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...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?
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
!
Watching the trailer for the Day of the Doctor,
CE
seems conspicuously absent, don't you think?
Yes. I believe
he was asked to return, but since he didn't want to, they invented this whole War Doctor thing.
I suspected metareasoning. Too bad.
Oh, I don't know. Colin Baker vehemently stated that none of the older Doctors had been asked back, including
Paul McGann
. So now I almost expect them to
produce CE like a rabbit out of a hat
.
Fiona, I agree, I expect
more casting surprises. I don't believe anything that anyone has said in the press wrt casting.
I would love to see
Nine as the War Doctor.
It would explain so much of his angst. But the point about looking at the ears is valid. And I miss Tom Baker's manic grin. Where can I find the old eps? Are they on Netflix? Or somewhere? There are lot of the McCoy eps I'd like to see again, too.
Netflix definitely has a lot of classic Who. Shit, I just saw a Tumblr post that had links to stuff for all the doctors, but...tumblr speed...
