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dave
Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 605 Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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Greg Site Admin
Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 1743 Location: Canberra
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Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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Well, none of them could. The only one who looks like he did when he was playing the Doctor is Eccleston!
However, it's for the fans, and for charity - and I'm sure also for Tennant, who will I'm sure be absolutely thrilled to be playing the role alongside one of his predecessors.
I'm just wondering how long (or short...) it is. It is another Steven Moffat story, after all! |
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meglos
Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Posts: 659 Location: Perth
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Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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I really can't wait for this  |
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uhumanite
Joined: 17 Oct 2006 Posts: 89 Location: Sydney
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Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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Yay!
Peter is one of my favs and personaly I've enjoyed his doctor with age on his side (.ie Big Finish audios)
Hazza for Doctor 5! Can't Wait!  |
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Sulp Niar
Joined: 07 Nov 2005 Posts: 715 Location: Where You Only Live Thirteen Times
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Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Greg wrote: | | Well, none of them could. The only one who looks like he did when he was playing the Doctor is Eccleston! |
And McGann.
As for the news... I'm still really quite surprised, but hey, I'm sure it'll work. |
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Greg Site Admin
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Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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McGann is 10 years older, and won't wear the wig or (I believe) the costume. He looks far gaunter than he used, so without the props, I don't think I'd be convinced he wasn't an older version...
Mind you, I guess that is fair enough because we didn't see him regenerate, so maybe it could be explained away. |
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Speckled Jim
Joined: 14 Jul 2006 Posts: 120 Location: Auckland, Un Zud
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Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Peter Davison and Steven Moffatt sounds like a winning combo to me. PD and DT could even have a celebrity bowl-off; they've both proved to be nifty with a six-stitcher... |
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Ickabod
Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 499 Location: far far away
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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:45 am Post subject: |
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| Yay....I love PD....remember when he was out here many moons ago.....I think it would be great |
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Tegan
Joined: 16 Apr 2006 Posts: 398 Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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Fantastic! Now I'm really looking for a TARDIS trip to cut down the wait.
As for any of the classic Doctor's pulling this off, I really do think Colin Baker would be the least changed from his TV days.
He's just been grazing in a good paddock is all.  |
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dave
Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 605 Location: Brisbane, Queensland
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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 3:22 pm Post subject: |
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| I think McCoy's changed the least, myself. |
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Tegan
Joined: 16 Apr 2006 Posts: 398 Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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| dave wrote: | | I think McCoy's changed the least, myself. |
A bit of Grecian 2000 in the hair and some bulldog clips at the back of the neck and he could pass as close to his classic days.
Or is that what they did in the TV movie?
(I should talk). |
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Sulp Niar
Joined: 07 Nov 2005 Posts: 715 Location: Where You Only Live Thirteen Times
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Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 12:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Greg wrote: | McGann is 10 years older, and won't wear the wig or (I believe) the costume. He looks far gaunter than he used, so without the props, I don't think I'd be convinced he wasn't an older version...
Mind you, I guess that is fair enough because we didn't see him regenerate, so maybe it could be explained away. |
Yeah - and if I remember rightly, they chopped off his hair and thrust him into a leather jacket in the books. Almost as if he was channelling Eccleston before Eccleston.
And Speckled Jim - surely Tom would still be the best bowler (we didn't see that on screen, but I remember reading somewhere that he was the most into cricket? Somewhat appropriate, considering Douglas Adams was originally going to chuck his Krikkit plotline in Doctor Who). |
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uhumanite
Joined: 17 Oct 2006 Posts: 89 Location: Sydney
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Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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From Moffat himself
"For the first time, the Doctor wears REAL CELERY.
Trouble with us fans: we think celery looks like thing that just used to be stuck on the Doctor. It doesn't really! Where's that Restoration Team? I want them to go back and put REAL CELERY into Peter's episodes.
He's magnificent, by the way, just magnificent. And yes there's a quick hand-wave explanation for the age thing - but really, when you see him in action, you almost don't need it. He's just the Doctor and you don't argue.
My two favourite Doctors head to head in a scene by me. Sometimes I think the universe is being run entirely for my entertainment.
Steven Moffat" |
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Sulp Niar
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Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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I'd forgotten about Moffat's liking of Davison, and he's not just sucking up here either: in the In Vision thing for Season 20 (I think), he goes on about how Davison and his era are the best of the show.
And, of course, 'The Girl in the Fireplace' is as whacky a bunch of two ideas (spaceship, France) as 'Time-Flight' (concorde, Prehistoric Earth). |
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meglos
Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Posts: 659 Location: Perth
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Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Sulp Niar wrote: | | And Speckled Jim - surely Tom would still be the best bowler (we didn't see that on screen, but I remember reading somewhere that he was the most into cricket? |
If I remember correctly, the 4th Doctor rolled his arm over in the Hand Of Fear. He was bowling a rock in a quarry  |
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Ickabod
Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Posts: 499 Location: far far away
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 7:04 am Post subject: |
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| PD's last name is actually Moffat..... |
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uhumanite
Joined: 17 Oct 2006 Posts: 89 Location: Sydney
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Ickabod wrote: | | PD's last name is actually Moffat..... |
Correct. Have a gold star. |
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Speckled Jim
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Sulp Niar wrote: | | And Speckled Jim - surely Tom would still be the best bowler (we didn't see that on screen, but I remember reading somewhere that he was the most into cricket? Somewhat appropriate, considering Douglas Adams was originally going to chuck his Krikkit plotline in Doctor Who). |
If only DNA was still with us; imagine the kind of amazing story he could come up with for the new Who ... the Krikkit story being but one. God, it's been 6 years and I'm still upset about his death. |
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Ickabod
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Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:34 am Post subject: |
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6 years....Adams was a mighty fine writer and the world lost a great person....I remember seeing him at The Galaxy Bookshop  |
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