Doctor Who: 10 Ways An American Reboot Could Work

2. Reboot Or No Reboot - It's Your Call!

doctor who reboot Reboots can descend into tick-boxes of origin stories, but when time travel is inherent in your premise, you can afford to have some latitude. Whereas J.J. Abrams had to have his Spock explicitly state the timelines are being altered to avoid a few death threats from Trekkies, Doctor Who can and should be a bit more playful with the tedious notion of €˜the canon€™. This hypothetical US Who already has a more mysterious Doctor€”it could go further. Even more than BBC Wales, the mythology is up for grabs. Don€™t like the Master? By all means invent your own enemy€”Will Arnett€™s another Who fan! Would you rather the Doctor is a human with regeneration a time-travel-related super-power? The Daleks say as much in €œThe Evil of the Daleks€! The series changed its own premises so wantonly, you may be hard-pressed to out-contradict them.
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Hamish Crawford writes fiction more easily than fact. His first volume of short fiction, “A Madhouse, Only With More Elegant Jackets”, was published in 2011 from First Edition Publishing. He has an English degree from the University of Calgary and a Screenwriting M.A. from the University of Westminster, which leaves little space on the wall for his several PhD. rejection letters. His stories and articles have appeared in such publications as NoD and the Cult Britannia website (www.cultbritannia.co.uk). In September he will be speaking at a Doctor Who 50th anniversary conference in Hertfordsire. The owner of far more hats than heads, Hamish currently lives in Canada, and is disappointed that the preceding biography contains so few factual errors. Visit his website: http://hamish-crawford.weebly.com