EMERGENCY MEETING
CAN WE JUST DISCUSS THIS FOR A MOMENT? THE AMOUNT THAT I LOVE THEM, ALREADY IMPOSSIBLY HUGE, HAS JUST GONE SUPER NOVA.
(AND ALSO THIS, IF YOU'D RATHER SHIP CHARACTERS THAN ACTORS. JDFSLAJDFS;AFLD;ADFSJAKLS THAT FIRST BIT FROM THE BEAST BELOW? HOW DID I NOT NOTICE IT BEFORE???)
(AND ALSO THIS, IF YOU'D RATHER SHIP CHARACTERS THAN ACTORS. JDFSLAJDFS;AFLD;ADFSJAKLS THAT FIRST BIT FROM THE BEAST BELOW? HOW DID I NOT NOTICE IT BEFORE???)
I'm always torn on the pst Doctors thing - on the one hand obviously there would be a major fanservice squee element, but on the other I can't help but think that it would actually be a hinderance to New Who to associate itself explicitly with older canon any more than it already has. I feel like the meta factor would inevitably overwhelm the story? A Christmas Carol type plot would be one of the better ways of doing it though as it would be more of a nod to past canon's existance than anything else, and although I very very much doubt they would bring David Tennant back (it would be playing into the hands of those who said the show needed him) Sylv and Paul are the most believable candidates if something ever did happen. But on the other hand someone says that Eight will be back *every single year* and I'm sure they say it for every other Doctor whose actor is still living as well!
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Oh, I didn't know it was an established rumor tradition! Darn. I definitely understand what you mean about it being too meta/fanservice-y, breaking the illusion/fourth-wall/suspension-of-disbelief... but I think it could have potential to be well-done if they were doing a Christmas Carol-y "ghost of Christmas past" flashback scene (as you say: it would be more of a nod to past canon's existance than anything else *nods*) -- so I'd rather see a separate Doctor-from-the-past moment than a multiple-Doctors-interact-and-ain't-it-wacky scene.
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