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Post by rushy on Nov 20, 2024 21:17:56 GMT
Not the TV movie and not a revival.
If Doctor Who had managed to cling on to life like the Simpsons, what would it have looked like in the 90s? Would they continue with the serial format or switch to 45-minute episodes again? Would JNT still be running it? Do you think it'd be any good?
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Post by Cherry Pepsi Maxil on Nov 20, 2024 22:52:25 GMT
1990 would probably look and feel the same as 1989. I've heard rumours that Cartmel would have quit after Season 26 to take on another job, but I don't know if that's true. Ace would have definitely left in Season 27 if I remember correctly. I think McCoy might have stuck around for another year with a new companion. JNT would probably be in charge of the 1990 series, but I can imagine someone else coming in after that. Julia Sawalha would have been the ideal replacement for Sophie in my eyes and I think a lot of other people feel the same. I notice she comes up a lot in online fan casting.
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Post by Ludders II on Nov 20, 2024 22:58:52 GMT
Whatever might've happened to the show, good or bad, at least it would've evolved naturally. And it would've retained its British feel, which TVM threw away.
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Post by Cherry Pepsi Maxil on Nov 20, 2024 23:01:40 GMT
Whatever might've happened to the show, good or bad, at least it would've evolved naturally. And it would've retained its British feel, which TVM threw away. It certainly wouldn't have felt or looked like Series 1. If the 1990 series had happened we definitely would have had Cybermen in World War II (which was novelized in the excellent Illegal Alien) instead of farting aliens, Cassandra and a leather jacket wearing numpty pretending to be an alien. |
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Post by Ludders II on Nov 20, 2024 23:04:18 GMT
Whatever might've happened to the show, good or bad, at least it would've evolved naturally. And it would've retained its British feel, which TVM threw away. It certainly wouldn't have felt or looked like Series 1. If the 1990 series had happened we definitely would have had Cybermen in World War II (which was novelized in the excellent Illegal Alien) instead of farting aliens, Cassandra and a leather jacket wearing numpty pretending to be an alien. It's too fanwank for some, but personally I would've loved a TV version of Death Comes To Time.  |
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Post by Cherry Pepsi Maxil on Nov 20, 2024 23:25:41 GMT
It certainly wouldn't have felt or looked like Series 1. If the 1990 series had happened we definitely would have had Cybermen in World War II (which was novelized in the excellent Illegal Alien) instead of farting aliens, Cassandra and a leather jacket wearing numpty pretending to be an alien. It's too fanwank for some, but personally I would've loved a TV version of Death Comes To Time. I'm not actually familiar with it, but I see that a remastered version is on YouTube. I'm intrigued. |
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Post by henshin on Nov 21, 2024 0:05:24 GMT
It probably would have looked even cheaper than late-80s DW since, I imagine, their budget would have taken a further hit.
Just look at Dimensions In Time.
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Post by Ludders II on Nov 21, 2024 0:07:21 GMT
It's too fanwank for some, but personally I would've loved a TV version of Death Comes To Time. I'm not actually familiar with it, but I see that a remastered version is on YouTube. I'm intrigued. Hope you like it. I had the BBC CD release years ago. It was originally a webcast on the old BBC Doctor Who board in 2001. A lot of fans didn't like it because it conflicted with TVM, and..... SPOILER ALERT! and it made Ace a Time Lord........ but I really liked it. And f*ck TVM.  It was around the early days of Big Finish too, who were doing great stuff back then. During the Wilderness Years, various books and other media played around with the canon a bit. But so what. The original canon ended with Survival. Everything after that is just speculative. Some of it good, some not very good. Like that Richard E Grant Shalka shite.
But looking back on it now, the Wilderness Years actually produced a lot of good stuff across different media. Not all of it was great, but I'd rather have 1990 to 2004 than post 2005 any day of the week. |
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Post by iank on Nov 21, 2024 7:54:30 GMT
It is a shame. Ace was going to leave early in season 27 and Sylv at the end of it. It would also have been Cartmel's last season so a 91 season would have had a new script editor and Doctor. JNT had been trying to leave for years so that would have been down to whether the BBC gave him something else. We know that for all their lies about no one else wanting it there was at least one BBC staff producer - Colin Brake - who had volunteered, only to be ignored, so in a better world maybe he'd have got the gig for 91.
I've no doubt it would all have been better than 2005+ so long as we kept Davies out of it. He has proven to be everything some fans accused JNT of (wrongly) and then some.
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Post by Cherry Pepsi Maxil on Nov 21, 2024 15:15:33 GMT
I'm not actually familiar with it, but I see that a remastered version is on YouTube. I'm intrigued. A lot of fans didn't like it because it conflicted with TVM When you say a lot of fans do you really mean three? |
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Post by Ludders II on Nov 21, 2024 15:17:34 GMT
A lot of fans didn't like it because it conflicted with TVM When you say a lot of fans do you really mean three? 😆 Probably! 😆 |
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It was around the early days of Big Finish too, who were doing great stuff back then. During the Wilderness Years, various books and other media played around with the canon a bit. But so what. The original canon ended with Survival. Everything after that is just speculative. Some of it good, some not very good. Like that Richard E Grant Shalka shite. 