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OK yeah the TV movie may have sucked but Paul McGann was just brill in the part.
I loved his clothes and those TARDIS sets were just jaw-dropping - and something I would expect the TARDIS to have/be. It was nice to have the tie in with Sylvester McCoy.
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We don't see the Master being exterminated by the Daleks in the TV movie, so it could easily be Antony Ainsley's (that's from memory, so it could well be wrong) body.
What was up with the Daleks there anyway? Since when did they kill someone and then allow their mortal enemy the chance to take his body away?
And was Roy Skelleton doing the Dalek voices?
Doing something with the Valeyard would involve me remembering "Trial of a Time Lord". And no-one wants that to happen.
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Well, Yeah. There is that. Really, a dead (actor that played Bull from Night Court) would be ideal. Patrick Stewart could be a great Davros! We've never seen him play a real bastard before.... Hmmmm...mabye Richard E. Grant could play Omega brought back to life somehow.
If the BBC give the new run anything like a budget it'll be great.
Heres to hoping!
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>We don't see the Master being exterminated by >the Daleks in the TV movie, so it could easily >be Antony Ainsley's (that's from memory, so it >could well be wrong) body.
Nope. We see a much younger, thinner guy in manacles being vapourized under some mushroom dome hat thing. Fandom has mostly accepted that the Master at some point found another body and rid himself of the disease in "Survival", but was then caught by the Daleks.
>What was up with the Daleks there anyway? Since >when did they kill someone and then allow their >mortal enemy the chance to take his body away?
Bad writing. But it's also possible that the Doctor, who has been the envoy of the Time Lords on several occasions, was part of a political settlement between two time-travelling species. The Daleks really WANTED to kill the Doctor, but they couldn't.
>And was Roy Skelleton doing the Dalek voices?
Who?
>Doing something with the Valeyard would involve >me remembering "Trial of a Time Lord". And >no-one wants that to happen.
I liked that particular season. And several novels try to "take care" of the Valeyard... In short, most of the Sixth Doctor's odd behaviour during his tenure on the show, and in most of his novels, was because he had the potential to become the Valeyard. His regeneration into the seventh doctor - apparently due to a bump on the head in the TV series - was actually a planned event, to avoid his ultimate transformation into the Valeyard, and to have his subsequent incaration try to fix some of the chaos that he inadvertently wrought. I've not kept up with the novels at all, but it seems to have worked...
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i used to watch Dr Who regularly on Public Broadcasting when i was a lad.. but watching Who was kind of like slowing down to observe a car wreck. not something you wanted to do, but the morbid fascination just took hold.. plus the theme music rocks
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quote:Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: >And was Roy Skelleton doing the Dalek voices?
Who?
Dalek Voice God Supreme.
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Well the BBC could totally forget about the events of Dr. Who: The Movie starring Paul McGann like they did Dr. Who and the Daleks(1965) and Invasion Earth 2150 A.D(1996) starring Peter Cushing as the Doctor.
I wouldn't describe the television market as being saturated with science fiction programming so much as it is saturated with bad science fiction programming. The last enjoyable science fiction series that I watched wasFarscape, and that was recently cancelled. Although I haven't watched it, I understand that Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda has a pretty large fan following.
I hope that the new show runner for the new Dr. Who television series understands what made the previous series so special and entertaining. I especially enjoyed the series when it starred Tom Baker and Douglas Adams served as story editor.
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Well, it's catered to a monkey's comprehension level after all.
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quote: Point being I guess that if and when the Doctor gets to his thirteenth incarnation (and I hope they actually do something about the Valeyard at that point), he'll have no problem getting additional lives, and probably without having to take them as the Master did. It's sci-fi, after all.
Actually, he'll just find the "Key to Time" again and become the White Guardian. Then he'll travel in a Nokia cell phone and replace Carrottop in those 1-800-c-a-l-l-a-t-t commercials.
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Red Dwarf, Blake's 7 , Thunderbirds, and now the Doctor! That 'Space 1999' movie can't be far off now! Maybe Edward James Olmos will play Martin Landau's part!
Casting the Doctor and the Master? Paul McGann and Alan Rickman !
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quote:Originally posted by CaptainMike20X6: i used to watch Dr Who regularly on Public Broadcasting when i was a lad.. but watching Who was kind of like slowing down to observe a car wreck. not something you wanted to do, but the morbid fascination just took hold.. plus the theme music rocks
Look for a very good and recent version of the Doctor Who theme - done by the 'group' "Orbital" it was called "Doctor?" or just "Doctor". Watch out for pesky remixes and get the album version.
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