The topic that never dies
Jan. 4th, 2007 08:43 am On doctorwho it was asked what you'd do differently if you were the present producer.
What I'd do differently? I'd cast older actors in the lead, wearing long hair and long coats. I wouldn't have done the companion-crush-and-inlaws arc, but certainly now that it's been done once I'd never do it again. Even when a companion is a three-dimensional character she needs to contrast with the Doctor, so more actiony Leelas and Jamies and no brainy Romanas and Lizzes. I'd bring back the Master, sparingly, and always as a part-one cliffhanger: pulling off a mask, or "But that name is Rigellian for 'Master'!" I'd stop having the Daleks in every season finale. And I'd do whole-episode flashbacks to previous incarnations.
Oh, and fifty percent or more off-Earth stories.