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The 'new' Dr Who

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LouiseRuns 🌹🇬🇧 🇪🇺 Nov 2021 9:03pm, 29 Nov 2021 395 posts	Quote Pin LouiseRuns 🌹🇬🇧 🇪🇺 Struck me as very like Raiders of the lost Ark last night, with all the travelling & the map, etc., but still enjoyed it. Didn't really like the first couple of episodes or so, but I have enjoyed these last two.
Ocelot Spleens Nov 2021 8:24am, 30 Nov 2021 32,482 posts	Quote Pin Ocelot Spleens I watched it again and thought Raiders, it was OK, still a lot of explaining as it goes along. I am coming around to thinking the problem with Doctor Who now is that it is NOT a children's program, I reckon the only oeople watching are old people like us, and it is carrying to please us and occasionally goes oh christ children, better explain. It always was cliff hanger, preposterous way out, reminds me of Adam West's Batman. When all this is done someone has to unravel it all and start again, my money is on A Dallas style wake up and it was a dream.
MarkyMarkMark (3M) Nov 2021 8:48am, 30 Nov 2021 16,749 posts	Quote Pin MarkyMarkMark (3M) Or given however many different incarnation are now available to play with throughout time and space, you could set a "new" doctor up at any point in their own past and tell stories from around then. I'd like to see a full series with the Dalek War, but it'd be complicated to shoehorn it in to the "canon" history given we've seen John Hurt at the start and end of it already! Unless he were to play the Doctor, of course.
George Smiley Nov 2021 9:39am, 30 Nov 2021 205 posts	Quote Pin George Smiley Big Finish I think have several Dalek Wars audio plays with John Hurt before he died if that's any help.
MarkyMarkMark (3M) Nov 2021 10:58am, 30 Nov 2021 16,754 posts	Quote Pin MarkyMarkMark (3M) I suppose you could get a John Hurt lookalike. Google suggests Ian McKellen - that'd mess with the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings fans' heads!
swittle Nov 2021 1:11pm, 30 Nov 2021 81,514 posts	Quote Pin swittle Bill Nighy might do a fair job. en.wikipedia.org
icemaiden Nov 2021 1:15pm, 30 Nov 2021 5,305 posts	Quote Pin icemaiden Bill Nighy will forever be Charles Paris in my ears. I can't think otherwise of him as the hard up, hard drinking actor when he does narrations.
swittle Nov 2021 1:19pm, 30 Nov 2021 81,517 posts	Quote Pin swittle From the Wiki article above: Nighy was allegedly in the running for the role of The Doctor. 'In early 2004, The Sunday Times reported that Nighy was on the shortlist for the role of the Ninth Doctor in the 2005 revival of the BBC television series Doctor Who.[11] Christopher Eccleston ultimately filled the role.' He has a wide ranging & impressive CV, and is never better than when he plays in radio drama imo.
icemaiden Nov 2021 1:35pm, 30 Nov 2021 5,306 posts	Quote Pin icemaiden There are bunch of really cheesy spy films he was in about a decade back that have turned up on Netflix and they are dire. I did see him in King Lear at the National Theatre in ssshhh 1987.
larkim Nov 2021 1:44pm, 30 Nov 2021 16,183 posts	Quote Pin larkim Have we done this? bbc.co.uk Almost irrespective of his general point and whether it was nuanced or misconstrued, has the Doctor ever really been an example of a TV role model to anyone?