18-04-2022, 04:21 PM
I've often thought about how I would run Doctor Who. It is actually one of my greatest fantasies to be the showrunner of Doctor Who, because I am a huge fan of the show. I am also a cocky so and so that thinks he can do better than the current crop of producers. I feel like the show has fallen behind the times of late, in terms of presentation, and what stories it makes. It all has become a bit samey. If I had a stab at running Doctor Who, I'd want to make a completely new show out of all the elements, in the way that RTD did in 2005. Same show, but completely different feel and outlook:
The Show I would have would focus on The Doctor, and characterise them as follows: A centuries old, often martyred, never boring, alien who goes where they need to go, in a dusty blue box. Sometimes with friends, sometimes alone, but always to go where they are needed. My Doctor would be that, and they would go back to the old testament of Doctors who would shoot guns, beat up henchmen, be an anarchist (because The Doctor is an anarchist), and support science, rational thought, and choice. They pick companions that either emobdy one of those feelings, or have potential to do more with their lives.
That's why The Doctor bumps heads with The Daleks, who want the whole universe to be subjugated under their rule. The Cybermen, who consider themselves the final evolution of sentient species, and wish to enforce this need to ensure their survival, entropy be damned. The Silurians/Sea Devils, who cannot accept change, and want to justify genocide, because their worls was taken. And of course, The Master. A Timelord who has everything The Doctor has, but squanders it all with an obsession of personal glory and power.
For me, Doctor Who needs to be distilled back to its purest form. Doctor Who has no canon, and that should be the defining rule of the show. Nothing is set in stone. In fact, that's what I would do for the last season wide story arc. Have it all revealed that The Timelords have never been dead, that every retcon is because they have altered time so much, and use that as a jump board to reset things: The return of the guardians, the war lords, and every other ancient race that Timelords have killed off (because they have, they're techno gods)
The Show I would have would focus on The Doctor, and characterise them as follows: A centuries old, often martyred, never boring, alien who goes where they need to go, in a dusty blue box. Sometimes with friends, sometimes alone, but always to go where they are needed. My Doctor would be that, and they would go back to the old testament of Doctors who would shoot guns, beat up henchmen, be an anarchist (because The Doctor is an anarchist), and support science, rational thought, and choice. They pick companions that either emobdy one of those feelings, or have potential to do more with their lives.
That's why The Doctor bumps heads with The Daleks, who want the whole universe to be subjugated under their rule. The Cybermen, who consider themselves the final evolution of sentient species, and wish to enforce this need to ensure their survival, entropy be damned. The Silurians/Sea Devils, who cannot accept change, and want to justify genocide, because their worls was taken. And of course, The Master. A Timelord who has everything The Doctor has, but squanders it all with an obsession of personal glory and power.
For me, Doctor Who needs to be distilled back to its purest form. Doctor Who has no canon, and that should be the defining rule of the show. Nothing is set in stone. In fact, that's what I would do for the last season wide story arc. Have it all revealed that The Timelords have never been dead, that every retcon is because they have altered time so much, and use that as a jump board to reset things: The return of the guardians, the war lords, and every other ancient race that Timelords have killed off (because they have, they're techno gods)
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