After yesterday's Doctor Who...

[rosewildeirish]

[Not at all spoilery in terms of plot but behind a cut nonetheless...actually, it's quite unrelated in most ways.]
I really want to see a buddy-cop series with Tennant and Smith playing basically Ten and Eleven (Eleven and Twelve?), while John Hurt is the seasoned old-timer who rescues their butts from time to time and makes crusty remarks.

Oh! Oh! Oh! And can we have a different series with a bunch of the companions as members of a band trying to make it

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[rosewildeirish]

I think you mean isn't? Or at least, doesn't consider himself to be one.

The regeneration cycle will be adjusted as needed, I have no doubt. After all, they've basically said there's no limit at one point, despite previous canon.

Heh. They are fabulous together. And I want all the companions in wacky adventures, too. Donna and Amy and River alone would be worth the price of admission. And I kind of want a way to have Donna pester the everliving hell out of Jack.

[rosewildeirish]

They pretty much did have the two of them in a previous ep, IIRC, and I was disappointed that Jack seemed very...disinterested in Donna. Not that I want to see them paired (any more than I wanted a Doctor/Donna pairing, which is to say, only to have Donna crush his/their heart(s) like grapes...I'm cruel that way), but I wanted to see them get along.

...though, not getting along, in a sibling-rivalry-ish way, would be quite an acceptable substitute.

[rosewildeirish]

I never got around to it, in part because Torchwood took the left turn at Albuquerque and got...weird and bad and sad, too dark for me, but I always wanted to write the story where Donna ends up being folded into Torchwood, not because she has some burning need to be a part of it but because she keeps turning up at events that Torchwood has to deal with and complicating things, and finally Jack gets frustrated enough that he just makes her a part of the team, in part to better keep an eye on her. :)

[rosewildeirish]

She'd go drinking with Tosh and she'd smack the hell out of Owen. She'd get 'em all in line, IMO. And Ianto, wise man he, would probably turn and head in the other direction as often as possible.

Unless he was in a bind. Then he'd head straight for her. :)

[rosewildeirish]

:D

We need to try to carve out some time to get together, you know?

[gorengal]

John Hurt's "Doctor" was actually a "Warrior"...so not the "Doctor." Did you see the prequel with Paul McGann (aka the Eighth Doctor)?

http://youtu.be/-U3jrS-uhuo

[rosewildeirish]

I think they called him the "War Doctor". And it's still a regeneration, so...that bumps the numbers, in my book. Or something. It's not like they're actually keeping strict canon.

I did and I liked it! Not so much with The Five(ish) Doctors because I dislike cringe comedy that is so very popular in the U.K..

Edited to add: The cameos in that are pretty freaking amazing, though.

[gorengal]

Right, but when Eight was revived by the Sisterhood of Karn, he specifically requested a potion to force his regeneration into a warrior. Then the War Doctor renounced the name of "Doctor."

After the events of The Day of the Doctor, the War Doctor starts to regenerate and he says something like, "Of course...it would have to be so." I took that to mean that his regeneration into Nine was a fixed point, so his regeneration occurred when the War Doctor was no longer needed.

Anyway, I consider John Hurt to be 8.5, so no change in later numbering needed. ;) (Ten will always be Ten in my heart.)

I don't like the cringe comedy either, but I enjoyed The Five(ish) Doctors because Peter Davison wrote it and they were all in on the joke. The cameos made it work! My favorite thing to come out of all of this was seeing Paul McGann tweet that he was bored and asked if there was anything on the telly...and Colin Baker replied not much and he was off to the pub. :D