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I'd love an American Doctor, complete with American accent - or, indeed, any non-British incarnation. But given negative British reaction to the 'Americanizing' of the TV movie (which I quite liked, but many people didn't), it seemed that people still wanted their Doctor in British form back then.
It’s probably because I’ve got a weird love for British-ness, but I don't think the show would work if the Doctor was American (or anything else, really). How DW plays with history, mucks about, makes ordinary objects fantastical, and mocks most kinds of authority while still respecting others – it’s just British down to its bones. For me, it represents the best of the British imagination and its essence stems from the guy who's on the journey, the Doctor. If he wasn't British the whole show would change. It would be like setting Hogwarts down in Peoria.
I'm with Maysa. I'd hate to see an American Doctor. The very Britishness of the show sustains me through the bad moment, however few they may be.
Americanizing it would just be one more disappointing, 'we have no imagination of our own' gesture.
That rumor about an American Being Human? I'm lookin' at you.
I don't see anything essentially British about Being Human. I just don't see any reason to remake it. Or have any faith it will be a quality job. But the story could have been told well the first time on these shores.
Yeah, I imagine it will follow the path of so many American remakes of perfectly good British series - right into the crapper. But the basic idea of an American version isn't an outrage the way it would be for Dr. Who or Brideshead Revisited.
What about a Scottish Doctor? Or Welsh? Or Irish? Still out of the question?
For some reason Welsh would seem more natural to me than Scottish or Irish. The other two seem to have more strongly separate national identities.
Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish--still British.
Umm, Isn't Northern Ireland specifically not Britain, even if it is part of the UK?
I use the word British to mean UKian, for lack of another word. I hope I'm not causing offense.
Wikipedia says that citizens of the UK are properly called British, which is what I always figured. Great Britain doesn't include any Ireland but the British Isles do. So I stand by my statement.
