Oh My God, He's Gone! ...Into The Car.

[rionaleonhart]

I went to watch Withnail and I in the cinema last night (missing the first twenty minutes, but that actually worked out quite nicely, as I'd missed the entire second half when I watched it on the plane), and I noticed so many things I'd completely failed to observe during the first viewing. I followed the sequence of events much more easily, caught

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[doyle_sb4]

I choose to believe the reason 'I' has no name is that he is the Eighth Doctor, going through a bit of a depressed patch.

Withnail was a Doctor too, twice - albeit not very canonically either time (for an animated story and the Curse of Fatal Death spoof for Comic Relief)

[rionaleonhart]

They've both played the Doctor? THAT IS BRILLIANT AND I HOPE THERE IS CROSSOVER FANFICTION SOMEWHERE. I love the idea that it's two of the Doctor's incarnations living together and driving each other mad.

[dracothelizard]

YOU SHOULD TOTALLY WRITE IT.

Have a link to it on youtube!.

REG's Tenth Doctor does about as much licking as David Tennant.

And don't forget the Top Gear/Withnail and I!

[rionaleonhart]

Ahahah, that's fantastic! And, rather oddly, makes better and more consistent use of time travel than many of the actual episodes. I love the "I'll explain later"s, and Atkinson actually makes a worryingly good Doctor.

[darthfi]

Worse, because Richard E. Grant was (a) the Doctor in The Curse of Fatal Death and (b) the Doctor in Scream of Shalka, one of the BBC's Flash Doctor Who episodes.

Does this mean that Ralph Brown will be the next Doctor?

[rionaleonhart]

Well, if it's working through the major cast, I think the next Doctor will probably have to be Richard Griffiths. Although I'd still love to see Lee Mead and his technicolor dreamcoat in the role of Eleven.

[dracothelizard]

"Also, was I imagining it or did 'I' magically gain some clothes under his coat on the way to the farmhouse? I swear he was just wearing his underwear when he set out."

I believe this will require a second viewing. For science. Not for, y'know, perving on Paul McGann purposes.

[talcat]

Finally: you know what Uncle Monty's persistent following of 'I' reminded me extremely strongly of? Pyramid Head.

OMG! That's just too scarey. Poor I

[th_esaurus]

Paul McGann's commentary of that film is basically all about how they are a married couple.

[rionaleonhart]

I must hear this commentary! Is it on the twentieth anniversary edition? I almost bought that the other day, but they demanded proof that I was over eighteen, and I'm not in the habit of carrying my passport around.

[th_esaurus]

It is indeed! In its shiny tin case. Mmmmm.