Who could be the new Doctor?

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2007-12-21 04:36pm

SDNetizens, I present an awesome candidate if ever a DW big-screen movie is made. And perhaps....a replacement for DT...

ADAM SANDLER

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » 2007-12-21 04:39pm

Tom Baker redux? He's got that look in the pic, just needs a scarf.

Utsanomiko · Post by **Utsanomiko** » 2007-12-21 05:39pm

"I'm crazy jelly-baby man! Gimme some candy!!"

Flagg · Post by **Flagg** » 2007-12-21 07:51pm

Funny, he doesn't look like David Bowie...

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2007-12-21 09:32pm

Batman · Post by **Batman** » 2007-12-21 11:11pm

I was rather happy with Tennant actually and is there any particular reason it CAN'T be Eccleston?

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2007-12-21 11:22pm

Batman wrote:I was rather happy with Tennant actually and is there any particular reason it CAN'T be Eccleston?

Reverting back to a former Doctor would be in somewhat bad form.

Batman · Post by **Batman** » 2007-12-21 11:28pm

Conditionally conceded but it would also open the way for interesting story ideas I think. From what little I know the Doctor does seem to know what he looked like in previous incarnations.
'Okay, I know that look. I've looked like that before. Why the hell am I looking like that again'?

Yes, okay, so basically I can't think of anybody who'd make another good Doctor.

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2007-12-22 05:24am

Tennant has said he's not buggering off yet. It was just Catherine Tate being a prat.

Molyneux · Post by **Molyneux** » 2007-12-22 11:37am

You know, Sandler does have the look...if he were more British, I wouldn't mind seeing him give a screen test.

On that note - how many regenerations does the Doctor have left, anyway? Isn't he limited to 12 or so?

Crazedwraith · Post by **Crazedwraith** » 2007-12-22 11:46am

Tennant is the 10th doctor. That mean's he's regened 9 times. Assuming the first actor to potray the doctor was his original body of course.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2007-12-22 12:45pm

Crazedwraith wrote:Tennant is the 10th doctor. That mean's he's regened 9 times. Assuming the first actor to potray the doctor was his original body of course.

The Doctor's mentioned he's around 900 years old. The first regeneration he did was triggered by old age, iirc. So his 10th regen seems about right.

Lord Revan · Post by **Lord Revan** » 2007-12-22 12:52pm

ofc it's possible that BBC will use a deus ex machina to give the Doctor "extra" regenerations should it seems profitble for them to go beond the 12 regeneration limit.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2007-12-22 01:31pm

That's not unreasonable at all. Didn't the Master cheat and get a whole new regeneration cycle sometime in the original series?

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2007-12-22 01:41pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:That's not unreasonable at all. Didn't the Master cheat and get a whole new regeneration cycle sometime in the original series?

He did, but he had to take over someone's body to gain a new cycle. I don't think the Doctor would do that so they'd have to find some other way.

loomer · Post by **loomer** » 2007-12-22 01:59pm

Simple way. Dying doctor goes back in time, nabs the oldest earlier Doctor still alive, cleans up the paradox somehow, dies, the older Doctor regenerates into a completely new person after somehow getting his memories.

...Okay, maybe that's not quite so simple.

Havok · Post by **Havok** » 2007-12-22 02:04pm

n00b question... Outside of DW being a British show, is there an in universe reason why he HAS to be British?

bilateralrope · Post by **bilateralrope** » 2007-12-22 02:55pm

Lord Revan wrote:ofc it's possible that BBC will use a deus ex machina to give the Doctor "extra" regenerations should it seems profitble for them to go beond the 12 regeneration limit.

I'll be really surprised if they don't do this.

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2007-12-22 02:56pm

havokeff wrote:n00b question... Outside of DW being a British show, is there an in universe reason why he HAS to be British?

No idea. Maybe he likes the accents.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2007-12-22 10:39pm

This thread if conclusive Proof that Americans Know Jack Shit About Doctor Who.

They flat-out resurrected the Master for the Time War. They *did* in fact give him a new set of lives earlier. It's *not* a big deal to get more, it's just a cultural limit, probably imposed by Rassilion. The Master had all kinds of crazy ideas about how to get more.

The movie cumsnake was totally unrelated to regeneration, as explained in the terrible novels.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2007-12-22 11:56pm

Stark wrote:This thread if conclusive Proof that Americans Know Jack Shit About Doctor Who.

Hey, I know about Doctor Who! It's just hard to remember stuff that you haven't seen in like 10-12 years, ya know.

mr friendly guy · Post by **mr friendly guy** » 2007-12-23 12:37am

I said it before, that if they wanted the Doctor to go over the 12 regeneration limit, they should just clone him. This was based on a) that TL were supposed to be a clone race (apparently laid out in the Cartmel masterplan, but with the old series cancelled it had to be shown in the novels) and b) in the novels dead time lords could be resurrected if you had knowledge of their "bio data" and the technology, essentially recreating the body from the ground up.

And this was before the new series had the TL resurrect the Master (presumably using the same technology). So hell yeah. If DW remains profitable for the BBC they should just have a 14th doctor.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2007-12-23 01:07am

It's meaningless to talk of 'cloning' him (then transferring his mind lol) when they can arbrarily apply more Time Lord science to have him regenerating as long as he likes. Even in the old series, the Master expected to gain more regenerations simply by interacting with sources of power (like Traken, numismation gas, etc). It seems likely that the process simply runs out of oomph around 13 and stops working or fails, not that Jesus himself steps down and carries you off to the West on his magic boat.

It's *not* a limit. It's handwaving magic that isn't really that hard to do (lol Minyans). Frankly, though, I doubt the Doctor would ever go looking for extra lives the way the Master did: only insane/evil Time Lords are shown to do so (like Borusa's hilarious quest for immortality). The science is lost with Gallifrey of course (along with the bio-extract records and the Matrix infrastructure for updating it and all the Looms).

Worrying about there being some limited number of Doctors and thus a limited life to the series is simply retarded. They'll either handwave it or simply totally ignore it, if the show even lasts that long.

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2007-12-23 02:39am

If nothing else, future writers can simply make it out as being "part of the TARDIS".

Post by **NecronLord** » 2007-12-23 02:51pm

mr friendly guy wrote:I said it before, that if they wanted the Doctor to go over the 12 regeneration limit, they should just clone him. This was based on a) that TL were supposed to be a clone race (apparently laid out in the Cartmel masterplan, but with the old series cancelled it had to be shown in the novels)

All that looms drivel has been contradicted by the canon in the new series, from the Doctor talking (as he did in the original series) about his childhood, to even showing the Master as a child.

and b) in the novels dead time lords could be resurrected if you had knowledge of their "bio data" and the technology, essentially recreating the body from the ground up.

The novels? Omega uses this to make himself a copy of the Doctor's body in the show.