A fun fantasy casting game, for geeks!

[theweaselking]

MightyGodKing proposes The Eleven Doctors Game, wherein, and I quote:

THE IMAGINED SITUATION IS: The BBC has decided to air a one-time four-hour miniseries event of Doctor Who. The miniseries will be entitled “The Eleven Doctors” and feature every single Doctor as the cast, with a number of companions rounding it out.

Paul McGann, Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant and Matt Smith will play the Eighth through Eleventh Doctors. (Some suggested that at 51 McGann was too old to play his Doctor, but fans argued that he deserved a second chance to play the Eighth Doctor again and really, 51? That’s not a big deal.) However, the remaining living former actors who have played the Doctor all agreed that they should let more age-appropriate actors play the younger incarnations of the earlier Doctors (perhaps with one or two making jokes about “the need for a sonic cane,”) and of course Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton and William Hartnell are all long dead.

So:

1.) Who plays each of the first seven Doctors?

2.) Which companion does each Doctor get, if any? (Assume, for marketing purposes, that Amy Pond will be present and accounted for. Possibly Rory as well. And Sarah Jane Smith is a definite, played by Elizabeth Sladen.) Note that some Doctors will have to go without.

3.) Who then should play those companions?

My own answers are available in that thread, and your answers should go there!

For the linkphobic:

First: Alan Rickman (I accept Bird's recommendation)
Second: Colin Hanks
Third: Stephen Fry (I accept Bird's recommendation)
Fourth: Diedrich Bader (I think this is terrible and yet too funny to not do)
Fifth: Jesse Spencer
Sixth: James Nesbitt (I accept Bird's recommendation, because, really, sixth doctor WHO?)
Seventh: Mark Sheppard

Also:
"Both Billy Connelly and Patrick Warburton must be simultaneously cast as the false Doctor from “The Next Doctor”. They should swap out continuously mid-scene and nobody except the Second, Seventh, and Eleventh doctors are allowed to notice."

Comments

[tyoko.livejournal.com]

As an anime otaku, I am not going to say anything about the odd fascination that foreigners feel towards local quirky TV series, for fear of irony whiplash.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

The problem, to me, really is that the core conventions of anime are annoying and boring.

And while I understand that other people don't feel this way, I am perpetually at a loss as to *why* they do.

[lordbleys.livejournal.com]

I can't stand animated films made in Japan. Though I do have a weak spot in my head for Force Five and Starblazers. In their proper UHF station syndication dubbing and no sense making.

And I am trying to come up with a list of actors for companions, but I'm so caught up in this amazing idea (no matter how hypothetical it may be).

Keanu Reeves, as Chameleon. He's not a real actor, and he wasn't a real companion!

Daniel Radcliff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Radcliffe as Jamie (about the right age).
Asia Argento as Zoie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia_Argento (as trashy as she is, she looks younger but I think she could do it)
Cobie Smulders http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobie_Smulders as Romana I

More later I'm sure.

Now Lethbridge Stuart... He'll be Tough.

[tyoko.livejournal.com]

I hate anime where:

- The hero trains and fights, getting stronger to beat the next incremental enemy
- Panty shots replace plot
- The lead protagonist is a pervert
- A harem of wish-fulfilment stand-ins lust after an unlucky everyman boy
- Bouncing boobies is a major theme
- All life depends on characters who are in those few short years of high school
- Girls are a goal to be achieved rather than actual people
- The entire story consists of a clueless couple who can't spit it out

I hate core anime conventions. And yet I have a little Tachicoma model on my desk. It is awesome.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Whereas I hate anime where:
- Lousy animation is cited as "style" instead of "incompetence"
- oh wait you just covered every other defining trait of anime.

But that first one is REALLLLY big, for me. If you can't match 1950s Disney, I find you unbelievably painful to watch and even if you can, 1950s Disney sucked, you'd better have an AMAZING story if you can't get up to at-least-1994 levels of technical competence.

[dreamshade.livejournal.com]

What if panty shots ARE the plot? Then what do you replace them with?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

You watch non-shitty cartoons instead?

I like The Lion King, even if it gave my 3yo neice nightmares.

[dreamshade.livejournal.com]

I haven't watched much anime lately but got roped into watching that show in the link - it's Gainax trying to find as many ways to be as offensive as possible while doing a parody/homage of Western animation. I couldn't tell if it was one of the greatest shows I've seen in a while or if I was just watching it to see what kind of shit they'd pull.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sorry, "can't immediately tell it apart from the unwatchable crap" = "not worth my time without a hell of a lot of more endorsement".

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

I know very little about Dr.Who (beyond seeing occasional 4th Doctor episodes as a kid on PBS and catching the latest 3 or 4 when friends watch the show). So I'll just go by the pictures of them on the wiki page...

1st - Michael Caine
2nd - Stephen Fry
3rd - Ken Watanabe
4th - Chitwel Ejiofor
5th - Michael Sheen
6th - Paul Gross (just to see him rock the white boy 'fro)
7th - Dominic West
8th - Helen Mirrin

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Just saw Tron: Legacy. Are you sure they couldn't draft in Tom Baker et al, and CGI them younger?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

#1: Three of the earlier Doctors are dead, and pulling them together from footage is difficult.
#2: Budget of Tron: measured in tens of millions of dollars. Budget of a Doctor Who episode: Measured in bits of string and spare pocket lint.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Budget of Tron: measured in tens of millions of dollars. Budget of a Doctor Who episode: Measured in bits of string and spare pocket lint.

Well, it's improved to the point that these days they have an entire reel of string and a fresh supply of cotton wool balls, but nonetheless point taken...

[chrisrw109.livejournal.com]

#2: Budget of Tron: measured in tens of millions of dollars. Budget of a Doctor Who episode: Measured in bits of string and spare pocket lint.

Not true, the bits of pocket lint are being used in reserve for future programs.

I love many BBC programs beyond measure, but their laughably small budgets make for amusing watching sometimes. I will never forget watching 'Neverwhere' with a friend of mine, who just would not believe that the fight with the Beast, was as low-budget as it was.

On the other hand the SyFy channel has a much bigger budget for it's shows and seems to be dead-set on lowering the quality level of science-fiction on TV so... all hail the BBC.