Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Who?

Bit concerned about the news that there is to be a blockbuster Doctor Who film. Putting the Doctor on the big screen has of course been tried before, and therein lies my concern.  Peter Cushing made a good Doctor, and the plots stayed true to the original TV series, whereas Paul McGann was an equally good Doctor, but the plot suffered badly from being "Hollywood-ised" and I fear that this is what is likely to happen to the coming film which inevitably will depend on American money and will therefore look to the American market.  Doctor Who is quintessentially British and if you do away with that Britishness, what you have got is no longer Doctor Who.

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