Doctor Who: 10 Incredible Early Designs Of Your Favourite Monsters

5. The Aged Tenth Doctor Is Like A Human Yoda

Old3The Creature You Know: Not quite a monster in the villain sense, but such an incredible creature design that to not mention it would be a crime punishable by forced regeneration. When the Master uses Russell T. Davies€™ trademark Macguffin generator to make his laser screwdriver, he ages the Doctor beyond his natural limit, first to standard OAP territory, then until he€™s regressed to something akin to a freshly born Benjamin Button. The Early Design You Don€™t: The final version in the show is pretty extreme, but the original concept art took it a step further, pushing the Doctor beyond any sense of human (or Time Lord if we€™re being picky) recognition; my first thought on seeing it was that it€™s basically a flesh Yoda. Unlike some designs though, it€™s hard to mourn its loss. In the show the aged Doctor at least kept the look of David Tennant, whereas this one (while admittedly trying) takes it too far, distorting his looks; the sunken eyes (as opposed to the bulging ones the screen version and Tennant himself has) with their massive bags just feels wrong.
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Film Editor (2014-2016). Loves The Usual Suspects. Hates Transformers 2. Everything else lies somewhere in the middle. Once met the Chuckle Brothers.