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So a madder, fiercer, less reliable Doctor.
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Peter Capaldi has said that his regeneration is (as the title says) It will be interesting how this will pan out.
http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2014/01/doctor-whos-day-roundup-the-new-doctor-will-be-madder/
http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2014/01/doctor-whos-day-roundup-the-new-doctor-will-be-madder/
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No, sorry, wrong program...
...Oh, baby, you know, I've really got to leave you / Oh, I can hear it callin 'me / I said don't you hear it callin' me the way it used to do?...
- Anne Bredon
The initial description sounds a bit like Colin Baker's doctor, whom I always felt had a more volatile, even unstable, personality somehow due to the poisoning that triggered Five's transformation to Six.
Considering that it's British and that this is the Doctor we're talking about, quite likely the latter.
I'm thinling more of a buffoon, but this is not what I was expecting from this Doctor. I was expecting (due to Peter Capaldi being more advsanced in age) a Doctor on par with Jon Pertwee, suave etc.
Angry. This is the Doctor who spawns the Valeyard. 12 is the dark Doctor. Expect a lot of yelling and seriousness.
After which will be 13 who, without the darker aspects of his personality, will be all sunshine and rainbow farts.
Think John Cleese.
-Leonard Nimoy, RIP
Are you insinuating we Brits are all mad .... excuse me while I go polish the dog LOL:P
British English, so probably more "are you mad?" than angry/violent, particularly given the "leads her on a merry dance" comment.
No, I'm insinuating that the Doctor is mad. I was simply conferring what reginamala78 just stated.
Interesting plan, BBC. I look forward to seeing the reaction that you evoke when trolling your audience.
I know I'm have a joke with ya ... but seriously I do polish my dog .... I've called him sparkles :P
There's a reason they say "Mad dogs and Englishmen." Now the Welsh, Northern Irish, and Scots I'm not letting off the hook, I just don't know for sure.
Yes, although I did quite like the last Doctor, I'm curious how this one intends to be madder than his predecessor, Matt Smith's character often did a fair imitation of an escaped mental patient.
That was my thought as well... Will be interesting to see what happens :cool:
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Perhaps John Hurt would agree to a few audio books.
One could really wish the producers would embrace good animation (not that sorry stuff poor Tennant had to do) to do stories that the older actors could voice after they could no longer fill the physical requirements.
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Kinda hard to do, since all War ever did was take The Moment. That was his entire life. Finding the Key of Rassilon, obtaining a De-Mat Gun, discovering The Vault. All done by 8. The only thing 8 couldn't do was ball up to use The Moment. That was it.
Yeah, Moffat was not exactly smart with making War's backstory. He just set him up only to end the war.
-Leonard Nimoy, RIP
That was the last two guys
This Doctor is technically either 14, 13, or 1.1. At least as far as incarnations are seeing as I doubt the Master was only counting the ones who called themselves the Doctor when he said between 12 and 13.
Considering the Master was dead for Ten 2 and War, I don't think he knows the numbering order exactly. Plus, again it's already been established by the BBC, the numbering remains the same. The Valeyard's origin is being born between 12 and 13. And, bonus points: Peter Capaldi bears an uncanny resemblence to the actor who played the Valeyard. Coincidence? I think not. Moffat did his homework. I figure 12, when casts off his dark sides, will be when 12 dies and becomes 13. Valeyard takes 12's face and disappears into the time stream while 13 goes off all happy go lucky. I'm not saying 13 will be goofy like 11 and 10. 13 will just be less hardcore. Like Tom Baker Doctor.
-Leonard Nimoy, RIP
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If it was a reset, it's 12 regenerations.
Which is pretty stingy, considering he saved the entire planet from total annihilation but, ya know, WHATEVER! IT'S NOT LIKE HE ALMOST CAUSED A TEMPORAL PARADOX OR SOMETHING! :mad:
-Leonard Nimoy, RIP
I take it these things 8 is to have done were accomplished in the audio novels?
If I understand what you're saying, then I suspect there's more wiggle room for stories of the War Doctor (WD) than you might realize. Night of the Doctor used a young image of John Hurt for our first glimpse of WD. Hurt portrayed him as old in form in the 50th event. That leaves years in between, likely hundreds of years, in which he fought in the war. By comparison, 10 still looked young meeting with the Ood counsel, and claimed he'd played hooky from their summons for 100 years. 11 gave a few blocks of time over the course of his run. The Impossible Astronaut showed that 11 had a 200 year gap between meeting his friends in the restaurant, and meeting the astronaut by the lake. The Time of the Doctor spoke of 300 years at the town of Christmas. There was another jump mentioned, I forget where and how much, but all told, at least 500 years, and likely well over 700 years were reported before his regeneration truly aged. So by comparison, for WD to show age, he likely had several hundreds of years of travel.
Thing is I'm not English. I'm Scottish, born in Aberdeen.
They were in comics, actually. And the Vault is Time Lord tech, so the "bigger on the Inside" concept probably got stretched to it's limits. The Vault is supposed to hold a LOT of Forbidden Time Lord stuff.
And First Rule of the Doctor: "The Doctor lies."
But I wish Moffat could have given War more character development other than being "The Doctor's Secret Life" that ended up being completely worthless in the end. War didn't get to remember all his cool actions. He spends the rest of his whatever existence there is for past faces in regret because he believes himself to be a killer.
Why they gotta hurt Hurt like that, man?
-Leonard Nimoy, RIP
Maybe time travel keeps the Doctor young. As you said the 11th Doctor spent 200 years between meeting his friends in the diner and his encounter with the astronaut where he hardly aged. Then you have the Doctor spending 300 years at Christmas where he is not traveling at all and he ages considerably. Therefore, if the War Doctor was a young man at the start, then he must have stayed on Gallifrey to defend it for hundreds of years.
Fantastic! You're not mad then. I'd never suggest otherwise of a Scot. Doing so would do all my family (some of whom came from around Aberdeen) a great injustice. (well, except for my brother, and then it'd be spot on...)
Slightly kooky yes, but not mad. Good ole Aberdeen. I miss it alot. But one thing to remember though Peter Capaldi is Scottish.
So "crazy like a fox" then.