Question: The Why Behind the Gap Year
For today’s Tuesday Question, I’d like you to speculate a little. Why, do you think, are they really having that Doctor Who gap year? What could their reasoning be? Does everyone need a break? Do the other two shows need more room for a while? Is there a little kid on the set who has scared everyone off by wearing a gas mask and calling for his Mummy? What do you think? This time I encourage you to come up with the most outlandish reason that you can. As usual, I offer you a few suggestions to get you started.
Is the Gap really the Untempered Schism?
- David Tennant wanted to play Hamlet.
- Russell T. Davies wanted time for a brief nap. (Does he *ever* sleep?)
- Steven Moffat was too busy working on the script for Tintin to submit a Hugo-winning script that year.
- The TARDIS is stuck in the Vortex for repairs.
- The remaining Dalek is on strike.
- The Doctor got the flight a bit wrong.
- The Rift opened and swallowed up the BBC offices in Cardiff. It’ll take them a year to rebuild.
- I’m not sure, but I’ll bet a Slitheen is involved somehow.
Okay. I’m sure that you all know by now that I feel that they wouldn’t have bothered with a Gap Year if David didn’t have the yen to play Hamlet. For someone who loves the stage as much as he does, that’s quite a coup. Really, though, I think that Russell T. Davies is actually an alien that needs to make a trip back home to visit his mother. (For all we know, he could really be Time Lord. He seems to sleep about as often as one.) The only way that he could work this out was to put Doctor Who on hiatus. Yep. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
What do you think?
Tuesday Question, Doctor Who, gap year
March 11th, 2008 at 2:03 am
I with you on this one Elisa. DT got the gig for Hamlet and this is how they’ve managed to work it into his schedule AND keep him for DW.
Pity they are bringing Rose back and will end up destroying that storyline. We know there’s no way BP will stay. No matter how many shippers want it they are not going to get their happy ending.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:06 am
I originally thought it was to support David Tennant so that he could be in Hamlet and stay on Doctor Who, but now I think it was less about making time for David and more about giving the entire team a break.
I mean it takes a while to travel into the future to find out which stories will work then travel back with the DVD box set to transmit on the appropriate day.
March 11th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
The Vig, Time Travel. I knew it!
Elisa, you never know.