iank wrote:I'm not in favour of leaving New Who as the supposedly legit continuation of classic. I agree it needs a long hiatus... and then bringing back as a new sequel to classic, with a new 8th Doctor. That doesn't need to be mentioned onscreen (maybe offhand at some point) but I'm not in favour of jettisoning classic and by God this trainwreck needs decanonising.
I'm not sure I buy these rumours though. They'll force 3 years of Nurse Who down our throats rather than admit to fucking it up.
Agreed. I'd have been all in favour of leaving it after Survival. It had a good run, 26 years, 7 proper versions of the character, all as good as one another, and only IMO had 2 bad seasons, 23 and 24. All other series I'd say have at least 1 good story, a couple good stories, and maybe 1 shit story, although in some series like 13 its all classics but one, etc. Point is though most of it was classic or at least good solid tv, and whilst a new PROPER sequel would have been welcome, I'd honestly not have cared if there had been no continuation.
FFS Once Upon A Time, Buffy, Angel AND Xena combined aren't as long as Classic Who. Is that not enough?
However now that New Who has come along, for the sake of the classic era it CANNOT be left as the only sequel. Someone needs to do an alternate sequel so that New Who is just one group's interpretation.
I still say Classic Who needs to be like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. They are the only official canon. All of the other sequels are just whoever writes them's idea of what happened next, and you can take any or none as being what happened next.
All we need for Classic Who to become that is for other people to do their own sequels. Once we've had two or three then that's it. Classic Who stands as its own thing, and the launch point from now on is the 9th Doctor.
Ironically that will be better for New Who in the long run as there won't be so much anger towards it.
Godzilla is another example of this. You have the Showa era sequels that follow on from Gojira 1954, then there are the Hesei era sequels that ignore all of the Showa era films, and follow on from Gojira 1954, then there are the Millenium sequels, all of which are one off sequels to Gojira 1954.
Dan Dare is another example. The launch point for most is as a sequel to the original 50s-60s series. The 70s 2000AD series is a direct sequel to them, then the 80s New Eagle series ignores that and is a direct sequel to the 50s-60s series. Spaceship Away similarly ignores all of the 70s and 80s sequels and just follows on from the 50s-60s series, and finally even the latest Titan series follows on, albeit loosely from the 50s-60s series, whilst ignoring all of the sequels.
So IMO Doctor Who needs to go the same way. Then Classic Who will be saved and New Who can be decanonized like the sloppy fan fiction it is.