There's a lot of talk and discussion going on on the Internet at the moment about the Doctor Who fiftieth anniversary special and how, it looks like, it's never going to live up to the expectations of the fan community.
We already know that David Tennant will be returning with Billie Piper - and I imagine this will be as the half-doctor and Rose - but the thorny question of how many of the other doctors will appear is being batted around time and cyber-space like a game of Cybermen tennis.
I'm not a massive fan of Doctor Who - I watch it but wouldn't consider myself a fanboy of it - but I feel the demand by fans to bring back the previous actors who played the Doctor into the series wouldn't work. Aside from the fact three of the actors are dead and the rest appear much older, with the exception of McGann and Eccleston, the time needed to properly introduce them and do them justice would be at the expense of a better plot. The article revealed today about including the past doctors digitally (http://doctorwhotv.co.uk/past-doctors-to-appear-digitally-in-50th-47994.htm) feels more fitting and, if done right, will keep the doctors looking as we imagined them (though the black and white of the first two doctors might be problematic).
There are a few things I'd like to see in the series. If it's a celebration of the fifty years then the Daleks and Cybermen - as the two most iconic villains - need to make an appearance and it would be great to see the Master worked in, though they also need to make the episode appear cohesive. I would hope not to see the return of Captain Jack Harkness, though, and I hope Billie Piper's lips and voice have returned to normal.
I think it would be a missed opportunity not to include the previous doctors in the episode but digitally is the best way to go in my opinion, but I have every faith in Steven Moffat who, aside from a bit of a flat series so far, has made the series the best it's been since it returned this millennium.
What would you like to see from the 50th episode?
Saturday 20 April 2013
Doctor Who and the Fiftieth Anniversary
Posted on 09:57 by Unknown
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
0 comments:
Post a Comment