Subject: The Twelfth Doctor... --SPOILERS--
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Posted on: 2013-08-04 20:11:00 UTC
...is none other than Malcom Tucker Peter Capaldi!
This is going to be fun.
Subject: The Twelfth Doctor... --SPOILERS--
Author:
Posted on: 2013-08-04 20:11:00 UTC
...is none other than Malcom Tucker Peter Capaldi!
This is going to be fun.
When people say Malcom Tucker, I keep thinking of Malcom Reed and Charles Tucker from Star Trek Enterprise.
I'm so confused right now. I don't know who this guy is, so I looked up his IMDB page and I saw that he haven't been in anything I've seen, except for Torchwood, where he can't have made a big impression since I don't remember him at all.
And then my higher brain functions come back from coffee break and kick me. He was in Torchwood? But that's the same canon as Doctor Who! Aren't they the same? Mostly separate but definitely the same? So how can someone who have already played a role in the canon (and it was across multiple episodes, so it can't have been a small one) play the Doctor?
Do you think they'll reference it somehow? Or will they just never mention it?
The Doctor is almost always a virtually unknown actor. Neil Gaiman had a good quote* a while back pointing out that any Big Name actor/actress who gets the part will bring with them a lot of baggage from their previous roles - this is best avoided.
*normally, I'd cite this with a link, but I'm on my phone and appear to have locked myself out of my dorm, so no deep referencing today.
Oh, I know that they choose a relatively unknown actor for the role (which does not stop me or anyone else from participating in the who-do-you-want-to-see-as-the-new-Doctor?-game). I'm just puzzled by the fact that this time the role went to someone who has already had a role in the canon, albeit in a different series.
I know it's not the first time, but with someone like Eva Myles, she only had a small first role, before being recast as Gwen. Also they had an in-universe explanation (that Gwen was a descendant of the other character) and I'm really curious to see, whether they will address the recasting here or never mention it.
Colin Baker played a Gallifreyan guard named Maxil in a Fifth Doctor story before being cast as the Sixth Doctor, and that was never mentioned again, despite how much fun a story dealing with that could be. Just think about it: two incarnations of the Doctor, working at the same time in the same place, but working to fight off threats just different enough that neither can reveal their identity to the other, but every once in a while, it could overlap their stories to show what the other was doing in the previous episode/other side of the conflict.
Of course, since the Doctor Who-canon characters played previously by Peter Capaldi were indisputably human, and one of them died, that's not something that can happen now, either, but there's always a possibility of an actor allusion at some point.
...Caecilius in the Fires of Pompeii (the guy that bought the TARDIS as a modern art thing). Karen Gillan also appeared in that episode as a soothsayer and Freema Agyeman was featured in Army of Ghosts as a Tochwood employee.
I think it's just a case of actor recycling :P
I kept on telling my brother that Amy is secretly Clara's alter ego being scattered through history, and she showed up at Pompeii to... to...be all soothsayery. Guess I was right!! :)
From the few examples we have, all of the Clara copies shared many of her personality traits. Amy is very little like Clara, even if it can be assumed that the process that threw Claras across time-space made some of them look like different people.
At any rate, what would distinguish Amy in that way? Because she was the Doctor's companion? Would your idea being true mean that every companion was also Clara, or would every woman who helped the Doctor secretly be Clara? Where would it end? Would every human in the universe secretly be Clara Oswald? Or would every single humanoid, regardless of species or gender, simply be versions of Clara that strayed farther and farther from the template and had their physical and genetic structure warped as they strayed from Clara Prime?
But if everyone is Clara... no one would be.
Which was that this would make the best DW story arc ever. It would never happen, but it would be incredible.
Imagine the Doctor's reaction when he finds out he's Clara.
Clara is... well, Clara. In all of her appearances in the Doctor's timeline, she always looked like Clara Oswin Oswald. She isn't a face-changer, multiple people can attest to that, so how does having Karen Gillan play a soothsayer in Pompeii make Clara be there?
Malcolm Tucker and Torchwood, not Malcom and Tochwood.
Bluh.