Thread: Did He Jump Or...?
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3rd Mar 2011, 12:28 PM #26
Clever, clever.
Si.
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3rd Mar 2011, 1:43 PM #27Close embrace
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In the Confidential introducing Matt Smith, DT says he was cast as the Doctor in the December, four months before Rose aired. So either CE's departure was planned or he walked away from Series 2 shortly after filming for S1 began.
The episodes aren't shot in order, so it's possible Ep13 was in the bag before he quit and that's why the regeneration sequence felt tacked on.
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3rd Mar 2011, 2:03 PM #28
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3rd Mar 2011, 2:31 PM #29
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3rd Mar 2011, 2:46 PM #30
The Christmas Invasion is quite obviously a standard 45 minute episode (probably called The Sycorax Invasion) with 15 minutes of Christmas stuff tacked on, mostly at the beginning. The stuff with the robot Santas can be excised with no detriment to the plot whatsoever.
So, possible scenario: Series 1 is written assuming Eccleston will stay on, with an ending where Rose is dying, leaving us a cliffhanger into the next series where she is taken to a hospital on New Earth.
Eccleston announces he is quitting, so the end of The Parting of the Ways is rapidly re-written to include a regenration. New Earth doesn't fit as a 'post-regeneration' story, so a new episode 1 for series 2 is written: The Sycorax Invasion.
Now New Earth becomes episode 2 of series 2, and a new reason for the Doctor going to the hospital on New Earth is needed, so the Face of Boe is brought back to send a psychic message to the Doctor to bring him there.
The BBC gives Doctor Who a Christmas special. But the special will have to follow on from the regeneration. Rather than write a whole new post-regeneration, introduce-the-new-Doctor episode, The Sycorax Invasion has some Christmassy bits thrown in to make it suitable for a Christmas Day special slot and to extend it to an hour in length.
Series 2 is now an episode short, so RTD takes the opportunity to write a whole episode setting up the Torchwood spin-off he is planning. This episode is, obviously, Tooth and Claw, which has been described before as being a hasty addition when the Christmas special was announced.
A whole extra episode now has to be included in the shooting schedule. With one episode awaiting the winner of a 'design a monster' contest, RTD finds a perfect opportunity to write an episode that hardly features the Doctor and Rose, thus allowing an extra episode to be shot without exhausting his cast and crew, who are already on a rather full schedule.Last edited by Jason Thompson; 3rd Mar 2011 at 2:51 PM.
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3rd Mar 2011, 5:47 PM #31
Diabolical ingenuity.
Or could the original Sycorax Invasion have had the 9th Doctor taking Rose Montrose back to the council estate to be with her family in her dying days?
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3rd Mar 2011, 6:42 PM #32
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13th Mar 2011, 3:36 PM #33
Bad Wolf/TPOTW was the last story in Series 1 to be recorded though. Eccleston's last day working on it was 5 March 2005. Tennant came in and recorded the regeneration on 21 April 2005, several weeks after every other scene in the story had been recorded. Billie Piper wasn't present for the recording of his sequence in that story either, all of her reactions to him had been recorded in March.
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13th Mar 2011, 5:26 PM #34Close embrace
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Billie Piper wasn't present for the recording of his sequence in that story either, all of her reactions to him had been recorded in March.
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13th Mar 2011, 5:28 PM #35
That was filmed in a season 2 session- you can tell because Billie's hair is slightly different.
Si xx
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13th Mar 2011, 5:42 PM #36
Yes, the CiN scene was recorded on 3 November 2005, only a fortnight before it was broadcast.
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30th Apr 2011, 11:49 AM #37
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He's being interviewed by Graham Norton at the moment.
At the minute they are talking about "The Shadow Line" new series. Going through who's in the cast.
Go on Graham... ask him about Who!
(The rest of this post might be misspelt as my fingers try and keep up)
And... we're off!
No, he's talking about "Heroes". Dum de dum... "None of it made any sense"
RTD reference! A question from someone about how she likes Dr Who but loves The Second Coming. So he's talking about that.
He went after the part of the Doctor when RTD was announced as the writer. He thinks children won't be patronised and a better audience. He decided to play him as a loner.
"No no, my intention was to make that show a success so the next two series could follow. I did what I set out to do."
And now he's talking about the Moff.
"No, never bathe in the same river twice" as to the question about going back. But he'll still give autographs but not 6 because they get sold for profit.
So there goes the 50th Anniversary story then!
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30th Apr 2011, 9:18 PM #38
He's doing quite a bit of promo for 'The Shadow Line', he was on Front Row this week too.
“If my sons did not want wars, there would be none.” - Gutle Schnaper Rothschild
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2nd May 2011, 12:05 PM #39
There's some bloke called Christopher Ecclestone appearing on The One Show tonight. Wonder if Matt & Alex will do one of their "funny" skits where they dress up as Doctor Who?
“If my sons did not want wars, there would be none.” - Gutle Schnaper Rothschild
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