So is this for the show on TV? If so who will be the Doctor?
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Ferengi Rule Of Acquisition #76: Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies.
This is their webcast audio drama to drum up an idea of the interest.
The movie, and by extension the tv show will depend on the positive response they get. It is unclear right now if Paul McGann will reprise his role, or if they will get another actor. People keep talking about Hugh Grant for the movie but if the tv show takes off, they'd just have to make yet another Doctor as Hugh isn't THAT available and choosing him for a doctor isn't feasible unless you are really willing to throw away the few remaining bodies the Doctor has before he dies.
As for really good audio adventures, check out Big Finish Productions:
They put out some capital work with the actors of Doctors #5, #6, #7 and #8 as well as companions such as Nissa, Peri, Turlough, Mel, Ace and an occasional Brigadeer Lethbridge-Stewart.
I've got the whole collection so far (sans the Dalek Empire mini-series and special edition music releases, etc...) and they just get better as they go.
Best part is, though the actors don't look quite like they used to, their voices havn't changed a bit.
Love to see come back to TV. I've missed it the 10 years or so it has been off air in Canada.
That McGann guy you were talking about, is he the actor who played the Doctor in the Fox Dr. Who tv movie? Really liked him. Although I didn't like the way they protrayed the Master, liked the actor, but they had him doing things I don't see him doing. Breaking that kids neck was so...not him, not subtle. As a whole I was hoping that the movie was a precussor to a new updated series.
Unfortunatly, I don't think my computer is set for web casts, so will watch here and keep my fingers crossed.
Oh, BTW anyone who saw the Fox Dr Who know why the Daleks were the judges at the Master's trial...did I miss something, they would have exterminated him and whoever arrived with him on the spot.
"I never thought I would be firing shots in anger at a wretched caterpillar!"
-Brig. Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
Yes, I hated the Master in the Movie. As cardboard as the 60s props they used with even less effect.
Paul McGann's been doing some work in the audio adventures and that's where I've come to really appreciate the actor.
It's an audio-only and if you have the bandwidth RealPlayerG2 can add a comic-book illustration to it as it goes.
I do so like Stephen Fry playing a Timelord, the Minister of Chance. He'd make a good recurring character in the series. He's too silly to take the character completely serious. Afterall, many of the Timelords fit the category of eccentric in quite a few ways.
I'd be too if my first memory in my body involves looking in the mirror and going "Hmm, the nose is an improvement."
Oh, and for any in the DFW area, I've noticed Dr. Who started showing up on Friday nights on PBS. Havn't caught an episode yet, but they're half-hour blocks, last week was two half-hours back to back. I'm so used to the three-hour commercial-free ones. I remember watching them at night years ago. It was like a movie every weekend, it was great.
Yes, they should bring back the Good Doctor on TV. I really doubt Paul McGann would come back for a series so my list of the best actors to play the Doctor are:
1) Michael Praed: I realised about halfway through the second episode of SAJV that Michael Praed would make a very good Doctor.
2) Anthony Stewart Head: Again, a actor who would play a very good Doctor based on what I've seen him in (namely Buffy). Mind you, I've heard rumours that ASH has signed up to play the Master in one of Big Finish's audio drama's for next year.
3) That bloke off Hornblower (played Horatio).
4) Michael Troughton (Patrick's son).
I'll probably think of more, eventually.
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Mama-san I'm not sure, but I think they call it a catapult.
Kid Boy, I'm glad I didn't have to say that line...
While Patrik Stewart is a very good actor, I think Brent Spiner does a better job of being a good actor who can portray the Doctor's alien aspects. Brent Spiner can be wacky when it's necessary.
Trouble with a character who is able to live 12 lifetimes. Willian Harnell, Doc 1, was very serious, as was Jon Pertwee's, Doc 3. Compared to Tom Baker's somewhat off the wall protrayal. Peter Davidison and Colin Baker were evenly balanced serious when need, but always had a snappy come-back, particularly Colin.
I think the whacky award goes to Patrick Troughton.
So both Stewart and Spiner could work IMO as the Doctor. Though Stewarts military bearing would lend well to the Brigadier, if they were ever to bring him back for any lenth of time. I loved the UNIT years.
Well Colin (#6) portrayed the Doctor who never fully recovered from that state of mental instability during Regeneration, at least not at first. In Big Finish they portray him later as a much more mature version of his original state.
As far as Anthony Stewart Head, they've already officially denied they approached him about playing the Master, instead they plan for him to play a main villian in the three stories in the Excelis mini-series.
Whatever happened to the actor who played the Master in the series, Anthony Anliy, something like that it has been a while since I have fliped threw my Dr. Who library. He was the Master in my eyes, sauve, subtle and hypnotic. He just looked lethal. He had that "viperish" look I think you need to play the Master.
I saw a reference to an interview with him once this year I think. Guess he's still around. That one guy who played the rotting Master in that one episode where he steals a new body just played the Master in a Big Finish episode. Still, they never used his real face, they tended to go for the more bearded bad-guy look.
Ever since Rober Delgado played the role shey seemed to have gone with the goatee look. I think it lends a sinisterness, is that a word, to the role.
Your mention of the decaying Master has reminded of something I thought of when I watched that story where the Doctor was on trial, Colin Baker era near the end of the show here in Canada. The "prosecutor" the guy called the "Valyard" who turned out to be the Doctor in a later regeneration, his last, he looked remarkably well. However when the Master hit life 12 he looked like he got hit by a bus and burned by a flamethrower. Why the difference?
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