Heavy
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I see. You shall have to excuse me, folks, because I haven't done this before. I shall go through and add them in.
What I would like to do when this is done is put it in the Finished TLs section and maybe even edit it.
TLIAFD: The Doctor Is Who?
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I see. You shall have to excuse me, folks, because I haven't done this before. I shall go through and add them in.
What I would like to do when this is done is put it in the Finished TLs section and maybe even edit it.
Sideways
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Thanks Heavy. They just allow users to skip the comments, which means we don't miss an update. No excuse me needed. This is good quality content
Well, if you can't find a picture of your first choice after that date, you almost certainly aren't going for the American I most want to see as the Doctor: John de Lancie. (Maybe down the line, with Wil Wheaton as a regenerated Master?) If not, I'm very much looking forward to seeing who ends up in the role.
if your going for a american actor for the doctor and DS9 is over how about Avery Brooks although he might not want to if in this T/L he has just finished DS9 also bonus points if you make Marc Alaimo as the Master.
Of course, 9th will be Scott Bakula. That's really why the Sci-Fi Channel got in. The easiest way for them to get Quantum Leap back on TV was to get Doctor Who back on TV first.
Given the way this TL swaps around leads, Dean Stockwell might be the better QL alum. He's not a bad actor either. His crustiness would also be a fairly sharp break from the previous Doctors ITTL.
On the other hand, while the TL describes the new Doctor as an American actor, "actor" is increasingly used as a non-gendered description, and Sci-Fi Channel is chasing those Buffy eyeballs, so a female Doctor wouldn't be a shocking swerve.
I like the way you think. Dean Stockwell's a great choice; he'd be a real throwback to the Hartnell era, giving off some of the same vibes Capaldi does OTL. The drawback to that second idea is Heavy described our potential 9 as "the guy" in a comment, but otherwise, that would be a heck of a neat twist. (Linda Hunt as the Doctor would be funny as hell.)
Makes sense, and Heavy did mention it was hard to find pictures of the 9th in question at the time, which rules out Bakula (It's fairly easily to snap a pic of him in Enterprise). So if Quantum is going to get some representation, it would likely be in the form of Stockwell (I've actually joked about him being OTL's 13th before
), who is harder to get a picture of (Even if Edward Sheffield of First Monday and JAG as well as Mark Whiting of The Manchurian Candidate aren't that hard to get screencaps of) around the time the fourth American season premieres in (I assume) 2003.
Heavy
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I have considered several women as prospective Doctors but don't think it would have been on the cards just yet ITTL.
I think one of the key factors in the real world enthusiasm for a female Doctor is (aside from wider trends in terms of awareness of the representation of women and ethnic minorities in media) is that the series has managed to accrue a much larger female fandom than I think it had ever had before. I think that the opening up of the Doctor Who fandom - making it more welcoming to people who might otherwise have been discouraged from giving it a go, whether because it was insular and obsessive or because it came off as a bit of a boys' club has definitely been a positive step towards creating the opportunity to have a female Doctor.
One observation I'd make, of course, is that we have already had a South Asian actor playing the Doctor and becoming the de facto most popular classic Doctor in America, so more so than Tom Baker, if you asked a casual American fan (so far as such things exist) ITTL to close their eyes and picture the Doctor before 2000, they would no doubt conjure up an image of Art Malik in a silk coat.
However, I can confirm that the next Doctor will be played by Tyler Perry in character as Madea; he will also be writing an episode in which the Doctor defeats the Cybermen with Bible verses.
Haha, nah I'm only messing.
I think one of the key factors in the real world enthusiasm for a female Doctor is (aside from wider trends in terms of awareness of the representation of women and ethnic minorities in media) is that the series has managed to accrue a much larger female fandom than I think it had ever had before. I think that the opening up of the Doctor Who fandom - making it more welcoming to people who might otherwise have been discouraged from giving it a go, whether because it was insular and obsessive or because it came off as a bit of a boys' club has definitely been a positive step towards creating the opportunity to have a female Doctor.
One observation I'd make, of course, is that we have already had a South Asian actor playing the Doctor and becoming the de facto most popular classic Doctor in America, so more so than Tom Baker, if you asked a casual American fan (so far as such things exist) ITTL to close their eyes and picture the Doctor before 2000, they would no doubt conjure up an image of Art Malik in a silk coat.
However, I can confirm that the next Doctor will be played by Tyler Perry in character as Madea; he will also be writing an episode in which the Doctor defeats the Cybermen with Bible verses.
Haha, nah I'm only messing.
I've been mulling this for a bit, I'm not sure if I disagree with you or not.
My first instinct, as someone who knows several long term female doctor who fans, is to think you underestimate the female fanbase of the old series. Certainly large female only spaces of doctor who fans existed long before the new series.
But the new series certainly opened up interest that hadn't been there before for every demographic and I remember push back from the old fans that it wasn't the same demographics as before, so you may have a point.
Heavy
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I certainly don't discount that - I wasn't into Doctor Who until 2000 or so when I was nine, so my firsthand experience of fandom as a current, active thing is limited.
Paul Darrow as the Master. Blake's 7 is over and done with (if it happened) and he's got a great voice.
And, instead of a female Doctor Who, how about just a female Time Lord who missed the war because she was a) shopping or b) in the library (probably of Alexandria) or c) fixing her stolen Tardis, stranded on Gauda Prime (yeah, a Blake's 7 reference) or d) late to the war in a typical cliché of femininity? Interspersing episodes, which will spawn numerous fanfics where various incarnations of the Doctor hook up with various incarnation of Lady Romana (or whatever the hell she's named in this TL). Of course, in the incarnations where she's interested in him, he's not and vice versa......
Heavy
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Hmmmmm.
There isn't a Romana in this story as far as I can recall - this timeline's version of Borusa is a woman who has been portrayed in successive regenerations by Caroline John and Louise Jameson opposite Peter Wyngarde, Christopher Neame and Colin Baker.
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Edit: OK, in Iris' case she'd probably miss the war because she was at a party.
Heavy
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Did you ever hear that Unbound story where the Doctor regenerates into Arabella Weir and immediately retires from time travel to work in a supermarket while lamenting that she "used to be a man of action"?
And people single out Steven Moffat for his problems writing women.