krydrita wrote:
Man, I really hope they bring back some of the past Doctors. Like "The Five Doctors" for the new millennium! But I'm fearing that, with their newer, cooler, more stylish show, they would consider the past Doctors too quirky and old. Which is bull!
Well, given that a lot of the team seem to be fanboys at heart who love the old series (and Tennant and Smith both draw on past doctors for inspiration, I gather), I'm not sure the problem is that they'd be too quirky, but given that about 24 years have passed since Doctor Who's cancellation, age may be a problem. Big Finish can do it's brilliant thing because we hear the voice and let our minds do the rest, but it's a different story when you're asking actors who are in their 60s and 70s (Tom Baker isn't far off 80) to play the role they played as men in their 30s and 40s for the cameras without it looking too much like an exercise in fanboyism run amok. Which is probably why they've kept the only old/new meeting (Tennant & Davison) as a) a short story for the Children in Need special and b ) a meeting with the youngest 'old' doctor, who looks most like he did in the 1980s.
That said, they
sortof got away with The Two Doctors, where Frazer Hines probably looked more out-of-place age wise than Troughton...
So yeah, nice idea, but I'm not sure it would work as anything beyond a (admittedly nice and welcome) token gesture.