5 Reasons Why Doctor Who Prequel Should Never Happen
3. The Doctor Wasn't The Doctor At First
Of the mass of information that Into The Dalek threw at audiences, one particularly interesting titbit was the Doctor mentioning to Rusty that he was not the Doctor until he first went to Skaro. And hes completely right. Watch An Unearthly Child and youll see a Doctor very unlike the character weve become used to over the past fifty-one years. As well as the oft-mentioned moment in An Unearthly Child where the Doctor has to be stopped from planning to batter a caveman to death with a huge rock, theres also a scene in The Romans (1965) where, after fending off an assassin, he mentions that hes so used to outwitting people that hes forgotten how satisfying it can be to simply beat them up. And thats before you consider what the Doctors personality would have been like before first experiencing the sense of wanderlust and frustration at Time Lord society that caused him to leave Gallifrey. A young Doctor would most likely be as arrogant and decadent as any other Time Lord with only brief flashes of the person he would later become. The Doctor has changed colossally since the early William Hartnell stories and a younger First Doctor would be even further away from the Doctor that we know today. Which really isn't what you need for a Doctor Who prequel specifically focussed on the Doctor. Although it would allow for the Doctors character to develop over time, the issue remains that...
JG Moore is a writer and filmmaker from the south of England. He also works as an editor and VFX artist, and has a BA in Media Production from the University Of Winchester.
