in which sylvester mccoy theorises that the star trek cast doesn't have any hair because the starship enterprise was leaky and also suggests starting a doctor who cult
@@loyalpiperI actually prefer him in Hornblower - We're not meant to know whose side he is on for a while, so that floating voice really sells him as mysterious and unknowable. When I met him last year, I was genuinely surprised to find out that was the original "Sharpe", filmed most of the first film, but the role was recast after he damaged his ankle playing football, with Sean Bean just re-filming close ups - I can't imagine Sharpe with McGann's floaty voice at all now I know Sean Bean's "NORTHERN BASTID!" accent so well. :)
He should have gotten a quick 6 episode mini-series in the run up to the 50th anniversary, ending with him regenerating into The War Doctor. That would have been better than the 5 minute episode he got (which to be fair was good all things considered).
He wouldn't have had a million big finish audio series without stopping it because technology like cd players would've become tiny buzz saws to saw off peoples faces.
He wanted the doctor to be like Eccleston and was so pissed off when Eccleston got to do it in a leather jacket with a buzz cut. So he would've been mightily annoyed if he had actually got a series and had to keep wearing the wig til his hair grew out.
@user-et6pj4db9s Apparently Colin Baker pitched the Sixth Doctor as wearing a leather or velvet jacket too. McGann at least got a new look when he did the costume photoshoot for the Dark Eyes audios.
@@Keyboardeater1 well I don't like the leather anyway so I didn't particularly care for the costume change, the character to me should always be in Edwardian/Victorian dress or similar cos that's what at least the first 5 doctors stuck to, Jon Pertwee was as modern as it got with his flared 70s pants and frilled shirts but even he started with a magicians outfit which was older fashioned, then Eccleston came along and ruined it all with a completely unremarkable costume. Smith has been the only modern Doctor to get it right so Mcgann's costume was perfect but his change was during audios anyway so not really applicable as he wasn't on screen.
@@thequietestengine They kind of already did that with the War Doctor whose sposed to be a kind of halfway point between 8 and 9 costume wise, but I didn't like 9s costume at all cos of the leather jacket so I don't really care for any of it. I'm a purist, the theme in the old show was old fashioned outfits so I wanted them to stick to that but they were never going to ofcourse.
Paul McGann mummering under his breath that he hated the wig is fuckin hilarious cause you can tell he's being serious while Nicholas is over here like "toughen up buttercup"
i lovew that in this video Paul is non existing up until Sylvester mentions him, so it looks liek he truly is not there until Sylvester calls him a better modle 🤣🤣
Interesting McGann calls his mate "McCoy" here when in real life he calls him "Kent". I guess as it's a recorded performance, whereas written interviews are just in print publications.
yeah interesting! I’ve only ever heard paul refer to sylvester as mccoy but I suppose it’s maybe to avoid confusion with fans who don’t know sylv’s real name
I don't remember any non-alien character in Star Trek wearing a wig except Walter Koenig. They wanted him to look young, cute, and trendy so he had to wear it until his real hair grew out. He said swallows could nest in that wig.
This movie is so gorgeous, the cinematography is so good. It's such a shame that it's logistically so hard or the distributors think there's no money in it to remaster the movie in HD from the camera negatives or whatever. They'd probably have to redo plenty of CGI but it's not like a DS9 situation, there's not loads of it Also maybe hopefully the project files are still sitting around somewhere in decent condition and someone can fire up Softimage or something and re-render at least some of it that way
"let's get back in the TARDIS, c'mon" Like the BBC just calls them in when they need commentary, TARDIS materialises, doctors show up and do their bit, then bugger off back inside. Magic
These commentaries bring me so much joy. Consistent banter between cast-members, and beyond character affiliations. I think the "incomprehensible scottish" segment that Sylvester said was something along the lines of "Huh, I didn't know that".
It sounded like "Aye, is that right? How did he know that?" to me. Like "how did you guess? What gave it away?". Just a gentle leg-pulling reminder from Sylvester that, like David Tennant, he's Scottish and is merely adopting an "acting accent" for the purposes of his job. Tennant's accent, though, is so impeccably good. Essentially perfect. That if you don't know and then hear him in his non-acting voice, it's a guaranteed WTF moment. Like when Americans, who're not aware, hear Hugh Laurie speaking normally - not only not American, but actually a very posh English accent - or, similarly, Andrew Lincoln from the Walking Dead (actually, Walking Dead was full of this. David Morrissey. Lauren Cohen's mid-Atlantic accent - it was full of people faking an American accent).
i remember going to a convention back in 2013 and even THEN Paul talked about how much he hated that wig. I remember him saying he wanted to burn it. it was an amazing convention, they had doctors 5-8, nick briggs, john leeson, janet fielding (she was in the panel with peter and they bickered the entire time) and I think one of the costume ladies (i forget her name).
It's a crime Paul hasn't had more on-screen parts as Eight beyond the movie and the 50th special but at least Big Finish gave us an era in audio, and then some.
Not gonna lie, the song in this movie by Pat Hodges made me sob. Not only personally hitting a cord. Also the fact we had so little time initially with both McGann and Ecclestons Doctors. It felt like a dream. It makes me think of the Neil Gaiman Episode "The Doctors' Wife" and (remembering the scanners the TARDIS has) It would make my heart ache at those thoughts that most of the logs with them are stuck in audio. Like Amnesia for a TARDIS.
@@fifthdoctor This commentary is one of a few that I watch a lot, they are just entertaining. I might do one on something like Arc Of Infinity. That has a good commentary.
Watching this shortly before the 60th is absolutely insane. We need Paul back, ngl, he needs his own series some way some how. Sylvester, wonderful as always. (Except the religion remark, keep ya religion outta muh Doctor Who!!!!)
On the subject of making religions out of sci-fi franchises, Gene Roddenberry actually considered turning Star Trek into a Scientology-esque religion, and mentioned being friends with L. Ron Hubbard.
which version of the movie was this? I got one and it didnt have any of the cast in it. (The one with Roberts in gallifrey robes in the center on the cover, from 2001 i think?)
@@fifthdoctor If you can find it, the old DVD commentary of The Five Doctors with Peter Davison and Terrance Dicks is quite funny. "There was a bit of a boom mic shadow on Janet's hair there, can we redo that?" (Brief pause.) "Twenty years, Peter!"
That’s okay! It’s Nick Briggs so yes it’s the dalek voice guy lol he wasn’t actually in the movie in any capacity but I guess they just let him do the commentary
He's the voice of the daleks, but he's also the main guy at Big Finish Productions, so you could say he's basically the showrunner for the 8th Doctor's era. Makes sense why they'd have him there for the movie, considering he's responsible for every other Paul McGann outing as the Doctor for the last 25 years.
nick briggs, who is the voice of the daleks in the modern series, basically runs big finish, and is generally involved in all sorts of doctor who stuff :)
What are you talking about? Briggs has never been the showrunner for Doctor Who. It's not his fault it's gone to crap. He just does the monster voices.
@@elwoodjacobs4353 lol just shows how bad Big Finish is, that even the Nu-hu production team wouldn't condescend to commissioning BF's most well-known "writer". Next to the God-awful voices, Briggs is in all the DVD docs & commentaries & does most interviews. He has got the 2nd most punchable face, next to that fat bald guy, Clayton Hickman.
