h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hmmm ... must admit that I watched the McGann TV Movie the other day for the first time since it was originally released. Far too American in the way they realised it. Unfortunately it was so formulaic it could just have been any US TV show.

Dr Who was certainly in need of a makeover following the 80s, and seeing the 1996 TVMovie one realises what a good job the current producers have done in resurrecting the show.

Didn't actually enjoy McGann's performance at all although I felt Sylvester McCoy did a good job of handing over.

I loved McGanns performance in the film, even though the film itself was terrible...

I'm sure he'd love to come back and do a "Time War"

and he has loads of audio stories in the BF back catalogue

Yeah, it'd be great to actually do the Time War. Especially since we've had Dalek Caan going there.

Maybe not, seeing as it would probably be shown from the Doctors point of view...

Well he *is* the good guy, and the hero. And the Daleks only have that view of "kill anything non-Dalek" anyway. And at the end Caan saw that Daleks were wrong.

I just think the Time War should never be seen except in minor flashbacks. It could never live up to expectations and could only be a disappointment. Best keeping it as part of the backstory and move on... and that means nothing from McGann either.

McGann is awesome though...

It's a story that *needs* to be told, and BF has said they don't wanna do it. Leaving the beeb, maybe that could be released as a book or something?

Still, i'd like to see some TV stuff for him. As I have said his performance in the TV movie was great (depite the movie itself bieng usless) and his BF stuff is far superiour to the other Doctors.

One thing strikes me as odd though, it says (somewhere) that the Doctor had to do a "terrible deed" (or something like that) to put an end to the time war. That's *really* kinda un-McGann...

But could have been Ecclestone. We don't know when the regeneration happened relative to the Time War.

It's even possible that the deed was so terrible that it triggered the regeneration.

Presumably it involved destroying a bunch of planets, including Gallifrey (again).

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When we see Ecclestone in the first episode, he's looking in the mirror making comments about his ears...

That implies he's just regenreated

He also seems remarkably chipper for someone who's just performed a terrible deed!

Yes, but the Doctor often seems light hearted when he's at difficult times

Actually, good point. Just read Revenge of the Cybermen, bomb strapped to him, being forced into underground caves and still cracking jokes. Do you know? I don't think this Doctor chap is entirely sane!

He had been on other adventures before Rose though - there were those pictures of him on the Titanic and the drawing of him after Krakatoa - I always thought he'd been Christopher Ecclestone for a while before the events of Rose.

Maybe the whole checking out his ears things was to show that he just hadn't gotten used to the new body, that the situation he regenerated in was so terrible, he couldn't get used to his new skin.

Just my

yes, maybe...

Yeah, I'd taken it to maybe mean he just hadn't got round to looking in the mirror yet. He could've been Eccelstone for a while or not. Maybe things like being at the Titanic or when JFK got shot were either before Rose (in his lifespan) or with Rose, and Rose just wasn't in the pictures. You know that thing when something can happen in an historical timeline, but not in your timeline coz nexy week you go back and do it?

the pictures could have been taken during the "gap" in the first episode when the Doctor first goes off after Rose says no.

what was the Doctor Who episode where Sylvester McCoy met a man with a gun in a dark area. he threatened to kill the Doctor, but the Doctor muttered about. And what was the episode where a Dalek was cut in half by a device resemlbing a tin can opener. You see a battered jelly inside it. It was mentioned on the bbc doctor radio 2 regeneration website, and also in the Irish Independent's magazine, dated 30 April 2005. Help me

Not sure of those. The Sylvester McCoy one wasn't the start of the movie? He got shot in a dark alley at the start of it.

i could see a girl in the middle. Not sure was it Ace or Mel. Prorbably Ace.

>what was the Doctor Who episode where Sylvester McCoy met a man with a gun in a dark area. he threatened to kill the Doctor, but the Doctor muttered about.

I've got a feeling it might be "The Happiness Patrol". I've not seen it since it was broadcast (two decades ago) but I saw a clip that I'm sure was from THP much more recently that featured a scene a lot like this.