Bring back multi camera studio based production! We could easily go back to 26 episodes a year with that kind of turn around!
It is just possible that I’m not being entirely serious here, but I reckon there is an immediacy to the old video days, which sometimes I think gets a bit lost with the single camera approach. Obviously, it’s got to compete with all the other scifi out there and so would never happen and tech/working practices and so on have moved on, but I do still wonder if they’re not missing a trick by being different.
No, no! We should get a white-haired old dude in their late 50s who constantly flubs his lines and is grumpy to everyone! That’s real Doctor Who! /j
Only 26? Let’s go back to 45 episodes a year and keep Who on the telly all year long. So what if it means the cast and crew are overworked? We need more content! /j
It’s a title so tied to Gomez’s performance that I can’t see it working with another actress - and I think we need an unique take on the character anyways -, but at the same time if we change the name (Mistress?) it creates that feeling that it isn’t as cohesive as calling every guy on the role the Master (not saying that’s a bad thing tho)
I kind of like the idea that ‘Missy’ is linked with Michelle Gomez and her specific regeneration, because that character was very much hers.
Plus I didn’t like the fact that her name needed to change just because she was a woman now.
I was going suggest that too, but I am not sure the show wouldn’t be tempted to change it tho, even if only because it makes that regeneration instantaneously unique (there is only one Missy after all)
You could try to link the name Missy with the fact that Missy became “good” in the end.
So every Missy has more good tendencies, because women are more prone to logic and actually listening during a debate/hj
Even though they never made that character trait about her gender so idk.
I don’t care that adventures featuring both Five and Peri diminish the point of his death in The Caves of Androzani. I care even more about him sacrificing his life for a very close friend than for a stranger, and if I have to choose between one great adventure and several great adventures (The Eye of the Scorpion, The Church and the Crown, The Council of Nicaea, The Kingmaker, The Son of the Dragon, The Bride of Peladon) I’m choosing the later.
Nothing controversial about that. Those Peri/Erimem stories are brilliant and, as you say, the Doctor sacrificing himself for a good friend works just as well as him doing it for someone he had only just met.
