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Richard E. Grant could play Omega brought back to life somehow.
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I'm not dead!
Although I haven't watched it, I understand that Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda has a pretty large fan following.
But that is. Dead, I mean. After Sorbo got rid of RHW, the show creator, half way through the second season, the whole thing turned to crap. They've had a couple decent eps since then, but the show overall isn't nearly what it used to be. It went from having a scope as large as Babylon 5 to having a scope as large as TNG. The sad thing is, Sorbo is actually a decent actor. He just shouldn't be running the show.
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Alan Davies is the bookies favourite at the moment, despite calls from certain people (Paul McGann) for it to be a woman.
Also patrick stewart is also in the running. And the odds are 88-1 on Sir Michael Caine.
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Hey, at least Hercules had story arcs. I didn't watch it all that much, but the two-parter where Hope sent Callisto back in time to kill Herc's mother was... very, very cool. For Hercules.
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Well, it had Renee O'Connor. That goes without saying.
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Because she was the non-threatening piece of crumpet! Like Willow! Yum.
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You obviously missed the later seasons' kick-ass Gabby.
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Okay - as I understand it, someone was thinking of officially continuing the Doctor Who story by regenerating him into his ninth incarnation - in audio adventures. Th'hell? What was the deal, and has this changed with the advent of a renewed TV show?
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Wasn't there a limit placed on how many incarnations the Doctor can have? What was that number?
Did the list of actors who have played the Doctor given a page or so back include the chap who played him at the beginning of the television movie (which I have on tape) but got shot not too far into it? Or is it just assumed that he is the same person who was last playing him on the series?
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As I posted earlier, a Time Lord can regenerate twelve times under normal circumstances. At the beginning of the (underappreciated, IMO) TV movie, Sylvester McCoy did indeed reprise his role as the seventh Doctor, albeit with a more normal attire (though his hat is the exact one he used in the series). He did last too long, but ironically it wasn't the bullets that killed him - it was the doctors trying to save him, and not being familiar with his two-hearted physiology.
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Whoops... sorry Mark, I must have skipped over your post.
It's very cool that they used the same guy who had been the Doctor in the series. I remember wondering about that when I first saw the movie.
Not being very familiar with the series, can the Time Lords control what they look like in their regenerations or is it just as much a surprise to them as it is to everyone else?
I, for one, think a female Doctor would be great as long as it doesn't go against any established thing. But then, I always think hot women should be lead characters.
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I agree - but IMO the Doc should always be male. There's nothing to say that he CAN'T be, but in 40 years of canon, it's never mentioned - every regenerated Time Lord he's ever encountered (which is a cheap way of recasting guest roles, BTW) has remained their original gender.
Also, Time Lords don't get to choose their appearance, per se. One novel suggests that many Time Lords tend to become older and more graceful as they proceed through their incarnations, and that the Doctor is a raity as he jumps back in forth in appearance and age. Another one suggests that the Doctor keeps his future bodies in a hidden room aboard the TARDIS in temporal stasis or something. I'm loathe to believe any of the novels' minutiae, and take the TV show as the best canon - though the show itself may have more contradictions than Trek, it's got lots of alternate realities and stuff to explain it all away.
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