Var krigsläkaren ursprungligen tänkt att vara Christopher Eccleston?

Jag hade inte hört det rykten tidigare, och jag är väldigt skeptisk att det någonsin var en legitim tanke i Moffats sinne. Det finns flera problem med det scenariot (både in-univers och out-of-univers).

Kanonförklaringen varför det är ingen mening är ganska enkelt: allt vi vet om den nionde doktorns historia berättar för oss att han bara just återupptog när han dyker upp i Rose em>, till den punkt där han fortfarande tittar på sitt nya ansikte i spegeln. Implikationen är att det som han gjorde för att avsluta kriget var väldigt friskt i hans sinne, men när det var över, dog han och regenererades till nio, och försökte springa så långt från den händelsen som möjligt.

Även om du hävdar att dessa åtgärder skulle passa till 9: s personlighet ser jag det inte. För att vara "krigsläkaren" skulle 9 ha varit tvungen att slåss i kriget och leda till sitt slutliga event. Vid den tidpunkten skulle han troligen ha en väldigt stridshärdad personlighet, som du ser i många veteran soldater på lång tid. Den nionde doktorn kan ha haft några ilska frågor komma ut så ofta, men han var helt klart inte "gruff och kamp-härdad"; han var ångerfull och försökte mycket svårt att springa bort från det han hade gjort. Det var inte ens riktigt förrän elva att vi ser ett försök att "göra fred" med hans handlingar.

(Om någonting skulle den mest rimliga icke-Hurt-teorin vara att den åttonde doktorn, Paul McGann, var krigsläkaren. Vi ser ingenting av honom på skärmen mellan slutet av filmen och mini-episoden som filmas för den speciella, så det finns gott om plats för honom att slåss i kriget.)

Utanför universum skulle jag vara mycket skeptisk att Moffat skulle placera en så viktig roll på Christoper Ecclestons axlar innan han till och med bad honom att spela den. Ecclestons problem bakom kulisserna och motvilja för BBC: s doktors VD-produktionsbesättning är inte exakt hemlighet, och han undvikit att prata om dem ända sedan han gick.

Utöver det verkar tanken på en namnlös hemlig icke-doktor som exakt den typ av svärg som Moffat tycker om att lägga in i sina berättelser, så jag skulle inte bli förvånad om det var det allra första med 50-årsjubileumspisoden att han hade låst ner i hans sinne.

Naturligtvis vet vi inte vad Moffat och Eccleston faktiskt talade om men jag tvivlar på att det var en stor del; Jag hoppas att han åtminstone blev ombedd att göra en ordentlig återuppbyggnad, men annars tror jag att det skulle ha varit svårt att passa alla tre nyläkare med ordinära storyliner i episoden och får fortfarande kärnpunkten i frågan - Hurt-Doctor moraliskt dilemma - över.

En "Special Edition" av Doctor Who Magazine med titeln "Doctor's Year: Den officiella handboken för Doctor Who's 50th Anniversary", avslöjar att tidiga ofullständiga utkast till årsdagen av Steven Moffat gjorde har den nionde doktorn i stället för krigsläkaren, även om detta hade ändrats till krigsläkaren vid den tidpunkten som Moffat skrev ett komplett utkast till hela berättelsen. Från s. 13:

Steven's take was that what the Doctor remembered about the Time War might not actually have been what happened. Steven's idea fitted a narrative featuring the three most recent incarnations of the Doctor; the Ninth played by Christopher Eccleston who may have been involved in the war (despite a suggestion of being newly regenerated in 2005's Rose), the Tenth played by David Tennant, who was still concerned by the conflict, and the Eleventh Doctor, who had learned to be more at peace with his actions. Steven knew David as a friend and as a devotee of the show to be sure that he would do everything possible to be available for the project, but was concerned about the availability of Christopher Eccleston, who had left the series after a single year in 2005.

Och även på sid. 13 finns det en sidebar med titeln The Time War: Draft Scripts som börjar:

Prior to full draft scripts of Doctor Who: 50th Anniversary Special there were incomplete drafts headed Doctor Who 50th Special: The Time War. A 'Partial Draft' dated Monday 14 January 2013 was fundamentally the same as the start of the finished programme with minor changes. Osgood was Kate's 'harried PA' and did not have a scarf, and Kate had the helicopter rescue the TARDIS because whe believed it was being attacked by a motorcyclist. The main differences were that the figure in the ruined building on Arcadia was the Ninth Doctor and the Moment was 'a girl in rags... young, elfin-faced, beautiful. A mass of hair and a feral stare' (referred to in stage directions as 'Raggedy Girl'). The Raggedy Girl explained that the barn was a crucible in which she would test the Ninth Doctor's worthiness. When the girl showed him his future, the Ninth Doctor was sucked through the portal she summoned up and dropped into the forest clearing next to a cottage to meet the Tenth Doctor and two Queens. The Tenth Doctor's encounter with the Zygon was then narrated through to the second appearance of the portal in 1562 through which came a fez... and the script ended.

P. 18 av tidningen talar om hur den nionde doktorn ersattes av krigsläkaren:

By mid-February [of 2013], Steven had a third partial draft of The Time War but resisted writing a full script, since he was concerned about Christopher Eccleston's availability, and he also had doubts that it was the Ninth Doctor who had fought in the Time War. Steven had a couple of enjoyable meetings with Christopher to discuss his involvement and the direction of the story. In The Guardian, Steven explained that the pair had enjoyed a "very amiable and gentlemanly" conversation and that the actor considered the project "quite seriously" before turning it down. "It's just not the sort of thing he does," explained Steven. "But Chris was perfectly sweet and kind about it." Speaking to DWM Steven admitted, "I sort of knew, despite a valiant attempt, that I wasn't going to get Chris Eccleston. He was lovely about it, but it just wasn't for him."

Rather than being a major blow, the actor's non-involvement opened up the story for some even bigger surprises. Steven toyed briefly with having the Ninth Doctor's role carried by the Eighth Doctor, but could not reconcile the warrior Doctor with the incarnation played by Paul McGann in the 1996 TV Movie. Then the writer recalled watching The Five Doctors in 1983; for this story, the First Doctor had been played by Richard Hurndall, cast since William Hartnell — the original First Doctor — had died in 1975. While Hurndall's performance was effective, Steven had been aware that it bore little resemblance to Hartnell's Doctor... almost as if this was an entirely different incarnation who had also engaged upon other, untelevised adventures. This notion of a 'mayfly' Doctor who appeared for just one show was something Steven had previously considered, particularly if a major movie star could be persuaded to guest as a future incarnation. The opportunity now arose to introduce an incarnation of the Doctor who had fought in the war and who had never been talked about. This incarnation wouldn't even refer to himself as 'the Doctor' because of the terrible decisions he had made during the Time War. This new incarnation could offer the age and the irritability of the First Doctor as in The Three Doctors; a Time Lord who had existed during the nine years between 1996 and 2005, whose adventures had never appeared on television. "What was he up to?" pondered Steven at the ExCeL. "What was he up to when we weren't looking at him...?" Such a part would be able to attract a major star.

Den här sidan visar även några bitar av en storyboard med Eccleston's Doctor:

EnannannyartikeldärMoffattalaromkaosetbakomkulissernaiplaneringenavårsjubileumsspecialistenkanhittas här . Moffat verkar säga att beslutet att ha en "gömd" inkarnation och att hyra John Hurt var båda sista minuten saker, med Moffat som indikerar att han efter avslutad manus hade bara omkring två veckor för att hitta en skådespelare:

He was top of our list. I wrote the War Doctor script and we sent it off to John Hurt, assuming that was the beginning of a frantic two weeks of sending it off to every actor you’ve ever heard off and got Janette Krankie. And – God bless him for ever! – he said yes almost immediately. That was the first stroke of luck we had on that sodding show.

Som en sidotal säger Mike Edenfalls svar: "Allt som vi vet om den nionde doktorns historia berättar för oss att han bara har regenererat när han visas i Rose , till den punkt där han fortfarande tittar på sitt nya ansikte i spegeln ", men i själva verket visar en annan nyemission av Doctor Who Magazine att detta inte var inte författare / showrunner Russell T. Davies. Från maj 2015-problemet (Issue 485), sid. 42:

The Doctor saying "Look at the ears" as he looks in the mirror was added in the second draft, and could be taken to imply he has only recently regenerated. DWM asked Russell if this was meant to be the case. "Well, I hate being prescriptive here, cos sometimes, when I give an opinion on a scene, because I'm the writer and producer, it can become a fact. When I much prefer it if you make your own mind up. But enough time has passed now so, for the record... No, I do not think he'd just regenerated. If you have certain physical features like big ears, or buck teeth, you look at them and sigh at them every time you look in the mirror. And I think, if you'd had eight different faces, even if you'd been in this current form for a hundred years, you'd still mutter at them. So it was meant as a nod to the fact that he'd once had other faces. But I wrote the Titanic stuff and Krakatoa assuming that the Ninth Doctor had been around for a while. He doesn't act very post-regeneration, does he? He appears in command, waving a bomb. This is a man who knows himself, and has known himself for a while."

(The Titanic grejer och Krakatoa "refererar till scenen senare i premiäravsnittet där Rose möter en besatt doktorspårare som har funnit några gamla bilder av Chris Eccleston's Doctor igen på olika poäng i hela historien, inklusive Titanic , Krakatoa och JFK-mordet)