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Nov. 20th, 2008 10:05 pmThe number of people who are absolutely convinced that "there will only be three more Doctors" are making me crazy.
No, the BBC is not obligated to cancel a show because of a 20-year-old plot point. Anybody who thinks that they would even consider the concept for a nanosecond is delusional at best.
No, it won't be "uncanonical" to blow that plot point away because it itself contradicts 40-year-old canon. (Like Who has ever followed its own internal canon anyway.) For sanity's sake, kindly do not flaunt your old school credentials if all you know about regenerations came from Trial of a Time Lord. Or even Mawdryn Undead. The Doctor discussed Time Lord lifespans all the way back in War Games (back when he was claiming to be over twice as old as he admits to now) - and it's quite a different view when they weren't looking for new plot points to hang cliffhangers on.
No, the BBC won't just "ignore" it either, because if you look, the official FAQ addresses the issue and its solution and has ever since there was a website for the new show. THAT'S the part that's making me craziest of all - all the people spinning their wheels about how the BBC will or won't "deal with the issue" when they dealt with it *in writing* five freakin' years ago!
And the part that's the brain-damaged icing on a cake of fail is that I already know all these people will become hysterical when the BBC does move onto Doctor #14 while bleeping right over how old school itself found about two dozen ways to handwave the whole issue for the sake of the Master anyway. He's on body, what, #39,256,099 by now?
Yet big business must strictly force their schedule into limits that old school dodged for rating's sake all the time.
EPIC. FAIL.
No, the BBC is not obligated to cancel a show because of a 20-year-old plot point. Anybody who thinks that they would even consider the concept for a nanosecond is delusional at best.
No, it won't be "uncanonical" to blow that plot point away because it itself contradicts 40-year-old canon. (Like Who has ever followed its own internal canon anyway.) For sanity's sake, kindly do not flaunt your old school credentials if all you know about regenerations came from Trial of a Time Lord. Or even Mawdryn Undead. The Doctor discussed Time Lord lifespans all the way back in War Games (back when he was claiming to be over twice as old as he admits to now) - and it's quite a different view when they weren't looking for new plot points to hang cliffhangers on.
No, the BBC won't just "ignore" it either, because if you look, the official FAQ addresses the issue and its solution and has ever since there was a website for the new show. THAT'S the part that's making me craziest of all - all the people spinning their wheels about how the BBC will or won't "deal with the issue" when they dealt with it *in writing* five freakin' years ago!
And the part that's the brain-damaged icing on a cake of fail is that I already know all these people will become hysterical when the BBC does move onto Doctor #14 while bleeping right over how old school itself found about two dozen ways to handwave the whole issue for the sake of the Master anyway. He's on body, what, #39,256,099 by now?
Yet big business must strictly force their schedule into limits that old school dodged for rating's sake all the time.
EPIC. FAIL.
