I also think that if Paul had got his own TV series (not linked to Fox, the TVM formula didn’t really work) he’d easily have become a People’s Favourite Doctor behind Tom. He is magnificent and is everything I imagine the Doctor to be.
Personally, in the main, I think he’s…
My favourite even without a TV series (but it would have been glorious if he’d gotten one!)
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Seriously though. Can Clara do some audios and have adventures where she saves Five, Six, Seven and Eight and is cute and awesome.
I just need it.
Yesyesyesyes, me too. That would be so brilliant.
Anyone else ever wondered why the EDA’s describe the Eighth Doctor as “tall” constantly?
Handsome and every other description, yes. Tall, no
haha yes, tall and long-legged. also, his eye and hair colour as well as his apparent age…
No, 38 certainly isn’t old, but it’s mature. I can’t remember where it is now, but in one of the EDAs the Doctor is described as having a face which is older than he is. That captures some of the contradictions in his age. He’s hundreds of years and has seen so much, and yet he looks like he’s in his 30s, but at the same time, he is playful and innocent as a child, and yet he looks like he’s middle-aged.
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I’m sorry to fellow Eight Fans who love him as tortured and miserable (heh), but if it turns out Eight was NOT the one to destroy Gallifrey then I will actually be completely happy at preserving the happy cosmic five-year-old’s innocence except for what this does to my complicated EDA-inspired Headcanons.
Even if he didn’t fight the Time War, he still destroyed Gallifrey in the Ancestor Cell, so I feel he gets quite tortured and miserable even without the Time War. I’ll just put all my fiction-sadist eggs in that basket if I start feeling miserable about it. Besides, Eight might well have fought parts of the Time War and died, and regenerated before actually destroying Gallifrey.
Anyone else ever wondered why the EDA’s describe the Eighth Doctor as “tall” constantly?
Handsome and every other description, yes. Tall, no
haha yes, tall and long-legged. also, his eye and hair colour as well as his apparent age constantly change. but the “tall” thing always really throws me.
Reading the EDAs is sometimes an exercise in reading what you want to read. Every time he’s described as tall, I just let my eyes pass over the word and imagine how cutely short he is. I tend to get a little annoyed when he’s described as “young”. In comparison to some Doctors, yes, but he’s not a lad straight out of school, exactly. Still, there are some wonderful descriptions of the Doctor in the EDAs. My favourite ones are in Camera Obscura, where it’s made clear that actually, he doesn’t look much like a human, when you look properly, which is wonderful and creepy.
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Where does one get ahold of the Eighth Doctor Adventure’s books? The one’s starting with “The Eight Doctors”?
I mean,
they’re not on amazon and if it’s not on amazon my brain pretty much shuts down
If you want psychical copies, I can’t help you. I’d…
You can always keep an eye out on British Amazon and Waterstone Marketplace. Sometimes you can get them really cheaply. Plenty of places will happily ship outside the UK.
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THIS MIGHT BE SLIGHTLY CONTROVERSIAL BUT IF WE’RE TALKING ABOUT WHO I WOULD CAST AS FITZ THEN I WOULD DEFINITELY CAST PAUL MCGANN AS FITZ
I’ve seen this idea somewhere before! I think it’s hilarious (there’s some timey-wimey stuff going on there), and absolutely a good casting.
so clara’s ‘the perfect [companion] for the doctor? hmm seems a little like sam jones and her relationship with the eighth doctor - how she was ‘edited’ to be the perfect companion
This is what I’ve been thinking. I would love there to be the Faction Paradox involved.
Good news: last night I rediscovered my drawer of American Girl doll clothes
Better news: they perfectly fit my Eighth Doctor plushie
This is great, especially the one with the dress.
Eight & Karl Sadeghi (from The Year Of Intelligent Tigers), for ourfinaldecember
Wait, why haven’t I reblogged this yet? This is gorgeous, darling! The picnic basket and the chocolate martinis and everything. I particularly like Eight’s coat, with the yellow piping.
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Cecil. She/her. During the day I sit in libraries staring at books. During the night I write queer fanfiction with a historical slant.
Some not-so-random facts: Gay space lizards are the best lizards. Star Trek is my life. I have too many DS9 ships. Classic Who and the Eighth Doctor Adventures make me grin stupidly. Kelas Parmak is the best. I will defend historically accurate portrayals of Alan Turing to the last drop of blood. Likes and asks end up in the name of @apolesens-otheraccount, because Tumblr doesn't have a way of changing which blog is your primary one. Nothing happens over there - this is the one to follow.