New Who S3 Casting Spoiler

[neadods]

Forget about the Heros casting this season, I am officially DEAD OF SQUEE that one of the best actors of this generation has signed the contract.

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[spiderine.livejournal.com]

Holy FUCK that's AWESOME! And the name of the character makes me think he's a TIME LORD. That is soooooooo cool! *bounces*

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, cool!

And hmmm, he's played the Master at least once, in either Scream of the Shalka or one of the Big Finish audios (or both), so watch me speculate wildly and with no basis...

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

for Big Finish he was in an Unbound, playing "the Doctor" (except he wasn't really, but it was cool).

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes! Deadline's a good one. (And, pretty unbelievably, he was a last-minute replacement in that for Ian McKellen. Maybe we'll get him in TV-DW one day too...)

[neadods.livejournal.com]

IIRC, he's also played the Doctor in one of the Unbounds.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Now I'm fantasizing about a Jacobi/McKellen/Eccleston faceoff, which would have been the uttermost in awesome. I'd settle for a Jacobi/McKellen/Tennant faceoff, though...

[shawan-7.livejournal.com]

In other words, he's broadening his appeal to whole new generations. The Alec Guiness/Obiwan of Doctor Who.

Will they put him in a toga? (It reminds me of when he took the part in Gladiator, and knew more about draping the toga after I Claudius, than the designer.)

[redstarrobot.livejournal.com]

It actually sounds an awful lot like an in-joke about the Seven/Ace era... which makes me think he's probably not a Time Lord, as I don't think RTD's a Seven fan. I think it's probably the sort of joke we had in "The Empty Child" where Nancy told Nine he'd have to go to see the Doctor for answers.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

and knew more about draping the toga after I Claudius, than the designer

Did he? Oh, that amuses me vastly.

[terri-osborne.livejournal.com]

Holy crap!

Just...holy crap!

FanTAStic!

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

:: implodes incoherently ::

[lizbetann]

Oooo, ooooo! That's just... *squee*

I watched I, Claudius at my mother's knee, and then guessed the bad guy in Dead Again when the little boy started to stutter. (And is it just me, or does the Whoverse tend towards names-of-jobs as names or what? The Doctor, the Master, the Professor, etc.)

[neadods.livejournal.com]

It's not just you.

[redstarrobot.livejournal.com]

The Rani, The Castellan, The Monk...

[redstarrobot.livejournal.com]

Actually, if he's in a Mark Gatiss-penned episode, I know exactly who he's playing... and it's kinda cool.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

You're more up on Whovian trivia than I am.

[redstarrobot.livejournal.com]

I read the Virgin New Adventures... and most of the current scriptwriters wrote them. You know the gag in Remembrance of the Daleks where Ace turns on the television? It got picked up in Mark Gatiss's book "Nightshade" bigtime. And I think it's totally what they'd do in the new series; not a Timelord helping save the Earth, but the actor who plays The Professor in "Professor X" being called on to play the part of the real thing and save his home planet. Heck, it might even be a story based on Nightshade, because that was largely the plot of Nightshade, as I recall. And, IIRC, Gatiss does have at least one script this coming season.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I had bad luck with the New Adventures and didn't read many of them. I'll have to check out Nightshade, though. After all, I rather liked that plot when Batman TAS did it...

[redstarrobot.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, it's a very Gray Ghost sort of concept. At least, so far as I can recall - I probably haven't read it in about ten years.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

*blink*blink*

A check of ebay found a single copy for $39. A check of half.com turned up a copy for $3.

[flaviarassen.livejournal.com]

Doesn't surprise me - and it embarasses me.
"I, Claudius" was BBC - "Gladiator" was American.

[flaviarassen.livejournal.com]

I am now having a geek flash-back to a LARP I was in, where I had made costumes for 2 of the players. Togas. Yards long. And I draped the guys
before the game started, with instructions on how to wear it, etc. And
all throughout the game, I kept saying "OOG, excuse me!" and running
over to fix the drape when it slipped. Which wouldn't have been half so
weird if I hadn't been playing the Celtic warrior queen...