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Is RTD really correct in assuming that future writers and showrunners won't want to use any of the old cast? (With Donna maybe being the exception.)
Did he say that? I didn't think it was his assumption but other peoples, um, assumption of his assumption. Any writer with the slightest imagination could riff off of any of those vignets.
I'm not getting what's so dreadful about him having a Doctor version of "dying in bed surrounded by fat grandchildren" He's spent the past however long saying he needed to be alone and at his death he realized he did not, he went ahead and loved them. It was good old-fashioned character arc, imho.
Did he say that?
I was actually asking if that was a reasonable interpretation. I always thought one of the point of the Doctor (even the original) was that the past was never really dead, that anyone could be a continuing character. I mean I don't see why Donna and Martha and Rose and Donna's mother shouldn't continue to pop up. They could just write everyone out and start fresh, but having established all of this back story why wouldn't they take advantage of it?
Heh. You and I manage to circutiously agree about 99% of the time. I think its our initials.
Is RTD really correct in assuming that future writers and showrunners won't want to use any of the old cast?
Did he say that?
Yes, in the Confidential.
Actually, he said something like: he doesn't know whether or not they'll be used again, but has no reason to assume they will; new crew, new stories, and all that. Unfortunately I've already deleted the Confidential from my PVR or I'd go and write up the quote verbatim.
I don't think it really matters whether or not we'll see these characters again, it was DT and RTD saying goodbye through the Doctor.
The rest of the cast can act;
But not necessarily do accents (yes, still stuck on that).
I'm personally still holding out for Ace to return.
I'd love to see what Ace is doing twenty years on! And since we never saw her leave the show, we have no idea where she might be.
ETA: I always liked her--she was so impulsive. Like Leela, only with explosives!
Sighhh.....
Reason 4,691 I should be Trudy Tennant.
I thought that Mickey/Martha showed just how much character growth Mickey had gone through.
I mean we are a long way from "I'm the tin dog!" realization. He has built up to the potential he showed in the alternate reality (boyfriend notwithstanding).
Also, we don't know where in their time lines that scene was IRT Martha and Mickey, could be a couple years hence...
Good point, that could have been a dead husband down the road or whatever.
