So some new developments have just happened regarding the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special. I have wanted to talk about some of this and my new blog is a good place for it. WARNING PLOT POINTS DISCUSSED FROM HERE ON OUT. According to Doctor Who Spoilers.com John Hurt may have let slip what his role in the special is going to be. For full story go to http://www.doctorwhospoilers.com/2012/?p=7617.
According to the leak, Hurt has said that he plays "a part of the Doctor in a kind of trinity which includes David Tennant." For a couple weeks now people have speculated that Hurt may be playing a lost/forgotten regeneration of the Doctor. Those speculations were previously based on the clothing Hurt is wearing in the above picture (far right). Many of spotted similarities between his clothing and the costumes of the 8th and 9th Doctors, including the leather jacket. But now it seems like this may be a true possibility.
Hurt may in fact be playing a forgotten regeneration of the Doctor, a regeneration between the 8th and 9th Doctor. This would make Christopher Eccleston the 10th Doctor, Tennant the 11th, and Matt Smith the 12th. I have also heard plot speculation that if this was the case that they would deal with this by somehow erasing Hurt's Doctor by the end of the special and thus returning to the original numbering.
If this does turn out to be true, I will be both excited and disappointed. I would be excited to see how Moffat will fit in this new incarnation of the Doctor. He would be battle worn and scarred from the Time War. If we thought Eccleston was the battle worn Doctor, imagine what this Doctor would be like. It would be fabulous. Moffat is probably the only writer capable of delivering this to us. But I would be wary of how he either writes off the character in order to restore canon or how it would shake the foundation of Who canon by adding in Hurt's Doctor.
This news also makes me very sad. As a new series fan, I was upset over the news that Christopher Eccleston turned down the opportunity to return to the show. This would kind of be the way to fit in that 3rd Doctor into the story. But what makes me even sadder is the fact that they did not turn to any of the classic series actors. Yes Tom Baker, Peter Davison, and Colin Baker don't look the same as they did when they originally played the character. Sylvester McCoy still looks enough like the 7th Doctor to reprise the role for the Classic Series fans.
But even more than that it leaves out the bridge that connects the gap between the Classic Series and the New Series. I am speaking of the 8th Doctor Paul McGann. McGann looks much the same as he does when he played the Doctor in the 1996 TV movie. He has only had the one 90 minute television appearance (only 60 of which he was the Doctor). This would have been the perfect opportunity to give McGann his one chance at another appearance. I would have loved to see him reprise the role and get the proper send off that he deserved. Wouldn't it be great if at the end of the special something happened to McGann which initiated the regeneration from him to Eccleston? Then the Anniversary would also go back and loop around to the revival of the New Series. But that is probably too much to ask for.
It would have been a better service to the fans of the show if they had returned McGann instead of inventing another Doctor. I still hold out hope that they could surprise us all with the return of McGann or other classic series Doctors. But after this news, that hope is seeming to fade.
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