It probably won't be Rasillon, because RTD prefers not to directly tangle with the BF universe, and they've done complicated things with Rassilon.
OTOH, if you hire Timothy Dalton to play a Time Lord, you don't give him a rubbish part like Quences, or Coordinator Latestforgetablenameovich. You give him Rassilon, or nobody. (You *could* have given him Borusa, if it weren't for the Five Doctors.)
Stephen Moffat is always knocking, so that answer is dismissed as trivial.
Ood Sigma has (metaphorically speaking) "knocked" once so far... Three to go? Hmmm...
John Smith is dead, and nobly and heroically so, at the hands of his creator, Saint Paul of Cornellshire. If RTD resurrects him just for a gimmic, I will hunt him down and PUNCHIMINNAFACE! =}:o{
The Eleventh Doctor... Yeah, that could fly. Given the on-screen precedent of The Watcher (preceded by K'anpo/Cho Je, of course), and the NA/MA precedent of Six->Seven, and the story arc he's built for Ten, I can see Rusty going with a "Sorry, but I had to step in and turn you into me, 'cos you were going seriously off the rails old chap!" regeneration.
Captain Jack... His reappearance in Who right now would makes some sense of his ascension disappearance from Cardiff/Torchwood... But I can't see that being anything other than naff. (Therefore: Possible, but I really hope not.)
God: God, I hope not! And I mean that most theistically. =:o? RTD can play with Judeo-Christian themes all he likes in his work (I loved his version of the second coming, with Eccles), and I'll both enjoy it and be stimulated to think by it... but an actual on-screen encounter with God has no place in Doctor Who. A *possible*/disputable enounter with (yet another entity that claims to be) Satan was as near the knuckle as they should get with that one, IMHO. Quite apart from it being inconsistent with the show's previously established cosmology, too many of the viewer's views about who and what God is/isn't/potentially could be would have them yelling at the screen in outrage rather than actually enjoying the story.
Now, one of the Guardians, OTOH... [LEAVES THAT THOUGHT DELIBERATELY DANGLING, WITH ONLY A JUST-OUT-OF-REACH SOMEWHAT ROTTED ROPE-LADDER FOR POSSIBLE RELIEF] =>:o}
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Date: 2009-11-18 02:39 pm (UTC)It probably won't be Rasillon, because RTD prefers not to directly tangle with the BF universe, and they've done complicated things with Rassilon.
OTOH, if you hire Timothy Dalton to play a Time Lord, you don't give him a rubbish part like Quences, or Coordinator Latestforgetablenameovich. You give him Rassilon, or nobody. (You *could* have given him Borusa, if it weren't for the Five Doctors.)
Stephen Moffat is always knocking, so that answer is dismissed as trivial.
Ood Sigma has (metaphorically speaking) "knocked" once so far... Three to go? Hmmm...
John Smith is dead, and nobly and heroically so, at the hands of his creator, Saint Paul of Cornellshire. If RTD resurrects him just for a gimmic, I will hunt him down and PUNCHIMINNAFACE! =}:o{
The Eleventh Doctor... Yeah, that could fly. Given the on-screen precedent of The Watcher (preceded by K'anpo/Cho Je, of course), and the NA/MA precedent of Six->Seven, and the story arc he's built for Ten, I can see Rusty going with a "Sorry, but I had to step in and turn you into me, 'cos you were going seriously off the rails old chap!" regeneration.
Captain Jack... His reappearance in Who right now would makes some sense of his
ascensiondisappearance from Cardiff/Torchwood... But I can't see that being anything other than naff. (Therefore: Possible, but I really hope not.)God: God, I hope not! And I mean that most theistically. =:o? RTD can play with Judeo-Christian themes all he likes in his work (I loved his version of the second coming, with Eccles), and I'll both enjoy it and be stimulated to think by it... but an actual on-screen encounter with God has no place in Doctor Who. A *possible*/disputable enounter with (yet another entity that claims to be) Satan was as near the knuckle as they should get with that one, IMHO. Quite apart from it being inconsistent with the show's previously established cosmology, too many of the viewer's views about who and what God is/isn't/potentially could be would have them yelling at the screen in outrage rather than actually enjoying the story.
Now, one of the Guardians, OTOH... [LEAVES THAT THOUGHT DELIBERATELY DANGLING, WITH ONLY A JUST-OUT-OF-REACH SOMEWHAT ROTTED ROPE-LADDER FOR POSSIBLE RELIEF] =>:o}
Nope, it's definitely the Borad. [NODS FIRMLY]