dr. who

[Arin Komins]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, M Holmes wrote:

:Subject: Re: dr. who
:
:Ian Abrahams writes:
:
:> How would Bill Nighy go down with the target audience though?
:
:He's the right age. He's eccentric. He's quintessentially British.

He'd be a good alternate to Eccleston.  imho, regenerations are best when
the doctors in question are very different from each other, and Tenant is
just too....young.

:Good decision to keep the Tardis and the update to the internals is
:fine. Reprising the Companion as a Buffy character is inevitable, and
:will probably prove a hit with preteen girlies.

I've been liking the very steampunk look to the new TARDIS console room.
(BTW, for those of you going to Worldcon in Glasgow this year, they are
supposed to have the old TARDIS console room on display.)

:What they absolutely have to do is reprise UNIT as a modern
:take-no-prisoners SAS squad with a bit of Spooks thrown in, though the
:Leftbridge-Stewart replacement should probably have a bit of the
:eccentric old Colonel in him.

Yeah, that would rock.  Plus, they still need to find an excuse to have
Nicholas Courtney make a guest appearance, if only so that he can appear
with all the doctors ;-)

(He showed up with McGann in one of the BF audios)

:All in all though, I'd rather have seen them do Jerry Cornelius instead.
:He's a hip British time-traveller after all and the whole Sixties thing
:could lend the appropriate level of humour.  Trips out from Time Central
:could easily lend itself to an episodic format.  Mind you, they probably
:couldn't have Bishop Beesely bugger anyone with a Mars Bar and hope to
:air it before the kids went to bed.

Now that would have been fun.

Arin
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