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The way I see it, the show can only work as long as they don't try to pick it up where it left off. Here are my suggestions for possible plot lines:
1) Skip ahead to the doctor's future. Start on the 9th or 10th doctor. The down side is that he would be one generation closer to becoming the Valiard (12th regeneration). If they do the storyline right, it could make for some good character evolution.
2) Start from the beginning again. Take the old plots and rework them. Start from the beginning and go until it ends. This would personally cheese me off, but it would be nice to see better actors and better dialogue for the same old great plots.
3) The last option I'll offer is to do what Card did with Ender's Game - A parallel series. This way they could leverage the old series and all its great plots, but take them from a different perspective. They could weive a parallel plot to explain this new timelords travels. The best part would be that they could avoid disgruntelling all the loyal Dr. Who fans out there by not doing it right. Just borrowing the Dr. Who universe so to speak.
Anyhow, that's my two cents.
Btw, what ever happened to Fox purchasing the rights to Dr. Who?
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no kidding, I have some enya that i'd like to hear stretched out for a couple hours.
The way I see it, the show can only work as long as they don't try to pick it up where it left off. Here are my suggestions for possible plot lines:
1) Skip ahead to the doctor's future. Start on the 9th or 10th doctor. The down side is that he would be one generation closer to becoming the Valiard (12th regeneration). If they do the storyline right, it could make for some good character evolution.
2) Start from the beginning again. Take the old plots and rework them. Start from the beginning and go until it ends. This would personally cheese me off, but it would be nice to see better actors and better dialogue for the same old great plots.
3) The last option I'll offer is to do what Card did with Ender's Game - A parallel series. This way they could leverage the old series and all its great plots, but take them from a different perspective. They could weive a parallel plot to explain this new timelords travels. The best part would be that they could avoid disgruntelling all the loyal Dr. Who fans out there by not doing it right. Just borrowing the Dr. Who universe so to speak.
Anyhow, that's my two cents.
Btw, what ever happened to Fox purchasing the rights to Dr. Who?