Would you like to see a DW reboot

[burrunjor]

Now that RTD has got his claws into the series again I have officially given up on there ever being a proper sequel to the original series. 

We may one day get an animated series, or another niche thing like Star Trek Continues that serves as an alternate sequel to the revival, but sadly the original continuity is dead thanks to the revival. 

The only hope of getting anything resembling proper DW will ironically be in a remake that just begins again with a new 1st Doctor. 

Obviously with RTD coming back even that is a long while off, but still suppose his version tanks then in say 2029 they bring DW back, but decide to reboot it. 

Obviously it would depend on who was making it. Knowing the Fitzroy c*nts, Steven Moffat would probably take up the reigns again, or Chinballs, or Paul Cornell. We really are going to have to pry it from their cold dead hands with a f*cking crowbar. Still again imagine these bastards do what they demanded JNT do, IE step down and let someone else have a go and it is a proper genre producer and writer. 

Say Peter Jackson is producing the series, whilst Adrian Hodges, Phil Ford, etc are the writers. Episodes are a bit longer, the TARDIS looks like the Hartnell style, and the focus is back on scary monsters, adventures into the unknown, old school sci fi, rather than romance, tedious soap opera drivel and shallow first year political student statements. Also the Doctor is a mysterious alien, played by a distinguished and eccentric character actor like say Jason Flemyng, Jason Watkins, Julian Barratt, David Bradley or whoever you want. 

Would you be okay with this even if it abandoned the original continuity? I'm going to say, yes. I actually think it could be interesting to see how they'd reintroduce characters and monsters into the new continuity. What stories they'd choose to adapt, though obviously I'd want 99 percent of stories to be new. Still it could be really interesting. 

(I'd go as far as to say having the companions come from 1960s London would be cool too.)

[iank]

No, not really. What's the point? It would still be utterly removed from the original and everything that was good about it.
Best just to accept it's gone.

[burrunjor]

Nov 16, 2021 20:35:58 GMT iank said:

No, not really. What's the point? It would still be utterly removed from the original and everything that was good about it.
Best just to accept it's gone.

Well that's what I'm saying, it wouldn't be removed from everything that made the original great. 

It would have a similar style, IE focus on alien worlds, monsters, no soap opera, a Doctor whose characterisation matches the original. It's just that technically it wouldn't follow on from the original, but that might not be a bad thing. 

After all the original continuity was going to have to end at some point. The Doctor is a character like Robin Hood who will doubtless be reinterpreted over the centuries. They couldn't all have been in the same continuity. Sooner or later it would have to have been abandoned. 

Now I agree that it could have gone on until the 13th Doctor and had a proper ending. I also think that it's awful that New Who is the official sequel, (though hopefully like I said a niche sequel can assure that it doesn't solely occupy that space.) 

Also this can hopefully stop any future writers from being twats more desperate to rewrite the canon of the new series. Now they'd actually have to make a good show and add to it with new adventures. Imagine that! 

[Deleted]

Not really, no. I don't see why Doctor Who needs to go on forever.

[Genkimonk]

I'd like a kind of reboot. One which discusses the outcomes of the time war, but then removes new who as some sort of alternative timeline, and then goes off on does its own thing in the new timeline, which is canonical, making all of new who non canonical.

[billpatjontom]

I've little to no enthusiasm now for any further tinkering with Doctor Who whether spin off or reboot. 

I'd love a faithful-to-the-original style series to be developed in theory if it really was possible but, after so much critical damage inflicted by "New Who", it seems extremely difficult to envisage. Maybe some kind of spin off or reboot might just work if it could generate the necessary formula for success. If so then I think it'd be absolutely essential for it to keep sufficiently separate from the original series as to have its own unique identity. It could certainly attempt to invoke the spirit of the original series by all means, that could be welcome even, but it should never ever step on the toes of the original series in the way we've witnessed over the last few years.

One of the things I've come to loathe most about "New Who" is the way it has not only disrespected the original but has now actively contaminated its core identity. I find it appalling this involved trampling on so many ideas of the original creators of the show not to mention quite literally rewriting history.  I suppose it's fair game if you create something yourself and then feck it all up but it's quite another thing if you feck up some one else's stuff.  I mean it's like "New Who" didn't so much revive the Doctor Who series so much as dig up its tomb and then violate its corpse!

I don't want to sound too much like Nyder but we must keep the Kaled Who brand pure! 
 


Instead of a reboot, maybe the very best thing to happen might just be if something creative were to emerge that indeed could resemble the best of the original series but without any risk of contaminating the source of inspiration.

[Deleted]

While I’d love a reboot that ignores at least nuwho, what ever was made I just done have faith in the industry at the minute to produce anything good, let alone have the guts to cut out nuwho or the classic.

[fredjones]

It would perhaps be a brave person who made the sort of television they made (without reference to the production values) as they did up until the late 1990s in the current environment

So personally no, I don't think they could or should.

I stopped watching at all when Matt Smith was the doctor. The new series enthuses in much the same way as a jigsaw which one might start, which is eventually forgotten about and which ends up under some biscuits crumbs and so on. What is perhaps worrying is that this is watched at certain top universities.

This is not stated because of my age in that one can watch productions from the classic era such as Noah's Castle or Chocky and feel enthused in some way. 

Another thing is its pompous and full of itself at times. You sort of want Jarvis Cocker to come on and to do what he did to Michael Jackson.  At least where the classic series fails you can laugh it whilst respecting the production team for trying. 

I would however watch a satirical series about the new series but I suspect given Barrowman and so on that would have to go out late at night.