Comments on: The Next is The One

By: One-Ten

One-Ten — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:40:52 +0000

Yes, that's The One Doctor and Christopher Biggins is Banto Zane, that imposter. The STARDIS was the teleport they've faked up to appear like... a portaloo (the "dematerialisation" sound effects being one of the funniest of the many gags). Evidence for:

The simlarity of the title "The [One/Next] Doctor"
The original was essentially a BF Christmas Panto, this will be a Christmas Special
Banto-like pomp & overdone costume
Fake looking Cyberman equivalent to the Skelloid non-threat

Evidence against:

Gareth Roberts is not co-writing even though he is collaborating on one of the specials.

If I'm right I hope it's not too similar to The One Doctor because he will struggle to better it... Though I doubt they could realise the shelves of infinity on TV! "Enough talk of this foolish Earth pan!" Come to think of it, I guess RTD has borrowed from it before, since Bad Wolf was not the first time The Weakest Link had been used in Doctor Who... With regard to alternative universes, I thought (but can't find the quote, so maybe I imagined it) that RTD said there aren't alternate Time Lords...

By: Simon Wood

Simon Wood — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:40:00 +0000

Yes, that’s The One Doctor and Christopher Biggins is Banto Zane, that imposter. The STARDIS was the teleport they’ve faked up to appear like… a portaloo (the “dematerialisation” sound effects being one of the funniest of the many gags).

Evidence for:

The simlarity of the title “The [One/Next] Doctor”
The original was essentially a BF Christmas Panto, this will be a Christmas Special
Banto-like pomp & overdone costume
Fake looking Cyberman equivalent to the Skelloid non-threat

Evidence against:

Gareth Roberts is not co-writing even though he is collaborating on one of the specials.

If I’m right I hope it’s not too similar to The One Doctor because he will struggle to better it… Though I doubt they could realise the shelves of infinity on TV! “Enough talk of this foolish Earth pan!”

Come to think of it, I guess RTD has borrowed from it before, since Bad Wolf was not the first time The Weakest Link had been used in Doctor Who…

With regard to alternative universes, I thought (but can’t find the quote, so maybe I imagined it) that RTD said there aren’t alternate Time Lords…

By: Gridman

Gridman — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 01:32:25 +0000

Hmmm, I suspect the same video popped up in my RSS feed, too.

I was reminded of a Big Finish story, Colin Baker’s Doctor, if I recall correctly, in which the Doctor encounters an imposter Doctor. Morrisey’s completely pompous, “the one, the only, the best…” struck me more as someone impersonating the Doctor.

Of course, the Cybermen are from an alternate universe, who’s to say there isn’t an alternate Time Lord.

By: Lone Locust

Lone Locust — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 01:32:00 +0000

Hmmm, I suspect the same video popped up in my RSS feed, too.

Of course, the Cybermen are from an alternate universe, who’s to say there isn’t an alternate Time Lord.