Well, if there isn't a multi-Doctor extravaganza for the 50th, there better be something really damn mind-blowing to make up for it. I mean... when not even the show being canceled for well over a decade can stop the tradition of multi-Doctor specials on big anniversaries (see: Zagreus), Moffat will have his work cut out for him justifying it to his own inner fanboy if he opts out
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I will be very surprised and very disappointed if it's not a multi-Doctor event, as every single important anniversary has been one. Not to mention the fact that it's probably Our Lord Of Overly Complicated Timelines Steven Moffat's dream come true. There's a possibility it'll just be Smith & Tennant (who's certainly being coy enough about this whole thing in interviews), but I think they're going to want to emphasise in the fiftieth anniversary that Doctor Who didn't actually start in 2005, so I'd assume at least one of the older regulars (Doctor or Companion would do for me) will appear in some capacity. My money is on Davison. I'm expecting he will at least make an appearance, and hoping that he'll be a main character. It seems like he's been wanting to do absolutely anything even marginally Doctor Who related for the past few years, so the fiftieth certainly seems like his sort of thing.
Quote: Not to mention the fact that it's probably Our Lord Of Overly Complicated Timelines Steven Moffat's dream come true.
Answer: Is it? I thought I read somewhere that Moffat wasn't very fond of multi doctor stories. Or am I mixing him up with someone else?
I don't expect the classic Doctors to appear in the 50th though I'd be happy if they did. Though, if they don't I'd like it if at least SOMEONE from the classic series appeared. Like, a companion or something.
What I meant was that Moffat's favourite thing appears to be complicated timelines and having more than one version of the same character, so it seems like he would like multi-doc.
I don't think he has anything against them, though. After all, Time Crash was his work almost exclusively. AFAIK, all RTD told him was that he had a one room set, no SFX budget, and one day to shoot.
Sorry, but I don't think so. Doctors 4-7 are all too old. Yes, even Peter Davison. "Time Crash" provides a convenient explanation for why he looks older, but they only get away with it there because Davison still looks more-or-less recognizable as the Fifth Doctor, and because the explanation only has to hold up well enough for a seven-minute comedy skit, and even then I think it just barely succeeds
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I would hope we see all the living Doctors and the companions in some capcity. Do you think they'd explain away the aging like they did in Time Crash? Maybe they can appear as positve images of the Dream Lord, or parts of the Doctor's psyche; imagine a benign Dorian Grey imagery, where he just wants to talk to himself, and the image acknowleges the passage of time.
Bringing back former Doctors is traditional for big anniversary stories, so I'm sure they're at least thinking about it. And I'm also sure that all the Doctors from the old series who are still living would be willing.
The aging is a problem, though. I'm not certain they could get away with a handwave like "shorted out the time differential" again. Audiences these days are more demanding. It was fine for Time Crash, which was short and comedic, but for a full-length dramatic special? I dunno.
Also, the first three Doctors would have to be recast for obvious reasons.
I don't see Eccleston ever returning.
Tennant is the only former Doctor who (a) will not have aged much if at all and (b) has said things to indicate he would be willing.
So IMO it's a bit of a pipe dream, but stranger things have happened.
I don't see Eccleston ever returning. There are photos of the three Nu Who Doctors on Matt's facebook that makes me think they might have gotten him to do a little something. He said he loved that the show was directed at young people, and he has fans, so I wouldn't count him out.
Tennant is the only former Doctor who (a) will not have aged much if at all and (b) has said things to indicate he would be willing.
Not quite true! I'm not sure whether Paul McGann is an actual Time Lord or just has a portrait somewhere in his attic, but Tennant has visibly aged about as much in the past five years as McGann has in the past fifteen. (I.e. noticeably but not a lot, and nothing the makeup department couldn't handwave away.) And McGann would probably be second in line after Tennant in knocking down Moff's door to be in the 50th, if only to get a crack at being in a proper TV-canon episode of Who.
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Answer: Is it? I thought I read somewhere that Moffat wasn't very fond of multi doctor stories. Or am I mixing him up with someone else?
I don't expect the classic Doctors to appear in the 50th though I'd be happy if they did. Though, if they don't I'd like it if at least SOMEONE from the classic series appeared. Like, a companion or something.
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I don't think he has anything against them, though. After all, Time Crash was his work almost exclusively. AFAIK, all RTD told him was that he had a one room set, no SFX budget, and one day to shoot.
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Do you think they'd explain away the aging like they did in Time Crash? Maybe they can appear as positve images of the Dream Lord, or parts of the Doctor's psyche; imagine a benign Dorian Grey imagery, where he just wants to talk to himself, and the image acknowleges the passage of time.
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The aging is a problem, though. I'm not certain they could get away with a handwave like "shorted out the time differential" again. Audiences these days are more demanding. It was fine for Time Crash, which was short and comedic, but for a full-length dramatic special? I dunno.
Also, the first three Doctors would have to be recast for obvious reasons.
I don't see Eccleston ever returning.
Tennant is the only former Doctor who (a) will not have aged much if at all and (b) has said things to indicate he would be willing.
So IMO it's a bit of a pipe dream, but stranger things have happened.
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Not quite true! I'm not sure whether Paul McGann is an actual Time Lord or just has a portrait somewhere in his attic, but Tennant has visibly aged about as much in the past five years as McGann has in the past fifteen. (I.e. noticeably but not a lot, and nothing the makeup department couldn't handwave away.) And McGann would probably be second in line after Tennant in knocking down Moff's door to be in the 50th, if only to get a crack at being in a proper TV-canon episode of Who.
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