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.

Ah, meta.

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...

This is cute: Matthew Yglesias just quoted Battlestar Galactica at the end of a column on fiscal policy.