was all a dream..."?

Also, surely the Who concept would allow for a parallel universe premise to occur, worlds wherein some Doctors are just starting.

I see 'Neil' wherever I see 'Tennant'.

[fugitivemotel.livejournal.com]

I see "'s Extra" wherever I see "Tennant".

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

They could , but then I would have to hunt them down and kill them.

There have been mentions of parallel universe Doctors, such as Merlin in Battlefield - but too much messing with parallels tends to cause brain meltdown in everyone but the SF hardc0re.

[leunnammi.livejournal.com]

but did they manage to film the episode where he dies, or is he just going to inexplicably regenerate?

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Consensus is that there's going to be a Saturnalia Special, in which they can sort that out.

sarah sez:

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Stop HATING FUN!

Re: sarah sez:

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Should Buffy have run for 26 years, then?

We just don't work that way anymore. And a series which is All Killer No Filler and ends with The End *is* fun!

[jamesward.livejournal.com]

For the last one, he should regenerate as a dog. I'd watch that. A time-travelling dog fighting evil.

[leunnammi.livejournal.com]

you've watched The Mask too often

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

michael_winner could direct it. The Doctor - The Dog Who Saved Everything.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Would that be a metal dog, Mr Ward? Called something like D09?

[icecoldinalex.livejournal.com]

Dude! you're speaking my language!

[juggzy.livejournal.com]

In brighter news, Footballers Wives, S4, starts tonight.

Yes, I know it's not SF. But it could be!

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I watched one episode of that. Even as an SF fan, I couldn't cope - it was set in a world with a slight resemblance to ours but where none of the normal physical or motivational rules had any bearing.

[gregjames.livejournal.com]

Apparently there are death threats being posted on some Who fansites over Eccleston's decision. Bl**dy typical. Considering how swiftly the BBC have move onto Tennant, I think this must have been on the cards for a while.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I reckon they sat on the news to keep Who in the papers for a second week.

I was sent a selection of reactions from Outpost Gallifrey:

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is this the Doctor Who fan "Kurt Cobain" moment?
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I am awake now in only the loosest possible sense of the word.

I am going to go and listen to some Big Finish until five in the morning, then I'll get up at about 12 and hope that there are no posts which say I should never have made this post. Goodnight in the US, Good morning in the UK. I have missed off a few nations but I am way too tired.

The date of 30/03/05 at 23:52 BST (22:52 UTC) shall go down as a time I will never forget. So long.
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In desperation, seeking some hope among the disappearance of the new best Doctor, I turned to the Bible for support.
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part of me wishes it hadnt come back
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Doctor Who died today..
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I hope future employers view his loyalty record carefully
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Paul McGann should turn up in Episode 13 and reveal Eccles to have been an impostor all along.
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I think we're all gutted by this news and, I think, a bit betrayed by a man who took on the biggest role on British television, knowing everything that it entailed, and has now bottled it and effectively done a runner. I'm disappointed and not a little disgusted. The edge has been taken right off the new series and my commiserations go out to RTD, Phil Collinson, Jane Tranter, Lorraine Heggessey, Billie Piper and everyone else who's worked their butts off to make this show work and turn it into a hit. CE has let them and us down. Doctor Who may not recover from this one...
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[perfectlyvague.livejournal.com]

Surely it's just a media assumption because of the Russell T Davies connection? I've heard him play Benedick amongst other things and he has a tendency to be a bit cheeky. He was also reading Robert Louis Stevenson's biog on Radio 4 all last week and I think he's too light-handed.

[perfectlyvague.livejournal.com]

And also I can hear the pre-written Radio 1 Newsbeat soundbites now, 'Death threats for the Doctor'...the more I hear, the more cynical I am about the whole story breaking. They've saturated every other form of publicity and had reviews coming out of their ears - this is all they have left to do..

[london-imp.livejournal.com]

Wayne Rooney, Stephen Hawking or Dean Gaffney would all be excellent Doctors.

[jamesward.livejournal.com]

John Savident is already lined up for the next series.

[juggzy.livejournal.com]

Hawking meets Davros

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

The two who aren't Hawking do sport, right?

They could appear, having their body parts removed that they might be made into Cybermen. Except that to save on the special effects budget, the surgery would be real but the cyborg parts wouldn't.

[rentaghost31.livejournal.com]

hmmm
I think Robert Lindsay might make a good Doctor. Better than Alan fvcking Davies anyway.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

People always forget that when Alan Davies last fronted a Russell T Davies script, it was the excellent Bob and Rose...
But I still don't want him as the Doctor.