Just got a chance to watch that. Shouldn't he have been turned into 9? Or did I miss another reality-destroying war between the Time Lords and the Daleks?
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Connie Neil - Nov 14, 2013 4:57:45 pm PST #23768 of 30001
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DebetEsse - Nov 14, 2013 4:58:30 pm PST #23769 of 30001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I would have sworn I had read a showrunner quote that it wasn't a thing, but I am really not at 100% today and may totally be making shit up.
DebetEsse - Nov 14, 2013 4:59:32 pm PST #23770 of 30001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Connie, Nine had just regenerated AFTER the Time War. That's why he was checking out his ears in the mirror in Rose.
Connie Neil - Nov 14, 2013 5:03:16 pm PST #23771 of 30001
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Oh, wait, that was the one from the TV movie! Right?
DebetEsse - Nov 14, 2013 5:12:13 pm PST #23772 of 30001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Right.
Connie Neil - Nov 14, 2013 5:15:50 pm PST #23773 of 30001
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But Sebastian McCoy was in the beginning of the TV movie!
Connie Neil - Nov 14, 2013 5:16:07 pm PST #23774 of 30001
brillig
I may be worrying about this too much.
§ ita § - Nov 14, 2013 5:27:53 pm PST #23775 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm pretty impressed that an IO9 regular who seems to remember every classic Who episode predicted The Sisterhood of Karn from the photo of the woman in red.
Fiona - Nov 14, 2013 11:48:49 pm PST #23776 of 30001
...was in the beginning of the TV movie!
Yes, Sylvester McCoy regenerated into Paul McGann in the tv movie. The point about Eight was that the regeneration from Eight to Nine was never shown, CE just turned up in the reboot. So that leaves lots of space for retropective messing about (aka timey-wimeyness) .
Somebody elsewhere pointed out that the only other regeneration not shown onscreen was Troughton to Pertwee, but that would have been pushing things a bit.
I did like that Paul McGann was just allowed to be a lot older than he was in the movie. It does suggest that Eight had a long and eventful life too, we just never saw it (though as Tom points out, it has been extensively documented in audio dramas).
OTOH, the picture of John Hurt they used was much younger. I wonder where they got it from?
beekaytee - Nov 15, 2013 4:31:20 am PST #23777 of 30001
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I've been wondering if Fiona's point about McCann's age is why the other Doctor's have not been invited to participate. McCann still looks very much like himself in the tv movie .
Perhaps TPTB were concerned about throwing people out of the story with characters that have so obviously grown old . On the other hand, since actors have been reused so many times, they could have been cast as new characters !