david yates and the doctor who movie
While I was browsing EW during one of my every 5 minutes intervals, I saw this headline:
My first reaction was HELL YES! Yates proved his awesomeness to me with the last Harry Potter movies, and the fact that he’s British and would probably (I’m assuming and being stereotypical) totally understand Doctor Who, I can’t right now think of a better person to do this movie.
But then I read this:
The film will stand apart from the TV series. Stand. Apart.
What the HELL are you thinking David Yates?!?!
For one, Doctor Who is very much still on the air with a mystery riddled story line still in place after the season finale, and there’s no sign that the 11th Doctor is going to regenerate any time soon. How can the movie “stand apart” from the TV series?
You can’t just cast someone to be a future Doctor because he only has two regenerations left in him. And Matt Smith has really grown on me. I’m still in love with David Tennant’s Doctor and still very biased, but I really do love what Matt Smith has done with the character. What I mean to say is Matt Smith is the Eleventh Doctor, and if a movie comes out before he regenerates, then he better damn well be the Doctor in the movie.
The only way I see a movie legitimately happening is if the show was ending and instead of a series finale episode, they just make a feature film to be the series finale. Which means that the movie would be intricately tied to the TV show. One could not exist without the other and they definitely couldn’t “stand apart”.
Also, it can’t “stand apart” from the show because I have this storyline in my head for a Doctor Who movie or for the 50th Anniversary special that I really want to happen:
Somehow, the Daleks have come back from being eliminated from existence…again. And this time, they’ve teamed up with the Cybermen instead of fighting against them. They have one goal in mind: Kill the Doctor. The Eleventh Doctor, still traveling with Amy and Rory need to defeat them, but the dimensions all around their own are collapsing on each other…that and they kidnap Donna because they remember her being the one who saved the universe and being super powerful. The Doctor needs everyone he knows to help, which means that he travels to Pete’s World to gather up 10 Two and Rose, who are living happily ever after, and also get Mickey and Martha and Jack into the mix. And River Song. And then they fight, and win, and everyone lives happily ever after…including Donna who has finally gotten the Time Lord brain out of her head and can now remember her best friend and everything she did to save the universe.
It definitely doesn’t need to happen that way, but as long as they somehow work into the script that they have to go to Pete’s World and we can see 10 Two and Rose together and happy, it will be
